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Young people hardest hit by HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS is devastating the world’s youth population, with
some 5,000 people aged 15 to 24 infected each day, according to
a United Nations report written by young people and launched recently
in New York.
In “Our Voice, Our Future”, youths report on progress
made against the pandemic since the General Assembly’s 2001
special session on HIV/AIDS, according to Thoraya Obaid, Executive
Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
“Young people still feel sidelined and ornamental when it
comes to the national response to HIV/AIDS”, Ms. Obaid said
during a press conference.
At the launch, one of the report’s authors, 20-year-old Eunice
Aghete from Nigeria, noting the particularly high risks young women
faced in Africa, said that young people were not interested in being
called up to “rubber stamp” programmes designed by adults,
but wanted to be involved from start to finish.
(Source: United Nations News Service, 2 June)
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