An HIV-positive young woman describes her work as a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador for Positive Living Pooja Thakur, 27, is a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador for Positive Living (YAPL). She was diagnosed with HIV in her early twenties soon after she lost her husband to the disease. She is one of the estimated 2.27 million people currently …

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More than half of all sexually transmitted infections, other than HIV, (more than 180 million out of a global annual total of 340 million) occur among young people aged 15 to 24. Yet most young people still have no access to sexual and reproductive health programmes that provide the information, skills, services, commodities, and social …

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Individual and community attitudes about AIDS can have an effect on the effort to eliminate HIV infections and discrimination against those living with HIV, writes Lyn-Marie Blackman, 27, a Correspondent from Bridgetown, Barbados, as she examines the message for World AIDS Day. The World AIDS Day message for the 2011–2015 period focuses on “Getting to …

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The rise of AIDS has been a massive heath issue globally. Omer Fayshal Pavel, 22, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Dhaka in Bangladesh, writes that being educated about the virus is the first step in helping those with HIV live a better quality of life. We have a beautiful planet to live with a beautiful life to …

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