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.
AIDS 2010: International Conference in Vienna
GYCA is one of the lead organizers of the Vienna YouthForce, a coalition of 5 youth organizations developing the youth program for the XVII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in collaboration with the International AIDS Society.
Recent News
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GYCA Regional Focal Points Meeting
GYCA RFPs and staff met to discuss RFP's work, challenges and goals. We discussed how to help the RFPs create new policies to ensure greater accountability, communicativeness, ownership and responsiveness. RFPs who take leadership and contribute on a regular basis are often rewarded with free opportunities to represent GYCA at international events such as this conference. RFPs and NFPs who fall out of contact and shirk their responsibilities will be asked to leave and will be replaced. The GYCA member’s meeting is tomorrow (Wednesday) from 6-8pm in the Bild hostel. In attendance: Reshma Pattni (GYCA Program Director), Sydney (Program Officer- South Secretariat), Lindsay Menard-Freeman (Program Officer- North...
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Vienna Session, Monday- Youth: Providing Leadership on AIDS and Demanding Accountability
This lively session was a great change from the “same old” discussions of the need for youth participation, featuring GYCA members Ricardo Baruch (GYCA Board of Directors), Igor Mocorro (former NFP from the Philippines), Elisabet Fadul (Dominican Republic), Caitlin Padgett (Co-Founder and International Advisory Council member of Youth RISE from Canada), as well as several other youth and adult leaders. The session’s moderators (Elisabet and Caitlin) emphasized the need for accountability both from adults and from young people to make commitments and follow through on them. GYCA's Igor Mocorro from the Philippines asked Michel Kazatchine (Director of the Global Fund) to commit to ensuring that all Global Fund Country...
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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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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Excellent Comedy Group
Ecg is a group of youth that have the same goal and vision.our vision is to make all youth use their talent to fight the problems they face. we see these happen with us working out by the year 2030
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Focal Point Updates
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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...
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GYCA Updates of the AIDS 2010 Conference in Vienna
Before I take you through to what has happened on Tuesday 20 July 2010. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) on making it possible for me to attend this conference and also extend my gratitude to the NORAD and UNFPA on supporting GYCA to support us. This is my first time attending the International AIDS Conference. I have been in local, National, and Global meeting on many issues on HIV but being here is to see the AllinOne Interventions of people fighting for one thing –HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL- I invested my time and attended all sessions that were addressing the need, the challenges and the achievements of youth, MSM, women and girls that they are currently faced with around the...
40% of all new HIV infections occur among young people 15-24 years old.
– UNAIDS, AIDS Epidemic Update - 2009
Twitter Feed
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RT @lindsmf: back in the @gyca office. Hope you all made it home safely, and looking forward to Vienna follow up with everyone!
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Hope everyone enjoyed the AIDS2010 conference and our coverage of it. Look forward to new content and endeavours in the coming months!!
