Youth
The Youth Constituency Programme of the World AIDS Campaign aims to strengthen campaigning of young people around universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support. In this section you will find information on campaigning and advocacy activities from youth led and youth serving organisations at an international, regional and national level.
The year 2008 was a pioneer one for the World AIDS Campaign. In January 2008 as the first constituency-based position the Youth Campaign Coordinator was launched. Through a year of working in close consultation and dialogue with our youth partners, the Youth Constituency Programme has established a platform for youth and youth organisations at the international, regional and national levels to dialogue and build partnerships; developed a series of resources with various topics for youth campaigns; was involved in different key events and influenced policy and decision making process in partnership with youth led and youth serving organisations.
Throughout 2009 and 2010, the Youth constituency programme will develop further in terms of three aspects based on the successful one year pilot programme in 2008 to achieve universal access for prevention, treatment, care and support:
- Integrate human rights issues into youth programme at all aspects in World AIDS Campaign and beyond;
- Explore partnerships at regional and national level;
- Focus on young people who are most affected, including but not limited to young people living with HIV, young women, young people who use drugs, young sex workers, young men who have sex with men, young migrants.
We will be posting updates on the website, including resources, opportunities for collaboration. If you are interested in finding out more, building a partnership with World AIDS Campaign, or sending in your ideas, please contact the Youth Campaign Coordinator, Liping Mian at liping_youth@worldaidscampaign.org. Your feedback is most welcome!
Announcements
Announcements, updates and press releases of current events by and for youth organisations.
Resources
Within this section you will find resources such as factsheets and manuals, created by youth organisations, some of them in partnership with the World AIDS Campaign
If you have resources you would like to share, please let us know.
Youth ecourse
Towards Universal Access: Young People in Action is an e-Course for young people who want to create lasting change in how HIV affects their communities and the world. Participants will have an opportunity to connect with young leaders from around the world and build an action plan to mobilise universal access campaigns.
Our first e-course is now over. However, you can still download the course work from our website below. To read more about the planning process involved in the course, what happened and what was learned, please click here to download the e-course summary.
Youth Toolkit
A toolkit for young people for scaling-up efforts toward achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
World AIDS Campaign and Youth
The World AIDS Campaign is committed to strengthening, catalysing and facilitating stronger and more youth connected movement to address universal access targets as well as other key HIV and AIDS related commitments. In collaboration with youth partners, World AIDS Campaign has developed resources to help youth campaigning efforts towards universal access.
Partners
All activities within the youth programme of the World AIDS Campaign are done in partnership with youth led or youth serving organisations at national, regional and international level. On this page we feature some of our partner organisations, which we have worked or are are currently working with (in no particular order). If you would like your organisation to be featured on this page, please contact the Youth Campaign Coordinator, Liping Mian.
News
Youth Issues in the news
Youth Partnership Alert!
The Youth Partnership Alerts are released prior to specific key events such as UNGASS, Mexico IAC and World AIDS Day, to highlight where youth organisations will be participating, opportunities for collaboration and possibilities for joint fundraising. The alerts aims to provide information on who is doing what and where, including guidance on how to get involved in different initiatives at key youth specific moments throughout the year.