From July to September, our team worked with Videographer Tommy Banda to produce the first five videos of ten unreleased UkaniManje songs. These songs are part of the UkaniManje Wake up Zambia! campaign and will be released to the public after a launch event on December 1st, World AIDS Day 2021.

The Divine Sisters Singers, a beloved group of three young ladies whose voices are adored by over 200,000 followers on facebook, covered UkaniManje’s pilot song Worth More.

Since stepping away from politics, Kenneth Kaunda devoted his life to bringing awareness to HIV. The songs on this album, one facet of this effort, "describe the risk of AIDS, delivering carefully measured warnings to the accompaniment of a string of musical instruments or a lone guitar."

After being considered “lost" for many years, we have managed to track down a single copy of this historic music.

With HIV still the number one cause of premature death in Zambia, our team’s New Year resolution is to strive for an HIV-aware and stigma free 2021!

Are you ready to join us?

For World AIDS day this year, we asked youth to use their own voices and tell us ways they can reduce stigma and promote prevention, testing and treatment in their community.

It’s corona time! As the world adapts and responds to COVID19, the UkaniManje artists do what they do best: carry messages about health and hope. Because our artists have been trained as part of a cohort with access to doctors and public health professionals, when COVID19 came to Zambia, the group was quickly able to pivot and create culturally relevant PSAs which incorporate a catchy theme song and relevant information.

For World AIDS Day 2019, the UkaniManje team paired with AHF Zambia to create a social media campaign to raise HIV awareness. The UkaniManje artists, whose collective social media platforms reach over 1 million people, posted pictures of themselves with signs explaining why they “wake up” to HIV.

UkaniManje founders Katy Weinberg and Ephraim Mutalange are joined by Dr. David Bickham from Boston Children’s Hospital’s Center on Media and Child Health to discuss the UkaniManje project on Harvard T.H. Chan’s podcast “This Week.”

To follow up on the success of the pilot, a “Peer Influencer Workshop” was held in March 2019, with support from the Aerosmith Fund for Prevention and Treatment of AIDS and HIV, Boston Children’s Hospital, a Rose Service Learning Fellowship at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation of San Francisco, California.

This workshop, held in cooperation with the Zambian Ministry of Health and the Zambian Medical Association, invited 10 of the top Zambian pop singers…

With the support of a small grant from the Aerosmith Fund for Prevention and Treatment of AIDS and HIV, researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital’s Global Health Program and Center for Media and Child Health organized focus groups with over 100 youth in urban, semi-urban and rural areas in Zambia to understand what youth currently know about HIV and what topics they wanted to learn more about in order to start conversations within their communities about HIV…