Young people living with HIV

Programmes

YPLHIV Programme

An estimated 33.2 million people are living with HIV, of whom 5.4 million are young people. 40% of new infections are amongst 15-24 year olds, most of them female. However, in the global response to HIV there is a massive gap in the support and the meaningful and engaged participation of youth living with HIV (YPLHIV).

GNP+ is strengthening the position of young people living with HIV within networks through a Young People Living with HIV (YPLHIV) programme. The programme aims to ensure that all GNP+ platforms responds to the specific needs of YPLHIV, and also give a voice to YPLHIV around the world to guide and support the spaces that affect their lives.

GNP+ will work to support and broaden networking and collaboration amongst stakeholders to facilitate an enabling environment within GNP+ and the regional people living with HIV networks for youth living with HIV. This initiative is driven by youth living with HIV.

Crowdsourcing the UNAIDS new strategy on HIV and young people

Wednesday, 09 November 2011

crowd UNAIDS have launched CrowdOutAIDS.org to increase contributions from young people to the agency’s New Generation Leadership Strategy. CrowdOutAIDS.org is an online collaborative project set up by young people working at UNAIDS and across different networks.

UNAIDS are using a crowd sourcing approach to ensure fullest participation of young people in the development of this strategy, bearing in mind the core principles of meaningful youth engagement: inclusivity, transparency and accountability. Through the online wiki-like platform at crowdoutaids.org, young people have a unique opportunity to shape the NGL strategy. The process will conclude by mid-January 2012

To take part in the discussions and contribute to the development of the strategy click here or Read More.

Building sustainable leadership within the positive community: YPLHIV Leadership

Wednesday, 09 November 2011

YLeadership GNP+, with support from the Ford Foundation, has embarked on a set of consultative processes to identify the priority leadership needs of young people living with HIV and strategies how to best address these needs. This has been done with a view to sustaining the considerable contribution that the positive community has made to global efforts around HIV.

The community of people living with HIV have played a critical role in the HIV response over the last 30 years: from the development of the Denver Principles, articulating the immediate needs and priorities for people living with HIV, in the 1980s, to the treatment activism that made living a long life with HIV a reality for millions in the 1990s, to the Universal Access and human rights discourses of the last 10 years where people living with HIV have been at the centre of the response.

Young PLHIV advocacy towards UNGASS

Friday, 15 April 2011

yplhiv_ungass_messages-W70 GNP+ and the World AIDS Campaign have developed key advocacy priority messages and a briefing paper by and for young people living with HIV to inform the UNGASS process.

These priorities were formulated based on results from an online survey with 168 young people living with HIV from 55 countries, as well as a literature review and interviews with several key informants.

Supporting the educational needs of YPLHIV

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

During recent meetings and consultations with young people living with HIV, convened by GNP+, UN agencies and other civil society organizations, a number of common recommendations have emerged with specific reference to the role of the education sector in supporting the needs of HIV-positive young people.

The rationale behind these recommendations is not only to support young people living with HIV to fulfill their right to education in a supportive and enabling environment in school, but also to strengthen their roles and build on their experiences at community level.

Successful first year to HIV Young Leaders Fund

Monday, 08 November 2010

GNP+ is proud to be a part of the HIV Young Leaders Fund (HYLF) Steering Committee (SC), the governing board of the community driven funding mechanism aimed at enabling new leadership in the HIV response among young people most affected by HIV.

The HYLF provides small grants and needs-based technical assistance relevant to the grantees needs. The HYLF also facilitates the sharing of knowledge to facilitate the development evidence informed advocacy.