Plenary speech by Yana Panfilova at AIDS2018

Yana Panfilova, the founder of the Teenergizer movement, spoke at the plenary session of the International AIDS Conference! She told 4 personal stories of young people living with HIV. Good morning, My name is Yana, I’m 20 and I was born with HIV. When I was 16, I founded Teenergizer. The only movement of adolescents and youth in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, to raise HIV and health-awareness. And I’m so happy to be here. This is my first International…

First National forum with international participation

From the 31st of October until 4th of November Teenergizer held its First National forum with international participation in Kiev. The Forum’s goals were a creation of a universal platform, unified youth power for experience exchange and representation of the community needs on a national level. Participants were 27 adults and 34 teenagers from 13 Ukrainian cities, Russia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. Why would teenagers get involved in events like this? «We can say for sure that nowadays teenagers have to…