We had great outcome from the previous period however the main problems :
- Our country has a lot of limitation around those people and doesn't want to show up those people as a result of the society stigma towards those people.
- We are not a registered NGO, you are a network and actually not have great support from UNFPA or other agencies that should help us as initiative.

But we did the first workshop of GYCA of PLHIV at Alexandria, we called 15 PLHIV and 13 persons had attended, plus five organizers and 4 speakers.

It was Thursday, Friday and Saturday (1-3 January 2009). The experience was the
first for a young group of people to gather and interact with PLHIV, with the
help of some ex. UNDP researchers as speakers and consultants for us as a group of young activists.

Before that period we cooperate with the National AIDS program at Egypt and developed a brochure specific for this sessions and also in Arabic, we made 500 copies of that materials.

Now
1- The first workshop had been done, our target was 10 PLHIV and we got 13 persons,
2- Our aim was is to promote their actions in their community, We tried to do that and will involve them into a particular activities later on, But we got a lot of their problems they are facing every day ( Rights to “Work, educated, have appropriate health care services….).
3-We developed the 500 brochure and distributed some of them and we have a lot for the next workshop, also we share some of them with NAP.
4-Friends of life association is still under construction but we have members of it and will be involved more at the next workshop.

So this project
-Will give great motivation for both PLHIV and young activists.
-Will be a sort of support for PLHIV that will be great step for involving them more at the society.

This was a one day outreach forum held on 30th January 2009, which was organized as a dialogue among community members.
This included members of the community who are key stake holders and are part of decision making organs in the community.

These range from the community chiefs, assistant chief representative elders, a representative from the police administration, youth leaders, women representative.

The outreach highlighted on the role of members of the community in fighting stigma related to HIV/AIDS. Some of the key topics that we concentrated on were:
• Basic facts HIV/AIDS
• Stigma related to HIV/AIDS
• Role of community in addressing issues above
• Kenya Youth Shadow report 2008

The TASC team partnered with members of the APHIA II programme that focuses on HIV/AIDS community training through their volunteers. Through this the members did 3 sets of drama that brought out the key issues in a community context.

The community elders, from both male and female organs of the community recommended the TASC team of their efforts and request that such forum should be held month to be able to reach all members of the community. This was especially in Kibera Community where there is a high rate of new infections among young people and married couples this is due to the challenges that especially young people go through because of unemployment an lack of basic needs.

The members of the community seem to be aware of facts on HIV/AIDS but there seem to be a lot of confusion with myths that go around the community especially since there are different cultures found in the areas and they all value their culture.

The rise of vernacular radio station in Kenya has also contributed a lot to this as some station do not seek to clarify their information before they send it out to the community members listening to the radio station.