The committee for reproductive health including AIDS is very active in educating young people, mostly high school and college students, about all the issues connected with reproductive health. Our activities also include the education of colleagues and high school students by peer education. The project "Don't risk, be healthy!" contains many workshops with the subject of physiology and anatomy of the reproductive organs, as well as HIV/AIDS and other STI prevention, contraception, teenage pregnancy, abortion, and the promotion of safe sexual behavior. Why did we choose peer education? Peer educators are young people from the same environment as the students, who recently passed through adolescence themselves, and understand the problems and way of thinking of young people, therefore, they have a better approach to the taboo issues. Also, being students of medicine, our educators are very familiar with the topic of reproductive health, and they try to pass on their knowledge in an interesting way, through workshops, games, and discussions.
Among the most significant SCORA projects is the summer camp "STOP AIDS", formed a few years ago in Yugoslavia, where it took place the first three years. Now this summer camp grew into an international summer school, and it is on the list of official IFMSA activities. The main goal of this project is to raise the level of awareness of medical students, alter their behavior, review all the prejudice connected to reproductive health, safe sexual life, AIDS and other STIs. Today the committee is involved in the promotion of educative programs concerning reproductive health, women rights and the battle against AIDS and other STIs.
The SCORA subcommittee pays special attention to the status of girls and women in our country, as well as their health needs. Through seminars and workshops we intend to inform medical students about the real position of women in our society, violence towards women, their economic status, and promote equality between the genders. We also try to find new ways to ameliorate the position of women by emphasizing on the importance of family planning, pregnancy and obstetricion, lactation, etc.
Every December 1st we take part in commemorating the World AIDS Day by organizing debates, distributing condoms and commercial material and by organizing parties. On these parties, instead of an entrance fee, we collect sweets, and items for personal hygiene, which we give to the Sixth department of the Clinic for Infective Diseases in Belgrade. Among the most recent projects and activities of the SCORA subcommittee is the week dedicated to the preservation of youth reproductive health. It was first organized in June 2001, and consisted of several lectures about STIs, Aids, hepatitis, impotency, contraception, abortion, teenage pregnancy etc.
As part of the peer education program, besides the standard activities, we also implemented a new program, which consists of individual conversation and counseling. We also made a web page dedicated to reproductive health, and we have e-mail addresses where young people can write to us concerning any aspect of reproductive health. The main characteristics of SCORA activists are the great will and enthusiasm that are also present in all YuMSIC subcommittees. The belief in positive changes that our work can bring about gives us tremendous energy to carry on with our work. SCORA is the largest committee in all the local subcommittees, and it is especially active during the WAD campaign.
     
     PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES:
Through our activities we try to influence young people to take more responsibility for their health, to show them all the possible consequences of risky behavior, refer them to one of the institutions where they could obtain advice or adequate help if they need it.

Peer education (Project "Don't Risk, Be Healthy!"). Within this project we organize peer education in schools through workshops, debates, lectures, individual conversation and counseling, and by starting a web page dedicated to reproductive health, as well as an e-mail addresses where young people can write to us concerning any aspect of reproductive health

International summer school "STOP AIDS". YuMSIC members, led by Jelena Zajeganovic, who was the international director of SCORA for two years, organized this summer school the years in a row. The third year IFMSA recognized this school as an official IFMSA event, and ever since the school "moves" from country to country each year. Annually the school gathers about a hundred young people, students of medicine and other sciences, which come in order to obtain both theoretical and practical knowledge needed for arranging and carrying out educational programs of AIDS prevention.

Commemorating the World AIDS Day. Every year on December 1st we organize lectures, debates, presentations and parties. We also give out condoms and commercial material about AIDS and other STIs.

Volunteering in AIDS Department of the Clinic for Infectious Diseases. The goal is to give psychological and social help to the patients, as well as to free medical students of the existing prejudice, so they could obtain practical knowledge.

Sweet Parties. Together with our colleagues from SCORP, and other YuMSIC members, we organize parties on which, instead of an entrance fee, we collect sweets, and items for personal hygiene, which we give to the Sixth department of the Clinic for Infective Diseases in Belgrade, and for New Year's packages for HIV positive children, children in refugee camps and abandoned children.

Reproductive health education in refugee camps. Thanks to our friends from SCORP, it was made possible for us to go to refugee camps and educate the group most in risk of obtaining STIs, refugee adolescents.

Reproductive health seminar for medical students. These seminars are created in a workshop form. Their goal is to answer all the possible questions, and to make as many medical students as possible capable of taking an active and responsible role in the society, concerning the matter of reproductive health.

The Week of Reproductive Health. This is one of our more recent programs, so we expect that the best results are yet to come. In 2001 it was organized for the first time. As planed, during the ten days it took place, many lectures and debates were organized about STIs, AIDS, hepatitis, impotency, contraception, abortion, teenage pregnancy etc. "The Week" will be organized every June.