Full Coverage: AIDS
December 2004
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The aim of this Topic Guide is to identify the key issues relating to HIV/AIDS in the context of the Millennium Development Goals and other global commitments.
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30.12.2004
Poverty and HIV/AIDS are the biggest challenges to Namibia meeting the Millennium Development Goals, Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab has stated. Although the country suffers the 7th highest infection rate in the world, development aid is dropping, due in part to Namibia's classification as a middle-income country. The country has islands of wealth in a sea of poverty.
Story linkFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Namibia] [Development] [Aid] [AIDS] |
29.12.2004
To mark this year’s World AIDS Day, Unicef and Internews organized a five-day training program to impart specialized skills on reporting HIV/AIDS to journalists from the Tamil language press in India. The training focused on risky behavior, stigma, discrimination and other HIV-related topics that affect young people.
Story linkFrom: Internews Network, Inc. Related topics/regions: [India] [Capacity building] [AIDS] |
23.12.2004
The Levi Strauss Foundation and Levi Strauss & Co. has awarded $50,000 over one year to CEDPA to provide women's leadership training and technical assistance to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) implementing HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support activities.
Story linkFrom: Centre for Development and Population Activities Related topics/regions: [AIDS] |
23.12.2004
More than 100 creative and programming directors from 35 media companies, leading media figures and NGOs from around the world met at the UN to exchange ideas on how to incorporate HIV/AIDS messages into programming.
Story linkFrom: kaisernetwork.org (Kaiser Family Foundation) Related topics/regions: [AIDS] |
22.12.2004
A new research says that the AIDS virus spreads surprisingly fast after oral exposure - either through breastfeeding or semen - and may result in a greater number of infections than previously believed.
Story linkFrom: Global Health Council Related topics/regions: [Health] [AIDS] |
21.12.2004
This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and strategies to reverse it cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered. Noting that half of all people infected with HIV are women, the report documents the devastating and often invisible impact of AIDS on women and girls and highlights the ways discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence help fuel the epidemic.
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From: Suomen UNIFEM - Finlands UNIFEM ry Related topics/regions: [Health] [AIDS] [Gender] |
21.12.2004
CARE USA is asking people to email President Bush and urge him to support full funding for the global fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in 2006 in order to help treat those affected by HIV/AIDS and prevent additional people from becoming infected.
Story linkFrom: CARE USA Related topics/regions: [AIDS] |
20.12.2004
It is estimated that one-quarter of the approximately 900,000 HIV-positive people living in the United States are unaware of their status. New tests that deliver results in 20 minutes are being used around the country, with hopes of reaching more people at risk.
Story linkFrom: kaisernetwork.org (Kaiser Family Foundation) Related topics/regions: [United States] [AIDS] [Science] |
17.12.2004
Punaisen Ristin ruokajakelut auttavat Swazimaassa köyhien kyläyhteisöjen kovaosaisimpia. Monissa perheissä oma ruoan tuotanto on romahtanut hi-viruksen tai aidsin takia. Swazimaan aidstilastot ovat maailman synkimpiä. Punaisen ristin jäsenlehti kertoo Swazimaan pohjoisosassa asuvan Gumedzen perheen tarinan.
Story linkFrom: Punainen Risti Related topics/regions: [Swaziland] [Aid] [AIDS] |
17.12.2004
Gabon's taxi drivers have been enlisted in the campaign to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS.
Story linkFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Gabon] [AIDS] Image: Libreville taxi © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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17.12.2004
With its population over a billion, India is considered one of the next global "hot spots" for the AIDS epidemic. Journalists in the city of Chennai have been learning how to reach young people with key messages about the disease.
Story linkFrom: Internews Network, Inc. Related topics/regions: [India] [AIDS] [Communication] [Media] Image: Internews Technical Health Advisor Dr. Jaya Shreedhar is interviewed for a local TV news program © Internews Network, Inc.
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16.12.2004
Involving people living with HIV and AIDS is critical to the success of prevention programs. Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV is best accomplished by integrating programs into existing sites and services to form a "one-stop-shop" for women. HIV prevention and care must be linked. These are just some of the many lessons AED is sharing from its domestic and international AIDS programs.
Story linkFrom: Academy for Educational Development Related topics/regions: [AIDS] [Civil society] |
15.12.2004
Stigma and discrimination linked to HIV/AIDS leads to children being denied their right to education, says Mr. Sheldon Shaeffer, Director of Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education.
Story linkRelated topics/regions: [Asia and the Pacific] [Children] [Education] [Health] [AIDS] |
15.12.2004
Maailman johtavat julkisen terveyden asiantuntijat ovat koonneet vetoomuksen kansainvälisille avunantajille kehitysmaiden aids-potilaiden ilmaisen hoidon puolesta. Maailman 5,5 miljoonasta hiv-positiivisesta vain 440,000 saa lääkitystä sairauteen. Lääkkeiden hinnat ovat tosin viime aikoina laskeneet, mutta kaikkein köyhimmät avun tarvitsijat putoavat hoidon piiristä potilasmaksujen vuoksi.
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15.12.2004
The World Health Organization has launched a campaign to ensure three million people in poor countries have access to life-saving AIDS drugs by the end of next year. A coalition including many prominent public health experts is doing them one better, calling for the drugs to be provided free of charge to all patients in developing countries. The "Free by Five" Declaration has caught fire and is being presented to the major donor groups this week.
Story linkFrom: Médecins sans frontières Related topics/regions: [AIDS] [Disease] [Activism] Image: The cost of meds © National Union of Public and General Employees
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14.12.2004
Early marriages and premature childbirth that attacks more than a million girls worldwide makes them most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and other health complications, says a Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report.
Story linkFrom: International Planned Parenthood Federation Related topics/regions: [AIDS] [Gender] Image: Child brides in India © United Nations Children's Fund
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13.12.2004
Un’alleanza di esperti rinomati, istituzioni e ONG ha presentato la dichiarazione “Free by five” alla Banca Mondiale, all’OMS, all’Unaids e molti altri enti interessati alla lotta all’HIV. La dichiarazione sottolinea il fatto che i farmaci e tutti gli strumenti diagnostici e assistenziali necessari per i sieropositivi devono essere accessibili gratuitamente a tutti i pazienti nei Paesi in via di sviluppo. La dichiarazione “Free by Five” fa eco al Piano “Three by five” lanciato un anno fa dall’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS) con l’obiettivo di somministrare i farmaci antiretrovirali (ARV) contro l’Aids a 3 milioni di malati entro il 2005.
Story linkFrom: MSF - Medici Senza Frontiere Related topics/regions: [Corporations] [AIDS] [Disease] |
13.12.2004
South African Professor Alan Whiteside is one of the pre-eminent experts on the AIDS epidemic worldwide, having written numerous books on the subject, edited a popular newsletter for over a decade, and been named by Kofi Annan to the Commission for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa. He has conducted trainings in Africa, Asia, and the Ukraine. Read the interview with him and pose your own follow-up questions by December 22.
Story linkFrom: International AIDS Economics Network Related topics/regions: [South Africa] [AIDS] |
13.12.2004
Two non-governmental organisations in Pakistan are training clerics and students of madrassahs in a bid to bring AIDS awareness and lift the stigma of the disease.
Story linkFrom: Christian Science Monitor Related topics/regions: [Pakistan] [Health] [AIDS] Image: Knowledge is the cure
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13.12.2004
Trade unions have a vital role in combating HIV/AIDS at the workplace. In agreement with this role, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released a new resource manual on HIV/AIDS for trade union representatives in the Indian capital - New Delhi.
Story linkFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [India] [South Asia] [Business] [Trade] [AIDS] |
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