Acting together ... Together we can

The HIV/AIDS situation in Egypt is no different from that in other developing countries with regards the accuracy of data concerning the exact number of PLHIV as regard to Ministry of Health and population By December 2005, according to the MOHP, 2330 cases have been detected; of these 1680 were Egyptians and 650 were foreigners. However international organizations and estimating larger number may exceed 50.000 persons.
So we feel responsibility towards this critical situation at our country especially when we knew that the highest rates of new cases had been recorded at MENA region with percentage of 300%. (World Health Statistics, 2007).

And to focus more , we will not target the wide circle this time neither the vulnerable groups but this time we will target people living with HIV.
We know that PLHIV in Egypt, require basic, specific information about support, treatment, care, nutrition and positive living in a simple and effective Arabic words stating basic facts. Further, advocacy skills are needed to address issues related to treatment, human rights, stigma and discrimination, and gender.
It will be through two workshop plus a booklet for people living with HIV to have a far-reaching communication, information and support PLHIV network in Egypt including urban but also hard to reach rural areas where there is less information, education and communication about HIV.
we as GYCA team at Egypt think deeper to interact with PLHIV themselves not just talking about them so we will do this project during the coming 4 months we now at the preparation stage and soon we will start.

May be if we get through to the people we could save even if only one life, it would be a major breakthrough for us.

Dear All,

First of all many thanks to GYCA to provide a unique opportunity to implement a small grant project title “Access to care, treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA) in Nepal “.

The purpose of this project is to remind us our mission, commitment and promises and if successful to influence policy making process and resource allocation decisions for quality care, treatment services in Nepal.

Specific Objective of the project is:
• Develop fact HIV and AIDS treatment IEC materials.
• Provide a unique PHA forum to their share ideas, stories, challenges, gaps and needs of PHA.
• Meaningful involvement of youth PHA in policy/decision level of Health/HIV.

Initially, we are preparing to develop a fact HIV and AIDS treatment IEC material and distribute in INGOs/NGOs, CBOs and government agencies etc. and aware them about the needs of PLHAs minimum standard of quality care, treatment services in Nepal.

Similarly, we are preparing to conduct a PLHAs forum, where they can share their challenges, needs and gaps and also conduct current stakeholders meeting. The agenda of the forum and stakeholders meeting is to survey on the side effects of 1st and 2nd line Anti-retro viral (ARV) treatment and what regimen are provided in 2nd line ART by Nepal Government to PLHA and how many people are receiving 2nd line treatment in a free of cost, because Government of Nepal had announced to provide 1st line ARV regimen for PLHAs in a free of cost.


Cheers,
sujan

We continue to encourage girls to get involved in the fight against HIV/Aids, for the past month all girls clubs were involved in community sensitization and mobilization in HIV/Aids issues and the rights of girls. Girls in these communities were encouraged to be responsible to their action and stand up for their rights. Each of the participating girls was assigned to reach and educate at least 10 girls from their communities about HIV/Aids (in addition each girl distributed 10 flyers containing information on HIV/Aids and their rights). From their reports, 512 girls have been reached and the girls reported that it was really fun to share something to their friends. "After this experience, I feel I am worth something and that I can change the world!" commented one of the girls.

We have also conducted two more community performances at where over 1000 people attended. The activities included; Drama, songs, traditional dances, poems and acrobatic. The massage in both cases was about HIV/Aids prevention, VCT and girls rights. More girls continue to show interest in taking part in the fight against girls’ abuse and HIV/Aids. In all these functions the responses have been overwhelming. Communities appreciate what their girls are doing and commended and advised them to live exemplary and do what they preach.

Girls continue to interact and explore on how best they can overcome their problems. I believe if given financial resources, they can work hard to sustain themselves. Girl empowerment can not work without economic empowerment. We are exploring ways on how we can finance these girls to start small scale businesses

Hi All
Let me inform you more about the progresses of my project, the rest of children who didn’t start saving at the beginning of October now saved 10% of their income. This is one of the indicators that we are on track in performing our project timely.

Tutoring continues in students’ respective schools as usual and students are running their business smoothly thanks to our network we established at the beginning. the team is monitoring the day to day activity of our children.

sometimes writing too much is impossible for me because things are similar.

One love
Amare

We continue to encourage girls to get involved in the fight against HIV/Aids, for the past month all girls clubs were involved in community sensitisation and mobilisation in HIV/Aids issues and the rights of girls. Girls in these communities were encouraged to be responsible to their action and stand up for their rights. Each of the participating girls was assigned to reach and educate at least 10 girls from their communities about HIV/Aids (in addition each girl distributed 10 flyers containing information on HIV/Aids and their rights). From their report 512 girls have been reached and the girls reported that it was really fun to share something to their friends. "After this experience, I feel I am worth something and that I can change the world!" commented one of the girls.

We have conducted two more community performances at Misesa and Zingwangwa areas where over 1000 people attended. The activities included; Drama, songs, traditional dances, poems and acrobatic. More girls continue to show interest in taking part in the fight against girls abuse and HIV/Aids. In all these functions the response have been overwhelming. communities appreciate what their girls are doing and commended and advised them to live examplary and do what they preach.

Girls continue to interact and explore on how best they can overcome their problems. They have concluded that if given financial resources, they can work hard to sustainain themselves . Girl empowerment can not work without economic empowerment. We are exploring ways on how we can finance these girls to start small scale businesses.