XVII International AIDS Conference – Two Roads Diverged in a Wood
Since my previous blog, I have attended sessions on gender, HIV prevention in sex workers, harm reduction strategies for youth who use drugs, HIV status disclosure and a host of side events. The distinct impression I’ve gotten is that while most people are well meaning and committed to helping people at risk for HIV/AIDS, they […]
XVII International AIDS Conference – Making a Positive Impact
We have been receiving continued updates from our World Youth Alliance advocates down in Mexico City at the XVII International AIDS Conference. Here is one from Gabrielle Ferri, one of our WYA members from Canada who has attended our Emerging Leaders Conference and brings extensive AIDS education and WYA advocacy training with her to Mexico. […]
XVII International AIDS Conference – Thank You Tony
When I arrived at the XVII International AIDS Conference I was expecting a bit of a spectacle based on accounts from WYA attendees who went to the AIDS conference in Toronto in 2006. Fortunately, this was not the case and most participants went about seriously presenting their ideas about how to halt the spread of […]
Programa de Verano en México
Lo prometido es deuda… Aquí les van los comentarios del resto de los participantes del Programa de Verano en la Ciudad de México. Me siento muy satisfecha de ver que todos se llevaron ideas claras y muy buenas experiencias de su estancia en la casa de la WYALA. “Mi experiencia del Summer Program fue algo […]
XVII International AIDS Conference – Christmas in July
The XVII International AIDS Conference is taking place from August 3rd to August 8th in Mexico City. The conference is a place where scientific research on the topic of AIDS is presented, dialogue about the global response to AIDS takes place, and those interested may take part in various workshops adressing different aspects of the […]
At the AIDS Conference.
For months we´ve been training and planning for the conference; our training has been thorough and as an historian completely new. It has included the causes of the disease, the ways its transmitted, the effects, how it can destabilize an entire society, the many thousands of children it has orphaned. We are here for those […]
Vamos al siete once
After a month a hassle, further registration problems, two busted knee’s, two cops, being rip off by a taxi driver from the airport, and getting lost at the Banamex Centre Shannon, Theo and I finally have our conference badges for the AIDS conference. It honestly felt like some form of obstacle course to get to […]
Summer Internship in NYC
“It’s going to be so much fun!!” Irene, the Africa Region D.O. had kept on telling me this, regarding my summer internship at the WYA International office in New York. But I was still in doubt. I was among the last interns to arrive at the WYA house and I walked in when the orientation […]
Mi punto de partida
Motivar a jóvenes como yo, a que vivan esta transformación cultural inspirados e equipados con herramientas a proponer una visión clara de la persona humana con alegría y autenticidad es mi punto de partida para tomar parte de esta gran aventura que es la WYA Latín América. Soy Carlos Càceres Sarubbi, un Paraguayo con todas […]
The International Solidarity Forum
The thought of attending the ISF had passed through my mind but I wasn’t sure if I would be able to attend. Life happens as it should and sometimes wishes are granted. And so I ended up in Manhattan in the famous city of New York. The tall buildings in Manhattan were something I had […]
