Noticias
Noticias
SOMOSGAY members; Adolfo Ruiz Ferreira, Youth Coordinator, and Juan Sebastian Cabral, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor were selected to participate in the new course “Key Correspondents in Latin America and the Caribbean.” The training course will be held via WebEx (Web conferences), during the course, for a month, it will include between six (6) and eight (8 ) interactive online classes. Continuous participation in the course will be the first indicator of evaluating candidates to serve on the Key Correspondents team.
The Key Correspondents team is a group of active community-based writers together to tell the world the stories of HIV/AIDS. Their mission is to inform and disseminate health-related issues and development from the ground up, starting a process that promotes empowerment and mobilization of civil society and communities affected by HIV, AIDS and Tuberculosis.
The Key Correspondent Team, internationally, is currently comprised of 200 correspondents from 40 countries, with strong representation in Asia and Africa. The first group of Key Correspondents Latin America and the Caribbean was trained in November 2009 and consists of 20 correspondents from 17 countries in the region.
In order to advocate for a more effective response to HIV and TB and influencing policy-making processes and decision making, the Key Correspondents gather, consolidate and distribute quality articles that describe local perspectives.
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance (The Alliance) developed this project in Latin America to add it to the global proposal of community-based correspondents . Established in 1993, the Alliance is a global partnership comprised of 33 national organizations and an international Secretariat liaison with offices in the UK, the U.S., Belgium and India and regional representatives, working to support community action on AIDS in developing countries.
