Full Coverage: AIDS

31.05.2005 The United Nations System in Nepal, in support with its 17 implementing partners, is all set to implement its GFATM-funded-projects (Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) in six districts of Nepal.

30.05.2005 The Bush administration's new interpretation of a pair of laws would withhold HIV/AIDS funds from U.S.-based as well as foreign organizations unless they sign a pledge to oppose prostitution. Over 200 groups and individuals have written to President Bush opposing the pledge requirement, saying it will cause groups to alienate the very populations they're trying to help.

30.05.2005 In a bid to step up efforts to prevent and cure AIDS, the government is planning to introduce a legislation in Parliament to empower AIDS afflicted people to lead a life of dignity.

27.05.2005 Former US president Bill Clinton's foundation will help train 150,000 doctors along with India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to quickly spread anti-HIV/AIDS drugs to the maximum number among the country's estimated 5.1 million patients.

25.05.2005 Lors de la plénière finale, Maria Nengeh Mensah soulignait que la stigmatisation est le plus important thème qui soit ressorti des discussions qui ont eu lieu tout au long du Forum XXX. Toutes les personnes travailleuses du sexe la vivent, ce qui en fait un problème social.

24.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (OneWorld) - The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are preventing foreign aid from reaching HIV/AIDS programs in the world's poorest countries, according to an assessment appearing in a leading medical journal.

23.05.2005 Swaziland donor agencies are increasingly asking theatre groups to write and perform dramas about hot topics like HIV/AIDS and women's rights. Particularly with HIV/AIDS, donor agencies hope that by providing the message in an entertaining way, they can reach more people about the dangers and spread of the disease.

19.05.2005 A Bush administration policy, much derided by the NGO community for stigmatizing and alienating an already difficult population to reach, requires groups receiving funding from the U.S. to sign a pledge renouncing prostitution. The U.S. global AIDS coordinator Tuesday rescinded a document that would have required the same from some 3,000 groups in 128 countries that receive funding through the independent Global Fund.

18.05.2005 Check out the results from the survey that IAED and the Center for Global Development (CGD) conducted in March-April to help answer this question about the major impediments to a more effective global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.

18.05.2005 Home Office figures published yesterday showing that the rate of deportation of asylum-seekers is below the government's target may draw attention to a recent distressing ruling by the Law Lords. A rape victim now receiving anti-retroviral drugs must be deported to Uganda where such treatment is almost certainly unavailable.

17.05.2005 From children abandoned in the streets to shoeshine boys struggling to find a customer and young girls selling their bodies for food and a few pennies, the effects of the AIDS pandemic are visible everywhere in EthiopiaÂ’s capital. Five years ago, social worker Yewoinshet Masresha founded the Hope for Children organization to provide more than just food and shelter for these orphans.

16.05.2005 UN secretary general Kofi Annan draws attention of the world to the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the International Day of Families, which falls on May 15. He says that mostly it is only the family that provides a safety net to individuals in coping with AIDS and its consequences.

16.05.2005 New U.S. policy requires organizations receiving funding for anti-AIDS and trafficking programs to adopt a standpoint opposing prostitution. Many, however, fear such a stance will undermine efforts to protect the lives and health of trafficked persons and men and women in prostitution. CHANGE is asking for your help in telling President Bush that AIDS and anti-trafficking programs must be consistent with the best practices in public health.

16.05.2005 The International Organization for the Migration, IOM, started a promotional campaign against AIDS in Albania. According to the information available to IOM, the organization estimates that the disease has turned into an accute problem of the Albanian society.

12.05.2005 Interworld Radio realized an interview with Sofia, a Kenyan woman with HIV and her 18-year-old daughter Regina.
When Sofia became ill her daughter was there to help out. For Regina having a mother who is HIV positive is all she's ever known...

12.05.2005 Top officials from 84 Asian, African, and Latin American nations pledged to rescue women from poverty, disease, and war, as well as to increase women's participation in government and business. The 50-point declaration issued at a ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement countries outlines specific concerns for women in areas such as health, education, and power and decision-making.

11.05.2005 One of the by-products of the AIDS epidemic sweeping many African nations is the loss of knowledge; for example, with no one to teach them, rural children orphaned at a young age might never learn to farm. But the UN agricultural agency is now taking many of these children under its wings, teaching farming, business, and life skills to ensure another generation is not lost.

11.05.2005 A girlsÂ’ soccer tournament in Upper Guinea last month capitalized on the local soccer craze to spread messages about preventing HIV/AIDS, STDs, and unwanted pregnancy. The program proved so successful that the Ministry of Health will soon replicate it among young adults in other parts of the country.

10.05.2005 When Brijesh Dubey came face-to-face with the reality that he was infected with HIV he fought not only for survival but for a life of dignity and counseled people to tide over the trauma of being HIV positive. To know more on his journey read throughÂ….

10.05.2005 High HIV/AIDS infection rates among soldiers in national armies and peacekeeping forces have ignited debate over compulsory HIV testing in the military. In forces tasked with stabilizing communities, concerns about the potential destabilizing influence of AIDS in militaries were discussed in a conference at The Hague last week.