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Youth Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS (YEAH), Australia’s only National youth led sexual health promotion organisation has been defunded by the Federal Government.
Why at a time when young people’s STI rates are rising and condom use is declining, would the Federal Government take money away from young people trying to lead the change they desperately need in their sexual health education and culture?
Given over 75% of STIs are occurring amongst young people, the decision by the Government to defund YEAH is nothing less than outrageous; why throw away all that has been achieved by over 7 years of Community and Commonwealth investment in building a highly successful grassroots youth organisation.
The Agents of YEAH program, a national network of young volunteers, work tirelessly in their local communities to improve sexual health knowledge and health outcomes amongst their peers.
It is such a counter productive message to send to young leaders volunteering to be promoters of accurate, inclusive, age appropriate and youth friendly sexual health education that suddenly their efforts to improve the disastrous state of sexual health education is not valued.
They need your support.
Together we can send a strong message to the Health Minister, and the Federal Government, that youth leadership and empowerment is vital to build and sustain a positive sexual health culture that addresses gaps in access to critical sexual health information and promotes safe, healthy and respectful relationships in Australia.
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