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Young People and UNGASS
10 GYCA Youth Country Teams Assess their Governments' Progress on Youth and HIV!
Egypt National Youth Shadow Report 2008
India National Youth Shadow Report 2008
Jamaica National Youth Shadow Report 2008
Kenya National Youth Shadow Report 2008
Nepal National Youth Shadow Report 2008
Nigeria National Youth Shadow Report
Senegal National Youth Shadow Report
United States of America National Youth Shadow Report 2008
Viet Nam National Youth Shadow Report 2008
Zimbabwe National Youth Shadow Report 2008
Seven more "community-level" reports will be available shortly on Burundi, Uganda, etc.
Globally, 1.7 billion young people aged 10-24 make up one quarter of the world's population. Approximately 40% of all new HIV infections occur among young people between 15-24 years of age, and there are 5.4 million young people living with HIV. Young people are the face of HIV. We are at higher risk of HIV infection because we lack access to the crucial information, education, and services to protect themselves. However, our needs are often ignored when data is collected and strategies on HIV and AIDS are drafted, policies developed, and budgets allocated.
With only two years left to achieve the UNGASS goals and targets, young people are actively participating in the tracking and reporting of UNGASS commitments. In 2008, these young people have produced 10 UNGASS Youth Shadow Reports to present at the UNGASS, in its seven-year review. Their research, findings and analysis will set the tone for needs and priorities that must be taken into account during the UNGASS High Level Meetings next week at the UN Secretariat in New York.
In just two years, the world will evaluate ten years of work toward "Universal Access by 2010" to HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment. While progress has been made in several areas of the AIDS response, the targets laid out so ambitiously for youth in the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (DoC) will be unmet by drastic margins; indeed, 7 years later, few governments even bother to collect data specifically on youth.
The DoC states that by 2005, at least 90 per cent, and by 2010 at least 95 per cent of young men and women aged 15 to 24 will have access to the information, education, skills and services to protect themselves from HIV infection. However, as of 2007, only 40% of young men and 36% of young women had accurate HIV knowledge on transmission and prevention.
Find out what young people have to say about the HIV situation in their countries:
2006 National Youth Shadow Reports
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ghana
India
Japan
Kenya
Pakistan
GYCA and Global Youth Partners. "Our Voice, Our Future: Young people report on progress made on the UNGASS declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS" UNFPA, 2005. (1.47 MB)
Download the Country-Level UNGASS Youth Research Guide (detailed version)
Download the Community-Level UNGASS Youth Research Guide (simple version. If you use this version please read the detailed version anyway, as it has helpful information on finding a national team, sources of information, timeline, etc.)
Visit World AIDS Campaign's UNGASS HIV page for more information.
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