Youth Need an AIDS Vaccine
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About GYCA
GYCA is a youth-led global network of over 7,623 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in over 170 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.
Recent News
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17th ICASA 2013 - Scholarship Application Opened
The ICASA conference remains one of the most important events in the calendar of the year, contributing towards overcoming the HIV and TB epidemics that grip our region. Sub Saharan Africa remains the most affected region with over 22 Million people living with HIV and AIDS and the highest Tuberculosis rates world-wide. Through scientific advancements in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of HIV significant progress has been made to reduce the mortality and morbidity of AIDS. Prevention efforts have been accelerated by the progress in biomedical interventions to reduce HIV transmission.
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Board of Global Fund Speeds Up Implementation of its Strategy
Voices from the Field
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Final blog post for ‘Promoting awareness and empowerment in Nepalese adolescents on HIV and AIDS and drug use’.
Dear GYCA members, Hello once again from Nepal. This is my final blog post wherein I will be talking about the final outcomes of my project, along with the successes and challenges faced throughout. We were aiming to increase the number of youngsters having right information about peer-pressure, drug use and HIV and AIDS and empowering young Nepalese to prevent and not be a part of peer pressure driving the vicious cycle of drug use and HIV through extensive participation with collaboration and partnership with school administration, parents, management committees and other civic organizations. We were able to reach 370 youngsters with the right information among which 75% showed raised awareness level in the post-test survey. We...
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Small Grants Project Management Challenges
The emergence of young leaders in project management has exposed some pertinent challenges in managing small grants projects. The execution of Our Chances with HIV Project' in Cameroon was a great experience on such challenges. We faced challenges like scope changes, adherence to HIV confidentiality policy and working with partners. Let me share an experience on scope changes.
GYCA announce the award of small grants for my project in January. That was quite timely since the project was planned for January to June 2010 in consideration of the National Youth Week that runs from February 1st...
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Youth Need an AIDS Vaccine
An AIDS vaccine, used in combination with other prevention tools, will be uniquely suited to the needs of youth, but no prevention tool will protect young people if it is not designed to respond to their unique social, legal and cultural realities.
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GYCA World AIDS Report 2007
On December 1st, 2007, members of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) commemorated World AIDS Day with 104 local events in 34 countries. The goal of the events was to highlight the pressing need to build youth leadership and to listen to the voices of young leaders fighting HIV and AIDS in their communities. Despite the fact that 40% of the 2.5 million new infections each year occur in young people aged 15 to 24, young leaders are uniting to inspire others from our generation to take action against HIV and AIDS on our own terms - through street theater, care for AIDS orphans, peer education and work with young injecting drug users. GYCA events were organized in partnership with the World AIDS Campaign's "Take the Lead" World...
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World AIDS Day Campaign Kit (2007)
For World AIDS Day 2008, GYCA is partnering again with World AIDS Campaign to coordinate youth-led World AIDS Day events worldwide. This year’s theme is leadership: which gives you an opportunity to highlight youth leadership through a wide range of possible activities in your community. Last year, GYCA mobilized its powerful network and members organized 50 events in 30 countries.1 This year, we are hoping to target more youth in more countries to “Take the Lead” in ending the spread of HIV! Focusing on our theme of leadership, you can organize an event that best suits the needs of your own community. It could be a networking meeting, a training, a film screening, a panel discussion, a letter writing session to public...
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2012 World AIDS Day Event Organizing Toolkit
This toolkit will help you organize an event, a training, a film screening, a panel discussion, a protest, or another event that is well-suited to the need of your community on World AIDS Day.
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Steady, Ready, Go! Advocating for Effective Youth HIV Prevention Interventions
GYCA and TakingITGlobal, with the support of the WHO, created a youth-friendly version of the WHO publication taking stock of HIV prevention programs for youth.
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Youth Leadership: Recommendations for Sustainability
GYCA, Advocates for Youth, aids2031, CHOICE, World AID Campaign, Youth Coalition, YouthRISE
GYCA Directory
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Rseearch,Bhopal
AIDS/Cancer are much discussed at the scientific labs.But in the villages and towns still,people are ignorant of it.A term based appreciation of the word AIDS/Cancer, doesn't make it an achievement.We have to spread its knowledge and awareness,so that every person who is far from Science also has a basic outlay of how to avoid AIDS and how to lead a life of dignity with AIDS/cancer. The basic aim of my vision is reaching to the mass with the news that AIDS/cancer,although is not completely curable as of now,but yet that day isn't far.Sooner or later science will come up with solutions meeting such a deadly disease.Just the need of the hour is making ourselves stronger and more immune to these diseases by giving up the famous steps that...
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SMARTSOLUTIONS CONSULTANTS NIGERIA
Our strategic posture is driven by our passion to provide superior services and innovative solutions by the belief that opportunities provide impetus for growth, development for young people. The strategic objective is supported by a clear focus and bonded by shared ideologies and discriminating competencies that guide our activities. We believe in empowering young people and developing their entrepreneurial acumen which releases a high innovative capacity that allows us to provide speed and quality in addressing youth issues. We also uses our strong knowledge, expertise and understanding of young people challenges to help in anticipating their needs, growth, requirements ,aspirations and develop redefined solutions suited to their...
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HIV/AIDS Helpline Centre
Our vision is "A generation free of HIV and AIDS" While Our Mission is "HIV/AIDS Helpline is a youth-led grass-root initiative which uses advocacy, communication and social mobilization to educate and inspire communities in their efforts to prevent the spread of HIV".
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Unified Successors for Change
We hope to be an inspiration and partners with youth workers and leaders both in schools and around the province of Tawi-Tawi. Further, we envision to exemplify excellence through leadership and advocacy in the field of exchange. Our organization shares a common mission and vision for the future. We seek to set the standard for quality service and support to all our participants.
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HACEY's Health Initiative
Our Vision HACEY’s vision is to create a healthy and sustainable society. Our Mission HACEY’s mission is to empower and educate women, children and young people on health and environment issues as it relates to them, to achieve a healthy and sustainable society by training and providing support for women and young people. This is done through capacity development programs to empower them with the skills and knowledge they need to be economically self-sufficient, and take health and environment friendly decisions. Our Core Values… Commitment At HACEY, we believe that only with commitment to our work can we achieve our goals, and we impart this value in everyone we work with. Growth HACEY encourages growth and development in...
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Focal Point Updates
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GYCA NFP-Ghana updates from the Africa Youth & Governance Conference
The World Bank Group in 2008 projected that by 2015, there will be 3 Billion young people; 2.5 Billion of them will be living in developing countries. Youth population in Sub-Saharan Africa has been projected to grow at a very fast rate while declining in China, Eastern Europe, and the Developed World. Meanwhile, the number of jobs available for this fast growing population is extremely small.
This year’s African Youth and Governance Conference held in Accra, Ghana therefore focused on Partnerships for Job Creation; A Wheel for Transformational Governance. Being the 4th of its kind, the conference...
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GYCA WEST AFRICA RFP UPDATE FROM THE IAC DC
International AIDS Conference took completely another dimension for me this time in 2012. My simple definition is to attend, make new partnership, form alliances with international recognized organization, advocates for my interest in the field, making formal presentations, etc.
The tussle began when I was refused scholarship to attend and I need to pay a sum of $690 for my conference registration if I must attend AIDS 2012. I paid this sum and secure my attendance.
Youth Pre-conference was where the drama began. It often prelude all/most International AIDS Conferences and I had the privilege of meeting all my long-lost friends that I met in Vienna @ the AIDS 2010. I attended all HIV/AIDS...
40% of all new HIV infections occur among young people 15-24 years old.
– UNAIDS, AIDS Epidemic Update - 2009
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May 18 is World AIDS Vaccine Day - Sydney Hushie talks about why a vaccine is critical to ending the AIDS epidemic - http://t.co/miBoRxAmgt
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New from @Guttmacher and @ippf - a guide to more accessible data on young people's sexual health + rights! http://t.co/7UZ0LFxWif
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Juventud: los derechos sexuales y reproductivos son derechos humanos! #YoApoyoAProfamilia
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