Why Others Are Walking With Us...

• "I believe my contribution, however small, will make a positive difference."
   
• "Because I believe there is hope."
   
• "We shall fight it together, nobody can do it alone."
   
• "I am taking this pledge to assist in reducing the number of women being infected and affected by HIV and AIDS."
   
• "As a pharmacist who affirms and appreciates the value of human life, I am passionate about reaching out to HIV positive people to have a good healthy life."
   
• "I believe that knowledge is power and making the best of all situations, no matter how dire. I decided to take this pledge because with it, I become part of the awareness creating tool."
   
• "I believe that the reproductive rights and health of women are directly associated with the health of a community and family."
   
• "We can help to empower women to have more control over their bodies and their lives. This will help them and their
  children lead happier, healthier lives."
   
• "I believe that helping to make family planning and reproductive health services accessible to all people is the most effective way I can assure that my grandchildren grow up into a safe world."
   
• "I stand for the dissemination of birth control and AIDS information that will keep children and adults from sickness and death."
   
• "I am a woman and who can best help in this advocacy other than a woman? Hence, I request to be part of this campaign."
   
• "People living with AIDS must be supported, loved, and encouraged."
   
• "As an African woman who is married, I am therefore at risk of contracting the HIV virus. My community still has a lot
  to learn because even highly educated women have no say in their fertility because the man own them, so to speak."
   
• "I want to join hands and be able to educate the adolescents and youth who are the future of tomorrow about HIV/AIDS and their reproductive health."
   
• "I walk with Pathfinder to stop AIDS. Protect Yourself, Protect Your Partner."
   
• "I stand for a society where every child is wanted. I decided to take this pledge to help spread Pathfinder's goal of reproductive health rights for all people."
   
• "Would like to create awareness and help many helpless girls and women in my country."
   
• "I am a young person living positively with HIV for the past 7 years with a Masters degree, but haven't been able to get a job in Nigeria where I come from because of stigma. I know the pains and suffering I went through to overcome so I want to encourage others."
   
• "I hate seeing people suffer, so if I can help them in any way especially with this HIV/AIDS scourge, the better."
   
• "I worked with pediatric HIV for 3 months last year, and seeing this monster eat at a defenseless child and take a
  family's joy away is the worst form of pain. Do anything BUT do not give up!"
   
• "I think is time to say enough to AIDS. We youth need to stand up and fight this time for betterment of tomorrow."
   
• "I have seen women die from HIV infection gotten from their husbands. I have seen nice women helpless and others lose their minds as a result of AIDS. I have touched them, wept with them, but was unable to do anything else. I desire to do more to help."
   
• "I have seen many young girls suffer due to lack of knowledge on reproductive health, hence I would like to be on the frontline in educating and helping all those in need."
   
• "I believe that young people deserve a life free from diseases and stress. Hence they must be given the appropriate information and provided access to sexual reproductive health and rights in order to enable them make informed choices."
    
• "I decided to take this pledge because I believe that all human beings are born equal and all should have access to quality health and information that can make a positive change in their life."

Tell us why you are walking with Pathfinder! Sign the pledge at the right to send us your message.