CommunityBased Advocacy and Networking to Scaleup HIV Prevention between Egyptian youth' YPEER Egypt

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Community-Based Advocacy and Networking to
Scale-up HIV Prevention between Egyptian
youth.Y-PEER Egypt.Wesam Hassan
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Egypt - Background

• PLWHA 5300 persons
• 12 of HIV cases are YP (15- 24).
• Modes of transmission
• - 60 heterosexual sex.
• 27 from male with male sex.
• 6 blood and blood products.
• 2.2 intravenous drug use.
• 1 mother to-child transmission.
• The ratio of HIV infection is 4 males for every
  female.
• Prevalence rate (0.007 and 0.02.).

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Based on NAP data. Graph rendered by UNAIDS Egypt
(2007)
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Networking

• The Y-PEER network now constitutes of 32 NGOs.
• Y-PEER Egypt now has trained more than 500
  activists in order to be peer educators from 10
  governorates.
• Building partnerships on the national level
  with
• UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS, Siraj (Save the
  Children ), NAP, NCCM, Coptic Church, Mansoura
  University,Media).

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Advocacy.

• Orthodox Church ( Peer Education Program).
• NCCM (2 ToT for 66 activists from 12
  governorates)
• University Campaign.
• I CAN STOP AIDS Campaign.
• National Youth Advisory Panel.
• WAC Activities.

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Challenges

• Culture
• Language
• Content
• poor surveillance systems , taboos around the
  epidemic , all HIV numbers are suspect to
  underestimation.
• Involving Young women
• Fund.
• Being a young person!
• Networking.

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Lessons Learned

• Working at low cost is not impossible
• Using media as an advocacy/outreach tool
• Adaptation of our message to be cultural
  appropriate
• Focusing on new approaches in Egypt as
• Comics
• Games
• Internet

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• Thank You! ?