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BREAKING THE SILENCE: BEHIND THE VEIL PROJECT ON HIV/AIDS, STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION REDUCTION

September 29, 2025 admin 0 Comments


HIV/AIDS: Nazlin is also the founder and director of the historical ground-breaking sensational  “Behind the veil project”, which works toward hiv/aids stigma and discrimination reduction within the muslim community in kenya funded by usaid – policy project/futures group international …

HIV/AIDS: NAZLIN IS ALSO THE FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE HISTORICAL GROUND-BREAKING SENSATIONAL  “BEHIND THE VEIL PROJECT”, WHICH WORKS TOWARD HIV/AIDS STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION REDUCTION WITHIN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN KENYA FUNDED BY USAID – POLICY PROJECT/FUTURES GROUP INTERNATIONAL.

In this famed project  Nazlin focused on HIV/AIDS, the rights of women and their violations, vulnerabilities and genders disparities within the community, human trafficking in Kenya, prostitution, the Islamic solution and the Muslim and other communities challenges has gained on powerful ownership by grassroots communities and leaders and has touched the lives of over 90% of Kenya’s population through direct and indirect participation and the great media impact the historical project made with heavy profiles on literally every print and electronic media in Kenya including profiles and interviews with the international press.

THE NMCK-NUR  AND HER POPULAR SENSATIONAL “BREAKING THE SILENCE BEHIND THE VEIL” PROJECT, FUNDED BY THE USAID- PEPFAR /POLICY PROJECT/FUTURES GROUP WERE LAUNCHED IN KENYA WITH ATTENDANCE FROM THE WORLD PRESS, GOVERNMENT KEY MINISTRIES, THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, VARIOUS AMBASSADORS AND HEADS OF MISSIONS IN KENYA, THE DONOR COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS, TOP MUSLIM CLERICS, THE JUDICIARY, KADHIS OF KENYA AND THE LEADERSHIP OF NMCK-NUR NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEADERSHIP INCLUDING THE VALIANT HEROIC WOMEN WHO BROKE THE SILENCE ON THE HIV STATUS AND PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN TRANSFORMING THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY AND OTHERS ON STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION, WHICH WAS LAUNCHED AT THE NAIROBI PAN AFRIC HOTEL ON THE …… 2004 BY THE THEN AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN KENYA, HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM BELLAMY, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA, HIS EXCELLENCY DR. MOODY AWORI, THE USAID HEALTH AND POPULATION CHIEF JANET PAZ CASTILLO, POLICY PROJECT/FUTURES GROUP COUNTRY DIRECTOR ANGELINE SIPARO AND FOUNDER NATIONAL CHAIRPERSON NMCK-NUR AND BEHIND THE VEIL PROJECT, NAZLIN. These declarations together and speeches of these speakers also included the governments of the USA and Kenya, were published in a two page supplement in the Sunday Nation on the 1st of May 2005 funded by USAID/The POLICY Project. Excerpts of these speeches were also heavily captured as headline news in all the mainstream media in Kenya, in USA publications, USAID’s second Annual report to congress and NMCK-NUR quarterly magazine- the NUR. The  speeches, many poems and fan mail from beneficiaries, leaders and women to Nazlin and NMCK-NUR can be found in the NUR quarterly magazine  and at nazlinumar.blogspot.com, nazlinumar youtube and facebook group nazlinumar.

NAZLIN’ PLWHA MEMEBERSHIP; IS ALSO THROUGH THIS INITIATIVE, THE FOUNDER OF KENYA’S LARGEST MUSLIM PERSONS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS NETWORK PRESENTLY WITH OVER FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND (400,000) MEMBERS, MUSLIM AND NON-MUSLIM AND WITH DOCUMENTED ACTIVE REGIONAL PLWHA GRASSROOTS SUPPORT NETWORKS IN OVER 90% OF KENYA. This project was declared one of the best and most successful HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination reduction projects in Africa and is highlighted in the United States Presidents emergency plan for AIDS relief (PEPFAR) second annual report to Congress 2006, amidst extensive media coverage it has received both locally and internationally. Nazlin and the project both made headline news in Kenya when trained Muslim women living with HIV/AIDS broke the silence ‘behind the veil’ and declared their status and suffering before television cameras and workshops held by Nazlin throughout the Nation.

You can also access external links relating to Nazlin’s initiatives on HIV & AIDS, human trafficking, grassroots community developments & unity:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200303280199.html

http://pemudapas_b.bendera.tripod.com/Isu_Nasional/Islam_Dihina/islam_dihina.html

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