World AIDS Campaign updates

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Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from the World AIDS Campaign!

As most of you now know, the 2004 Campaign is on " ˜Women, Girls, HIV

and AIDS " .

English language versions of this year's campaign posters will be

posted on the UNAIDS Campaign website by the end of September. Other

languages will be posted on the web and hard copies mailed by end of

October.

As before, the poster designs will be available as templates, which

can be adapted for more specific use within your constituencies. The

material will be available electronically on our web and on CDs.

Please start to get your requests to us now †" although please

remember that we will only be in a position to mail out to you in

October.

As in previous years links will be created on the website to a host of

other resource material relevant to analyzing, strategizing and

planning for campaigning around the theme of ˜Women, Girls, HIV and

AIDS " .

This will bring together existing material, tools and other resources

that focus, challenge and promote thought and action on the issues

around Women and HIV.

The World AIDS Campaign is also beginning to gather new partners and

synergies are once again building. MTV is launching a PSA contest on

the theme of ˜Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS™ and their announcement will

appear on the UNAIDS website in early September 2004. This audio and

video PSA contest is open to all and entries will be accepted until 1

November 2004. The winners will be publicly announced on 1 December

2004 and the non-winning entries will be available through UNAIDS for

use in advocacy efforts.

The Global Movement for Children, will be coordinating the ˜Lesson

for Life, in which two million children in 50 countries will be

taking part in a lesson on HIV/AIDS and its effect on children,

particularly girls. You can find out more about the ˜Lessonâ and how

you can join in at www.gmfc.org/hivaids.

The 16 Days of Activism 2004 is campaigning to highlight the

intersection of violence against women and the AIDS epidemic and are

urging audiences to consider the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS. Find

out more at www.cwgl.rutgers.edu.

The 2004 World AIDS Campaign is urging everyone to recognise that the

rise of the epidemic among women and girls is strongly related to

gender inequalities in society. More ideas around this should be

posted on the web soon.

The annual flagship publication of UNAIDS, the AIDS Epidemic Update

2004, due to be released in late November 2004, will also have a focus

on women and girls. It will provide some of the evidence base for the

impact of HIV on women and girls.

From 2005, as you do know, the World AIDS Campaign is changing. We

hope that many of you were able to visit the website at

www.worldaidscampaign.org. There you will find information on the

Campaign’s new focus from next year to hold governments accountable

to the UNGASS Declaration targets as well as contact information for

the small civil society-led World AIDS Campaign global office

established in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Regional consultations on the messaging and strategy for 2005 are

underway, and we have begun to develop a campaign toolkit that will be

available early next year. We are beginning to create campaign

materials for next year, including a 2005 World AIDS Campaign calendar

which highlights a key UNGASS message and target each month.

Please let us know of your campaign plans for 2004 and keep your eyes

on the UNAIDS campaign webpages

http://www.unaids.org/en/events/campaigns.asp where more material will

appear in the coming weeks.

With warm wishes,

The World AIDS Campaign

For more information write to us at wac@...