Youth Pre-Conference, AIDS 2012 July 18-20, 2012 Kellogg Conference Center, Gallaudet University 800 Florida Avenue

NortheastWashington, DC 20002 (202) 651-6000

PROGRAMME
Day 1: Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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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
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Auditorium Human Rights and HIV

Orain Edwards (Jamaica) and Kikelomo Taiwo (Nigeria)

Room 1 Podcasting 101: Telling compelling stories with new technology

Julien Burns and Steven Martinez (US)

Room 2 Harm Reduction 101

Room 3 Guidelines for debate. Responding to HIV from a youth and gender sensitive approach
Cecilia Garcia (Mexico)

Room 4 Indigenous Rights in the HIV Response

Krysta Williams, Erin Konsmo, Jessica Danworth (Canada)

11:45 1:15pm

Hugh Stephens (Australia) and Aram Barra (Mexico)

1:15 - 2:15pm Auditorium Room 1

LUNCH (provided)
Room 2 HIV responses for young people in humanitarian emergencies
Lady Lisondra (Philippines)

Room 3 Sexual and reproductive health education: what is comprehensive?

Kriti Giri (Nepal) and Annais Nourry (UK)

Room 4 HIV criminalization: Are you at risk?

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)

Adrian Guzman (US)

3:45 4:00pm Auditorium The medical side of HIV/AIDS: virology, management and prognosis
Hugh Stephens (Australia)

COFFEE BREAK (with snack provided)

Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Young People Living with HIV/AIDS
Yahir Zvaleta Rocha (Mexico), Helena Nancombe (Namibia)

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

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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

Day 2: Thursday, July 19, 2012

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Auditorium 9:00 9:30am Welcome Summary of yesterdays activities and overview of todays agenda Auditorium Advocating for the YouthForce Part I: Pablo Aguilera, Hugh Stephens (Advocacy co-chairs) present the Washington D.C. Youth Force campaign Part II: Will Neville and Rachel Cooke (Advocates for Youth) provide messaging and advocacy skills-based training for the campaign

SESSION

10:00 11:30am 11:30 11:45am

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)

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1:15 - 2:15pm Auditorium Room 1

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)

3:45 4:00pm Auditorium Room 1

COFFEE BREAK (with snack provided)

Room 2 Room 3 Room 4

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!)

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Day 3: Friday, July 20, 2012

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8:00-9:00am Auditorium 9:00 9:30am Welcome Summary of yesterdays activities and overview of todays agenda Auditorium 10:00 11:30am Plenary: Stakeholders Forum Moderators: Jaevion Nelson (Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network) and Rachel Ariini (ARROW) Panelist speakers: Dr. Luiz Loures, Director, Political and Public Affairs Branch (UNAIDS), Mr. Michael OConner, Manager of Civil Society and Private Partnerships (Global Fund), Dr. Aaron Lopata (Ofce of National AIDS Policy), David Haroz, Senior Policy Advisor, (Ofce of Global AIDS Coordinator, OGAC), Leo Christian Villacortes Lauzon (Advocates for Youth) 11:30 11:45am 11:45 1:15pm Auditorium The Basics of the International AIDS Conference (IAC) -- How to make the most of AIDS 2012 Speakers: Lindsay Menard-Freeman (GYCA) and Ricardo Baruch (Youth Coalition) and Emily Carson (AIDS2012) 1:15 - 2:15pm Auditorium 2:15-3:15pm Home group break out sessions, follow-up and evaluations Pre-conference co-chairs: Anita Krug (Youth RISE), Mimi Melles (Advocates for Youth) Auditorium 3:15-4:00pm Closing Dr. George Tembo, Chief of the HIV/AIDS Branch, UNFPA Dr. Luiz Loures, Director, Political and Public Affairs Branch, UNAIDS Youth Speaker YouthForce T-shirt distribution! 4:30pm

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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Addi$onalYouthForceAc$vi$esbeyondthePreConference
Saturday,July21,8:0012:00 TheAIDSMemorialQuiltUnfolding TheWashingtonDCNa$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

Uni$ngforanAIDSfreeGenera$on:OpenSoccerandBasketballEvent BellMul$culturalSchoolinColombiaHeights,WashingtonD.C.

UNAIDSwillbehosIngaStreetSoccerandBasketballTournamentinpartnershipwithAdvocatesforYouth,GrassrootsProject,MetroTeenAIDS,SoccerforGood, UnitedforDC,MonumentalSports(ownersoftheWizardsbasketballteam),theWashingtonDCYouthForce,andtheInternaIonalAIDSConferenceYouth Programme.AllYouthForceparIcipantsareinvitedtoa]end(whetheryouwouldliketoplayorwatchotherscompete).TransportaIonwillbeprovidedfor YouthForceparIcipantsfromtheNaIonalMallMemorialQuilteventtotheBellMulIculturalSchool,wherethetournamentswilltakeplace.Theeventisopento localandvisiIngadolescentsandyoungpeopleages1426.InaddiIontoongoingsoccerandbasketballtournaments,therewillbefreeonsiteHIVtesIng,food, SWAG,educaIonalacIviIesaswellasparIcipaIonofmusiciansandsportscelebriIes. Ifyouhavenotalreadysignedupandwouldliketoplayinthetournament,pleaseregisterbygoingto:h]p://advocatesforyouth.org/youthscoreeventreg Ifyouwouldliketosignupasavolunteerorsupporter,goto: h]p://advocatesforyouth.org/youthscorevs

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FormoreinformaIonaboutUNAIDSandtheevent,clickhere.

Monday,July23,7:3010:30pm

TheRedHotParty!

TheRedHotPartyistheocialeventwelcomingyoungpeopletotheconference,hostedbyRedHot,ActV,andAdvocatesforYouth.Theeventservesto recognizetheimportanceofyouthleadershipintheglobalresponsetoHIVandAIDS,celebratetheirachievements,andhonortheYouthForceandyouthpre conferenceparIcipants! Torsvp,goto:h]p://www.advocatesforyouth.org/iacrecepIonrsvp

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!

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