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Prateek Suman is a member of the Youth Coalition and the youth representative on the WAC Global Steering Committee. For more information about the Youth Coalition, please go to www.youthcoalition.org.

"As young people, we need to shape the future with our own hands.Although we are young, we have valuable knowledge and experience that we can bring to the table.”

Every day more than 6000 young people between the ages of 15 to 24 get infected with HIV. This makes young people (and disproportionately young women) constitute more than half all new infections worldwide.

Discriminative social and political structures put young people at a higher risk than others. Because of this, young people lack the information, skills, tools and services needed to protect themselves from HIV infection and to live a healthy and productive life

Why should young people lead?
With more than 12 million young people living with HIV and AIDS, constituting more than half of all people living with HIV and AIDS worldwide, it is clear that youth must be at the centre of the response to the pandemic and of all efforts to halt and reverse its spread. While young people can often make valuable contributions by themselves, it is crucial for local, national and international decision-makers to follow through on their commitments made to young people on the issue of HIV and AIDS. In order to ensure such accountability, young people need to continue to play an active role in challenging them.

What young people are demanding

  • Address youth-specific needs within coherent national, regional and international policies and programmes that protect and promote their human rights
  • Scale up funding and support for programmes that work with and for young people on HIV and AIDS, especially youth-led initiatives including peer-education.
  • Ensure universal access to comprehensive youth-friendly information and services including comprehensive sexuality education, voluntary and confidential counselling and testing, and condoms.
  • Create quality and accountability mechanisms for health care providers, including private providers.
  • Remove all trade, policy and legal barriers to enable greater access to medicines, services and goods (including condoms) and implement a wider range of service delivery options to meet the needs of young people’s sexual and reproductive health.
  • Ensure sustainable supply of commodities and availability of services necessary for young people living with HIV and AIDS and required for the prevention of HIV infection.
  • Work in full partnership with young people , especially young people living with HIV and AIDS, and with youth-led initiatives on policy-making, programme design, implementation, and evaluation.

To read more about how young people are taking the lead on AIDS, please see the articles below.

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Youth Campaigning Consultation

29 Abr 2008 – 11:25

On 30 and 31 January 2008, representatives of a variety of constituencies, including youth,…

Presenting the Mexico City Youth Partnerships Initiative!

01 Abr 2008 – 10:32

Throughout the upcoming 2008 International AIDS Conference, the World AIDS Campaign and the…

GYCA members around the world taking the lead on WAD

15 Fev 2008 – 9:52

Members of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) commemorated World AIDS Day 2007 wi…

Staying Alive Foundation requests Proposals

14 Fev 2008 – 9:02

Do you want to make a difference in your community? Have an idea for an AIDS campaign but ca…

Public Awareness March in Karnataka State

24 Jan 2008 – 9:08

The Department of Community Medicine in Davangere, Karnataka State took the lead on World AI…

White Orange Youth WAD 07 Activities

23 Jan 2008 – 15:20

White Orange Youth, an organisation in Moshi, Tanzania celebrated World AIDS Day by organisi…

Students Organise Events in Thailand

11 Jan 2008 – 8:55

Volunteer students from many countries including Myanmar, Vietnam, China, Bangladesh, German…

Season’s Givings with SGAC

10 Jan 2008 – 11:32

From now until 22 January 2007, the Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is participating in…

The SCORA Yearly Report

02 Jan 2008 – 16:38

The 2006-2007 yearly report for SCORA is now available. Please click on the link below to vi…

2007 Youth World AIDS Day Events

11 Dez 2007 – 7:43

To commemorate World AIDS Day, GYCA members are organising 104 events in 34 countries to hig…

IFMSA WAD Statement

10 Dez 2007 – 13:10

Please see below, World AIDS Day Statement, written on behalf of the IFMSA Team of Officials…

2007 World AIDS Day Live Chat

22 Nov 2007 – 11:38

In anticipation of World AIDS Day on December 1st, TakingITGlobal is hosting a World AIDS D…

Organizing World AIDS Day: WAD 2007 Manual

15 Nov 2007 – 8:13

Please see below to download the 2007 World AIDS Day manual from the International Federatio…

World AIDS Day December 1st, Youth Leadership

06 Nov 2007 – 11:35

For World AIDS Day 2008, Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) is partnering again with…

SCORA newsletter about Word AIDS Day

25 Set 2007 – 13:56

SCORA, the Standing Committee on Reproductive Health including AIDS, mainly focuses on topic…

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