Can’t Make it to Toronto for the International AIDS Conference?

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Building on its reporting at the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, Advocates for Youth will offer perspectives on youth issues particularly young people’s thoughts on abstinence-only prevention policies, the role of the U.S. government in global AIDS, and analysis on important reproductive health news. Advocates’ blogging team includes:

• Mimi Meheret- Mimi is a 20 year old Ethiopian-American student at the University of Maryland and a member of Advocates for Youth’s International Youth Leadership Council. Mimi also serves on the leadership committee of the Student Global AIDS Campaign.
• Beth Pellettieri- Beth is Advocates for Youth’s International Youth Leadership Council Coordinator and has been heavily involved with planning for the Toronto YouthForce by serving on the YouthForce Coordinating Committee and as co-chair of the Advocacy Taskforce. Beth is also a Student Global AIDS Campaign alumni from the George Washington University.
• Kayley Harrington- Kayley is the State Policy Coordinator at Advocates for Youth and a former member and coordinator of the International Youth Leadership Council. Kayley served on the coordinating committee for the Bangkok Youth Force and is actively engaged with the Toronto YouthForce media taskforce. Kayley will also be blogging for MTV International and the AIDS2006 youth web-site.
• Naina Dhingra- Naina serves as Director of International Policy for Advocates for Youth. Naina was co-coordinator of the Barcelona Youth Force in 2002 which launched ongoing youth visibility activities at International AIDS Conferences. Naina formerly worked for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria and is an alumni of the Student Global AIDS Campaign.
  

Blogging coverage starts with the youth pre-conference starting on Thursday, August 10 and continues throughout the conference.