PROGRAMME
Day 1: Wednesday, July 18, 2012
TIME
Auditorium Welcome and opening remarks Mr. Michel Sidibe (Executive Director, UNAIDS) Aram Barra, YouthForce chairperson Ground rules, icebreaker, agenda review and housekeeping Pre-conference co-chairs: Anita Krug (Youth RISE), Mimi Melles (Advocates for Youth)
SESSION
9:00 10:00am
Auditorium Plenary: Turning the Tide: Where do we go from here with the Global HIV/AIDS Response? 10:00 11:30am Moderator: Aram Barra (Espolea) Panelist speakers: Mary Otieno,Senior Technical Adviser HIV/AIDS (United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA), Pablo Aguilera (dance4life), Maya Koumanova (International Planned Parenthood Federation, IPPF), Kikelomo Taiwo (Advocates for Youth)
11:30 11:45am
COFFEE BREAK
Youth Pre-Conference AIDS 2012, Washington D.C.
Room 3 Guidelines for debate. Responding to HIV from a youth and gender sensitive approach
Cecilia Garcia (Mexico)
11:45 1:15pm
LUNCH (provided)
Room 2 HIV responses for young people in humanitarian emergencies
Lady Lisondra (Philippines)
2:15 3:45pm
Gay, Lesbian, What is a successful Bisexual, Transgender youth-adult partnership? (GLBT) Rights in the HIV Movement
Stephen Chukwumah Jihan Salad and Nina van der Mark (Netherlands) (Nigeria) and Emily Carson (Canada)
3:45 4:00pm Auditorium The medical side of HIV/AIDS: virology, management and prognosis
Hugh Stephens (Australia)
Room 4 Best Practices on HIV/AIDS Peer Education from around the World
Luize Ratniece (Latvia), Leo Christian Villacortes Lauzon (Philipinnes), Kemigisha Jackie (Kenya)
Crowd sourcing- the Climate change politicizing UNAIDS youth strategy: gender in the global south lessons learnt
Aram Barra (Mexico), Felix Mugumya, Talal Maarouf (Egypt), Sharon Watson (Switzerland) Shubha Kayastha (Malaysia)
4:00 5:30pm
Auditorium Home group break out sessions, reections and written evaluations Pre-conference co-chairs: Anita Krug (Youth RISE), Mimi Melles (Advocates for Youth) Closing Performance Nsubuga Moses, Joint Adherent Brothers and Sisters Against AIDS Uganda Ballroom BCD 7:30pm-9:30pm Pizza Movie Night: Inside Story, Presented by Discovery Channel (with pizza provided!)
5:30 6:30pm
Shuttles will be available every 30 minutes to take participants to the Union Station metro station
SESSION
COFFEE BREAK
Auditorium Room 1 Room 2 Harm Reduction: HIV Prevention in Practice (Advanced)
Robin Pollard (UK) and Sariah Daouk (Lebanon)
Room 3
Room 4
11:45am-1:15pm
Critical appraisal 101: Working/implementing read and understand HIV/AIDS prevention scientic papers programming for MSM in a repressive society
Eva Wooding and Hollie Kluczewski (UK) Oke Temitope Olanyi and Akoro Sewedo Joseph (Nigeria)
The politics of funding: International Conference on current trends and debates in Population and Development the HIV- donor landscape(ICPD) +20 and how it affects the work
Caitlin Chandler and Jaevion Nelson (US and Jamaica) Ricardo Baruch (Mexico) and Nina van der Mark (Netherlands)
LUNCH (provided)
Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Building youth AIDS competency for community action
Korey Anthony Chisolm (Guyana/ US) and Antonio Andrew Bernard (Jamaica)
2:15pm-3:45pm
Snapshots of Stigma The effect of global Monitoring and evaluation: Transgender Rights in the HIV from People Living politics and assessing the impact of response with HIV/AIDS in the pharmaceutical power your HIV/AIDS education United States on access to medicines project
Miranda Ward and Janauri McKay (US) Lotti Rutter (UK) Eva Wooding and Hollie Kluczewski (UK) Urooj Arshad (Pakistan/US)
4:00 5:30pm
Sex, health, rights and Deadly Synergy- HIV and Building skills to develop Engaging US policy makers How Young People in the Sex the power of social Tuberculosis workshops and materials for on global sexual and Trade can heal and ght back: media youth with and without reproductive health and rights Best Practices for HIV disabilities and HIV/AIDS prevention using healing Hermanique Hess, Eric Annais Noury (UK) and justice tools
Maya Koumanova (Bulgaria) Jacobs (South Africa), David Bryden (US) Leonardo Espinosa Gomez (Mexico) Kaitlin Kalkstein (US) and Jaevion Nelson (Jamaica) Dominique McKinney-Long and Daphnie Williams (US)
Auditorium 5:30 6:30pm Home group break-out sessions, reections, written evaluation and wrap-up Pre-conference co-chairs: Anita Krug (Youth RISE), Mimi Melles (Advocates for Youth) Ballroom BCD 7:30pm Evening activity: Make a Panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, NAMES Project (with box dinner provided!)
SESSION
Check-out for those leaving the hotel: please store your luggage in Room 1A
COFFEE BREAK
LUNCH (provided)
Shuttles depart from Gallaudet University every 30 minutes drop off participants off at the Union Station metro station
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Saturday,July21,8:0012:00 TheAIDSMemorialQuiltUnfolding TheWashingtonDCNa$onalMall
Weighing54tonsandcomposedofmorethan47,000panelsdedicatedtomorethan90,000individualswhohavediedofHIV/AIDS,TheAIDSMemorialQuiltisthe premiersymboloftheAIDSpandemic.ItconsItutesapowerfulHIVprevenIoneducaIontoolandisthelargestongoingpieceofcommunityfolkartintheworld. Throughoutits20yearshistory,TheQuilthasbeenusedtoghtprejudice,raiseawarenessandfunding,asameanstolinkhandswiththeglobalcommunityinthe ghtagainstAIDS.WhetherTheQuiltisdisplayedasasinglesecIoninanelementaryschoolor1,000ofblocksonthenaIonalmallinWashington,itprovides balmforthepainfulwoundsofgrief,openseyesthatrefusetosee,andenlistseverypersonwhoexperiencesitanopportunitytoplayaroleinstoppingthe pandemic. AllYouthForceparIcipantsarerequestedtohelpunfoldTheQuiltonthishistoricoccasioninanIcipaIonoftheInternaIonalAIDSConference.Thisisan opportunitytohaveyoungpeopleunfoldTheQuiltontheveryrstdayitispresentedontheNaIonalMallinordertohighlighttheimportanceofyouth leadershipintheHIV/AIDSresponseandthepassingthetorchtoanewgeneraIonofacIvistswhilehonoringthehistoryofleadersandacIvistswhohaveguided themovementthusfar. ToregistertohelpunfoldTheQuiltontheNaIonalMall,goto:http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/quilt-rsvp
Saturday,July21,12:005:00pm
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FormoreinformaIonaboutUNAIDSandtheevent,clickhere.
Monday,July23,7:3010:30pm
TheRedHotParty!
The Washington DC YouthForce would like to officially thank our donors, United Nations Population Fund, Norad, and UNAIDS for their support for this years youth pre-conference!