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Today 23rd December 2008We give You first Edition of Our New International PublicationPlease Take Your time :)

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NEWSBULLETINDECEMBER EDITION

MEDICAL STUDENTS GLOBALLY ARE JOINING HANDS, RAISING THEIR VOICES IN UNITY AND STANDING TOGETHER IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE SPREAD OF HIV /AIDS.

Members of the Inter-national Federation of M e d i c a l Students’ Associations (IFMSA) are showing their dedi-cated support to People Living With HIV/AIDS though raising awareness among their peers about HIV prevention, fight-ing stigma and discrimi-nation and advocating for a universal access to prevention, treatment and care.Whilst this World AIDS Day is celebrating its 20th anniversary, the HIV/AIDS epidemic remains the worst infectious epidemic humanity has faced. Mem-bers of the Standing Com-mittee on Reproductive Health including AIDS (SCO-RA) are using this opportu-nity to show to the world that we are all affected by HIV/AIDS and that we all

need to get involved in this fight .Youth are the key in the fight to stop the spread of HIV lead-ing to a better future for humanity (...) Members of IFMSA remain committed to: “Stop AIDS, Keep the promise” and are supporting the “Leader-ship” message chosen by UNAIDS as a theme for 2008. Future physicians are taking the lead in their communities and their countries following the IF-MSA motto: “Think globally, Act locally”We raise our voices on this day to reaffirm our com-mitment and involvement and to join efforts once again as youth leaders and future physicians.On behalf of the IFMSA Team of officials 2008-2009

BIG GOOd PHO-TO

Imene Ben Ameur SCORA Director

WAD in Warsaw - We “Say Paint it RED”

for full text please visit medstudentsfightaids.org

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INTERNATIONAL SCORA TEAM

This year we have started our WAD activities on 30th November with a sports event. The ice-hock-ey season has just started and we used the popularity of this sport to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and even more important, to convey our message of a safer sex among the fans. We attended the home match of Vienna Capitals and by courtesy of the team we were allowed to put huge red ribbon on the ice during the break. Meanwhile stadium speaker read the text com-posed by SCORAngels about HIV/AIDS facts and pointed condom use out. The message reached some

3 500 fans. We had lots of fun and the action was well received.Our next plans are distribution of condoms and flyers on Xmas mar-kets, participation in Candlelight memorial organised by PLWHIV/A, airing Transit at the University, at-taching of red ribbons on white coats of the stuff at University Hos-pital and the last but not least, WAD Party, for the first time in Vienna!!!TinaSojatLORA Vienna

WAD in Vienna Hockey Stadium

FIRST WAD REPORT

TO:NEW IFMSA-POLAND

NORA

- MARCIN BOBIŃSKI

NEW

IFMSA-ECUADOR NORA”

SANTIAGO CHAVES C.

NEW SISM ITALY

NORA

LUCIA MONTALTO

NEW AMSA

CO-NORA’S

ANNA SAJOVITZ AND ROMANA

MIKES

Vasia Dermendzhieva SCORA Xchange Team

Slovakian Student-We see that they wiill Keep the the Promise

SCORA DIRECTOR Imene Ben Ameur [email protected] LIAISON OFFICER Muge Cevik [email protected]

SCORA REGIONAL ASSISTANT FOR AMERICASLaura Frye [email protected]

REGIONAL ASSISTANT FOR EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIAAreltte Vassallo [email protected]

CO-REGIONAL ASSISTANTS FOR EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION

Eman Ewais [email protected] Zakka [email protected]

REGIONAL ASSISTANT FOR AFRICAEvelyn Ordoo [email protected]

SCORA DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANTSPublications Assistant

Jerzy Bednarski [email protected] Assistant

Halit Aytar aytar.halit@ gmail.comNew Technologies & Marketing Assistant

Arlette Vassallo [email protected] Project Initiation & Development Assistant

Federico Longhini [email protected]

SCORA ADVISORY BOARDSamer Abi Chaker & Silva Rukavina

[email protected] & [email protected]

NEW IFMSA-SPAIN NORSA:

- MARTA JIMENEZ


NEWSBULLETIN

“Medical students taking the lead, commiting to fight AIDS and all related forms ofstigma and discrimination”

Ferney-Voltaire, France, November 30th 2008

We would like you to visit our new SCORA website specifi-cally designed to be a platform where you can share pictures, projects and reports from your WAD activties and very soon for the famous WAD Competition. We would like also to encour-age you to show your commit-ment by signing our pledge:

"”Medical students taking the lead, fighting AIDS and all related forms of stig-ma and discrimination"”

VISIT

medstudentsfightaidswww.

.orgD e a r

I’m Sofia Gancheva, LORA for Sofia, Bulgaria :) I’d like to talk to you about an interesting event that my NMO (AMSB) has recently organized! From 13th to 18th of October in Sofia, a SCORA project named “European Youth & Reproductive Health” took place. It was Action 4.3 Training Course within the Youth in Action programme of the European Commission.

Boris Mladenov (AMSB’s president), Vasia Dermend-zhieva and I were the project coordinators. Our NMO ap-plied for the grant of 18 000 EUR in June and got it :) We had around two months of preparations for the event.

“European Youth & Reproductive Health” was a training course for 26 medical students from Finland, Italy, Hun-gary, Latvia, Turkey, Romania, Malta, Austria & Bulgaria.

The participants had exciting workshops on discrimi-nation against HIV+ people & homosexuals, violence against women, contraception in EU... They also shared in sessions on reproductive health advocacy, project plan-ning and team building conducted by Y-Peer trainers.

It was an amazing opportunity for us to organize this project. We had so much fun sharing experiences with the 26 great participants and are looking forward to collaborate with more SCORA people in the future in new ideas and projects

All the best, Sofia

A f r i P E TT R A I N I N G

Welcome to the Peer Education world!We are very happy to bring to you a unique expe-

rience of fun and education...

AfriPET is a 2 days long training focusing on build-ing the participants’ skills in order to improve

existing peer education programs in their NMOs or help them implement new ones

AfriPET is based on innovative approaches using youth led initiatives and behaviour change

communication strategie.

AfriPET is going to be held during the African Regional Meeting, 20-21st Dec

Waiting For You1Imene Ben Ameur

SCORA Newsbulletin is made by: International SCORA Publications Team:Jerzy Bednarski -Editor in Chief, Main Graphic, International SCORA Publication Assistant, Louay El - Tagy - Proofreader “Good advice Man” Mohamed Salah - Graphic. Special thanks to Angelika :)

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N E C S E R e g i s t r a t i o n s !

Hi everybody!Finally, finally, what we've all been waiting for :)Registrations for NECSE 2009 in Iceland have been started.NECSE will be held on the 8th of April through 12th of April, an hour from Reykjavik.

THE EARLY REGISTRATION 120€ (untill 31.12)THE LATE REGISTRATION 140€ (until the 15.03.2009) and the fee is per person.

Until we see you in the cold and romantic Iceland....Goodbye, auf wiedersehen, hejdå, farvel, do zobaczenia Best wishesOmar SigurvinNECSE co-ordinator


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