Posts Tagged with ‘Youth, Love & Sexuality’
Camilo
In the last years, strong movements around the world - especially youth movements - began to claim for the recognition of the right of all the people to have a comprehensive sexual education. This imp...
Daniel
One of the reasons why the young people are not using contraception is the fact that there are a lot of myths among them for the side effects of it usage.
Having that on mind last year as part ...
Paul
Ah, how great a feeling it is to be young, because with youth comes vigor, a zest for life, and naturally good health. But the downside of youth is its folly - the stupidity that prevents us from real...
Brooke
A strong, independent young woman is walking across her university campus. As she passes the familiar buildings and people, her mind is racing over her new discovery. Already she is defying the tradit...
Robert
Young sex workers in rural Zimbabwe have embarked on a fatal path that increases their likelihood of contracting and spreading HIV. Poverty and a lack of information intensify the problem, but instead...
Sophie
“An estimated 13 billion condoms per year are needed to help halt the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, according to UNAIDS. The reality falls short.” (UNFPA)
A condom he...
Ricardo
40% of new infections still occur among people aged 15 to 24, but things are starting to change…I think.
A few weeks ago at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, we saw young people doing thea...
Maya
Imagine that life is a role-play game where the plot develops as a result of the decisions you have made and the puzzles you have solved.
So how could you win this game? What happens if someone st...
Diana, Northern Uganda Malaria AIDS & Tuberculosis Program (NUMAT)
HIV positive youth encounter profound and varied challenges. We say we want to help, yet we continually let them down when we don't provide the services they need. It's a growing problem without a sin...
Angella
A young woman in Uganda contracts HIV/AIDS and faces relentless prejudice that alters every aspect of her life. She is only one of the millions of young people whose physical challenges are multiplied...
John, Global Voices
“I want all other children born in Liberia- and the world- to lead full lives free of pain and filled with the blossoms of love, like mine,” writes Mahmud Johnson at the blog for the youth-oriente...
Nanna, IGLYO
Participants in Amsterdam perform a flash mob to raise awareness of homophobia and transphobia.
Watch the participants from the international IGLYO conference in Amsterdam, This is Who We Are perfo...
John, Global Voices
Though young people in India are more educated and empowered than in the past, there is still a lack of information related to sexual and reproductive health. More and more people are using technology...
Rohit K, Kinaara
Homosexual identity in India is flourishing in popular writings, novels, films and television shows.
Society does not have much space for people who defy the mainstream, especially for those with a...
Remmy, UNAIDS
A response to the blog-post "HIV thrives on poverty". The young volunteers who are involved in the fight against HIV get nothing in return.
I come from a country whose HIV prevalence is one of the...
Njeri, East African Publishers
Young artists use a new form of poetry known as Spoken Word to express the pain, frustration, joy, and heartache of love and sexuality.
If I could hold back
the inevitable
and push the
unpredicta...
Njeri, East African Publishers
Is theater a useful tool when it comes to teaching young people about sex and love?
Youth must be educated on love, relationships and sexuality. In this context, many countries are looking at ways ...
Njeri, East African Publishers
Here are some videos of youth in African countries talking about sex, love and harsh consequences.
Words can sometimes fail to show the stark reality but one can never go wrong with a video footage...
Ndesanjo, Global Voices Online
A growing number of young people around the world are using blogs to connect with others and express themselves on issues such as love and relationship. In this post, we have selected bloggers in Ira...
Njeri, East African Publishers
A significant number of bloggers in Africa write poems to express their feelings of love, hurt, betrayal, regret, pain and joy.
The topic of love and relationships is one that evokes a lot of int...
Tanya, Halton Public Health
We must understand the barriers that plague even the most well-intentioned campaigns to promote health. The actual cost of a Tuberculosis test is free, but there are indirect costs: one week of lost w...
Ayesha, Global Voices Online
Bekhsoos is an online magazine "covering topics related to (homo)sexuality in the Arab world". Founded by the Lebanese group Meem, a support community for lesbians, bisexuals, queers, questioning wome...
Sarah, World YWCA
Ohhhhhh….I said the A word. Abortion. Someone has to say it. This post is not really about abortions, but about the impact our silence on the issues of sex is having on the young women of the world....
Ayesha, Global Voices Online
"Eve-teasing” is a term that is used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh for sexual harassment or molestation in the street. The Blank Noise Project, which was first started by an art student six year...
Bruno, IGLYO
Let's get this straight: Homophobia and transphobia kill.
Homo- and transphobia can be deadly. A video is better than a thousand words, and this was the message delivered by 80 young Lesbian,...
Alex
How did you find out about sex? Think about what you were told. Was it correct, or even close? Chances are, according to the research, that you didn’t find out from your parents, and it wasn’t rem...
Rezwan, Global Voices Online
In recognition of the hundreds of HIV-positive bloggers chronicling their lives worldwide, a group of online activists affiliated with the project Rising Voices have created a new guide to blogging ab...
Juhie, Global Voices Online
Despite increased awareness ofcontraception, adolescent pregnancy continues to be a major health problem in Jamaica with 35 percent of Jamaican women having their first pregnancy by age 19. Most of th...
Solana, Global Voices
Planned Parenthood, a non-profit organization that provides free or inexpensive sexual health services to young men and women in the United States and abroad, has launched a YouTube campaign. The orga...
Chris, IPPF
Laugh and learn, ten videos made to convince you to wear a condom - from the educational to the ridiculous. Which video is your favorite?
BBC Three Condom Sketch
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Gill, IPPF
It is a basic truth that sex and reproduction are central to our lives. It’s also true that young people are sexual beings. However, young people are largely invisible in internationally-agreed deve...
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