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Transitions
Volume 14, No. 1,
October 2001
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The International
Youth
Leadership Council
By Stephanie Kvasnik, Project Coordinator, Youth Council, Advocates
for Youth
Last
year, Advocates for Youth formed the International
Youth Leadership Council, composed of young people from around the
world interested in working to improve the health and well-being
of their peers. Members of the Youth Council participate in educating
policy makers,
the media, and the American public about the importance of
increasing U.S. funding for global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment
and for international
family planning. Council members serve as peer educators,
advocates, and spokespeople on issues of adolescent reproductive and
sexual health.
They develop media campaigns, conduct policy forums, and
participate in advocacy visits to policy makers.
In
April, the International Youth Leadership Council launched
a year-long campaign, My Voice Counts, to
mobilize college and high school students to pressure
the United States Congress to increase funding for international family
planning
and global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. The campaign
includes a petition drive, advocacy days in Congress, Web site organizing,
campus rallies, a World AIDS Day march, and a national
media campaign.
Students can sign up and obtain the My Voice Counts campaign
kit, including letters to Congress, advocacy tips, fact sheets, petitions,
and My Voice Counts stickers. For the kit, contact Advocates
for Youth at 202.419.3420. The petition is online. Please feel free to
copy and distribute it.
Transitions (ISSN
1097-1254) © 2001, is a quarterly publication of Advocates for Youth—Helping
young people make safe and responsible decisions about
sex. For permission
to reprint, contact Transitions' editor at 202.419.3420.
Editor: Sue Alford
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