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2010 Red Ribbon Award: Call for nominations! |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
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The call for nominations for the 2010 Red Ribbon Award is now open. As in the past, the award honors and recognizes exceptional grassroots leadership in responding to the AIDS epidemic. Nominations are accepted from December 1st, 2009 until February 28th, 2010.
Twenty-five community-based organizations will be selected through a community-led process and invited to attend the XVIIIth International AIDS Conference in Vienna from 18-23 July, 2010, where they will have an opportunity to showcase their work. All 25 organizations will receive $5,000 each. Five of these will receive special recognition and an additional $15,000. This year the Red Ribbon Award will be given to community groups for outstanding leadership in responding to AIDS in one or more of the following categories:
- Ensure that that people living with HIV receive treatment
- Support HIV prevention, treatment and care programmes for people who use drugs
- Remove punitive policies and laws, stigma and discrimination that block effective AIDS responses and marginalize key populations (men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers and prisoners)
- Stop violence against women and girls and promote gender equality
- Enhance social support for those affected by HIV, including orphans and vulnerable children
This year a special recognition Award will be presented to an organization whose cross-cutting approach jointly addresses AIDS and MDGs at the community level.
Go to www.redribbonaward.org and nominate the organisation you think should receive the Red Ribbon Award.
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HIV Young Leaders Fund to Launch in 2010 |
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Young people living with HIV
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
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Networks for young people living with HIV announced the HIV Young Leaders Fund: a new partnership effort between youth networks and donors. The HIV Young Leaders Fund is an innovative funding mechanism driven by a broad range of organizations, including international and country-level youth-led networks. The mission of the HIV Young Leaders Fund is to enable and develop new leadership in the AIDS response among young people most-affected by HIV.
“Peer-based programming is highly effective yet chronically underfunded and youth-led programs often lack support for core resources,” said Liping Mian, World AIDS Campaign Youth Campaign Coordinator and HIV Young Leaders Fund Interim Steering Committee member.
For more information, please read:  Report Back: the HIV Young Leaders Fund 78.45 Kb
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AIDS2010: People living with HIV set the agenda |
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
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Do you want the world to know what you are doing in your community, organization, country on HIV? Come to present your experiences at AIDS2010 in Vienna!
The Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+) calls on people
living with HIV to share their knowledge and experience and submit
abstracts and workshops to be presented at AIDS2010.
Are you a person living with HIV working on programmes focused on leadership and accountability or involving and empowering communities? Are you ready to share your best practices or can you help people with professional scientific development? Are you providing treatment, care or counseling for other people living with HIV? Do you work in prevention, help with testing, defend human rights, or in any other way to help improve the quality of life of people living with HIV?
GNP+ produced 3 briefs How to apply for a scholarship; How to submit an abstract; and How to apply for a workshop. You can download them here:
How to apply for a Scholarship for AIDS2010 115.92 Kb
How to submit an Abstract for AIDS2010 115.73 Kb
How to submit a Workshop for AIDS2010 110.25 Kb
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WHO releases new and improved ART Guidelines |
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Constituency Consultations
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
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During summer 2009, people living with HIV participated in consultations to develop recommendations for the revision of the WHO’s 'Recommendations for Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection in Adults and Adolescents' (WHO ART Guidelines). The reports from the GNP+ consultations are available here.
The revised WHO ART Guidelines were released on 30 November, providing new recommendations on treatment, prevention and infant feeding in the context of low- and middle-income countries. GNP+ is pleased to see that the revised guidelines reflect several of
the key recommendations put forward by GNP+, ITPC, ICW and Young
Positives following our consultative processes.
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