AID FOR AIDS Panama is a satellite office of AID FOR AIDS International. We have been present in the country since 2006. Since our arrival in Panama, AID FOR AIDS has provided services in Clayton, Panama City, empowering vulnerable communities through innovative programs that improve their quality of life. In 2007, we established the first Comprehensive Care Center for Children and Adolescents with HIV in Latin America at Hospital del Niño.

Since 2009, AID FOR AIDS Panama began its work in the Guna Yala Territory, a remote and hard-to-reach area, collaborating directly with the Guna people to implement the “¿Cuánto Sabes?” Education and Training Program focused on the HIV response. The training of hundreds of young people as agents of change and replication arose precisely because of the high levels of vulnerability and risk associated with HIV in the territory, making it urgent to empower Guna youth to take on an active and transformative role — becoming community leaders capable of spreading primary prevention, promoting self-care, and reducing stigma from within their own communities.

This effort was consolidated in 2014 as a historic milestone, becoming the first NGO with a permanent presence in the Guna Yala Territory, creating the “¿Cuánto Sabes?” Education and Training Center, which has provided early childhood education to boys and girls and has trained community multipliers, community leaders, and local medical staff.