YAI 2010 Applications Available
(Participants of YAI 2009 Protest California HIV & AIDS funding cuts in San Francisco's Mission District.)
For five years the Campaign To End AIDS has had the vision to help develop the next generation of leaders who are committed to social justice and improving the lives of all people living with HIV & AIDS in America. The Youth Action Institute was created to help achieve this goal, one of the many activities that the C2EA Youth Caucus and its members are involved with across the country and around the world.
The application process for this year's YAI in Shreveport, Louisiana, July 27-July 2 is now open and available below in English and Spanish. Applications are being received until February 23 (January 23 for international applicants) and participants will be notified March 21 (February 26 for international applicants).
2010 YAI Application (English)
2010 YAI Application (Spanish)
Teens and young adults (16-26) from across the country and around the world will gather to strengthen their skill set and their commitment to address HIV & AIDS advocacy issues in their community. The Youth Action Institute will be a five-day, intensive, interactive, and hands-on advocacy, activist, and organizing training that will connect participants with strategies to create and develop advocacy networks that will tackle HIV & AIDS issues on the local and regional level.
Participants will develop skills, tactics, and strategies that can be implemented in their communities; fund-raising, issue development, outreach & organizing, media training, etc.
For additional information or questions regarding the 2010 YAI, please contact info@housingworks.org or call 1877 END AIDS (363-2437).
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November 12, 2009
C2EA: Reviews & Previews
¿Habla usted C2EA? C2EA Puerto Rico is now up and running.
C2EA members from across the country have been very busy this Fall and it looks like there's no slowing down for World AIDS Day and beyond. Here are snapshots of some of the activities and organizing that has passed, ongoing and new C2EA advocacy network building, and previews of upcoming events.
Equality To End AIDS (E2EA); Hundreds of HIV & AIDS activists, allies, and loved ones huddled in the shadow of the White House on a chilly and damp Fall evening to demand leadership and urgency in the development of a national HIV & AIDS strategy and to reconnect the LGBT community to the larger HIV & AIDS activism.
Held during the weekend of the National Equality March, participants from all over the country and around the world danced, shouted, and swayed to powerful speakers and performers - many of whom are people living with HIV & AIDS - while remembering those before us, those passed, and urging those that will leads in ending this epidemic.
C2EA National Secretary and C2EA/Dallas member Marsha Jones looks on as Herbert Hodge opens the Dallas-area HIV & AIDS Community Discussion.
C2EA/ONAP HIV & AIDS Community Discussions; C2EA HIV & AIDS advocacy networks in Washington (NC), Dallas, Norfolk (VA), and Michigan, with collaboration from community partners and the Black AIDS Institute, have organized regional 'Community Discussions' to provide testimony to the White House Office of National HIV & AIDS Policy (ONAP). There has been great energy in creating venues that encourage participation and input from the grassroots community not on the original ONAP visitation schedule.
Most recently, dozens of women gathered in southeast Virginia to give testimony regarding women's and children's health issues and how those issues should be addressed within a comprehensive national HIV & AIDS strategy. On November 18, the Detroit metro area will host more than 100 participants from across the state of Michigan.
Building C2EA Advocacy Networks; Following in the footsteps of strong C2EA HIV & AIDS advocacy networks in Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia, new leaders have been emerging across the country as well as around the world.
Led by young activists Dy'ari Volumes, Carrie Rheingans, Ericka Florenciani, and veteran Roberto Archuleta, are developing networks respectively in New York City, Michigan, Puerto Rico, and Kansas City. Direct from participating as volunteer during the E2EA Rally & Vigil, C2EA Youth member is leading the new LGBTQQI Workgroup to tackle equality issues as it relates to HIV & AIDS.
People post their communities DEMANDS to be included in the national HIV & AIDS strategy on the C2EA booth at USCA in San Francisco.
World AIDS Day; From DC to San Francisco, C2EA members and allies will be marching and rallying with theme of 'Systems Failure' to define the current local, national, and global political and structural mechanisms that are charged with ending the HIV & AIDS pandemic.
Broken promise by President Obama on increasing global funding, lack of vision and leadership by city and state elected and appointed officials, mismanagement or misplacing of critical and life-saving funding and resources, among other things have led to an increase of infection rates, additional and unnecessary deaths, and a heightened urgency to develop and implement a comprehensive HIV & AIDS strategy on a levels.
C2EA at 5 Years; April 2010 marks the 5 year mark of The Campaign To End AIDS. People living with HIV & AIDS from every state and territory converged on DC in the Spring of '05 to 'Walk A Mile In My Shoes' and begin a journey whose only destination of ending the HIV & AIDS epidemic in this country and beyond.
Join the C2EA Outreach & Organizing Workgroup planning calls every other Monday afternoon at 2:30 est, using the toll-free number 1-866-394-9509, 9357895#. For more information on C2EA Workgroups or any events and activities occuring locally, regionally, or nationally, please contact info@campaigntoendaids.org.
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September 28, 2009
Excitement Builds as 'Equality To End AIDS' Fast Approaches
EQUALITY TO END AIDS TO FEATURE PERFORMERS AND SPEAKERS LIVING WITH HIV
"Young LGBT people attending the National Equality March need to continue the fight against HIV/AIDS" says Cleve Jones.
Diagnosed in 1987, Singer/Entertainer Sherri Lewis will host the 'Equality To End AIDS' Rally & Vigil
As tens of thousands of LGBT Americans and their allies converge on Washington DC October 9-11 to march for equal rights, they also will remind the nation and the LGBTQ community that the HIV & AIDS epidemic is not over as well as remember the more than half a million Americans who have died from the disease.
The Equality To End AIDS rally and vigil will take place Saturday, October 10, the day before the massive Equality March. Equality To End AIDS will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 pm on the Ellipse, in front of the White House, and feature an inspiring roster of speakers and performers (mostly HIV+), culminating in a candlelight vigil.
"The weekend is about achieving full equality for LGBT Americans. We need to use that political power to remind the country that the AIDS epidemic continues. A great many young people will attend the march; we need them to continue the fight against HIV/AIDS," said Cleve Jones, the founder of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and one of the National Equality March organizers.
Gay and bisexual men are now 50 times more likely to acquire HIV than those any other group. Among young gay men, HIV infections increased an astonishing 12% each year from 2001 to 2006; the only demographic group to see an increase in infections during that period. Even though treatments have extended life for many people with HIV, recent research indicates that, on average, people with HIV live 21 years less than their HIV-negative counterparts.
"Many of our most energized LGBT activists are too young to remember the devastating impact AIDS has had on the gay community. We must re-engage the larger LGBT community in AIDS activism," said Charles King, President and CEO of Housing Works, which is the fiscal sponsor of the rally and vigil. "Ending the HIV pandemic is an issue of justice that must be their fight as well."
Speakers and entertainers at the rally will include singer/actress Sherri Lewis, former Miss America Kate Shindle, members of the Diva League (as seen on America's Got Talent) on and Inner Light Ministries Choir, San Francisco Human Rights Commission Chairperson Cecilia Chung, Shawn Decker's Synthetic Division, poet Brandon Plain, gospel rap artist Desencé, singer/songwriter Dudley Sanders, POZ Magazine founder Sean Strub, Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, Bishop Rainey Cheeks and DJ Stone. Many of the speakers and performers are people living with HIV.
Who's who?: The Campaign to End AIDS in collaboration with Housing Works, Broadway Cares/Equity Fight AIDS, Westminster Presbyterian Church, More Light Presbyterians, OD/More Light Presbyterians, AIDS Action, The Human Rights Campaign; The Afiya Center, D.C. Fights Back, SisterLove, Southern AIDS Coalition, Positive Advocacy Caucus, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), Bailey House, Health GAP, National AIDS Housing Coalition, Metropolitan Community Church, Inner Light Ministries, AIDS Action in Mississippi (AAIM), Connecticut AIDS Residence Coalition (CARC), NYC AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN), International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC), Lifebeat, Cable Positive and Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA).
Media Contact: Diana Scholl; 917-402-2576; D.Scholl@housingworks.org
Organizer Contact: Christine Campbell; 202-409-9786; Campbell@housingworks.org.
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September 9, 2009
Many Faces, Many Voices, One Goal: END AIDS NOW
The Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) is taking leadership on the HIV/AIDS Rally & Vigil on October 10, 2009 from 5:30 to 8:30 on the Ellipse in Washington DC. The goals of the Rally and Vigil are to send a message to our national elected officials that addressing the AIDS epidemic must be a major priority if we are to achieve national equality for all, and to draw newly galvanized LGBT activists into the AIDS movement.
We will be having a broad spectrum of speakers and performers, predominantly positive, at the rally and vigil and are glad to be part of the National Equality March. To date we have several partners that include SisterLove, Health GAP, CHAMP, The Southern AIDS Coalition, The National AIDS Housing Coalition, Bailey House, Cable Positive, The Afiya Center, DC Fights Back, Westminster Presbyterian Church, AIDS Action in Mississippi, the Positive Advocacy Caucus, Inner Light Ministries - DC and Housing Works who is serving as the fiscal sponsor. Others have expressed interest and we are looking forward to hearing from them soon! We are inviting everyone to be part of this Rally and Vigil. There are many ways you can participate, from being a sponsor or partner to participating on the policy conference calls to attending and spreading the word. If you and your group or organization would like to get involved please contact me at (202-408-0305) or campell@housingworks.org. Looking forward to hearing from you!
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September 4, 2009
Shepherd tends HIV/AIDS flock
Counselor, diagnosed with disease, speaks from her experiences
Elizabeth Lancaster speaks to Washington (NC) community while Jeff Crowley, Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and Christine Campbell, Vice President for National Advocacy & Organizing with Housing Works, take notes.
By GREG KATSKI Community Editor
(Published: Friday, September 4, 2009 2:20 AM EDT, Washington Daily News)
When Elizabeth Shepherd was diagnosed with HIV in 1997, she thought her life was over. Little did she know her life, or at least a new chapter in it, was just beginning.
Twelve years later, Shepherd is the HIV/AIDS health educator for Metropolitan Community Health Services. Recently, she coordinated a town hall-style meeting at Metropolitan AME Zion Church that welcomed HIV/AIDS carriers and advocates from 11 counties in the region. On-hand at the meeting was Jeff Crowley, the director of the White House's Office of National AIDS Policy.
Shepherd has made it her mission to see that people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and living in eastern North Carolina's rural counties get the proper care they need through education and action. She said area services provided to those stricken with the disease are minimal.
"HIV is a pandemic out here in the rural areas, because they (carriers) don't have the services, don't have the transportation," she said.
Shepherd said she has helped people in Belhaven, Pantego and Aurora get to Greenville where they receive the care they need. Several of them are patients at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
Shepherd is looking to further her mission by striving for bachelor-of-science degree in community health education and promotion at East Carolina University. She is set to graduate next spring.
Shepherd, 50, has taken a long and, often, tumultuous road to being a HIV/AIDS advocate.
She grew up in northern Illinois, moved with her family to Alaska as a child, then, when she was in her mid-30s, to Charleston, S.C., to be with her ailing grandmother.
On a normal, quiet evening in Charleston, Shepherd said, she was jumped by several men in a back alley near the College of Charleston's campus. The men raped her, then beat her with 2-by-4 pieces of lumber.
"They were screaming at me, 'We're going to kill you because some white girl gave us AIDS,'" Shepherd said.
The next thing, Shepherd recalled, she was riding in an ambulance to a hospital.
"They beat me down until I was left for dead," she said. "All the bones in my body were broken. I was ripped up real bad."
Shepherd said she was the hospital in a full-body cast for more than four months. After checking out of the hospital, she began to rehabilitate and relearn basic motor skills. Things were looking up until she was diagnosed with HIV almost a year after the attack.
"I just knew then that my life was over," she said. "My life was never going to be the same — if I lived."
Shepherd said she was disowned by her family and shunned by her friends. Alone, scared and helpless, she didn't know where to turn.
"I didn't have a clue. I didn't know what HIV was. I just knew that people died from it," she said.
Shepherd said that, by the grace of God, a married couple and pastors at Shepherd's church took her in. The pastors, Michelle and Floyd Dotter, remain her best friends.
With a place to stay and food to eat, Shepherd had time to think about her future. She realized that with so much bottled-up anger and a newly found drug problem, she needed to go to rehabilitation.
Shepherd checked herself into a 12-month drug and alcohol program, Charleston County Adult Drug Court. During the program, she was treated by counselor Ricky Dennis, who was also a pastor at Charleston's AME Zion Church.
"He basically is the one that opened my heart and transformed my mind," Shepherd said.
She graduated from the program in 2002, and she decided it was time to go back to school. She went to Trident Technical College in Charleston for two years before transferring to the University of South Carolina. Living in Columbia, S.C., she began to work as an HIV/AIDS counselor, consoling young women who felt like she once did — lost, scared, lonely. At a counseling conference, Shepherd met the man she calls the love of her life, Scott Shepherd. Elizabeth and Scott, who is HIV negative, dated long distance before Elizabeth moved to Greenville to live with Scott two years ago. The two got married last year and moved to Washington.
Shepherd, who is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society at ECU, said she was called to Washington by God.
"I think this is an awesome opportunity that I accidentally walked into," she said. "There is a huge need around here (for HIV/AIDS services)."
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June 26, 2009
FIGHT FOR FUNDING: AIDS CUTS KILL!
Youth activists sound the alarm on the impact of proposed budget cuts
Outreach Leader Devin Escobar passing out fliers in the Castro.
SAN FRANSISCO, CA (June 26, 2009) – The Campaign to End AIDS Youth Action Institute in conjunction with the Iris Center, are hosting a public informational demonstration today, June 26th at the Plaza located in Castro District. The purpose of the event is designed to speak out against proposed budget cuts scheduled to eliminate crucial HIV prevention and services for San Francisco and Bay area residents. At this event, young HIV & AIDS activists from across the country and around the world will educate the community and disperse pamphlets outlining the impact of the cuts and ways to contact local key decision makers in the allocation process.
These cuts will impact important services such as case management, housing services, and medication assistance for those living with HIV in the Bay area community. Additionally, these cuts will impact an array of essential programs such as mental health counseling, drug and alcohol recovery, child care and counseling services of those who are HIV negative or positive.
Specifically, the Iris Center (www.iriscenter.org) provides essential resources to women of color who would immensely be afflicted if these proposed cuts would occur. These vital, low costs health care programs would be drastically limited leaving few alternatives for these underserved individuals. The proposed cuts will disproportionately affect women of color and the target population relying on these resources and services.
About IRIS Center
Founded in 1977, the mission of the IRIS Center is to provide high-quality prevention, education, and behavioral health services to uninsured/underinsured women and their families living in underserved communities. The Center reaches more than 7,000 high-risk women each year through its various prevention and treatment programs. The IRIS Center is the only provider of its kind for women of color in San Francisco. For more information about the IRIS Center visit www.iriscenter.org.
About The Campaign To End AIDS
The Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) is a diverse, exciting coalition of people demanding that our leaders exert the political will to stop the epidemic, in the U.S. and abroad, once and for all. The Youth Action Institute (YAI) is a youth subset whos purpose is to educate and eradicate the pandemic amongst the youth population. For more information about the C2EA, please call 1-877-END-AIDS (363-2437).
California HIV/AIDS Statistics
- In 2006 the reporting system changed from non-name coding to name reporting. Based on this new system, there have been a total of 36,412 reported cases of HIV.*
- In Alameda County there have been a total of 1,062 cases of HIV and 7,587 cases of AIDS.
- In Berkeley alone there have been 46 cases of HIV and 630 reports of AIDS.*
- In San Francisco there have been 5,215 cases of HIV and 28,179 cases of AIDS since reporting began.*
- San Francisco County ranks second in CA for the number of HIV cases with 5,215 and for the number of AIDS cases with 28,179.*
*Source California Office of AIDS April 2009 Monthly HIV/AIDS Statistics Report.
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From: 益仁平 <yi.ren.ping@hotmail.com>
Date: 2009/7/1
Subject: 【China AIDS:4422】 受邀派员参加在美国伯克利大学的青年行动研习
To: CHINA AIDS <chinaaidsgroup@googlegroups.com>, 联席会议 <china_hiv_aids_cbo_network@googlegroups.com>
益仁平中心参加在美国伯克利大学的青年行动研习
北京益仁平中心 2009年7月1日
2009年6月22日-27日，北京益仁平中心受运动结束艾滋病组织（The Campaign to End AIDS） 邀请，派员参加了于美国加利福尼亚州伯克利大学召开的青年行动研习（Youth Action Institute）。
来自各地的青年艾滋病积极分子在五天中就艾滋病历史、艾滋病青年运动、LGBTQQI、政策倡导、领导力和组织建设、社会媒体网络2.0技术应用、资金募集、直接行动等方面接受学习和实践。
在整个过程中，我们深切的感受到青年作为艾滋病运动的一只独特力量在倡导和组织方面的力量，我们不需要等待和观望，我们需要的是立马行动，投入到抗议和重建中来！
其中特别以来Housing Works的CEO：Charles King以《We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For: AIDS Advocacy In the Obama Era》和《Politics: How a Bill Becomes Law》，来自Health GAP的Kaytee以《Bird-dogging, Policy & Lobbing》
在主办方的指导下，青年们根据旧金山目前的艾滋病政策自编自导了一次行动，这是为了抗议旧金山市政府准备削减AIDS预算的行动！并于2009年6月26日在旧金山市Mission Plaza集会，开展抗议行动！口号是：
Lower Budget, Hard Life, HIV, We will fight!
We won't stand for this-----AIDS Cuts Kill!
What do we want? Money for AIDS! When do we want it? Now!
Black, White, Gay, Straight, AIDS doesn't discriminate！
此外，青年们还走访了奥克兰青年发展中心、奥克兰东湾艾滋病项目（AIDS Project East Bay） 旧金山Iris 中心，旧金山LGBT社区中心等组织。
我们利用各种机会向参与者介绍了中国艾滋病和人权状况，中国艾滋病非政府组织、全球基金在中国的发展和促进情况，以及遇到问题，其中包括CDC和政府退休官员严重干扰中国公民社会，挟持国际援助资金瓦解分化非政府组织等问题。
本次活动，让我们看到了更深层次的希望，凝聚在遏制艾滋病运动中的世界青年，基于人类健康的最原始动力，在向一切的歧视、不公和漠视投入铿锵的战斗！当那些美国的青年们声泪俱下地抨击美国政府艾滋病政策的不力，官僚腐败导致HIV检测在费用投入和隐私方面得不到保障，以及当前情况下一些政府的艾滋病资金预算削减等，还有他们对于艾滋病工作的热忱和出于人道主义精神对美国乃至世界各地受艾滋病肆虐及其影响的人的关心和投入，让我们再一次体验到人的价值、自由的珍贵！
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★中国艾滋病博物馆/China AIDS Museum： http://www.AIDSmuseum.cn
旗下网站：
——艾博维客 AIDS Wiki ： http://www.AIDSwiki.cn
——艾博聚合（汇聚艾滋病博客）http://www.wanyanhai.org
——中国艾滋病网络：http://www.ChinaAIDSgroup.org
——中国艾滋病地图/China AIDS Map：http://www.changkun.org/aidsmap
——空腹健身运动：http://www.HungerStrikeforAIDS.org
——艾滋人权 AIDS Rights： http://www.AIDSrights.net
——常坤：为艾滋病防治努力一生：Http://www.changkun.org
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★中国艾滋病博物馆/China AIDS Museum： http://www.AIDSmuseum.cn
旗下网站：
——艾博维客 AIDS Wiki ： http://www.AIDSwiki.org
——艾博聚合（艾滋病博客群
）http://www.wanyanhai.org
——中国艾滋病网络( Email Group with over 2400 members)：http://www.ChinaAIDSgroup.org 【http://chinaaidsgroup.blogspot.com 】
——中国艾滋病地图/China AIDS Map：http://www.AIDSmaps.org
——空腹健身运动：http://www.HungerStrikeforAIDS.org
——艾滋人权 AIDS Rights： http://www.AIDSrights.net
——常坤：为艾滋病防治努力一生：Http://www.changkun.org
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