Social Networks for Social Change

Research points to the need for youth participation and leadership in HIV and AIDS prevention and education strategies. Internationally, youth-based organisations are drawing on the creativity and expertise of young people in arts-based initiatives aimed at promoting awareness, opening dialogue on issues such as on gender and sexuality, and discouraging stigma. YAHAnet is a webtool that supports and creates a virtual community of youth organisations around the world dedicated to using the arts and popular culture to address HIV and AIDS; it uses the internet’s capacities to disseminate information, but also the emerging social networking aspects of the “Web 2.0À online environment.

Publisher: Gender Links
Edition: 4th edition
Year of Publication: 2008
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