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Postcards voice concerns of youth on World AIDS Day
30 Nov 2009 20:29:34 GMT
 Source: World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe/ Central Asia office
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The process of focusing on their lives through a camera lens gave the participants the opportunity to reflect on their lives and reconsider their futures. Photo by World Vision staff.
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The process of focusing on their lives through a camera lens gave the participants the opportunity to reflect on their lives and reconsider their futures. Photo by World Vision staff.
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A four-phase campaign to bring the experience of young people from the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central Asia region (MEER) living with and vulnerable to HIV and AIDS to the international stage begins this week with simultaneous exhibitions of photographs by groups of vulnerable youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the Russian Federation to coincide with World AIDS day on December 1.

Working in partnership with the London-based charity PhotoVoice and World Vision, youth living with HIV and AIDS in St Petersburg and members of the Roma community working in raising the message of prevention in their community in BiH have produced photographic material documenting how living with HIV and AIDS affects their lives, and have shared the message of the importance of protecting oneself against the virus.

The process of focusing on their lives through a camera lens gave the participants the opportunity to reflect on their lives and reconsider their futures.

'As I was working on my home assignment, I realised that photography is so powerful. It has to come from the heart, from the connection with what is being photographed. I have been a drug user for some years and I lost everything. Now, I am starting a new life. I really want to save up and buy a camera, and maybe eventually take it on to do it professionally. This is a new dream', shared one participant from St Petersburg.

A postcard campaign of their photos will also be launched in their respective countries to raise awareness amongst peers, community and government about the lives of young people living with, and vulnerable to HIV and AIDS.

Further, a research report carried out across 7 countries in the region to hear more from teenagers and young people about how HIV and AIDS affects their lives and how we can work with them on prevention, education and access to health care for all living with the virus, will accompany the photographs and World Vision delegation to Vienna for the International AIDS Conference in July 2010.

During the conference, the photographs will be on display in a public space in Vienna, with the support of World Vision Austria and other Support Offices, and a postcard campaign will begin in Europe to ensure young people's perspectives join mainstream voices to demand for their "Rights Here, Right Now", which is the theme of next year's International AIDS Conference.

For more information on this project please contact: maia_woodward@wvi.org

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