Stop AIDS: Keep the promise

The theme for World AIDS Day on 1 December 2006 is ‘accountability’. Governments around the world declared they would fight the AIDS pandemic. Now is the time to remind them of their promises.

The World Association calls every Girl Guide and Girl Scout around the world to fight HIV/AIDS

To fight HIV/AIDS, tell 10 girls 10 facts about AIDS, wear red on World AIDS Day on December 1 or write to your government to make sure they keep the promise. Find out more about WAGGGS’ call to action.

WAGGGS’ global Adolescent Health Survey proves that HIV/AIDS is an important topic for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world. Nearly a quarter of 6,000 girls surveyed know somebody living with AIDS and 40 per cent think it is the most important issue for WAGGGS. Therefore girls worldwide say “fight AIDS” is one of the seven key advocacy messages on Adolescent Health.

For many years WAGGGS has focused on four key areas:

Tackling the root causes of HIV/AIDS by running education and awareness projects to help women and girls take control of their sexual health
Forming international cooperation strategies with organization such as UNAIDS and the Alliance of Youth CEOs
Empowering girls and young women by providing them with leadership and decision-making skills
Advocating for change on a local, national and global level

Have a look at WAGGGS’ resources like the WAGGGS AIDS badge curriculum and WAGGGS’ Adolescent Health survey and read more about WAGGGS’ HIV and AIDS projects around the world.

World AIDS campaign

The World AIDS campaign promotes the theme ‘accountability’ and the slogan ‘Stop AIDS: Keep the promise’ for World AIDS Day 2007. The campaign was founded by UNAIDS together with many international and national organizations responding to HIV/AIDS.

World AIDS day was first launched by the World Health Organisation and the UN General Assembly in 1988. Since then it has been increasingly successful in raising awareness for a global issue. Today it is one of the most successful international days.

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Ozge Celik 8 December 2006 - 7.40PM (GMT)

Unconsciousness is one of the biggest problems of our generation, the first thing we have to do is to know what AIDS is, the ways how to get protected and the facts of AIDS then the only things we should do is "Sharing the İnformation, because it is the way how it grows...."

Burcu Koksal 2 December 2006 - 5.44PM (GMT)

Fighting with AIDS is very important for the future generations. If we want healthy generations we have to create powerful public concious.

Gulsah Yildirim 2 December 2006 - 5.38PM (GMT)

Girls in Turkey Say:
Hand in hand lets fight against AIDS all over the world!!

gulcın dogusal 1 December 2006 - 5.50PM (GMT)

World AIDS Day, 1 December, is an opportunity for people to fight against HIV and AIDS. Because the danger of these illnesses increase day by day. Please pay attention to make people more conscious.

U. Savas Baran 29 November 2006 - 9.11AM (GMT)

This is a day to begin to fight with AIDS, create initiatives, take action, do activities and learn more about it. I am sure God will help you all.

Nancy Walsh 25 November 2006 - 10.34PM (GMT)

This is all so exciting! As a trainer in Girl Guides of Canada, Province of Onario, I look forward to sharing this with each Guider.

We can and will make a difference if we work together.

Alison Ziegler 23 November 2006 - 3.12PM (GMT)

I'm a Pathfinder leader in Delhi, Ontario. It's a pretty small town. A lot of the girls in my group don't understand what AIDS is all about. That is why I have applied to attend the AIDS seminar in Switzerland, next year, so that I may bring back information about it, so that I can help the girls to understand more.

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