10 DoA. Day 07

The 7^th day of the campaign was interesting in Algeria. Y-PEER presented a song to peers in different departments in our country dedicated to the 10 DoA and Zero target of UNAIDS. The song was created by young peer educators: Badis who wrote the lyrics and was a main singer and Omar who was responsible for music composition, recording and arrangement. Main objective was to promote youth leadership in what concerns them and also to strengthen youth engagement to reach the Zero target in the fight against AIDS. Enjoy the song and spread the 10 DoA messages around the world http://youtu.be/-vOPw6MjOJE. 

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10DoA. Day 05

On 5^th of September, Yacine, peer educator of Y-PEER Algeria presented two wonderful pieces of poetry.

In the first one, he talked about stigma and discrimination that young people living with HIV suffer from. He advocated for a mobilization of the community to treat PLHIV just like anyone else because we are all same and HIV can no longer be a reason to put innocent people apart.

In the second one, he spoke about youth voices and meaningful participation, empowerment and leadership of young people.

You can find both poetries on these links:

http://ypeerdz.blogspot.com/2012/09/we-are-all-same.html

http://ypeerdz.blogspot.com/2012/09/youth-will-lead-way.html

Also, 10DoA Campaign in Algeria got good media coverage! Horizons Newspaper published an article talking about the campaign and its targets.

Link: http://ypeerdz.blogspot.com/2012/09/article-de-presse-horizons.html

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Press release. El Massa Newspaper

حملة ضد الايدز بولاية الجزائر

تنتظم في الفترة ما بين 01 و10 سبتمبر الجاري بولاية الجزائر حملة "عشرة أيام من النشاط ضد الايدز" من تنظيم جمعية "ايدز الجزائر" وجمعية "الحياة للمتعايشين مع السيدا" وبالتنسيق مع منظمة الانوسيدا ووزارة الصحة. الحملة تهدف الى تعزيز سبل الوقاية من داء السيدا خاصة وسط الشباب، علما أن الأرقام العالمية تشير إلى تسجيل 2400 حالة إصابة جديدة يوميا في الفئة العمرية 15-24 سنة. للإشارة فإن برنامج التحسيس الجواري يتضمن نشاطات مفتوحة على الجمهور الواسع حول الايدز وطرق مكافحته، مع مشاركة واسعة للإعلام الوطني وبث حصص إذاعية على المباشر تحمل نفس الهدف.

http://www.el-massa.com/ar/content/view/63684

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Article de presse. Horizons

Lutte contre le SIDA

Promouvoir l’accès aux services de santé reproductive

Publié le 4 septembre 2012

Sous le thème « Rien pour nous sans Vous », l’association AIDS Algérie, en partenariat avec l’association El Hayat des personnes vivant avec le VIH, le ministère de la Santé de la Population et de la Réforme hospitalière ainsi que l’Onusida et l’UNFPA, organise la deuxième édition de sa campagne « 10 jours d’activisme » et qui se déroule jusqu’au 10 du mois en cours à Alger. C’est une action qui s’inscrit dans le cadre des objectifs nationaux et internationaux relatifs à la prévention des jeunes à travers la sensibilisation, les activités artistiques, la communication et la mise en œuvre d’un programme efficace de lutte contre le Sida. Depuis l’apparition du premier cas de Sida en Algérie jusqu’au 30 juin de l’année en cours, 1327 jeunes âgés entre 15 et 29 ans vivent avec le VIH Sida. Tel est le bilan du Laboratoire national de référence concernant le nombre de personnes atteintes de ce virus. Cette structure estime qu’il est impératif de faire face à cette situation alarmante d’autant qu’il est nécessaire de redoubler les efforts et de réfléchir à des actions novatrices pour lutter contre le VIH. En effet, avec la moitié de la population mondiale âgée de moins de 25 ans, les jeunes doivent s’unir et s’engager pleinement dans les processus qui affectent leur accès aux services de prévention, traitement et soins. Selon Onusida, 24 % de jeunes femmes et de jeunes hommes dans les pays à revenu intermédiaire répondent correctement à cinq questions sur la prévention du VIH et rejettent les idées fausses autour de la transmission. Raison pour laquelle, Onusida tend à réduire le risque de transmission des IST/VIH/SIDA et promouvoir l’accès aux services de santé reproductive. Il est également prévu de contribuer à l’amélioration de l’action à l’information de qualité en faveur des jeunes dans le domaine de la santé et plaider auprès des leaders et des organes de décisions pour l’implication des jeunes dans la lutte contre les TST/VIH. Selon Aids Algérie, il est impératif de renforcer les actions de proximité dans les lieux publics, rues, marchés, cafés et autres et créer des sessions de discussion au niveau des écoles. Pour rappel, les 30 années passées ont été marquées par d’énormes efforts déployés à tous les niveaux et ce de par le monde pour stopper la propagation de ce virus. Malgré cela, le Sida continue à faire des ravages. D’ailleurs en 2011 plus de 2400 nouvelles infections journalières ont été enregistrées parmi les jeunes de 15 à 24 ans.
Rym Harhoura

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Youth will lead the way

Youth Will Lead The Way

Looking At The World Elapse

Besides People Are So Emotionless

When The Walls Are Closing In On You

& Friends Have Turned Their Back On You

For You Catch A Disease & Aids Is Its Name

Four Letters & Your Life Is No Longer The Same

But Know That You Are Not To Blame

A: Any Person Can Be Infected By It, So No Need To Be Ashamed

I: I Can Be You, You Can Be Me, We’re All The Same, It’s Not A Lie.”

D: Discrimination Is Ignorance; Dignity Is Better Than Immortality

S: Sex Is Not The Only Way To Get This Illness, So Please No Regress

Hence, Rely On Me, Rely On You

Nothing Is Impossible & You Know It’s True

The Rest Is Up To Me And You

We The Youth Will Lead The Route

But We’re Not Gonna Do It Without You

Just Keep Your Faith, & Hold On To Us Tight

Just Hold On, Everything’s Gonna Be Alright

When Your Reveries Are So Far Away

 You Feel Like You Can't Face The Day

And A Faithful Friend Is Hard To Find

As Aids Has A Stigma That Cuts Like A Knife

Youth Everywhere Will Bring Joy To Your Life

10 Days Of One Love All over The Earth

A Day To Dare, A Day To Inhale

 A Day To Smile, A Day To Defy

A Day To Engage, A Day To Change

A Day To Care, A Day To Share

A Day To Reach, A Day To Teach

All The New Generation Will Be Participated

To Fight For Hiv People Who Are Discriminated

By 2015 There Will Be No More Folks Infected

All Kind Of Barriers & Taboos Will Be Exterminated

Together, All Deaths Related To Aids Will Be Terminated

Prevention, Care, Support, Connection; All Will Be Mandated

So, Don’t Live Your Time Six Feet Under

United, We’ll Face These Society’s Thunder

All Nations Will Make It Through The Rough Days,

Your Lifetime Has Just Seen The First Ray

If You Spread Love & Let It Make Your Day

No Matter What Full Youth Will Lead The Way

                                                                                        By Yacine Mohamed Belguendouz. AIDS Algérie    

 Meet Yacine on FB @: Too Consciousness (JengSing)

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30 under 30. read Zahra's story from Y-PEER Algeria

I am activist and I make it happen! 

 

 

The last story for today :) http://www.10daysofactivism.com/2012/09/zahra-benyahia.html

Name:Zahra Benyahia
Age:24
Country: Algeria

You made me know who I am…
The International AIDS Day, the prevention session, some good talks with great activists calling for youth leadership combined to my devoted love for human rights. Yes! This is just how I met my aim in life.
In 2008, after attending my first conference on HIV and AIDS, I realized that what I wanted to do with my life, is going beyond my formal clothing and perfect smile of the hotel manager I used to be.
The next day, late in the afternoon, I knocked the door of an NGO called AIDS Algérie: Hello, I am willing to dedicate my time and everything I’ve got to contribute to the fight against AIDS.
For me, this was the most remarkable step toward true happiness and active citizenship.
My journey in the AIDS response started providing peer education among university students. For me, field work and outreach programs contribute to the creation of a direct impact on the target population and implant effective communication between peers for positive change in behavior, access to information and its assimilation as well as orientation to health facilities and counseling.
My experience as a Y-PEERian helped to build my communication skills. The support of the NGOs: Aids and El Hayet guided me to identify clear roles for me as a young activist in the support to key populations as well as to people living with HIV to meet the national goals of my country while including the international targets from the MDGs, the political declaration and UNAIDS strategy by 2015.
From outreach to programming, elaboration of proposals, reporting, monitoring, media, planning, civil society opened to me all doors to meet meaningful participation not only in SRHR of young people but also in processes of strategic thinking in the Aids response.
In summer 2011, the office of UNAIDS rewarded me with an amazing experience of capacity building. I became a trainee and benefited of it’s support to clearly understand and meet the global policies of programs fighting AIDS. Thanking them would never be enough for their availability to assist me and believe in my abilities of a young leader in my country and my region. Probably, one of the most noteworthy confidence UNAIDS and the NGOs I work with gave me was during my participation in the new generation leadership of UNAIDS secretariat called CrowdOutAIDS.
This project used media tools and crowd sourcing technology and aimed at designing a strategy by and for youth to better involve them in the Aids response and better respond to what is important to them. Since the launch of the initiative, with peers, we had a productive role in the discussions at country, regional and national level on subjects that concern us as young people such as reproductive health, prevention, access to services and fight against stigma and discrimination as well as empowerment of leadership, technical and financial support and gender equalities. During the period of share, I joined offline open forums where I could work on bringing together youth activists, vulnerable and most at risk youth to participate with their recommendations. Afterwards, I was selected to be in the drafting committee where I could continue defending the concerns of youth from the MENA region. As challenging and hard as it seemed to be, this first collective action of young people to share their perspectives and ensure their voice is heard is the most revolutionary, informed, supportive, equal and respectful step toward youth leadership.
This is my humble story among values, believes, people and loads of hopes for a cause that knew how to dominate all of me to defend it and stand up for it today, tomorrow and forever…

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Sex education and HIV

Lack of access to better sex health education is the worm eating at the base of the fight against HIV in many societies today as a number of research results included in this article will show. We will also argue that this lack of access to proper sex health education is an economical as well as a social trap.

Roughly 40 million people are currently infected with HIV, 25 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. The pandemic reaches 5 million more people per year, 95 percent of whom live in developing countries. (*1) It is clear that the world over is facing a similar challenge but in varying degrees and this as a result of many variables, many among which include economic reasons, societal perception, taboos etc for example while sex as a topic among many European nations may not be so much taboo, in many African societies it is widely considered as a taboo topic. Generally this one variable stands out and is true for many societies. Sex education is usually synonymous with taboo in many societies. This attribute given to sex education prevents people and more specifically youth in society from gaining the right information and education about proper sex health practices. This results in ignorance which in turn results in unwanted pregnancies, STDs including HIV/AIDS.

Lack of access to sex health education is a trap that has assailed many societies. It is a trap because the consequences resulting from this prove very costly economically and socially. It is also evident from research results that this trap is not intrinsic; societies can break free from it. Evidence of this can be seen from the HIV statistics distribution as given by the world health organization, societies that once had big numbers in terms of HIV are either under control or reducing. And this thanks to aggressive AIDS campaigns centered at effective communication encompassing comprehensive sexuality education.

Studies show that the deaths that result from incurable sexually transmitted diseases (STDS) particularly HIV/AIDS deprive society of able bodied young men and women as these are the sexually active age groups mostly at risk. (*2)

To counter this trend, the developed world increasingly provides aid to countries with high infection rates, paying for prevention, treatment, and care programs to slow the spread of the disease and to ameliorate its ravages. This aid that could otherwise be channeled to other development programs if society regarded sex education in different light and gave it the attention it so urgently needs, unfortunately continues to mitigate the consequences and not the cause. Therefore it is relatively easy to note that lack of access to comprehensive sexuality education is indeed a developmental trap for any society today.
Secondly children are left homeless and without parents, this results in a social imbalance and catastrophe as children are now forced to take up parenting roles for their younger siblings, abandon studies to fend for their survival (*3)

That the core health challenge facing youth is STDS needs no discussion as the research statistics are very compelling. Thus it remains true that so long as this challenge is not curbed, lack of access to sex education will ultimately result in the collapse of our societies.
While it is true that no one prevention measure or approach is enough, emphasis on specific prevention measures must be made appropriately. And against this background, it is obvious that the solution lies in allowing for better and easier access to comprehensive sexuality education and this demands that all sectors of society speak with a united voice against treating this subject as a taboo. This means religious leaders, community leaders, politicians, youths and everyone else must make it their first business to promote speaking freely and without shame about comprehensive sexuality education, because the price we will have to pay if this simple and effortless gesture is taken lightly is a price we cannot afford. Fortunately, we have not reached that position yet, so we still can, and while the statistics are still malleable to our advantage everyone needs to rise and do their part. Promote free and better access to comprehensive sexuality education among youth for a world free from HIV.

References
(*1) As reported on www.unaids.org, www.usaid.gov, and
www.who.int.
(*2) Epidemiological factsheet unaids @aidsinfo.unaids.org
(*3) CDC. STD Surveillance Report, 2006.Atlanta: US Department
of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention; 2008


Eric Mulenga
Y-PEER Algeria

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Note conceptuelle

Les jeunes font entendre leur voix et défendent leurs droits à la santé reproductive

Les 30 années passées ont été marquées par d’énormes efforts déployés à tous les niveaux partout
dans le monde pour stopper la propagation du Sida et prévenir sa transmission. Malgré cela, le Sida
continue à faire des ravages. En 2011, dans le monde, plus de 2400 nouvelles infections journalières
ont été enregistrées parmi les jeunes âgés de 15 à 24 ans1.

Selon ONUSIDA, les jeunes représentent plus de 40% des adultes vivant avec le VIH à l’échelle
mondiale. Seulement 24% des jeunes femmes et 36% des jeunes hommes dans les pays à revenue
intermédiaire répondent correctement à cinq (05) questions sur la prévention du VIH et rejettent les
idées fausses autour de la transmission2.

En Algérie, le Laboratoire National de Référence indique que le nombre de cas cumulatif de jeunes
vivant avec le VIH âgés entre 15 et 29 ans, depuis l’appariation du premier cas de Sida jusqu’au 30
juin 2012 est de 13273. Face à cette situation alarmante, il est nécessaire de redoubler les efforts et
de réfléchir à des actions novatrices par et pour les jeunes.

Avec la moitié de la population mondiale âgée de moins de 25 ans, les jeunes, partout dans le
monde, s’unissent pour s’engager pleinement dans la réponse au VIH/sida comme de véritables
partenaires dans les organes de décision et dans les processus qui affectent leurs accès au services
de prévention, traitement et soutien.

Sous le thème «Rien pour nous sans nous", l’association AIDS Algérie en partenariat avec
l’association El Hayet des Personnes vivant avec le VIH, le MSPRH4, ONUSIDA5 et l’UNFPA6 ; dans
le cadre des activités Y-PEER7 destinées aux jeunes, organise la 2ème édition de sa campagne : « 10
jours d’activisme ». Elle aura lieu du 1er jusqu'au 10 Septembre 2012 à Alger.

10DOA (10 jours d’activisme) est une action qui s’inscrit dans le cadre des objectifs nationaux et
internationaux à savoir : i) le Plan National Stratégique de lutte contre les IST/VIH/Sida 2008-2012,
ii) l’objectif zéro de ONUSIDA : Zéro nouvelle infection, Zéro décès et Zéro discrimination liées au
Sida à l’horizon 2015, iii) CrowdOutAIDS8 : la nouvelle stratégie de ONUSIDA pour intervenir auprès
des jeunes, iiii) le Programme Mondial d’Actions pour les Jeunes publié par les Nations Unies en
2010.

Objectif global :

• Réduire les risques de transmission des IST/VIH/Sida et promouvoir l’accès aux services de
santé reproductive

Objectifs spécifiques :
• Améliorer l’accès à une information de qualité pour les jeunes dans les domaines de la santé
reproductive.
• Renforcer la prévention des IST/VIH/Sida en direction des jeunes pour un changement de
comportement.
• Plaider auprès des leaders et des organes de décisions pour l’implication des jeunes dans la
lutte contre les IST/VIH

Activités :

• Actions de proximité : activités de prévention dans les lieux publics, rues, marchés, cafés …
• Distribution de matériel de prévention, flyers, affiches,
• Activités de plaidoyer,
• Sessions d’éducation par les pairs, groupes de discussion..
• Visite aux personnes vivant avec le VIH
• Activités artistiques : musique, peinture et créations graphiques
• Media : videos, blogging, online counseling

Télécharger la version complète: https://docs.google.com/open?id=1mnkkPbzHzwWRohq3zgWBpmOU2Ecgh3hQFDilvqn5MwsxyhWhfNuDKwAQ72RB

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