Introducing the New Leads & Co-leads
The PACT is excited to be welcoming the new Co-leads and Leads of particular working groups of The PACT.Here is a list of the new appointments: Ieva Berankyte � Advocacy working group Iwatutu Joyce � Partnerships and resource mobilization working group Damilare Oyedele � Partnerships and resource mobilization working group Haruna Aaron Sunday � Capacity […]
Road to AIDS2020, follow me�Lucy Wanjiku Njenga
Tell us a little bit about you and the work you do in the AIDS response both in Kenya and around the world? I am Mayah�s mama, she�s my 4 year old daughter and I draw so much inspiration from being her mother. I intentionally live a life that will make her proud. She is […]
Road to AIDS2020, follow me Sargis Ghazaryan
My name is Sargis Ghazaryan and I am the Resource Mobilisation and Partnership working group lead for The PACT and I will be heading to the AIDS2020. Join me on the ROAD to AIDS2020. This will be the first time I will be involved in a major AIDS conference hosted by IAS. I am eager […]
COVID19 Impact on HIV/AIDs Response in Kenya
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has become a global health emergency, and we can already see the impact this has had on the HIV response. COVID-19 was first reported in Kenya on the 12th March 2020 and posed significant challenges for people living with HIV (PLHIV). The Kenyan government instituted several measures to contain the spread, […]
PACT Communique
The PACT is BACK! What is The PACT? As the global coalition of youth-led and youth-serving organisations working within the sexual reproductive health and rights and HIV movement, The PACT remains important for young people and youth organisations today working on HIV and SRHR. It remains a strong working group of young people who share […]
ICPD25: Interviewing a Young Advocate
With the ICPD25 taking place this week in Nairobi, we had the chance to interview Daglar Cilingir, a young SRHR activist currently working for Y-Peer on Monitoring and Evaluation. Daglar shared expectations for ICPD25 as well as thoughts on the importance of this event. You can find the interview below: What are your hopes for […]
Fighting hierarchy and tokenism
?Young people at the forefront of advocacy for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Reproductive Justice. By: Carles Pericas Escal� Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (YCSRR) Contributors: Mireia Amat, L�Associaci� de Drets Sexuals i ReproductiusBruna Martinez, Amsterdam Youth ForceRuben Pages, UNAIDS??�Young people have the fundamental right to participate in every process that affects or […]
Young people�s participation in community-based responses to HIV – Interviewing a young researcher.
Beginning last year, Watipa (commissioned by UNAIDS and the PACT as part of its�#uproot agenda) carried out a study to better understand and document community-led interventions that aim to strengthen demand creation and uptake of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services, with a focus on engaging young people as beneficiaries, partners and implementers.� The […]
#Uproot Score Card Implementation in 5 Countries: Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Laos and India.
In 2017, under the #Uproot agenda, Youth PACT designed #Uproot report cards on the 2016 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS to assess how well a country is doing in achieving its commitments on adolescents and young people, included in the 2016 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. The report cards were developed through a youth lead process […]
Door to door campaign to combat GBV against women
Non-governmental organisations and government agencies in Zimbabwe are campaigning to Leave Noone Behind: End Violence against women and girls. In Mutare, Women�s Action and Support Centre (WASC), a Non-Profit Making Trust has joined the bandwagon of organisations in combating gender based violence (GBV) against women and girls which is now rampant in the country. In […]