[Ip-health] Take Action to help Children Living with HIV

[Thabo Sephuma]

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Dear friends:

I am pleased to share with you the recent publication
=E2=80=9CPrescription for Life (
http://www.e-alliance.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Temp/Childrens_Let=
ter_Writing/Children_Letter_Writing-A4_EN.pdf
)=E2=80=9D, a joint effort of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, Education
International and the Treatment Action Campaign provides
information and resources for schools, families, faith groups and
communities to empower young people to write letters to
pharmaceutical companies and governments to improve testing and
treatment for infants and children living with HIV.

Young people around the world are being encouraged to take
action to help children living with HIV through an action guide
being launched today, Universal Children=E2=80=99s Day.

Letters generated from the year-long action will be used to keep
governments accountable to commitments made in the Convention on
the Rights of the Child and also used in focused advocacy with
pharmaceutical companies by EAA participants. An exhibit of the
letters will be prepared for the 20th anniversary of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on 20 November 2009.

The six page guide is available at
http://www.e-alliance.ch/accessmeds/children. The English
version can be downloaded immediately and versions in Spanish and
French will soon be available. Print copies can be ordered for
free.

I encourage you to share the link with your network, and also
encourage your network to participate in the campaign.

Regards,
Thabo Sephuma