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RE: [MYF08consult] Week 1 answers Elisabet Fadul
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Hi all,
I'm Elisabet Fadul from the Dominican Republic. I joined the consult a bit late and here are my answers to the first weeks questions:1. What are the most important needs of young people in the HIV/AIDSpandemic today?Young people need to be meaningfully involved in formal decision-making spaces. The need for real sexual health education that addresses the issues directly without any beating around the bush. Places to access friendly information, orientation and treatment in a non-discriminatory context. 2. In your country (please state your country), are young people consultedwith and included in addressing youth vulnerability and formingyouth-specific HIV/AIDS policy? If so, describe their involvement (are theyouth in positions of power, do they get to provide feedback or writelegislation, etc).
In my country young people are incluuded, yet in a tokenistic manner, because it doesn't look appropriate if the young person's name isn't in the participants list or because it provides more funding and valdiation of a process if it "seems" to involve young people. But there is no transparency and significant participation when drafting youth-specific policies, mainly because they result in a lot of great pictures, pretty words in the consultations and at the end the result in what the executing organization says it is.3. What kind of steps should the government take to prevent the spread ofHIV among young people in your country that they are not taking already?
Some steps would be to allocate funds where they are really needed and develop focalized, integral and innovative strategies. For example, if IEC isn't working anymore, it's because the IEC method isn't the one that attracts young people. They should adapt the strategies to our context and involve us more at the community level in them, and not just focus on the national level, because then many strategies don't reach the rest of the country.
Cheers,
Elisabet Fadul
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