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All About Us - Mission,
Attitudes & Activities |
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Mission
The Positive Life is a functioning,
learning and enabling non-governmental organization established to respond
to the emerged social issues in Iran and through recognizing human rights
and dignity of the affected people and vulnerable persons, using cultural
and faith-based principles and following scientific evidence is trying to
define problems and making solutions.
The Organization believes that for
control we should take advantage of all social, economic and cultural
capacities and to respond to the needs and concerns of all community groups
appropriately. Successive evaluation of activities is critical in this way.
The Positive Life is trying to empower
its members and other people and to participate affected people in leading
and implementation of activities and utilizes latest technologies and media
effectively for achieving its goals.
Attitude & Values
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Protecting human dignity and rights
of all individuals (freedom, independence and safety, confidentiality
and personal privacy, mutual respect, avoiding stigmatization and
elimination of discrimination, informed decision making and preventing
coercion)
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Health Promotion
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Community Participation
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Evidence-based Policy-making,
Planning and Action
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Advancing a Health-centered and
Non-sensational Approach to social problems
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Considering cultural and faith
fundamentals of each local community
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Reducing and elimination of all high
risk behaviors in society
Main activities are advocacy, information dissemination, peer education,
prevention and harm reduction.
The HIV/AIDS activities started in 2003 as voluntary advocacy and IEC
activities by the founders and the institute has been officially
registered in 2005.
Iranian Positive Life (Zendegi
Mosbat)
The HIV/AIDS activities started in 2003 as voluntary advocacy and IEC
activities by the founders and the institute has been officially
registered in 2005.
Summary of activities:
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Sessions for high school students with participation of PLHIVs as
facilitators. These sessions consist of basic information on HIV/AIDS,
high risk behaviors, prevention principles, real stories of living with
HIV/AIDS, and responding to the students’ questions. A music performance
by PLHIV is included as an ice-breaker and also for reducing stigma
towards PLHIV.
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Sessions for parents and teachers of
guidance schools with participation of PHIV as facilitators. These
sessions consist of basic information on HIV/AIDS, prevention
principles, high risk behaviors, importance of life skills and HIV/AIDS
education, real stories of living with HIV/AIDS, and responding to the
questions.
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Sessions for university students
with participation of PHIV as facilitators. These sessions consist of
basic information on HIV/AIDS, high risk behaviors, prevention
principles, real stories of living with HIV/AIDS, and responding to the
students’ questions. A music performance by PLHIV is included as an
ice-breaker and also for reducing stigma towards PLHIV.
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Preparation, design and printing of
leaflets and posters for different target groups according to needs
assessments by Iranian Positive Life IEC team. The intention is to
develop information packages which will address HIV/AIDS as well as to
help preventing any stigma and discrimination towards PLHIV, giving
adequate information and knowledge without creating any fear of
HIV/AIDS.
• A poster and leaflet specially designed for WAD 2005 messaging women
and AIDS, Children and AIDS, Stigma and discrimination amongst PLHIV,
methods of transmission, prevention education. These materials were
developed, designed and printed by Zendegi Mosbat and other NGOs
participated in the project and their logos were added as a sign of
commitment to the 2005 slogen “ Make the promis, keep the promise”.
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Launching a Farsi website (www.zendegimosbat.org)
and a Yahoo Group (online community) for information dissemination and
HIV/AIDS education and also a website in English about AIDS in Iran (www.persiaplus.org).
These website are regularly updated and have been pre-tested to be user
friendly and interactive and to be able to communicate with young
people.
The website main components cover:
• HIV/AIDS information
• Latest news
• About us
• Living Positive (section for PLHIV)
• Poll
• Youth
• Media
• ….
www.zendegimosbat.org (Farsi)
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Organizing and launching HIV/AIDS
events and campaigns, collaboration with other organizations and NGOs
for such activities and giving consultation for international HIV/AIDS
campaigns , such as World AIDS Day, Memorial day, The International
Children and AIDS Campaign (Launched by UNICEF)
The launch of the Children and AIDS Campaign, Dec 2005
(Above- Ali Daee the Iranian footballer participating in this event)
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Zendegi Mosbat collaborated with
UNICEF in the launch of the Children and AIDS campaign in Iran.
Several interested bodies such as UNAIDS and MoH and Celebrities and
Football clubs and NGOs participated in this campaign. For more
information please look at: http://www.unicef.org/iran/fa/hiv_aids_1997.html
and
LINK
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One of the critical issues for
HIV/AIDS education is to get everybody in the family and specially
parents sensitized and involved, fun family events is one of the
many ways to implement such educational programmes which will play a
definite role in preventing the transmission of HIV/AIDS to the next
generation. Zendegim Mosbat in collaboration with Amitab NGO and the
municipality organized a fun kite festival in a public park at a
weekend to address the importance of HIV/AIDS knowledge and
education for children to their parents through an interactive and
fun event.
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Inter
active HIV/AIDS education
Facilitating educational sessions in workshops and seminars on issues
such as sensitization, HIV/AIDS and life skills, Human rights in
HIV/AIDS, Voluntary councelling and testing basics, peer education,
group therapy, HIV/AIDS in the workplace and …
UNODC Advocacy Campaign workshop for media
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Advocacy at the highest level, many
sessions with Parliamentarians, MoH officials, MoE, Municipality and
city council members, civil society and NGOs.
• Assisting in the introductory session on the Children and AIDS
campaign launched by UNICEF, for Tehran City Council members.
• Introductory sessions at IRIB for advisors to the Chairman of IRIB.
• Information education for school health teachers at MoE district 14
office in Tehran.
Information session for school health teachers
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Zendegi Mosbat has also a
representative in the CCM committee for the Global fund programme in
Iran and also has represented civil society NGOs in the work meeting
with Commission on social determinants of health which visited Iran in
January 2006.
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This institute also cooperates with
Ministry of Health and Medical Education and also other institutions in
studies and research on HIV/AIDS.
• Member of the research team for identifying and the core indicators of
HIV/AIDS in Iran, UNGASS 2006, MoH-UNAIDS. (To be published)
• Technical support in the study of PLHIV satisfaction from the
available medical services, treatment, care and support. (To be
published)
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