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To promote the participation of all actors in the fight against AIDS and STIs, particularly persons living in resource-limited countries and young scientists, the organizers of the 15th ICASA have created a scholarship program.

More than 500 citizens of developing countries, NGO workers, members of marginalized communities, PLHIV, young scientists and other youth will receive financial aid to participate in the 15th ICASA.

Anyone can apply to the International Scholarship Program. Priority will be given to those whose participation will enhance their work in their own communities, to those who are able to transfer skills and knowledge acquired at the conference and to those whose abstracts have been selected for the Conference Program.

Your Eyes and Ears in MEXICO

By Edwina Orowe, Speak Africa(Kenya)

I’ll be traveling to the XVII International Aids Conference in Mexico City August 3-8 2008, where through the YouthForce I’ll be working alongside youth and student journalists to write, blog, podcast, take photographs and produce video.

Through our work we hope to lend a youth perspective to the issues discussed, and bringing youth concerns to the foreground of the conference agenda.

The YouthForce began at International AIDS conference (IAC) 2000 in Durban. This was because of the fact that out of thousand of people attending the world conference, there were just about fifty young people! This was totally unacceptable and especially at a time when young people are the most infected and affected.

African Liberation Day
Mwaura Kaara
May 6, 2008

On April 15, 1958, in the city of Accra, Ghana, African leaders and political activists gathered at the first Conference of Independent African States. This conference was attended by representatives of the governments of Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, The United Arab Republic (which was the federation of Egypt and Syria) and representatives of the National Liberation Front of Algeria and the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon. This conference was significant in that it represented the first Pan-African Conference held on African soil.

The Conference called for the founding of African Freedom Day, a day to "mark each year the onward progress of the liberation movement, and to symbolize the determination of the People of Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and exploitation."

Leadership (Abuja)

The British Council has joined forces with the Youth Media and Communication Initiatives (YMCI) and National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) to organize the 1st African Media Literacy Conference in Abuja in July 30 and 31.

This was disclosed by the YMCI coordinator, Mr. Chido Onumah, during a press briefing in Abuja, yesterday.

Mr. Onumah who said the theme of the conference is "Media Literacy: A Tool for Youth Empowerment and National Development" claimed that their focus is on the importance of media education for children and youth.

"This conference will explore the roles of young people, their needs and realities in light of today's rapidly changing communication technologies, their impact and growing involvement by our children and youth", he posited.

Some says, experience matters but some says: experience is a teacher for fools.
I don’t know who is right and who is perfect but I think the one who says that it’s for fools is very correct in some ways.
We are used to some certain types of foods claiming that they are our cultural foods, but when there is an outbreak of hunger, we eat whatever comes in front of us, we don’t necessarily care about our previous eating experience, even roots or raw foods, we drink water in front of us carelessly of safety.

So this can prove on how experience is not highly needed and hence become a teacher for fools. In other words, whatever comes in front of us, we have to receive and deal with it according to the environment it has came in. if you meet a lion yawning, you don’t have to use experience of asking your father or neighbor on how to deal with it.

Hello speak Africa, its quite sometime I haven’t posted any thing on our valuable site, is due to some normal activities.

In my country Tanzania, many of our fellow youths and citizens at large, are in a day dream of better life. Our current president Jakaya Kikwete who is also a chairman of the African union (AU), promised to bring the blessing of better life to Tanzanians when he was a presidential candidate and so many Tanzanian especially youths, gave vote by expecting better life.

But now, more than two years in power, nothing like a far smell of better life rather than a bitter one. Our president is said to have played a major role in solving Kenya’s election results disputes but in our country we are facing almost the same problem of the Zanzibar’s 200 and 2005 election results.