The United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Special Youth Programme seeks to recruit young people aged 20-24 from developing countries with some programme experience in HIV-related issues to join UNAIDS for a 9-month remunerated fellowship. The fellowship is divided into two sections: an initial fellowship in UNAIDS Geneva, Switzerland, followed - upon satisfactory performance - by a continued fellowship in the UNAIDS country office (UCO) in the fellow’s country of origin.

The programme seeks to achieve the following objectives:

• To create opportunities at appropriate levels of the organisation to engage youth in policy development and programming;
• To help build the capacity of young people and strengthen their leadership skills to contribute to the AIDS response, especially at the country level; and
• To sensitise both the young people and UNAIDS staff on various modalities of working together to address issues related to HIV, particularly youth concerns, gender, greater involvement of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS (GIPA), and human rights.

The deadline for application is March 5 2009.

Please send a detailed curriculum vitae (CV) and motivation letter to the email address: syp@unaids.org Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another UN language is an advantage.



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Press release from AF-AIDS on February 9 2009.