Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from the World AIDS Campaign!

As most of you now know, the 2004 Campaign is on "˜Women, Girls, HIV
and AIDS".

English language versions of this year's campaign posters will be
posted on the UNAIDS Campaign website by the end of September. Other
languages will be posted on the web and hard copies mailed by end of
October.

As before, the poster designs will be available as templates, which
can be adapted for more specific use within your constituencies. The
material will be available electronically on our web and on CDs.
Please start to get your requests to us now â€" although please
remember that we will only be in a position to mail out to you in
October.

As in previous years links will be created on the website to a host of
other resource material relevant to analyzing, strategizing and
planning for campaigning around the theme of ˜Women, Girls, HIV and
AIDS".

This will bring together existing material, tools and other resources
that focus, challenge and promote thought and action on the issues
around Women and HIV.

The World AIDS Campaign is also beginning to gather new partners and
synergies are once again building. MTV is launching a PSA contest on
the theme of ˜Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS™ and their announcement will
appear on the UNAIDS website in early September 2004. This audio and
video PSA contest is open to all and entries will be accepted until 1
November 2004. The winners will be publicly announced on 1 December
2004 and the non-winning entries will be available through UNAIDS for
use in advocacy efforts.

The Global Movement for Children, will be coordinating the ˜Lesson
for Life, in which two million children in 50 countries will be
taking part in a lesson on HIV/AIDS and its effect on children,
particularly girls. You can find out more about the ˜Lessonâ and how
you can join in at www.gmfc.org/hivaids.

The 16 Days of Activism 2004 is campaigning to highlight the
intersection of violence against women and the AIDS epidemic and are
urging audiences to consider the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS. Find
out more at www.cwgl.rutgers.edu.

The 2004 World AIDS Campaign is urging everyone to recognise that the
rise of the epidemic among women and girls is strongly related to
gender inequalities in society. More ideas around this should be
posted on the web soon.

The annual flagship publication of UNAIDS, the AIDS Epidemic Update
2004, due to be released in late November 2004, will also have a focus
on women and girls. It will provide some of the evidence base for the
impact of HIV on women and girls.

From 2005, as you do know, the World AIDS Campaign is changing. We
hope that many of you were able to visit the website at
www.worldaidscampaign.org. There you will find information on the
Campaign’s new focus from next year to hold governments accountable
to the UNGASS Declaration targets as well as contact information for
the small civil society-led World AIDS Campaign global office
established in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Regional consultations on the messaging and strategy for 2005 are
underway, and we have begun to develop a campaign toolkit that will be
available early next year. We are beginning to create campaign
materials for next year, including a 2005 World AIDS Campaign calendar
which highlights a key UNGASS message and target each month.

Please let us know of your campaign plans for 2004 and keep your eyes
on the UNAIDS campaign webpages

http://www.unaids.org/en/events/campaigns.asp where more material will
appear in the coming weeks.


With warm wishes,
The World AIDS Campaign
For more information write to us at wac@...