YAFA Eastern Visayas Launching and Youth Assembly on HIV & AIDS

Event Details

Time: August 16, 2009 from 8am to 5pm
Location: University of the Philippines (U.P.) Visayas - Tacloban City
City/Town: Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines
Event Type: launching, youth, assembly
Organized By: Youth AIDS Filipinas Alliance (YAFA)
Latest Activity: Sep 2, 2009

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Event Description

YAFA Youth Assembly on HIV and AIDS
and YAFA Eastern Visayas Launching

Venue: University of the Philippines - Visayas, Tacloban City, Leyte
Date: August 16, 2009 (Sunday)

PROGRAM OF ACTIVITY
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Morning Session

Registration of participants

Community Assessment and Research:
Powerful Tools on HIV and AIDS Advocacy

Program Proper
Invocation & Philippine National Anthem
Opening Remarks
Rationale of the event and Background of YAFA
Acknowledgment of participants

HIV 101: Brief Introduction

Intermission Number

Plenary 1:
The Growing Concern of HIV & AIDS in the Philippines:
Where are we and what do we need to do?
Introduction of Speaker/s for the 1st Plenary Session

Water Break

Intermission Number

Plenary 2:
The Role of the Youths and Future Young Professionals in the Context of HIV & AIDS Prevention, Treatment Care and Support
Introduction of Speaker/s for the 2nd Plenary Session

Stigma reduction activities on HIV & AIDS, gender & sexuality issues:
WILD FIRE EXERCISE
YOUNG POSITIVE PANEL
(With active participation of young Filipinos living with HIV)

Launching of YAFA Eastern Visayas Chapter

Reading of the Pledge to: 1. support YAFA; 2. protect the rights and dignity of people living with HIV, particularly young people; and 3. continuously work together to eliminate the sufferings brought by HIV & AIDS discrimination in Eastern Visayas, in the Philippines and worldwide)

Giving of Certificates to speakers
Pictorials

12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

Afternoon Session
Convergence of youth leaders from different youth organizations who attended the forum in the morning

Registration of the participants

Afternoon Session Welcome Remark
Giving of Rationale of the convergence meeting

Convergence Meeting Proper
*Establishment of YAFA Eastern Visayas Chapter members
*Establishment of YAFA Eastern Visayas Officers
*Establishment of YAFA Eastern Visayas Programs & Projects

Snacks

Signing of Commitment Paper/Finalization of the Convergence Meeting

Awarding or pizes for winners of the HIV and AIDS Research Raffle
(Only the respondents of the research survey are included in the raffle)

Closing of YAFA Eastern Visayas Youth Assembly on HIV & AIDS