Noticias

Carlos Sanchez, in representation of SOMOSGAY, participated of the Fourth National Youth Meeting organized by the Argentine Network of Adolescents and Young People Living with HIV (RAJAP), on October 4-6 in the city of San Juan, Argentina. The meeting's agenda included topics on sexuality and sero-discordant couples, HIV and drug use, nutrition and healthy living, visibility and adherence to work and life and others, where over a hundred young people and adolescents from all over Argentina participated.

To start the meeting and welcome the attendees, the opening remarks and reflections for the meeting were presented by a panel, composed by Dr. Alberto Stella; Director of UNAIDS for the Southern Cone, Dr. Carlos Falistocco; Executive Director of AIDS and STIs Department of Ministry of Health, Joaquín Cortés; Director of the Secretariat for Youth Ministry of Social Development, Daniel Molina; Minister of Human Development and Social Promotion of the Province of San Juan and Eduardo Camus; Director of Policy for Equity and Social Development.

In addition to the training sessions that took place during the meeting, several spaces were available for peer-to-peer education, allowing an excellent opportunity to strengthen the strategies in the response to HIV.

SOMOSGAY stresses the importance of involving young people in the fight against HIV, and thanks the RAJAP for ensuring the integration of regional partners in this space in order to replicate what they learned in communities, emerging stronger and strengthened in the task of achieving an equal society for everyone.