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Welcome to CEDEP: The Centre For The Development Of People.
CEDEP is a registered human rights organisation dedicated to addressing the needs, improving the lives, and providing support for some of Malawi's most neglected minority groups through civic education, training, capacity building, networking and research.
We believe that improving he welfare of minority groups, including prisoners, sex workers, and those in same-sex relationships, is crucial to the health and well-being of all peoples.
To learn more, please visit our Programmes page.
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CEDEP is a registered human rights organisation dedicated to addressing the needs, improving the lives, and providing support for some of Malawi's most neglected minority groups through civic education, training, capacity building, networking and research.
We believe that improving he welfare of minority groups, including prisoners, sex workers, and those in same-sex relationships, is crucial to the health and well-being of all peoples.
To learn more, please visit our Programmes page.
Zikomo.
Latest News: CEDEP profiled in Huffington Post
"Our organization was born out of the need to fill major gaps in HIV service delivery," explains Gift Trapence, the director of the Lilongwe-based Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), a human rights organization working on behalf of at-risk minority groups, including people in same-sex relationships, sex workers, and prisoners. When Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were arrested in December, this relatively young organization, founded only in late 2005, was propelled to the forefront of a movement whose butterfly wing flaps would create maelstroms around the world. "Steven and Tiwonge's case has brought a lot of attention," modestly admits Trapence, whose organization has been balancing the pressures of high-level international advocacy with their need to ensure ongoing services to its target populations of marginalized individuals....
Read the complete article on our MEDIA page or at The Huffington Post
Read the complete article on our MEDIA page or at The Huffington Post
CEDEP develops healthier people living better lives.
- Inclusion of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the national HIV prevention action frame work 2009-2013.
- Host of a national conference for 70 participants attended where a task force was formed to push for the health and human rights of Malawi's most at-risk populations.
- Evaluation of the HIV prevalence, determinants of HIV infection, and Human Rights Contexts of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Malawi.
- Dissemination of the MSM HIV sero-prevalence research results at the Malawi National annual HIV/AIDS Research and Best Practices Dissemination Conference and International Aids Conference in Mexico in 2008.
- Publication of the MSM HIV sero-prevalence study in a reputable science journal called Plos One which can be accessed here.
- 350 MSM were better informed of the modes of HIV/AIDS and STIs transmission and means of prevention.
- 20 Peer Educators trained on HIV/AIDS and their roles as peer educators.