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- Putting the Me into HIV - Positive Vibes: Sharing the Learning (May 19-21 2008) new
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This event will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark and organised by IBIS, a Danish non-governmental organisation (NGO), and Positive Vibes, a communication initiative that has been piloted in Namibia by the HIV and AIDS programme of IBIS. (IBIS, 2008)
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/268462/36#
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- Fiji gay decision welcomed by NZAF
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The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is delighted at reports that the Fijiian High Commissioner has confirmed gay men will no longer be arrested for engaging in consensual sex in Fiji, saying that this is a great step forward for the human rights of gay citizens and tourists as well as HIV prevention efforts. (NZAF, Scoop, 11 July 2006)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00091.htm
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- 'Interest in Combating HIV/AIS Flagging'
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An independent commission launched in New Delhi aims to get leaders of Asia-Pacific countries to stand up and take note of the daunting challenge posed by the spread of HIV/AIDS --including increased poverty and development setbacks. (Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS News, 18 July 2006)
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34002
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- An African Solution
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In this article in the Nation Magazine, Andrew Rice looks at the rise and fall and possible rise of HIV infections in Uganda. The author examines two books which provide some insight into the sociology of the disease and responses to it.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070611/rice
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- HIV/AIDS and Very Young Children
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This is a searchable database on Young children and HIV/AIDS. The database is supported by the Bernard van Leer Foundation. It contains information that informs policy and practice within Bernard van Leer Foundation in this area, as well as other materials and online resources contributed by Exchange. In this way, it is hoped that the database will consititute a shared Resource for the International community working with and dealing with Young Children and HIV/AIDS.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/sourcesearch/bvl/
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- HIV/AIDS: What are the implications for humanitarian action? (PDF)
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(SARPN) July 2003, Paul Harvey, Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute. The impact of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is already devastating and will continue to be so for decades to come, as demonstrated by the fact that 2.4 million Africans are estimated to have died of HIV/AIDS in 2002 alone. The scale of the epidemic, and the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on livelihoods, poses a series of challenges to the international aid system. Conventional definitions of emergency and development assistance and the architecture of aid delivery may need to be re-examined. There will clearly be a need for both humanitarian aid and development assistance in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS and therefore a need for clarity in understanding where emergency relief should be situated within the wider response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. There is a growing literature on the impact of HIV/AIDS on food security. An understanding of the complex and diverse ways in which the epidemic affects livelihoods is necessary to begin to map the ways in which the epidemic is increasing underlying vulnerability and potentially contributing to emergencies such as the recent crisis in southern Africa. This report reviews this literature in Section 2 and draws on existing work to demonstrate how the impact of HIV/AIDS can be conceptualised using the sustainable livelihoods framework.
http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0000421/index.php
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- Mozambican Children Carrying the Burden of HIV and Stigma
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Availability of antiretroviral drugs is increasing life expectancy but leaving more children to deal with the psychological burdens that come with the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS in the country. (Ruth Ansah Ayisi, IPS, 1 December 2006)
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=35671
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- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Performance and Vision
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) was established very quickly in 2001 in response to a widespread perception that a rapid scale-up in financing was critical in the fight against the three diseases. While the Fund has made important progress, it faces significant challenges. The process of starting programs and disbursing funds has been slow in many countries. Certain GFATM procedures are adding to recipient burdens and fragmentation, and there are major challenges in integrating GFATM finances with existing mechanisms such as SWAps (sector-wide approaches). This paper suggests ley changes that can make GFATM stronger and more effective. (Steve Radelet, Center for Global Development, 17 February 2005)
http://www.cgdev.org/content/opinion/detail/5983/
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- What's To Be Done with 33,000 AIDS Orphans?
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33,000 girls and boys in the Dominican Republic who have lost one or both of their parents to AIDS. And another 3,000 children are living with HIV, the AIDS virus, in this country of 8.5 million. (Diógenes Pina, IPS, 14 October 2006)
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35108
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- "I am not ashamed!": HIV/AIDS and human rights in the Dominican Republic and Guyana
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This report is based on the findings of research into the connection between human rights violations and HIV/AIDS in two countries in the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic and Guyana. It shows how abuses of civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights increase people's risk of HIV infection. It also shows how those affected by HIV/AIDS are denied their human rights. AI recommends a comprehensive rights-based approaches to HIV/AIDS in all areas of prevention, treatment, care and support. One of its findings is that the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean could be combated more effectively if the U.S. removed restrictions on how its aid funding is used. (Amnesty International, 11 July 2006)
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGAMR010022006
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- 2005 Update on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Response in China [PDF]
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This report describes the current status of China's HIV/AIDS epidemic, progress made over the past year in China's HIV/AIDS response, and key challenges that need to be addressed to stop the spread of AIDS. Ministry of Health, People's Republic of China, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS & the World Health Organization, 24 January 2006.
http://data.unaids.org/Publications/External-Documents/rp_2005chinaestimation_25jan06_en.pdf
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- 2006 UN Report on the global AIDS epidemic
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This report says the 25-year effort to combat AIDS has fallen short, despite some notable achievements. Anti-AIDS efforts have varied widely from country to country and there should be a full-scale response for the next decades. It concludes: "We know with increasing certainty what disaster awaits if the response to AIDS continues to be inadequate. We also know how to strengthen that response in ways that will save millions of lives and billions of dollars. This plan is achievable, but only with strong leadership at every level of society. We know what needs to be done to stop AIDS. What we need now is the will to get it done." (UNAIDS,June 2006)
http://www.unaids.org/en/HIV_data/2006GlobalReport/default.asp
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- 25 Years of AIDS - Factsheet [pdf]
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In June 1981, scientists in the United States reported the first clinical evidence of a disease that would later become known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. Twenty five years later, the AIDS epidemic has spread to every corner of the world. Around 40 million people are today living with HIV and over 25 million have died of AIDS. But 25 years of struggle to control the epidemic have also yielded a growing list of breakthroughs. This factsheet outlines the development since 1981. (UNAIDS, 2006)
http://data.unaids.org/pub/FactSheet/2006/20060428_FS_25YearsofAIDS_en.pdf
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- 500,000 could have HIV in PNG by 2025
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More than half a million people in Papua New Guinea could be HIV-positive within 20 years unless big steps are taken to fight the country's AIDS epidemic according to this report in Australian newspaper the Age. The report cites Annmaree O'Keeffe, Australia's representative for HIV/AIDS who made the prediction at PNG's first national summit on HIV prevention in Port Moresby.
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- Access to condoms and HIV/AIDS information: a global health and human rights concern
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This briefing paper documents censorship of information, myths and restrictions on condoms in a number of countries. While condoms remain the single most effective device against sexually-transmitted HIV, they face government-imposed constraints in numerous countries worldwide. This brief outlines the United States' (US) "War on Condoms", and religious opposition. It then provides examples of country restrictions on condoms and HIV/AIDS information in India, Nigeria, Peru, Brazil and the United States. (Human Rights Watch, December 2004)
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/hivaids/condoms1204/condoms1204.pdf
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- Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment Is Fundamental, UNAIDS Says/United Nations Entrenches Human Rights Prin
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International guidelines on HIV/AIDS and human rights, in place since 1998, are being updated to strengthen the emphasis on access to treatment as fundamental to the right to health. The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights announced the revised guideline September 10 in a press release from UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva (Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State, 11 September 2002).
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- ACT UP
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ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. We advise and inform. We demonstrate. We are not silent.
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- African sex lives getting healthier-AIDS chief
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Many young Africans are losing their virginity later, having fewer sexual partners and using more condoms -- signs that the campaign against AIDS is finally hitting home, a world authority on the disease said on Thursday. (Reuters, 4 May 2006)
http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/2006/AD060792.html
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- Aids in Africa Website
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This is an online resource for current information on HIV/AIDS in Africa. The website uses visual models, such as animated maps and diagrams, to make the statistics behind the pandemic in Africa more engaging and easy to understand. It is also home to the in-progress documentary "5 Heroes of AIDS in Africa."
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- AIDS soaring 'unchecked' among youth in Central and Eastern Europe, UNICEF warns
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18 September UN News - As HIV/AIDS continues to ravage parts of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, the epidemic has developed a "young face" as it has begun to move virtually unchecked into the youth population, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warns in a new report.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4761&Cr=hiv&Cr1=aids
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- AIDS treatment fails to reach remote lakeshore community
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The challenges of achieving the Malawian government's goal of universal access to anti-AIDS treatment are nowhere more apparent than in Usisya, an isolated community on the northern shores of Lake Malawi, where treatment is not yet available. (IRIN, 16 November 2006)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/ccf2bfa3c5bb1f7fcc731454096410b6.htm
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- AIDS Vaccine Clearing House
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The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) has launched the AIDS Vaccine Clearinghouse, a comprehensive and interactive source of AIDS vaccine information on the internet. The website provides a gateway to information and a link to people and organizations interested in AIDS vaccine advocacy, research and global delivery.
http://www.aidsvaccineclearinghouse.org/
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- AIDS, poverty, and hunger: challenges and responses
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The "International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security: From Evidence to Action" in Durban, South Africa, April 2005, provided a forum for stakeholders to collectively review emerging knowledge of the interactions between AIDS and hunger and to better understand what it implies for poverty, food, and nutrition-relevant policy and programs. As highlights from the conference, the chapters in this book amply illustrate the diversity of activity and the imperative for interdisciplinary work in this new field. (International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006)
http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/books/oc50/oc50.pdf
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- AIDS: Burma's Shadowy Mass Export
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In 2005 an estimated 360,000 people in Burma were living with HIV, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. These are hardly African levels yet, but rates are increasing dramatically and Burma's generals are doing nothing to stop them. Among ethnic minorities such as the Shan, an estimated 9 percent of men are HIV-positive; so, in some areas, are a staggering 96 percent of injecting drug-users. These rates are exacerbated by public ignorance, widespread poverty, burgeoning prostitution and drug abuse, lack of medicines, and the collapse of a once-respectable healthcare system under military misrule. "You essentially have the perfect storm, the perfect set of conditions for an explosive and sustained HIV epidemic," says Chris Beyrer, director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School's Center for Public Health and Human Rights in the US, and co-author of a recent report on the spread of serious infectious diseases in Burma. (Andrew Marshall, Irrawaddy, July 2006)
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- AIDS: questions for development (pdf)
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This 4-page Policy Briefing assesses past and current efforts to understand AIDS in relation to development and to identify key policy and research gaps. The briefing considers 4 key questions. Can we go beyond the existing frameworks of understanding and tackle the underlying drivers of HIV, in order to break the cycle of transmission more effectively? How should AIDS be analysed in relation to other shocks and livelihood vulnerabilities, to understand the interactions between the virus and development over the long term? In what ways do we need to reconfigure health systems, delivery and access to meet new and future challenges presented by HIV? What are the best ways of harnessing the capacity of governments, civil society, the private sector, researchers and communities to enhance coordination, transparency and accountability in the response to HIV? (Institute for development Studies, July 2006)
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/briefs/PB32.pdf
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