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This report was written and published by the Count Me In consortium, comprising of Youth LEAD, Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+), and ourselves. It describes 10 existing harm reduction projects with youth-friendly components and providing services to different sub-groups of young people who inject drugs around the globe. Based on these…

For the High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS currently, Youth RISE co-organised a side event titled: Youth-Led & Youth-Friendly Services To End Inequality & To End AIDS. Maria, our new IWG, spoke at the event about the importance of youth friendly harm reduction services. Check it out here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CP-F97ggNHi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV/AIDS is an extremely significant event taking place every five years. The HLM includes a wide-variety of meetings and opportunities for both advocacy and learning. The process of the HLM began long before the “official” start date of the High Level Meeting on June 8th, with the 8th…

The 2021 Youth Working Group for the High-Level Meeting welcomes the adoption of a new Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS. We appreciate and commend the leadership of the Co-Facilitators, Australia and Namibia, in this process. We are disappointed by the efforts of a small number of member states to derail the process and are…

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We ran an Instagram Activism Workshop with Craig Dwyer from For A Change. He taught us how to utilize Instagram to aid in our advocacy and fight to end the War on Drugs. We recorded the workshop to further the learning from this activity, watch the video here. Craig also created a written guide on…

Youth RISE are hiring! We currently have two vacant positions for a Finance Officer and a Project Manager. Deadline for applications for both positions is Wednesday June 16th and applications should be sent to Executive Director Ailish Brennan at ailish@youthrise.org. The Project Manager position will be temporary until the end of the year while the…

Alongside Youth RISE Nigeria, we ran an online mental health campaign for young drug policy reform and harm reduction advocates, inviting them to share their experience in this role with its highs and lows. This was to commemorate mental health month. We understand that working in this field can be tiring and feel like you’re…