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Curing AIDS Policy of Greed and Dogma

Patents that allow drug companies based in the United States and Europe to control the manufacture and sale of AIDS medicines prevent countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America from providing people with cheaper, generic AIDS drugs (even though 95% of AIDS patients are in those countries). Everything we know about combating the AIDS pandemic points to the need for a synthesis of prevention and treatment strategies within a human rights framework. It's not Bono's or Oprah's job to develop and enact those strategies. Safeguarding public health and upholding human rights are the responsibility of government. (Yifat Susskind, FPIF, 1 December 2006)

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3748

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Sign the Declaration of Hope

Hope Spreads Faster than AIDS is a new campaign that allows individuals to show their support for the work of the Global Fund. Sign the Declaration of Hope, and your location and message will be added to an interactive map along with thousands of supporters from around the world. Then, show the world that hope spreads faster than AIDS by inviting your friends to join you and literally watch your hope spread across the globe.

http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/eVuMjugPnvgQmQCibulOTyqG

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South Africa ends long denial over Aids crisis

South Africa is using World Aids Day today to launch a plan that turns away from years of denial and obfuscation over the disease by President Thabo Mbeki and his health minister, which critics say have cost hundreds of thousands of lives. (Chris McGreal, Guardian, 1 December 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,,1961396,00.html

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AIDS treatment fails to reach remote lakeshore community

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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Stop Privatization of Generic AIDS Medicines in Brazil

Brazil's exemplary model for fighting AIDS in the developing world is being threatened by pricing practices of three United States pharmaceutical companies: Merck, Abbott and Bay Area-based Gilead. Ask George and Charlotte Swig Shultz to change the course of the global AIDS epidemic.

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/brazil/brazilaidsmeds.html

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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Performance and Vision

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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Tools together now!

This toolkit provides a selection of 100 Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) tools which you can use for community mobilisation and HIV/AIDS. PLA tools are interactive activities which enable communities and organisations to learn together about HIV/AIDS in their community, develop a plan, act on it and evaluate and reflect on how it went. (Aids Alliance, 2006)

http://www.aidsalliance.org/sw36326.asp

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What's To Be Done with 33,000 AIDS Orphans?

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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AIDS, poverty, and hunger: challenges and responses

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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Impacts of HIV/AIDS 2005-2025 in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor

This paper describes the outcomes of a collaborative study of the epidemiological, social and economic risks and vulnerabilities related to HIV/AIDS in the sub-region incorporating Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor. (AusAid, September 2006)

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pubout.cfm?Id=6912_3210_5427_6152_4107

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Stop the Export of U.S.-Funded Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs

'Abstinence-only' programs teach that abstaining from sex until marriage is the only effective way to prevent contracting HIV through sex. They deny young people critical information about condoms and other safer sex strategies, and promote marriage as a safeguard against HIV infection. These programs do not work, they violate kids' right to complete information about HIV/AIDS and leave young people at risk of contracting HIV in marriage, particularly women and girls. But the U.S. government is exporting them all over the world as part of President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Support Ugandan AIDS activists by adding your name to a sign-on letter to their Ministry of Health. Write to President Bush and Ambassador Randall Tobias

http://hrw.org/campaigns/aids/2005/uganda/

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Missing the Target: A Report on HIV/AIDS Treatment Access from the Frontlines

This 98-page report looks at the status of anti-retroviral treatment provision in low income countries around the world. Researched and written by treatment advocates on the frontlines in six of the countries considered to be hardest hit by AIDS - Dominican Republic, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Russia, and South Africa - the report identifies barriers to AIDS treatment and offers concrete recommendations to overcome them. (International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, November 2005)

http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?r=http://www.aidstreatmentaccess.org/itpcfinal.pdf

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We are one but we are many

Social movements have been identified as powerful forces for inclusive social change in local, national and international responses to HIV and AIDS. They have generated spaces where people can come together for mutual support and to raise awareness about an issue affecting their lives. Current thinking on HIV communication and social change focuses on promoting interpersonal dialogue and debate. This paper looks beyond debate and explore how the processes of communication motivate people to act. How do social movements influence social change? How do social movements ignite passion and commitment to action? How does dialogue generate action that contributes to social change? What is the role of communication and media in helping social movements achieve their objectives? (Panos, 2006)

http://www.panos.org.uk/PDF/reports/socialmovements.pdf

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Girl power: The impact of girls' education on HIV and sexual behaviour

There are 13,500 new HIV infections every day. One of the latest facets of this dynamic disease is the increasing feminisation of AIDS: in Africa, where the HIV and AIDS epidemic has hit hardest, 74% of young people living with HIV are women. HIV prevention campaigns often fail to address the increased vulnerability of young women because they fail to deal with the simple fact that many women lack the power to determine who to have sex with, or when and how to have sex. The new challenge is how to empower young women to assert their sexual and reproductive rights. Of the possible solutions, giving girls an education is widely recognised as the best way to provide this girl power. This report is a systematic review of all the research published between 1990 and 2006 in eastern, southern and central Africa to address the following research questions: What is the impact of girls' education on sexual behaviour and HIV? What difference does primary or secondary education make to women's vulnerability to HIV? What are some of the possible mechanisms underlying the relationship between HIV and girls' education? (James Hargreaves and Tania Boler, Action Aid, 2006)

http://www.actionaid.org.uk/doc_lib/girl_power_2006.pdf

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AIDS: Burma's Shadowy Mass Export

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)

http://www.burmanet.org/news/2006/07/06/irrawaddy-aids-burma%E2%80%99s-shadowy-mass-export-andrew-marshall/

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Circle of Hope: Children's Rights in a World with AIDS

This 50 page report highlights how despite knowing the risks and how to protect themselves, many young people simply cannot choose safe sexual behaviour because of economic, social, and cultural pressures. Millions of children throughout the world do not have the means to protect themselves against the spread of HIV infection. Childhood is the time when attitudes are formed and behavioural patterns established. For these reasons, the report argues, it is vital for children and young people to play a central role in leading the response to AIDS in their communities. (Plan, August 2006)

http://www.plan-international.org/pdfs/circle.pdf

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China: the intersections between poverty, health inequity, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

This article argues that chronic and long term underinvestment in the health sector has created a public health crisis in China today. The weakened health system intersects with poverty and gender inequity which erodes women's right to basic health services. At the same time, as family planning programmes move away from their historically coercive practices (one child per family policy), the health system is increasingly unable to maintain basic access to provide for maternal health or the new challenges to women's health posed by HIV. (Joan Kaufman, Gender and Health Equity Network, 2005)

http://www.ids.ac.uk/ghen/resources/papers/KaufmanChinaHealthSystem.pdf

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UNAIDS' Editors' Notes for authors

UNAIDS' Editors' Notes began as a short and simple aide memoire of preferred terminology for use by staff members. Over time the Notes expanded and the range of users grew. Partners as diverse as UNAIDS' Cosponsors, UN system colleagues, nongovernmental organizations, journalists, students, writers and others asked for guidance and the Notes served them well. Realizing that the Notes have (unexpectedly) become an information resource in wide demand, this latest version has been updated in consultation with UNAIDS' Cosponsors. In-house, the content has been enriched by inputs from colleagues across the Secretariat under the guidance of UNAIDS' Chief Scientific Adviser. As language shapes beliefs and may influence behaviours, considered use of appropriate language has the power to strengthen the response to AIDS. UNAIDS is now pleased to make these Notes freely available to all. (UNAIDS, May 2006)

http://data.unaids.org/pub/InformationNote/2006/EditorsNotes_en.pdf

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AIDS: questions for development (pdf)

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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International AIDS Conference 2006

The theme for this year's conference is "Time to Deliver." We've come a long way in the last few decades in our understanding, attention, and efforts regarding AIDS. But for the millions of people living with AIDS today, the millions more at risk of infection, and the health of our society and our future, the time to deliver is now. One reason for urgency is that the disease trends are heading in an alarming direction. The need to focus on women and girls and the need to intensify global HIV prevention are two major focus areas identified by UNAIDS, the United Nations' lead agency in its AIDS efforts. Both efforts require increasing access to information about reproductive health and rights-and empowering people to make informed choices about marriage, children, and potentially risky behavior.

http://www.unfoundation.org/features/2006_international_aids_conference.asp

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Prevention Now

This global campaign was launched in August 2006 to push for universal access to female condoms as part of an accelerated and comprehensive response to prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and to reduce unintended pregnancies worldwide. Known as Prevention Now!, the campaign is being led by the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), and joined by more than XX organizations, including NGOs, research organizations, and multilateral institutions concerned with human rights, sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.

http://www.preventionnow.net

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Engaging communities in youth reproductive health and HIV projects: a guide to participatory assessments (pdf)

This toolkit provides an overview of various participatory assessment processes in the area of YRH and HIV/AIDS. Examples of good practice drawn from the work of Family Health International's youth programmes are presented. These give a clear idea of the standards, safeguards and benefits for involving young people. Readers can find information on assessment preparation, team training activities, conducting an assessment, documenting its findings and verifying these results. The tooklit details each stage of the assessment process, with example activities and suggested points of discussion. (YouthNet, Family Health International, 2006)

http://www.fhi.org/NR/rdonlyres/eocd5killnf6wfdax5ncsln4cdtosrkxnnhojkhvlvexwtxnzvgk6mheepagh6qqyyyknhwo4ekubp/PLAguide.PDF

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'Interest in Combating HIV/AIS Flagging'

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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Fiji gay decision welcomed by NZAF

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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"I am not ashamed!": HIV/AIDS and human rights in the Dominican Republic and Guyana

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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