The Peer Educators Movement for Empowerment of Pasay Manila Caloocan and Quezon City (Peer Ed ME PAMAC-Q), a youth-led non government organization working on HIV and s*xual & reproductive health and rights issues. Peer Educators Movement for Empowerment of Pasay, Manila, Caloocan and Quezon City (Peer Ed ME PAMAC-Q) is a youth-led group created in 2008 with a key advocacy on increasing awareness a
nd access to services of young people on STI, HIV and AIDS, & Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, and the Rights of the Child. The membership of Peer Ed ME PAMAC-Q includes the majority of youth sub-groups: male having s*x with male, gang members, freelance, establishment s*x workers, le****ns, g**s, transgender, bis*xuals, in-school youth and out-of-school youth, and cultural youth groups. Peer Ed ME PAMAC-Q has been actively participating in consultations led by UNICEF and Committee on Children and HIV & AIDS (CCHIV) in developing youth-led national strategy for the AMTP. Youth in grassroots communities, through Peer Ed ME PAMAC-Q, have now the opportunity to influence national processes as well as challenges that need to be taken into consideration in the advocacy strategy.
