WYAAP Summer Camp 2010
Summer Camp Experience By: Margaret Alexie Sipaco de Leon During the week leading to my departure for summer camp, I begged my mom to allow me to not go. Due to my irrational fear of tan lines, unsetting nerves, thoughts of not getting along with fellow participants, and even the whole 400-must-read-pages raced through my […]
WYAAP Summer Camp 2010
Summer Camp Experience When I first thought of joining the summer camp, I was expecting it to be full of excitement and just mild enrichment but after experiencing it, I realized that it was far more than what I imagined. After a week of being in Binmaley, Pangasinan, it was as if finishing a whole […]
WYA Launches its Millennium Development Goal #5 Campaign
Be Part of This Campaign on Maternal Health! WYA DECLARATION ON MATERNAL HEALTH We are a global coalition of young people reflecting diverse ethnic, cultural, economic, political and social backgrounds from all regions of the world. We have observed with concern the lack of progress made on MDG 5, Improving Maternal Health, which is currently […]
The XVIII International AIDS conference The XVIII International AIDS conference last week in Vienna is probably one of the most eye opening situations I have been in, in my life.During thewhole week I have been in a lot of meetingswith people with all types of lifestyles and backgrounds -heterosexuals, transgender, sex workers, doctors, teachers, activists, […]
‘La prevención del VIH entre trabajadores sexuales inmigrantes’
El pasado 22 de Julio, 2010 durante la XVIII Conferencia Internacional del sida* en Viena, Austria se discutió el tema sobre ‘La prevención del VIH entre trabajadores sexuales inmigrantes’, enfocado en hombres trabajadores sexuales chinos, extranjeros y su movilización. Los puntos discutidos por los expositores, dos hombres de nacionalidad China (quienes no hablaban inglés) y […]
Press Release: AIDS Conference
“We deserve better than harm reduction.” World Youth Alliance delegates at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, July 18 – 23, 2010(Vienna: July 23, 2010): A small delegation from the World Youth Alliance participated in the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria from July 18 – 23, 2010, bringing the voice of […]
Esperanza!
¡ESPERANZA! CONFERENCE JOURNAL OF THE WORLD YOUTH ALLIANCE XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria AIDS Campaign needs a broader vision of the human person JULY 20, 2010:On July 19, former President of the United States Bill Clinton gave an address to the participants of the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria emphasizing “harm-reduction.” In […]
Coffee House called Art Speaks, on August 12th at the WYA Headquarters, NY city
Dear WYA Regional Offices, My name is Emily Matich and I am a North American WYA Intern. As you may know, August 12th will be the first day of the United Nation’s International Year of Youth (IYY). In celebration of the IYY, we are hosting a Coffee House called Art Speaks, on August 12th at […]
A WYA member’s experience as staff at the aids-conference
As help staff at the AIDS conference 2010 in Vienna, I was very happy to have had the chance to be steadily in touch with speakers at many sessions and to be to certain extend their main contact person during the whole week. In that way I didn`t just learn a lot about the speakers […]
“We deserve better than harm reduction”
World Youth Alliance delegates at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, July 18 – 23, 2010 (Vienna: July 23, 2010): A small delegation from the World Youth Alliance participated in the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria from July 18 – 23, 2010, bringing the voice of young people and the principles […]