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Fallen Guardian Angels: The Official HIV/AIDS World AIDS Day Theatre Script

Paperback: 148 pages
Publisher: Sergius and Bacchus Publishing (June 28, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 061550244X
ISBN-13: 978-0615502441

“At Home, I’m Clark Kent. At Camp, I’m Superman”: Outcomes and Processes of a Camp for Youth with HIV/AIDS (2009 dissertation)

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PhD dissertation by Ann Gillard, B.S., Indiana University; M.S., San Francisco State University
Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University

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Connecting Youth with Youth: A Guide to Youth and HIV/AIDS-related Programs and Projects across Canada

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This guide prepared by the Canadian AIDS Society in 2004 is all about connecting youth, youth workers, and community-based organizations serving youth with each other to ensure that youth have the information and supports they need in their own communities on HIV/AIDS and related issues.

Move together now: Community and youth mobilisation for HIV prevention among young people in Uganda

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This guide aims to equip users with the knowledge, attitudes and skills to build the capacity of communities and young people to work together to address the sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including HIV, needs of young people. The guide will help you to work in participatory ways with young people, and the adults who influence their lives, at all stages of the community mobilization process to:

I Want to Be Somebody! Testimonies of Children Living with HIV/AIDS

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This 2010 anthology of children´s stories by famous Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane is the first of its kind in Mozambique and illuminates the hopes, fears and dreams of children living with HIV.

Traces of Life II: Eight Stories of Health Promotion and Prevention of HIV/AIDS and Malaria

"Traces of Life II" is a document published in 2010 by CHF International Honduras. CHF International is the principal recipient of the Global Fund to Prevent HIV/AIDS and Malaria in Honduras. Together with many local partner organizations, it implements a large-scale grants and capacity building program throughout the country to strengthen the ability of Hondurans to help communities living with serious health challenges.

Positve Spaces magazine (AIDS Committee of York Region)

First issue (March 2011) of a new magazine produced by the AIDS Committee of York Region (ACYR) that showcases creative arts-based expression and awareness around HIV and AIDS. Check out the many personal stories, poems, paintings, and other artwork by youth associated with ACYR!

Needs, Challenges & Opportunities: Adolescents and Young People Living with HIV in Zambia

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The aims of this qualitative study, carried out in 2010, were twofold. The first was to explore and document the psychosocial, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of adolescents (10-19) living with HIV in Zambia. The second aim was to identify gaps between these needs and existing SRH and HIV-related initiatives and services currently available to young people. Funding for the study was through the International HIV/AIDS Alliance Africa Regional Programme (ARP), with financial support from the Swedish development agency (Sida).

Improving the Lives of Vulnerable Children: Implications of Horizons Research Among Orphans and Other Children Affected by AIDS

From 1997 through 2007, the Horizons program conducted research to inform the care and support of children who had been orphaned and rendered vulnerable by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Horizons conducted studies in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia,
and Zimbabwe. Horizons researchers developed tools to assess the psychosocial well-being of children affected by HIV and outlined key ethical guidelines for conducting research among children.

Ledge Magazine (AIDS, Sex, and Trust on Campus issue)

"AIDS, Sex and Trust: Where is the Love?" is the debut issue of Ledge Magazine released in Fall 2004.

State of the World's Children 2011 (UNICEF report)

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The State of the World’s Children 2011 invited adult and adolescent contributors from a variety of stakeholder groups to give their perspectives on the distinct challenges adolescents face today in protection, education, health and participation. Through a wealth of concrete examples, this report makes clear that sustainable progress is possible.

Obstacles to local-level AIDS competence in rural Zimbabwe: Putting HIV prevention in context

We explore the wider social context of an HIV-prevention programme in rural Zimbabwe. We make no comment on the programme itself, rather seeking to examine the wider community dynamics into which it was inserted, to highlight how pre-existing social dynamics may have influenced community ‘‘readiness’’ to derive optimal benefit from the intervention. Using the concept of ‘‘the AIDS competent community’’, we analysed 44 interviews and 11 focus groups with local people.

An Ethics Case Study of HIV Prevention Research on Facebook: The Just/Us Study

In this article, we will describe an ethics case study of using Facebook to deliver a sexual education program to youth and young adults, with a focus on those issues highlighted in Table I, which include a description of potential ethical risks related to beneficence, information and comprehension, equity and special populations, and confidentiality and security.

Protect Your P***Y, Cover Your C**K (pamphlet)

This pamphlet was prepared by the Youth Advisory Committee at the AIDS Committee of Durham Region in Ontario, Canada.

It covers the following topics:

  • What is HIV? (with resource list)
  • What is AIDS? (with resource list)
  • How long does it take to develop AIDS?
  • How is HIV transmitted?
  • HIV + body fluid
  • Testing
  • Do's and don'ts of condom use
  • High-risk activity
  • How can I tell if I've been infected?
  • What is safe sex?

TV soap operas in HIV education: Reaching out with popular entertainment

"Audience ratings showed that, in South Africa, education programmes on television rarely reached 500,000 viewers, whereas prime time drama regularly attracted audiences of seven million and more." Source: UNAIDS (2005)

Report of roundtable meeting on HIV & AIDS and youth

On February 17, 2009, the Virus Free Generation Campaign — a joint initiative of the NGOs Welthungerhilfe (Germany), Hivos (The Netherlands), People in Need (Czech Republic) and CESVI (Italy) — organised a roundtable meeting in Brussels, Belgium, titled "An HIV and Aids Free Generation – Promises and commitments: Can youth expect universal access to prevention in 2010?"

Going to scale in Ethiopia: Mobilizing youth participation in a national HIV/AIDS program

This 2004 study documents a successful youth-adult partnership that used youth-led Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) as an effective methodology for empowering young people to communicate with each other and with adults about their sexual and reproductive health needs.

Designers Against AIDS: The First Decade



"A celebration of pure beauty, idealism, and lust for life"

Hip-hop to prevent substance use and HIV among African-American youth: A preliminary investigation

Substance use and HIV risk behaviors are increasing among African-American youth. Interventions that incorporate youth values and beliefs are needed to reduce this trajectory. This 2008 study examines the efficacy of a hip-hop based substance use and HIV preventive intervention that targets African-American middle-school youth. The sample consists of 68 middle-school students who completed baseline and 6-month follow-up assessments.

Languaging for life: African youth talk back to HIV/AIDS research

By Bonny Norton and Harriet Mutonyi – Language Policy, 9, 45–63

In this article, we present a case study, undertaken in Uganda, in which 12 young people debated and critiqued four research articles on HIV/AIDS relevant to Ugandan youth. The rationale for the study was to provide students with the opportunity to respond to health research that had a direct bearing on their lives.

RISE UP: A young peer trainer's guide to provide sexual health and drug-related harm reduction education

This guide is the result of a series of workshops conducted in 2009 and 2010 by young people in Romania, India, Mexico, and Canada. This guide provides information, practical activities, and resources to facilitate youth-led peer trainings. The guide includes (1) basic information about HIV/AIDS and drug use, (2) strategies for reducing sexual and drug-related harms, and (3) addresses stigma and discrimination related to sexual behaviour and drug use.

Children and AIDS (UNICEF report)

Read the first page of UNICEF's Children and AIDS: Fifth Stocktaking Report 2010 below:

"In 2001, 5.7 million young people aged 15–24 were estimated to be living with HIV. At the end of 2009, that number had dropped to 5.0 million. Further, an estimated 890,000 new infections occurred among young people aged 15–24 in 2009. The significant decline in HIV prevalence among young people is linked to clear trends towards safer behaviours and practices including delayed age at first sex, reduction in the number of partners and increased condom use.

Creating a space for the individual: Different theatre and performance-based approaches to sexual health communication in South Africa

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While arts-based work in health promotion is not a new approach in South Africa, there is a chance to bring more attention to theatre and performance-based work, which considers the people and communities affected and afflicted by sexual and reproductive health (SRH) concerns as individuals with individual thoughts and emotions, for greater inclusion in tackling AIDS.

Face to Face: Poems and Short Stories About a Virus

Edited by Accra Goethe Institut / 112 pages / 2004 / Woeli Publishing Services, Ghana

A collection of short stories and poems by twelve young, or previously unpublished, writers from Ghana. The publication was inspired by a literary workshop and creative writing competition on the subject of HIV/AIDS, conducted and judged by the established Ghanaian writers Esi Sutherland-Addy and Amma Darko, with the German author Lutz van Dijk and the German writer Norman Ohler. The poems/stories address AIDS in the context of love, friendship, guilt, sex, and beliefs.

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