XVII International AIDS Conference – Fighting the Good Fight
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” – G. K. Chesterton All week long I have been hearing of the fight against HIV/AIDS, I have heard from Bill Clinton that we as the “millions and millions of foot soldiers” must […]
XVII International AIDS Conference – Sorrow, Hope and the Big Dragon
Here is another blog dispatch from World Youth Alliance member Theodora Ferrant. Theo is a Canadian WYA member from Ontario who worked in New York as an intern in the fall of 2007. She is now a graduate student of philosophy at Dominican College of Ottowa where she also heads up a WYA campus group. […]
LA FAMILIA UNIDA PREVIENE LA TRANSMISIÓN DEL SIDA
Por: Jun Song, canadiense, 21 años- y Lourdes Villanueva, mexicana, 25 años. 3 de agosto de 2008 De acuerdo a un estudio realizado por el Fondo de Desarrollo para la Agricultura (IFAD por sus siglas en inglés), en 2006, 150 millones de trabajadores migrantes a nivel mundial enviaron más de $300 mil millones de dólares […]
VIH/SIDA: Una respuesta centrada en la persona humana
La World Youth Alliance participa en la XVII Conferencia Internacional del Sida. Ciudad de México, 2 de agosto de 2008. Miembros de Comité de la WYA América Latina y la WYA Norte América así como las directoras de ambas regiones, Lourdes Villanueva y Shannon Joseph, participan como delegados en la XVII Conferencia Internacional del Sida […]
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 […]