Women's voices invited for upcoming UN high level meeting on HIV/AIDS

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Dear AIDS India list members,

Hi, this is an urgent request that has come in from the YP Foundation with

regards to getting women's voices for the upcoming UN high level meeting on

HIV/AIDS.

I would like to request you to post this on an urgent basis on the AIDS India

egroup, this will help broadbase this survery.

Interested people can fill the survery questionnaire online or in soft copy and

sent to the YP. I have spoken to Ishita and she has agreed to extend the

deadline for this until the 23rd of March.

Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/88YMLNQ

Your help in getting the women's voices onboard is much appreciated.

Regards

Ernest Noronha

P.S.: Mail received from YP foundation is attached below.

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I am writing with a special request and a few minutes of your time.

As you may know, the High Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS that takes place in June

this year will review achievements made against the commitments of the United

Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS Declaration of Commitment

of 2001, and the Political Declaration of 2006.

It will determine the priority agenda for work on HIV and AIDS over the next

five years, in particular as we work towards the achievement of the Millennium

Development Goals (MDGs). Multiple processes are underway to ensure broad

stakeholder engagement and representation in the outcomes of the Meeting. These

include regional civil society consultations and pre-meetings.

(http://www.icaso.org/ungass.html)

The ATHENA Network and the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) are running

a virtual survey in order to ensure the broadest possible engagement and

representation of women (and girls wherever possible) in the processes leading

up to the HLM – especially women living with and affected by HIV, and other key

populations of women who often lack platforms for priority issues to be raised

and heard.

This survey will be sent via various electronic social media to women in all

regions, in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. A translation in

Hindi is currently underway. From the responses we receive, we are seeking to

identify regional messages, which can be fed into the regional consultations

being held over the next two months, and consolidated into 3 to 4 key global

asks to feed into the HLM outcome document by the beginning of April.

Beyond the HLM process, we hope that the findings that the survey produces will

be useful at the national, regional, and international advocacy levels. We will

be producing regional summaries of the findings.

WE WOULD BE SO GLAD IF YOU WOULD TAKE PART IN THIS GLOBAL SURVEY AND SEND IT TO

AS MANY ORGANISATIONS THROUGH YOUR NETWORK.

The survey takes about 20 - 30 minutes to complete in full, but there is the

option of only completing the first 2 parts that can be done in 5 minutes

Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/88YMLNQ

Deadline: Sunday 13th March

We are also attaching an email version - please only use this in the event that

you do not have Internet access, and return completed questionnaires to

virtual.consultation2011@... by Sunday 13th March 2011. Once the survey

has been released in hindi, I will send across the same.

We hope to have more voices from women and girls across the South East Asia,

Asia and Asia Pacific region participate and would appreciate it if you could

also share this with colleagues across your different networks.

Warm Regards,

Ishita

Ishita Chaudhry

Chief Executive Officer

The YP Foundation

Developing Potential In Young People

N 204, Greater Kailash, Part 1

New Delhi - 110048. India

T.: +91.11.46792243

E.: theypfoundation@...

www.theyouthparliament.blogspot.com

www.theypfoundation.org

www.twitter.com/theypfoundation

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The YP Foundation is a youth run and led organization that supports and enables

young people to create programmes and influence policies in the areas of gender,

sexuality, health, education, the arts & governance.

The organization promotes, protects and advances young people's human rights by

building leadership, and strengthening youth led initiatives and movements.

Founded in 2002, we have worked over the last 8 years directly with 5,000 young

people to set up over 200 projects in India, reaching out to 300,000 young

people.

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