[afro-nets] Seeking Info on Youth-Led HIV/AIDS Prevention/Care Programs

[Janet Feldman <kaippg@earthlink.net>]

Seeking Info on Youth-Led HIV/AIDS Prevention/Care Programs
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Dear Friends,

Hello, and please see these two related opportunities for youth!
All best wishes,

Janet Feldman
mailto:kaippg@earthlink.net


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I am seeking information on innovative youth-led HIV prevention
and care programs that can serve as models for young people
wishing to develop/implement highly focused, effective HIV pre-
vention and care interventions. Examples include VCT programs
employing youth as volunteer counselors/outreach workers,
school-based Student Health Councils that provide psychosocial
support and referral services to students affected by HIV/AIDS,
creative writing/arts programs that target youth affected by
HIV/AIDS, and other novel programs that have clear, focused ob-
jectives.

Information on organizations that seem to fit the criteria above
can be sent directly to
mailto:nicole.brown@stanford.edu


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On Wednesday, March 22nd, a meeting will be held at the Univer-
sity of Dar es Salaam for youth-led groups and organizations in-
volved in school and community-based HIV/AIDS prevention and
care activities. The purpose of the meeting is to introduce a
new initiative being developed by students at Brown and Stanford
medical schools in the United States, in collaboration with the
African Regional Youth Initiative, to support youth-led HIV/AIDS
organizations. We also hope to learn about the HIV/AIDS work be-
ing done by young people in different communities, the chal-
lenges faced by youth organizations, and how you feel that your
needs and concerns can best be addressed.

Overview of new initiative to support youth-led organizations:

We are developing a new initiative to showcase innovative models
of HIV prevention, treatment and care developed by young people
in resource-poor countries, using web-based multimedia presenta-
tions (MMPs). These presentations use photographs, audio, and
video to tell the stories of the challenges facing young people
in different communities with respect to HIV/AIDS, and the
strategies that youth have developed to address them.

The objective is to raise awareness and funding for youth-led
HIV/AIDS programs, and inspire youth in other resource-poor
countries to replicate and integrate the programs showcased in
the MMPs in their own communities. By doing this, we hope to
rapidly scale-up youth-targeted HIV prevention and care services
in communities that lack these programs, develop a movement of
youth working cooperatively to reduce HIV incidence and improve
treatment and care services in underserved areas, and provide an
evidence base of effective models of prevention and care that
donors, policymakers, and the general public can support.

This project will be replicated in other countries in and out-
side of Africa.

If you are interested in participating in this meeting, please
RSVP to
Duncan Skelton
mailto:skeltioni@hotmail.com
Tel: +255-787211561, by Friday, March 10th.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on March 22nd!

Sincerely,

Suzette Brown
mailto:suzette_brown@brown.edu

Nicole Brown
mailto:nicole.brown@stanford.edu

Neema Mgana, ARYI
mailto:nmgana@yahoo.com

Duncan Skelton, ARYI
mailto:skeltioni@hotmail.com

ARYI: http://www.aryi.interconnection.org