Empowering Youth Leaders
The UK African Microbicides Working Group hosted its second Buzz Café near Piccadilly Circus in central London on the first day of October. The concept of buzz cafés gathers strength from an informal and relaxed atmosphere where participants pool knowledge from scientific and socio-political spheres to enable comprehensive understanding of innovative HIV prevention methods and strategies.
About fifteen participants occupied the private corner of the café, welcoming Sara Piot from the Staying Alive Foundation. Staying Alive is a MTV backed charity that administrates grants internationally to encourage, energize and empower young people who are engaged in HIV education work, illustrating potential of becoming exceptional leaders.
Discussion circled around youth leadership and inclusion of young people in raising awareness and promoting HIV prevention globally. The working group emphasized aspects of positive leadership and the need to engage HIV positive African role-models in HIV related efforts in order to claim ownership of current and future strategies and attract interest from local communities. Group members explored how youth in the UK can be mobilised to engage with international discussions and activities and what support is available for young people wanting to become intimately involved with work on HIV prevention and advocacy for microbicides more specifically.
The next buzz cafe will be held 4th December and will host Dr. Carolina Herrera from St. George's University who will be talking about recent developments in rectal microbicide research.
See the article here: http://www.ahpn.org/news/clippings/index.php?clipping_id=833
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