Tell 10 girls 10 facts about HIV/AIDS

Join in, it’s easy! Simply download the fact card, print out 10 sheets, assemble 10 fact cards and use them to inform 10 girls about HIV/AIDS. Imagine 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world each tell 10 girls 10 facts about HIV/AIDS. That would be the gigantic impact on 100 million girls!

Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. It is also a weapon that the world cannot do without in the fight against AIDS.
Nelson Mandela

Make sure they keep the promise

In 2001 governments met at the UN General Assembly and declared to reverse the spread of AIDS. Five years later, in June 2006, the declaration was reviewed by the General Assembly.

Virtually, every country on earth is represented in the General Assembly and therefore supports that promise. Furthermore, last year, the Group of Eight (G8) leaders made commitments to ensure universal access to treatment by 2010. The G8 consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Find out what your government is doing to research a cure, prevent the spread of the disease and support people living with HIV/AIDS. You can write to your local MP or the Ministry of Health to remind them of what they promised.

The goal of this year’s World AIDS day is to:

call on all governmental leaders to be accountable for the promises they made
set the targets necessary to reach universal access to care, treatment and support
make all the necessary resources available in order to overcome the AIDS pandemic

Show your colour

Red is the colour connected with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Raise awareness for the issue by wearing red on World AIDS Day on 1 December. Ask your friends, colleagues, sisters in Guiding, family and everybody else to join in and make a visible statement to support the World AIDS campaign. You can use the colour red also in promotional objects, e.g. red ribbons, t-shirts, banners, etc.

Become an advocate

girls worldwide say “fight AIDS” is one of WAGGGS’ seven key advocacy messages on Adolescent Health. You can become part of WAGGGS’ advocacy work. It aims to:

speak out and influence opinion-formers
do projects to tackle the root causes
educate girls, young women and society

To find out what you can do download the WAGGGS Advocacy Toolkit on Adolescent Health. Why don’t you encourage your friends to join in on your advocacy action?

Dance4life

Dance4life is a biennial global dance event taking place on the Saturday before World AIDS Day. In 2004, more than 20,000 young people in South Africa, Indonesia and the Netherlands moved to the same rhythm to make a powerful statement. For 2006, groups of young people United Kingdom, Germany, Vietnam, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Denmark, Russia and Kenya are going to ‘start dancing, stop AIDS’.

Join a dance event near you or start your own Dance4Life party with your Girl Guide/Girl Scout group. Have a look at the Dance4life website and learn the drill and the shout and listen to the dance4life track that hit the charts in the Netherlands and even reached number 1 in Hungary.

Tell us about it!

Use the comment section and tell us what you did on World AIDS Day or about a project you are working on at the moment. Additionally you can post your event on the World AIDS campaign events calendar.

(FACT: It is 3.4 times more like for a young women than a young man to get infected with HIV/AIDS)

Your comments

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U. Savas Baran 2 December 2006 - 10.07PM (GMT)

Here in Ankara Turkey today we had excellent participation to our exhibition and competition on AIDS awareness in our Annual Leaders Seminar. Some posted messages to WAGGGS AIDS pages. Everybody had their red ribbons. We talked about WAGGGS and WOSM projects related to this area. Exhibition had ICOGRADA posters and Milleniun Development Goal information
On one of the workshop girl made a big poster for AIDS too

Chloe Faught, Canada 1 December 2006 - 2.15AM (GMT)

I am working on planning a one day seminar for girls and adults in Victoria, BC, Canada to learn about HIV/AIDS, learn about the pandemic and then learn how to be an advocate. We felt that it was important to have girls and adults (ie. leaders, parents) all together because everyone needed more information.

My group also feels that although WAGGGS has announced the importance of fighting this disease and its strategy, little is being done so far in my country towards educating and action through Girl Guides. We hope to change that, bit by bit.

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