HIV and AIDS related events and seminars

WAGGGS key messages at global events include:

  • Involve young people in the fight against HIV and AIDS as key partners and include them in the planning, delivering and evaluation of HIV and AIDS initiatives
  • Ensure young people have access to comprehensive, objective, non-biased, gender and youth-specific information on HIV and AIDS
  • Support organizations involved in promoting HIV and AIDS education for girls and young women
  • Helping empower girls and young women with increased efforts to eliminate gender inequality as a necessary starting point towards a secure environment for young women to take responsible decisions on their reproductive health. This includes working towards the elimination of violence against young women

Upcoming events

More information will be posted shortly.

 

 

 

Previous events

The upcoming UN Commission on the Status of Women in NY in March 2011 will focus on girls and education as well as violence against girls – both topics closely related to the global AIDS pandemic. Applications for youth delegates will be available shortly.

AIDS 2010 Conference- Pop up display

 

 

Five WAGGGS youth delegates attended the International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July 2010. Find out what they were up to during the conference!

CSW 54 session -Ban Ki Moon A WAGGGS youth delegation attended the 53rd Commission on the Status of Women  in March 2009 at UN headquarters in New York on the topic ‘The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS’

World Youth Conference- Margarita ZavalaMargarita Zavala, the First Lady of Mexico, launched the WAGGGS AIDS toolkit during the International AIDS conference in Mexico City in August 2008. WAGGGS youth delegates from projects featured in the toolkit attended.

Four African WAGGGS youth delegates contributed to the Young Women’s Leadership Forum and the International Women’s Summit in July 2008 in Nairobi, which focused on HIV and AIDS.