Creative Tools for HIV & AIDS Awareness (Archive)
January's tool
Answer the Call is a global movement that uses social media as a tool to bring more attention to youth sexual and reproductive health, generating renewed energy and commitment to meeting the goals outlined in the Abuja Call to Action. Post the messages found above to Facebook and Twitter or come up with creative messages of your own that will help turn the tide and bring about more investment in young people!
December's tool
The Youth Programme of the XIX International AIDS Conference has launched a Tumblr blog tool for discussion and planning in the lead-up to July 2012 in Washington, DC. All youth are encouraged to upload creative content (e.g., photos, videos, art, and stories) related to HIV issues and awareness.
November's tool
CrowdOutAIDS is a collaborative online project to develop a new way for UNAIDS to work with young people. It uses online tools to help young people come together to crowdsource a UNAIDS youth strategy on HIV. Check out the 8 regional open forums (in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish), and start contributing to the growing resource library on HIV and young people.
October's tool
Towards Universal Access: Young People in Action was an e-Course offered in 2009 by the World AIDS Campaign in partnership with the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS and Y-PEER to all youth interested in learning about and taking action on how HIV affects communities and the world. Fortunately, you can still download and work through all the course material (see info and links for Module 2 above—for the broken Pulitzer Center links, simply re-search the site; see also Module 3 for how to develop your own action plan). Also, check out who took the course and watch some videos by course participants!
September's tool
Check out these animated educational videos and consider showing them at your own awareness events or incorporating them into other awareness-raising activities. The videos are narrated by actors, hip hop artists (including 25-year-old Zeus), singers, a comedian, a radio personality, etc. There are currently videos available in English (various accents), Hindi, Kinyarwanda, Mandarin, Setswana, Spanish, Swahili, and Telugu.
August's tool
A joint project of the Knight Foundation, TakingITGlobal, and the Global Youth Action Network, Youthmovements.org will launch later this year, providing young people and youth-serving organizations with a tool to effectively share information about their projects, to promote projects and initiatives collaboratively, and to help track and celebrate the collective progress being made worldwide to tackle the world's most challenging issues. Check out the press release...
