Youth Awareness Movement Against AIDS In Africa.
The Intensity of our Publicity can greatly reduce the Severity of our Casualty!
THE FUTURE OF AFICA IS IN THE HANDS OF THE YOUTHS
Our generation (15 -40 years) is being described as the AIDS generation, since we as young people have never had a world without the epidemic. it is common knowledge that about 10 years ago it was a taboo, in fact an anathema to be identified with the cause of people living with AIDS. This rejection by the society has caused great psychological torture to People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) particularly the young ones who see themselves as doomed and unredeemable. Students talk a lot in whispers about what could be done particularly on how those who were not yet infected could be enlightened and be strengthened enough to escape the scourge. It is in response to these needs that youths of like minds who share the same view and opinion on this societal dilemma, came together to save the lives of many already infected and yet to be infected individuals, most especially the youths who are the nation builders, future pillars and the strength of our nation from the scourge of HIV/AIDS.
We believe that by being the mouthpiece to the millions of youths in our University Campuses and many other tertiary institutions in Nigeria and Africa at large, we will save a lot of lives. This led to the formation of Youth Awareness Movement Against AIDS in Africa (YAMAA) in 1999 in Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Nigeria.
Youth Awareness Movement Against AIDS in Africa (YAMAA) is a youth centered initiative, established for the purpose of combating the menace of HIV/AIDS and other related disease among the youths of Africa. This initiative, like other well meaning HIV/AIDS organizations across the continent is concerned with behavioral and attitudinal change of youths, through an aggressive enlightenment campaign that can lead to positive change of minds from all vices that pre-disposed youths to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in the society thus, saving the Continent from impending human waste, social calamity and economic catastrophe that may result from the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
YAMAA objective has informed our mission statement which is: “The intensity of our publicity can greatly reduce the severity of our causality” and this it has achieved through her participation in formulation and implementation of policies as regard the interest of youth in HIV/AIDS and by expanding its Network to all other states in Nigeria in line with the NACA YOUTH NETWORK FOR HIV/AIDS (NYNETHA) policy.
To realize our vision which is to help Nigeria and other nations against a social breakdown and moral degeneration by reducing or possibly to eliminate the scourge of HIV/AIDS pandemic among the youth of Africa, YAMAA has been mounting aggressive public enlightenment campaign in schools and colleges of education using workshops/ seminars/symposia/talk shows and also by networking/collaboration with organizations with similar vision. YAMAA has volunteered her assistance in research findings as regard measures of combating the scourge, monitoring the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and surveillance of the menace in Nigeria and Africa at large. YAMAA information library also serves as data bank and resource center on information concerning HIV/AIDS and other related diseases.
YAMAA partners with organizations in her Rural –Community Awareness Program (R-CAP) targeted at youths living in the rural areas through publication, drama and counseling of youths on Prevention, Abstinence and Moral conduct (PAM). YAMAA also offers a Care and Psychological Support (YCPS) program for Youths Living with HIV/AIDS (YLWHA): The programme is aimed at reducing and possibly eradicating Stigmatization and discrimination in our society. Details of YAMAA activities across Africa are on her website: www.yamaaonline.ning.com
Currently, the total HIV infections in Nigeria are about 4 million, with more than 200,000 new AIDS cases and 184,000 AIDS death already recorded in 2007. Nigeria has about 1.8 million children orphaned by AIDS. Estimates from the National HIV/Syphilis Sero prevalence Sentinel Survey by the Federal Ministry of Health in 2005 indicate an HIV prevalence rate ranging from 3.6 % to 4.9 % among youth, aged 15-35. YAMAA envision such a society where youths, women and children are viewed as assets and encouraged to develop their potentials so that together “WE CAN FREEZE THE VIRUS”.
We believe that by being the mouthpiece to the millions of youths in our University Campuses and many other tertiary institutions in Nigeria and Africa at large, we will save a lot of lives. This led to the formation of Youth Awareness Movement Against AIDS in Africa (YAMAA) in 1999 in Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Nigeria.
Youth Awareness Movement Against AIDS in Africa (YAMAA) is a youth centered initiative, established for the purpose of combating the menace of HIV/AIDS and other related disease among the youths of Africa. This initiative, like other well meaning HIV/AIDS organizations across the continent is concerned with behavioral and attitudinal change of youths, through an aggressive enlightenment campaign that can lead to positive change of minds from all vices that pre-disposed youths to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in the society thus, saving the Continent from impending human waste, social calamity and economic catastrophe that may result from the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
YAMAA objective has informed our mission statement which is: “The intensity of our publicity can greatly reduce the severity of our causality” and this it has achieved through her participation in formulation and implementation of policies as regard the interest of youth in HIV/AIDS and by expanding its Network to all other states in Nigeria in line with the NACA YOUTH NETWORK FOR HIV/AIDS (NYNETHA) policy.
To realize our vision which is to help Nigeria and other nations against a social breakdown and moral degeneration by reducing or possibly to eliminate the scourge of HIV/AIDS pandemic among the youth of Africa, YAMAA has been mounting aggressive public enlightenment campaign in schools and colleges of education using workshops/ seminars/symposia/talk shows and also by networking/collaboration with organizations with similar vision. YAMAA has volunteered her assistance in research findings as regard measures of combating the scourge, monitoring the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and surveillance of the menace in Nigeria and Africa at large. YAMAA information library also serves as data bank and resource center on information concerning HIV/AIDS and other related diseases.
YAMAA partners with organizations in her Rural –Community Awareness Program (R-CAP) targeted at youths living in the rural areas through publication, drama and counseling of youths on Prevention, Abstinence and Moral conduct (PAM). YAMAA also offers a Care and Psychological Support (YCPS) program for Youths Living with HIV/AIDS (YLWHA): The programme is aimed at reducing and possibly eradicating Stigmatization and discrimination in our society. Details of YAMAA activities across Africa are on her website: www.yamaaonline.ning.com
Currently, the total HIV infections in Nigeria are about 4 million, with more than 200,000 new AIDS cases and 184,000 AIDS death already recorded in 2007. Nigeria has about 1.8 million children orphaned by AIDS. Estimates from the National HIV/Syphilis Sero prevalence Sentinel Survey by the Federal Ministry of Health in 2005 indicate an HIV prevalence rate ranging from 3.6 % to 4.9 % among youth, aged 15-35. YAMAA envision such a society where youths, women and children are viewed as assets and encouraged to develop their potentials so that together “WE CAN FREEZE THE VIRUS”.
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