Publisher’s Foreword: This essay was one of four runner-up submissions for the 2007 World AIDS Day Student Essay Contest. YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD POINT OUT THEIR WEAKNESSES TO HIV/AIDS AND GET THEIR PROTECTION ACCORDINGLY I believe that being vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS pandemic is portrayed from the behaviors of others and what I think as an… [Learn More ...]
Prevention is better than cure
April 10, 2008 . - Leave a Comment
Publisher’s Foreword: This essay was one of four runner-up submissions for the 2007 World AIDS Day Student Essay Contest. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE A lot of people are dying because of a disease that can be prevented but cannot be cured. AIDS has no size, age, sex, or any specific people it aims for.… [Learn More ...]
Vulnerable as soft sand on the river banks
April 10, 2008 . - Leave a Comment
Publisher’s Foreword: This essay was one of four runner-up submissions for the 2007 World AIDS Day Student Essay Contest. VULNERABLE AS SOFT SAND ON THE RIVER BANKS I am in a position of silt soil on the river-banks, that can be eroded by floods unless grass develops in it and grows in it, binding roots… [Learn More ...]
Young People At Risk
April 10, 2008 . - Leave a Comment
Publisher’s Foreword: This essay was one of four runner-up submissions for the 2007 World AIDS Day Student Essay Contest. YOUNG PEOPLE AT RISK In most parts of the world where the overall proportion of the people living with HIV/AIDS is falling it can be noted that only the young people remain more at risk than… [Learn More ...]
My Story About A Friend Living With HIV
February 7, 2008 . - Leave a Comment
Publisher’s Foreword: The young author offers insight into the unique challenges that young people in Zimbabwe face as they navigate life in the age of HIV/AIDS. The article is personal, as it explores a young Zimbabwean’s choices as he deals with peer pressure from a close friend, highlighting the vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS for young Zimbabweans… [Learn More ...]
A Struggle to Survive: We the Youth Fight for an AIDS-free Generations
February 7, 2008 . - Leave a Comment
Publisher’s Foreword: The young minds of Zimbabwe are well represented by this scholar who spells out factually the dangers in the world around them. Who would ever have thought a few years back in an earlier generation that an innocent young person today would have to be talking about becoming infected by a deadly virus… [Learn More ...]
Tradition, Poverty, Media and Abuse: Rubbing shoulders with HIV/AIDS.
December 31, 2007 . - Leave a Comment
Publisher’s Foreword: This author offers an unwavering and brave insight into the role that adults, parents, people in power, tradition and the media all play in exposing young people to HIV/AIDS. The author reveals a rather troubling and often ignored perspective of how adults and people in positions of authority are pressuring young people into,… [Learn More ...]
My World Of Entrapment
December 1, 2007 . - Leave a Comment
Publisher’s Foreword: Whether it’s a true deeply personal impression that life has so brutally confronted her with, or a masterful and brilliantly written fictional essay designed to grip the reader, this is a stunning piece of work by a gifted teen. Her essay speaks directly to “vulnerability” and “entrapment” and leaves no doubt that the… [Learn More ...]
WAD 2007 Student Essay Contest (WADEC): Project Report.
December 1, 2007 . - Leave a Comment
by Joshua M. Dziba Executive Director, HAZ Download PDF Version PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD: We believe that the reader of the HAZ World AIDS Day essays will more fully appreciate the actual entries when they understand the history, aim, objectives, concept behind the WADEC project, as well as our review and conclusions of the first installation of… [Learn More ...]
WORLD AIDS DAY ESSAY CONTEST
December 16, 2006 . - Leave a Comment
The World AIDS Day Essay Contest is an idea that was conceived of by one of HAZ’s young volunteers, as a response to the World AIDS Campaign‘s call for young people to “Take the lead, Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise”. The first installation of the HAZ WORLD AIDS DAY STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST (WADEC) was conducted… [Learn More ...]
