Apply for GYCA’s Project Management E-Course!
Apply for GYCA's Project Management E-Course, starting on September 6th! Applications are due by August 20th at 10am EST. Please visit the e-course page to download the application.
Changes to GYCA E-Course Schedule
The Project Management E-Course will begin on September 13th instead of September 6th. Participants will be notified by Friday September 3rd. With any questions about the E-Course, please e-mail Lindsay at lindsay@gyca.org.
GYCA has a New Website and Brand Design
The Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) is pleased to announce the launch of its redesigned website, www.gyca.org. The new site design is structured to make information and opportunities easily accessible to the international GYCA community, enabling members to take full advantage of GYCA's tools and resources and connect to other young HIV and AIDS activists.
About GYCA
GYCA is a youth-led global network of over 4,500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.
Recent News
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More than 80 GYCA members, including many of our Regional Focal Points, traveled from their many corners of the world to Vienna, Austria for the XVIII International AIDS Conference 2010. The YouthForce pre-conference brought together over 275 young advocates who carried our advocacy messages throughout the main event. GYCA Focal Points served in key roles before, during, and at the closing of the Main Conference. In the spotlight, Rachel Arinii, GYCA’s Regional Focal Point from Asia Pacific, gave a powerful opening speech in which she called for an intensified focus on young people and HIV during the Main Conference. Emily Carson, GYCA’s Regional Focal Point from North America, worked with a team of youth journalists to ensure...
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Apply for GYCA's Project Management E-Course!
Dear GYCA Members: We have space for up to 10 highly-committed GYCA members in our next cycle of GYCA's Project Management e-course, scheduled to start on September 6th and end on October 18th. GYCA members will take this course alongside MTV Staying Alive Foundation grantees. If you would like to participate in this e-course, please visit www.gyca.org/ecourses to download the application and submit it no later than Friday August 20th by 10am EST. Please send your application via e-mail to pmcourse@gyca.org. Any submissions later than that time will not be considered. Accepted applicants will be informed no later than Friday August 27th, and should be prepared to begin the course on September 6th. Please read the...
Voices from the Field
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Final blog post for ‘Promoting awareness and empowerment in Nepalese adolescents on HIV and AIDS and drug use’.
Dear GYCA members, Hello once again from Nepal. This is my final blog post wherein I will be talking about the final outcomes of my project, along with the successes and challenges faced throughout. We were aiming to increase the number of youngsters having right information about peer-pressure, drug use and HIV and AIDS and empowering young Nepalese to prevent and not be a part of peer pressure driving the vicious cycle of drug use and HIV through extensive participation with collaboration and partnership with school administration, parents, management committees and other civic organizations. We were able to reach 370 youngsters with the right information among which 75% showed raised awareness level in the post-test survey. We...
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Shortcomings of HELTS Project
I am glad to share with you this and for all upcoming leaders, hope it is beneficial to you all! One of the challenges HELTS project faced was the initial misconception the community larders had about the project. Given the fact that the areas of operation (Slums) for the project had uncoordinated community structures due over crowding of residents and free entry and exit of community members without notice from the community leaders. Therefore at the beginning of the project, when we introduced the project to community leaders for support, they thought it was some business venture expecting payment in return. We overcame this by intervening a brief meeting together with community leaders to further disseminate the goal and...
Resources
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GYCA World AIDS Report 2007
On December 1st, 2007, members of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) commemorated World AIDS Day with 104 local events in 34 countries. The goal of the events was to highlight the pressing need to build youth leadership and to listen to the voices of young leaders fighting HIV and AIDS in their communities. Despite the fact that 40% of the 2.5 million new infections each year occur in young people aged 15 to 24, young leaders are uniting to inspire others from our generation to take action against HIV and AIDS on our own terms - through street theater, care for AIDS orphans, peer education and work with young injecting drug users. GYCA events were organized in partnership with the World AIDS Campaign's "Take the Lead" World...
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World AIDS Day Campaign Kit (2007)
For World AIDS Day 2008, GYCA is partnering again with World AIDS Campaign to coordinate youth-led World AIDS Day events worldwide. This year’s theme is leadership: which gives you an opportunity to highlight youth leadership through a wide range of possible activities in your community. Last year, GYCA mobilized its powerful network and members organized 50 events in 30 countries.1 This year, we are hoping to target more youth in more countries to “Take the Lead” in ending the spread of HIV! Focusing on our theme of leadership, you can organize an event that best suits the needs of your own community. It could be a networking meeting, a training, a film screening, a panel discussion, a letter writing session to public...
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A guide to indicators for monitoring and evaluating national HIV/AIDS prevention programmes for young people
A guide to indicators for monitoring and evaluating national HIV/AIDS prevention programmes for young people
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Towards the Finish Line: Youth and Universal Access 2010 Factsheet
GYCA, World AIDS Campaign, Youth Coalition, UNFPA
GYCA Directory
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AIESEC Indonesia
Our vision is "Peace and fulfilment of humankind's potential". In order to achieve this vision, we create platform that enables young people to explore and develop their leadership potential. By creating leaders who have global competency model (global mindset, entrepreneurial outlook, social responsibility, proactive learning, emotional intelligence), we believe we can create a better world to live in the future.
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Narok Youth Coalition
To see that every youth is equipped with enough knowledge and skills to enable them to embrace positive change in behavior and take charge of their own development and destiny. NYC,s mission is to better the living standards of the youth through partnership, capacity building and development programs that enable them to respond more positively and effectively to their needs.
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youth empowerment network-k
To provide extra ability to the present ability and to empower young people make informed choice to achieve timely and set goals.He the young people in the community in capacity building and promote you to make informed decisions.Live a world free from HIV/Aids and good leadership.
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Grupo Ministerial Inc
Grupo Ministerial Inc is dedicated to educating the community of Western New York as well as raising awareness in regard to health concerns affecting the community. The lack of health care access, minimal education level and low socioeconomic status among the community disables the people and takes their strength from wanting to better the community and its people. Grupo Ministerial gives them the health educational tools to become aware that there is a lot that can be done in regard to their own health, as well as provide them with minimal health access through free of charge health workshops.
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Burera's Volunteers for Development Association(BVDA)
BVDA (Burera's Volunteers for Development Association) is a non profit, non political and youth-led organization founded since 2005 by university, secondary students and teachers in Northern Province of Rwanda and it accounts more than 200 volunteers. The overall objective of this association is to improve the good living conditions of underprivileged communities in Northern Province of Rwanda.
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Focal Point Updates
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HIV Awareness Seminar in London - Young Black Africans Living in UK
There is a young black Africans HIV awareness seminar taking place on 25 August for young people to share their experiences and knowledge of HIV with discussions and debates. GYCA will be represented in the conference. On the day there will be information about: - ways HIV can be transmitted and how to protect yourself - awareness about HIV and sexual health amongst young black Africans in the UK - how to dispel the myths and eradicate the stigma surrounding HIV - what living with and being affected by HIV is like first hand What: Young Black Africans HIV Awareness Seminar Where: The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund Hall, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road SE1 7PB When: Wednesday 25 June, 9.30am - 3.30pm ...
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What do we want? Human Right, when do we want them? NOW!
Daily Summery Tuesday 20th, July 2010 If anyone doubted the power of the youth voice at the AIDS Conference; they will soon be changing their minds. The conference has been very direction action oriented this year, protests have been held every day on a variety of topics and issues. Today, three different protests happened inside the venue and one rally happened outside the conference centre walls. Even before the penalties began, the protesters were setting their stages. In the global village, participants were talking about meeting points and messages that would be used later in the day. Two of the protests were from the organization NSWP: The Global Network of Sex Work Projects. The NSWP have had a presence in the conferences...
40% of all new HIV infections occur among young people 15-24 years old.
– UNAIDS, AIDS Epidemic Update - 2009
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