Dear Friends, Here is an announcement about a youth HIV/AIDS best-practices handbook, which I thought to send to DDN because the use of ICTs was crucial to its development, and will be in terms of its continuing dissemination. The partners--including my own nonprofit, ActALIVE--posted to 30 or so eforums to gather the information, and to e-bulletin boards at TIG and elsewhere, and we searched through online databases of youth activists in Africa (at TakingITGlobal, the African Regional Youth Initiative, and the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS), to whom we did outreach.
In total, the practices cover 95 projects in 25 countries, and we plan the same effort for follow-on editions, which we will disseminate in part via ICTs and e-media. A PDF and CD-ROM are already available, and a website presence is in the works, as well as a print edition, which will hopefully be available for the official Handbook launch at the upcoming International AIDS Conference in Toronto. One challenge will be to make this resource known and to disseminate it those with no access to ICTs. Suggestions in that regard are most welcome! Since ICTs have been shown to be highly effective means of communicating HIV/AIDS info to youth, we hope to narrow the digital divide to ensure that more receive this life-enhancing and life-saving material. With thanks and here's to "practices" making for "perfect" health! Janet (Feldman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.kaippg.org) African Youth HIV/AIDS Best Practices Handbook Launch, August 15, 2006 Toronto ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ActALIVE (http://www.actalive.org), the Standing Committee on Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS-International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA-SCORA, at www.ifmsa.org), and Development Partnership International (DPI)(http://www.developmentpartnership.org) are pleased to invite you to the formal launch of the first edition of the African Youth HIV/AIDS Best Practices Handbook. The session is scheduled as follows: Venue: Global Village Youth Pavilion, International AIDS Conference, Toronto Date: Tuesday August 15, 2006 Time: 12.45- 2.15pm The African Youth HIV/AIDS Best Practices Handbook is a compendium of 95 youth-led and youth-focused HIV/AIDS projects from 25 countries in Africa. It is intended to showcase the outstanding work of African youth to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to provide best-practices examples which can be replicated locally in Africa, and hopefully globally. This should help to encourage further education and prevention efforts, promote African youth leadership to curb the pandemic, and create as well as sustain opportunities for the participation of African youth in local, national, regional, and international efforts to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS. Use of the arts, media, and ICTs are all featured in the Handbook, as are some practices created and implemented with adult allies. Kindly contact Adebayo Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call +234 84 751 002 for more information. We look forward to welcoming you at the launch. Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima Director, Development Partnership International 4 Eleme/Onne Road off Eleme Junction, Port Harcourt 500001 NIGERIA http://www.developmentpartnership.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +234 84 751 002 Fax: +234 84 751 002 Mobile: +234 805 518 2526 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
