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June 2006 update on new publications, actions you can take, and more!
Advocates for Youth's e-News Update
June 27th is National HIV Testing Day
In the United States, half of all new HIV infections occur in people under age 25; one-fourth in people under the age of 21 [1].
June 27th is National HIV Testing Day. The goal of National HIV Testing Day is to encourage you to know your HIV status by participating in an anonymous or confidential HIV testing program.
HIV counseling and testing helps people with HIV to take steps to protect their own health and that of their partners, and helps people who test negative get the information they need to stay uninfected [2].
To learn more about young people and HIV, please visit:
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/hivsti.htm
To find a testing site near you, please visit:
http://www.hivtest.org/index.htm
- Office of National AIDS Policy. Youth and HIV/AIDS 2000: A New American Agenda. Washington, DC: White House, 2000.
- hivtest.org. National HIV Testing Day. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). http://www.hivtest.org/press_files/subindex.cfm?FuseAction=Spotlight.main; accessed 6/19/06.
High Level UN Meeting on AIDS Opens as Former Bush AIDS Official Challenges US Global Abstinence-Only Policy
Led by Scott Evertz, former Bush AIDS Tsar, experts on public health and youth briefed media across from the United Nations today on how the Bush administration's policies on HIV/AIDS are failing and leave adolescents at risk for infection of the potentially deadly disease. As teens and young adults account globally for half of new HIV infections and represent more than one-third of those living with AIDS, US policy on abstinence-only programming is having limited to no effect on reducing infection rates.
To read the full press release, please visit:
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/news/press/053106.htm
For more information about the High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, please visit:
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/unyouth.htm
Register for the Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® Conference
Join Advocates for Youth and Planned Parenthood Health Services of Southwestern Oregon for a national conference on the 3Rs: Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® Learn about a compelling model that is gaining national attention. This positive approach is grounded in the 3Rs and effectively reframes the conversation about adolescent sexual health, ultimately contributing to lower teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates.
For more information and to register for the conference, please visit: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/rrrconference.htm
Join the Advocates for Youth Team!
Advocates for Youth currently has two job openings:
The Deputy Director of Public Policy will promote state and federal policies that will improve adolescent access to comprehensive reproductive and sexual health information and services. With the Director, the Deputy acts as the organization's voice on these issues on Capitol Hill and with colleague organizations.
The Program Manager for the Young Women of Color Initiatives will oversee Advocates' Young Women of Color Initiatives, including an Office of Minority Health cooperative agreement, a Young Women of Color Leadership Council, and a peer education program.
To read the full job descriptions, please visit:
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/employment.htm
Recruiting All Young People!
Encourage your young people to apply for our youth initiatives!
Advocates for Youth is now recruiting for young people ages 14-24 to join together to fight for accurate sexual health information and services so that they can prevent unintended pregnancy and/or STIs (sexually transmitted infections), including HIV. Apply to be a youth organizer, a peer educator or a council member today!
For more information about the programs, and to download the applications, please visit: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/youth/programs.htm
You can help Advocates for Youth with a contribution today. To donate, visit http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/donatetoday.htm
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