XVII International Aids Conference

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.