tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320269242012-01-29T06:32:02.938-05:00A collaborative blog focused on HIV/AIDS and human rights.webadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13901978163098481234noreply@blogger.comBlogger941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32026924.post-15111163715816182542008-08-07T18:10:00.001-05:002008-08-07T18:12:06.090-05:00

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August 5, 2008 Mexico City – The relationship between AIDS and migration has been a focus of this AIDS conference, particularly along the border of Mexico and the United States, and especially in Tijuana.The largest city on the border, Tijuana is situated on a major migration and drug trafficking route. It has the highest number of drug users per capita in Mexico, and there is a large

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August 4, 2008MEXICO CITY – After just two days of the 2008 AIDS Conference, the sheer number of topics covered by the various sessions emphasizes the far reach of this epidemic into society, how much has been discovered in the past 25 years, and how much remains to discover.A panel entitled “Vaccines and Microbicides: Where do we go from here?” throbbed with the excitement and urgency of

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Mexico City, August 3, 2008The Global Village and the Centro Banamex hummed with excitement as the conference kicked off today. Plenty of momentum and energy had accumulated over the past few days, heightening the energy. The pre-conference satellite meetings, which included a gathering of youth coalitions, panel discussions on challenges faced by women, and a plenary focused on men who have sex

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September 27, 2007 Dr. Peter Piot Executive Director UNAIDS Secretariat 20, Avenue Appia CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Dear Mr. Piot, As China is increasingly in the global spotlight in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese government has lost no opportunity to highlight its progressive achievements, including the scaling up of its national response to HIV and

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By Joe AmonPublished in The Huffington PostJuly 26, 2007 (New York) - Watching the Presidential candidates debate, the question I'd like to ask is "how many times per page would you make your Surgeon General refer to you in her speeches?" Two weeks ago former Surgeon General Richard Carmona told a Congressional panel that he was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his

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Review by William Easterly of"The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS" by Helen Epstein...One of the classic works of journalism of the last couple of decades was Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On about the sluggish response to AIDS in the 1980s in the United States, which indicted both the Reagan administration and the leaders of the gay community. I still remember

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Advances in HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment Hinge on Respecting Human Rights(New York, July 20, 2007) – Scientists and other delegates meeting July 22-25 at the 4th International AIDS Society Conference in Sydney should focus their attention on how human rights abuses against people living with HIV undermine the impact of scientific advances against AIDS, Human Rights Watch said today.“Research is

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Check out Human Rights Watch's new Health and Human Rights webpage! "It is my aspiration that health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for; but as a human right to be fought for."—former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi AnnanPromoting and protecting health and respecting, protecting and fulfilling human rights are inextricably linked, and every country in the world is now

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by Clara Presler(New York, July 17, 2007)--It has long been believed that conflict fuels HIV infection. High incidence of human rights abuses, including sexual violence, and mass displacement have been shown to heighten the risk of HIV transmission. As UNAIDS stated in Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Conflict Settings, “Sadly, the very conditions that define a complex emergency—conflict,

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Thirteen civil society and public health organizations, including World YWCA and Rockefeller Foundation, seek global access to new HPV vaccines and screeningNAIROBI (6 July 2007) – A coalition of leaders at the World YWCA International Women’s Summit in Nairobi today announced the launch of the Global Call to Stop Cervical Cancer, a disease that kills more than a quarter of a million women each

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Burma junta faulted for rampant diseases By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations 28 June 2007BERKELEY – As Congress debates extending political and economic sanctions against Burma's military regime, a new report from the University of California, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University documents how decades of repressive rule, civil war and poor governance in the Southeast Asian country have

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by Clara Presler(New York City, June 18, 2007)--Three articles over the weekend cover a range of themes within the AIDS crisis—global aid, government sanctions, clean needle exchange—and converge in their call for increased government responsibility in the global effort to curb the epidemic.Looking towards the fiscal 2008 appropriations bill, the New York Times calculates that the G8 pledge of

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The World Bank released a report yesterday entitled The Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program 2000-2006: Results of the World Bank’s Response to a Development Crisis. Advocating locally approapriate approaches to tackling the AIDS epidemic, it says, "the mobilization of empowered 'grassroots' communities, along with delivering condoms and life-saving treatments, are beginning to slow the pace of the

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by Clara PreslerRecent developments on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)(New York City, June 12, 2007)--In 2003, President Bush introduced the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a plan that allocated $15 billion over 5 years to AIDS relief in 15 countries hardest hit by the epidemic. Last Wednesday, May 30th, Bush announced that he would reauthorize this

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Just months after 79-year-old AIDS activist Dr. Gao Yaoji was detained by Chinese officials and temporarily prohibited from traveling to the US to accept an award, the young Chinese AIDS activists Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan were arrested on Friday, May 18. Charged with "harming state security" for their work on behalf of people living with HIV/AIDS, Zeng Jinyan began a blog to document their

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May 10, 2007 in the Statesman"The Bible people come to the prisons once a month. Let the condom people come in once a month. The purpose is the same — to save lives." Last month, Texas State Representative Garnet Coleman (D-Houston) spoke these words to the House Committee on Corrections in support of his bill permitting community organizations to distribute condoms in Texas prisons.In the United

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This week Patricia Perez became the first HIV-positive woman to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. An activist from Argentina, she is the regional representative of the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Latin America (ICW Latina). Her nomination was announced in Mexico City.In the last three years, the prevalence of HIV among Latin American women has risen considerably.

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The Challenge of Global Health by Laurie Garrett, Foriegn Affairs, January/February 2007Thanks to a recent extraordinary rise in public and private giving, today more money is being directed toward the world's poor and sick than ever before. But unless these efforts start tackling public health in general instead of narrow, disease-specific problems -- and unless the brain drain from the

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Last week the United Nations, UNAIDS, and WHO launched a new report focusing on access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS in low and middle income countries. The findings were mixed: although treatment in these countries increased 54 percent over 2005, coverage in general is patchy and inadequate. And the UN's stated goal of achieving universal access by 2010 is now only 3 years

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Continued Support for Access to Contraceptives, Safe Abortion Crucial to Development(New York, April 16, 2007) – By failing to explicitly support continued access to family planning and contraception, new World Bank policies, as drafted, would undermine a key strategy in the fight against global poverty, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the bank’s board of directors.“Women’s lack of control

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"Invest in health, build a safer future", the WHO said in a new publication honoring this World Health Day, April 7th. In the face of rising temperatures and globalization, the international health organization looks to the increasing threats to health. The publication outlines its primary focus areas: Emerging diseases;Economic stability’s effect on mobility of people and goods, and

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On March 30, the Institute of Medicine released a report called, “PEPFAR Implementation: Progress and Promise” which evaluates the initiative’s progress over the last three years. The interpretations of this report have been as mixed as those of the controversial initiative itself:The New York Times focused on the IOM’s assertion that the fight against AIDS is “hampered” by certain restrictions

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“Ma’am, a father can help bathe his daughter until she is of what age?” the resident of Villa El Salvador (Lima, Peru) asked a health worker who passes by his house once or twice a week.The health worker was there to check up on his daughter, who is less than a year old and is registered in a nutrition program that is testing to see what positive affects, if any, zinc can have in early childhood

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Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and one of the hardest hit by HIV/AIDS. The adult prevalence rate is estimated at 1.5 percent. Only Belize, with a prevalence of 2.5 percent, has a higher prevalence in all of North, Central, or South America, according to UNAIDS.I would like to highlight a couple places that are hard at work to curb the epidemic and improve the lives of

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While this reflection is of the International AIDS Conference in Toronto - the tough questions it raises remain as pertinent (and largely unanswered) today as they were 6 months ago.Published on RHRealityCheck.org (http://www.rhrealitycheck.org)By Maria de BruynCreated Aug 28 2006 - 8:20amAny reflections on the XVI International Conference on AIDS are necessarily subjective, as each person

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Monday, March 19"The unthinkable has happened. Senator John McCain met a question, while sitting with reporters on his bus as it rumbled through Iowa today, that he couldn't -- or perhaps wouldn't -- answer.Did he support the distribution of taxpayer-subsidized condoms in Africa to fight the transmission of H.I.V.?What followed was a long series of awkward pauses, glances up to the ceiling and

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Just in time for International Women's Day this year, the Women Won't Wait campaign launched a timely report recognizing the intersectionality of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. "Show Us the Money: Is Violence Against Women on the HIV&AIDS Funding Agenda?" by an international coalition of human rights and health organizations, calls for changes in the policies, programming and funding

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Earlier today, Chinese officials finally granted AIDS activist Dr. Gao Yaojie permission to travel to the United States next month to accept her award from Vital Voices, reported the AP/New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-China-AIDS-Whistleblower.html).For the last week, Dr. Gao has been confined to her home in the Henan Province by Chinese officials pressuring her not to travel

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Women, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Skills Building Workshop held in Toronto August 14-17, 2006.CURRICULUM with ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY and CASE STUDY available online!Online athttp://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/women_hiv_aids/contents.htmTable of Contents1) Overview Articles2) Sex, Gender & Social Context in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic(a) Stigma, Discrimination, and Violence (b) Gender, Sexuality, and

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The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) is the only international network of HIV positive women and has 5000 members worldwide. Our vision is a world where all HIV positive women:Have a respected and meaningful involvement at all political levels, local, national, regional, and international, where decisions that affect our lives are being made;Have full access to care and

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Intensive Course in Health and Human Rights:June 18-22, 2007 Boston, Massachusetts Learn How to Incorporate a Human Rights Framework Into Your Professional ActivitiesPresented in Collaboration with:The Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights The Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Population and International HealthThis

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The Global Fund selected Michel Kazatchkine to replace Richard Feachem as its Executive Director. Kazatchkine has spent much of the last 20 years working on HIV/AIDS, both as a physician and as the leader of an AIDS research agency. Feachem's term ends on March 31, 2007.Read more about the Global Fund's selection and Professor Kazatchkine:Global FundBoston GlobeAgence Nationale de Recherches sur

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Dr. Gao Yaojie, a 79-year old Chinese doctor who has been internationally recognized for her fight against the spread of HIV, has been detained by Chinese officials since Thursday, February 1st. Dr. Gao was scheduled to arrive in the US this week to accept an award from Vital Voices. As of Feb 6, Dr. Gao has been under house arrest in Zhengzhou with no access to modes of communication.Dr. Gao

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Three finalists for the position of Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria have been announced. Richard Feachem, who has been the Executive Director since 2001, will be replaced by either Michel Kazatchkine, France's HIV/AIDS ambassador; David Nabarro, a British national now leading the United Nation's efforts to fight avian flu; or Alex Coutinho, executive

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Quarter of a Million People Urge Novartis To Drop Case Against IndiaCompany Would Effectively be Shutting Down the "Pharmacy of the Developing World"New Delhi/Geneva, 29 January 2007 – As pharmaceutical company Novartis proceeded with its legal challenge against the Indian government in a court hearing in Chennai, India, today, nearly a quarter of a million people from over 150 countries

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Thailand’s government, in a landmark decision today, approved the production of cheaper versions of two major medicines for heart disease and HIV/AIDS (Plavix and Kaletra respectively). The government took advantage of the World Trade Organization’s rules on intellectual property to declare a “national emergency”, allowing them to produce and sell already patented drugs.Health Minister Mongkol

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Lancet‘s recent editorial, “Undermining TRIPS: protectionism at its worst”, brings to light two international campaigns that will likely be of great signficance for the future of poor countries’ access to medicines. The campaigns, led by Doctors Without Borders and host of other organizations, are working to uphold the rules of Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement that

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WASHINGTON -- The next leader of a global organization that fights major infectious diseases, including AIDS, may come from a group that includes the former health minister of Mexico, France's AIDS ambassador, the former leader of UNICEF, and several leaders of the World Health Organization, according to a list of names obtained by the Globe.The board overseeing the organization, Global Fund to

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Afghanistan has a booming opium trade, which has increased seven-fold since 2002 and supplies an estimated 90 percent of the world's illegal heroin. Much of this goes to (or through) nearby Pakistan where injecting drug use is a main concern and HIV prevalence is rising. Recently, Pakistan's Health Minister expressed frustration at the Afghan government for not moving more effectively towards

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A recent New York Times editorial on the ineffectiveness of Phillip Morris’ anti-smoking ads bears more than a little resemblance to current debates about abstinence-only education for teenagers.We’ve all seen the Phillip Morris ads saying, “Think, Don’t Smoke” and recent ads target parents, telling them to warn their children against smoking. In short, “just say no”.A recent research study

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The Boston Globe reported yesterday on some important questions that Democrats are asking about President Bush’s faith-based initiatives:Have current faith-based initiatives violated the separation of church and state?Did the Bush administration really give 98.3 percent of the faith-based foreign-aid money to Christian groups? How does this affect, among other things, our foreign relations?What

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Governments Must Respect Rights to Advance AIDS Fight(New York, November 29, 2006) – Twenty-five years after AIDS was first identified, programs to fight the disease continue to be undermined by conservative ideologies and moralistic approaches, Human Rights Watch said ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. “The most effective approaches for preventing HIV/AIDS are not being used,” said Joe Amon,

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On November 24th, Dr. Wan Yanhai, an advocate for AIDS patients in China and founder of the AIZHIXING Institute, was taken in for questioning by the Beijing police and detained for 48 hours. His detention forced the cancellation of a planned workshop, “Blood, Safety, AIDS, and Legal Human Rights”, which planned to focus on the rights of people infected with HIV/AIDS through blood transfusions.

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UNAIDS and the WHO released the yearly report on HIV and AIDS. The 94-page report, "AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2006", estimates that 4.3 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide this year and that about 2.9 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses.

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Blogging, social networking and activism

sokarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05467628832177271695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32026924.post-1163809389739076862006-11-17T19:15:00.000-05:002006-11-17T21:00:19.850-05:00

An anonymous AIDS Combat Zone reader leads us to AIDS: Remember me?, a site put up by the European Commission to encourage dialogue about HIV/AIDS. It's being done in conjunction with an event in Brussels, Belgium on the eve of World AIDS Day to screen new HIV commercials and select a favorite. Other areas of the site to check out include a contest encouraging you to write your own HIV/AIDS 60

Bradnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32026924.post-1163428988477359292006-11-13T09:41:00.000-05:002006-12-11T12:44:00.197-05:00

To the Editor:In "China's Muslims Awake to Nexus of Needles and AIDS", Howard French shows one bright spot in China's war against the AIDS epidemic: in Xinjiang, authorities are beginning to offer methadone to drug users.However, the article does not show an uglier piece of the picture. Every year, authorities around the country also forcibly detain thousands of drug users in prisons, "treatment

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Online Course – Introduction to Human Rightshttp://rightstraining.fahamu.org/ocw/Courses_listingFahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other’s differences, and realise their full potential. Fahamu supports human rights and social justice in Africa by:• Supporting social

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Dr. Margaret Chan was nominated for the position of WHO Director-General. The World Health Assembly will meet on Thursday, November 9th to review the nomination. More on the WHO website. The news release is pasted below: Dr Margaret Chan nominated to be WHO Director-General8 NOVEMBER 2006 GENEVA -- Dr Margaret Chan of China was nominated today by the Executive Board of the World Health

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PEPFAR Watch has posted the answers to the questionaire put forward by civil society partners to the candidates for Director-General of the WHO. Read what several candidates said about critical issues such as HIV/AIDS, TB, and sexual and reproductive health.Yesterday, the Executive Board of the WHO announced in a news release that the short-listed candidates are: Ms. Elena Salgado Méndez, Dr.

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USA today reports that the federal government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs because unmarried women in the 20-29 year age group are having children. But really, why stop at 29? I bet there are 30 year old women, even perhaps 35 and 40 year old unmarried women having sex, and having babies too.I don't know if it was taken out of context, but

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There have been important recent developments in the Drug Enforcement Administration regarding their policies on opium-based prescription drugs such as OxyContin. Before September, strict regulation by the Drug Enforcement Administration required physicians to limit prescriptions to a 30-day supply. Physicians who exceeded the required amount have faced investigation, arrest, and persecution as "

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These questions were proposed to all WHO Director Nominees. Stay tuned--we will post their responses as they come. 1. Global commitments have been made to universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support. For example, the African Union (AU) Common Position commits to doing everything possible to achieve 80% coverage of adults and children in need of antiretroviral treatment (

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In recent letters to Secretary Michael Leavitt (Health and Human Services) and Comptroller General David Walker (Government Accountability Office), Senator Kennedy and Representative Waxman remind the Administration of its obligations under the Trade Act of 2002. Under this act, the U.S. is obligated by law to respect the commitments made under the TRIPS and Public Health, commonly known as the '

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The ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy) has a blog called “Pushing Back” which recently featured an interview with Dr. David Murray, an ONDCP policy analyst and “expert” on needle exchange. The blog entry was entitled “What’s Wrong with Needle Exchange Programs?”In the interview Dr. Murray claims that recent research about the programs’ effectiveness in lowering HIV infection has been

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Human Rights Watch mourns the death of its Nigerian colleague Omololu Falobi, 35, a multiple-awards winning journalist and human rights activist. Falobi died unexpectedly on October 5th, leaving behind his wife and two young children. Human Rights Watch spoke with Falobi in July 2006 about his work and his hopes for the impact of journalism on the AIDS epidemic. Falobi was the founder/executive

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The Institute of Medicine recently published Preventing HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users in High Risk Countries: An Assessment of the Evidence (2006), highlighting research that found that access to sterile injecting equipment and opiate substitution treatment effectively reduces the spread of HIV among injecting drug users (IDUs). Outside Africa, UNAIDS estimates that nearly one in three

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The Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project has started a monthly bulletin focusing on AIDS in jails and prisons. Each issue will outline a case-study of an advocacy campaign. The first issue, published in June 2006, focuses on the movement around AB1677 which advocated for the distribution of condoms in California prisons (this bill was, unfortunately, vetoed over the weekend).Check it out at:

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There are many factors contributing to the ‘brain drain’, or the loss of skilled professionals from developing countries. AIDS adds another layer to this: Lancet in August 2006 wrote that, alarmingly, “Death is depleting the ranks of health professionals more rapidly than recruitment abroad”. Lancet cites studies from the Joint Learning Initiative and the WHO showing that the median age at death

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From time to time we’ll include issues related to health and human rights that go beyond HIV/AIDS.In an upcoming issue of the British medical journal Lancet are a couple of articles which advocate for increasingly focused approaches to the problem of maternal mortality.In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals proposed to reduce maternal mortality by two-thirds by 2015. An article in this week’s

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Nicholas Kristof searches for the roots of HIV [Op-Ed, “The Deep Roots of AIDS”, September 19] and finds them in poverty and gender inequality. He tells the story of a man in Cameroon who falls ill and eventually dies of AIDS. The family, unable to gather the funds to pay for consistent treatment, is now destitute: the man’s wife is alone and disenfranchised, his daughters have dropped out of

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Over the last 3 decades, the growth and diversification of New York City’s immigrant population has mirrored the growth in the HIV epidemic.Michele Shedlin and her colleagues in a recent study examined this concurrence, locating a gap in public health research. They state:Because the HIV pandemic undergoes continual change in its locations and affected populations, it is crucial to study HIV risk

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Progress in New JerseyNew Jersey has long prohibited the distribution of hypodermic needles in government-sanctioned programs and is the only state in the union still to do so. Now, 4 in 10 cases of HIV infections in New Jersey result from injecting drug use with contaminated needles. 14 years after the legislation was first introduced, lawmakers are reviewing a bill that finally appears to have

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In the response to AIDS we need to keep reminding ourselves that it’s not all about individual behaviors.For example, an AIDS and Behavior article from September 2005 targets housing as a promising structural intervention to reduce the spread of AIDS. The first study of its kind, it collaborated with a national, multi-site evaluation of HIV/AIDS service delivery projects that focused on providing

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South Africa has the highest number of people living with HIV in Africa, and rivals only India for the most in the world.Activists have long pushed for – and had great success – demanding greater access for everyone to antiretroviral drugs in South Africa. But the question is still sometimes raised – how can a scarce resource (antiretroviral drugs) be ethically and most effectively distributed?As

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The HIV/AIDS Program at Human Rights Watch would like to draw attention to a recent addition to the website: over a dozen stories from courageous individuals intimately involved in the fight against AIDS. Human Rights Watch collaborated with Making Contact to produce a 30 minute program featuring the voices of AIDS activists rarely heard in the mainstream media. All this is available at Human

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Gareth Williams, a leading AIDS activist and voice for the rights of sexual minorities in Jamaica and the English-speaking Caribbean, is the recipient of the 2006 International Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. Stella, a Montréal-based support and information group organized by and for sex workers, is the recipient of the Canadian Award. Both are presented by the Canadian HIV/AIDS

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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention revised their recommendations on September 22 regarding HIV testing. Now, the CDC urges that all teenagers and most adults receive HIV tests as part of routine medical care. Further, it advocates dropping previous guidelines of pre-test counseling and signed consent forms.This proposal prioritizes expansive testing over efforts to inform people about

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The Journal of Urban Health recently put together a series entitled “HIV Perspectives after 25 years”. The articles in the issue include: immigration and HIV in New York Cityintegration of HIV prevention activities into the medical care settingconceptual articles about structural interventionthe importance of funding prevention as well as vaccine research the devastating effect of HIV/AIDS on

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The HIV/AIDS curriculum of public schools in New York State and New York City has been the subject of important debate for much of the 25 years since the start of the AIDS epidemic – and each twist and turn of the debate has reflected wider debates occurring about AIDS. Since 1987, the New York State Education Commissioner Regulations have required that every board of education in the state

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The debates around HIV testing often focus on the false dichotomy between Voluntary Counseling and Testing (dismissed as the old “failed” approach, despite never having been adequately funded, and working remarkably well in many places with lots of interest but still small overall percentages of populations being tested) and Routine Provider Initiated Counseling and Testing (where patients can,

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The XVI International AIDS Conference - attended by more than 24,000 scientists, activists and government officials from 180 countries - ended Friday August 18 with demands for national governments and the international community to mobilize the political will critically needed for progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Over seven days conference speakers exposed the complex mosaic of epidemics

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Yesterday we asked people how they are feeling about the XVI AIDS Conference, what they will take away from it, and if they think the most important issues are being tackled.Here are some of their responses:“People are talking more on prevention and microbicides and new results studies, but they have to think about positive people also, is their a response ready for preventing this HIV infection,

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I came to the 2006 International AIDS Conference wearing many hats. In addition to writing for three online publications (this one, Time To Deliver, and AIDS Combat Zone) I'm also a CHAMP activist, an SGAC member, a USF Global Health student, a Peace Corps nominee, and a concerned global citizen. The driving force behind my participation in these causes has long been my concern over the impact of

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Activists from around the world are gearing up for creative actions throughout the rest of the conference aimed at pushing world leaders to deliver on promises now. On Tuesday AIDS activists staged at least three protests throughout the convention center bringing attention to pharmaceutical companies and the vital importance of generic drugs. Honoring India's Independence Day, activists marched

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Stephen Lewis, U.N. Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS to Africa, issued a call Tuesday at the close of his remarks on nutrition, for activists to take on all international institutions simultaneously with raucous, tenacious and well-crafted demands for global justice. Speaking on a panel entitled "Food and Nutrition in Care and Treatment Programs in Developing Countries" Lewis and fellow luminary Dr.

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Masias Cowper who’s been HIV positive for 13 years discusses her status and the problems of disclosure that continue to exist and the forming of new relationships. She talks about disclosing her status to her family which she describes as "the worst thing ever". It took her 6 months and when she did disclose to her partner the reaction was violent and negative even though it was he who was the

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Harm reduction - a set of practical strategies that reduce negative consequences of drug use - is finally getting the attention it deserves at this year's International AIDS Conference. Eastern European and Central Asian Harm Reduction and Injection Drug User (IDU) advocates took center stage yesterday with more than 10 session being held on topics ranging from HIV/Hepatitis C to related human

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Anand Grover, the co-founder of the Mumbai Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit, delivered a speech on the second day of the conference titled "Human rights and Social Vulnerabilities," in which he expressed concern about the availability of inexpensive generic drugs in five to ten years with India's agreement to comply with the Agreement on Trade -Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (

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Human Rights Watch and Making Contact collaborated on a radio show - “25 years of AIDS, Global Voices”, which presents the voices of activists and people living with HIV/AIDS from South Africa, India, Ukraine, Uganda, Nigeria, US, and more. The show will air on more than 200 radio stations in the US, Canada, South Africa and Ireland.To have truly effective AIDS programs that respond to the needs

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Here are a bunch of the events today and tomorrow on sexual rights to give you a flavor of one part of the conference schedule. You can see, it's quite a list!Women’s and Girls’ Rally and MarchMonday, August 14, 7:00 AMSexual Rights and HIV/AIDS: Activists working together to impact shifting policies on sexual and reproductive freedom and safetyMonday, August 14, 12:30 PM-2:00 PMSex workers are

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I wish I could report that all has gone smoothly in preparation for the IAC, but I can not. Several of my friends and I were among the press delegates who were stuck in line for upwards of 4 hours while trying to register. Fortunately that ordeal ended and we managed to obtain our press passes and conference materials. Despite the initial roadbumps, my praise goes out to the International AIDS

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Hope you are all watching the news coverage of the conference.Bill Gates opened the meeting last night in the Rodgers Stadium with a talk on empowering women and blasting abstinence-only approaches supported by the US.Here's an excerpt from Canada's National Post: In a swipe at controversial U.S. AIDS-funding policies that encourage abstinence and discourage drug use and prostitution, they said

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My presentation in the panel "Hot Topics in Human Rights and AIDS" is at 10:45 this morning. Stay tuned and I'll post excerpts from my talk and blog about the response. I'm sure we'll get a big crowd. Of course in the hall next to mine, Bill Gates and Bill Clinton will be talking, so I'm sure some of the people who would have wanted to get into my room may have to go over there.Joe Amon

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Youth conference attendees kicked off the first day of the 2006 International AIDS Conference with a morning session entitled "From Rhetoric to Action: Defining a Stronger Role for Youth in National and International Policies. Youth leaders – many of whom had participated in the 3-day Youth Pre-Conference – called on world leaders to address the impact of HIV/AIDS on youth and to support an

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Next week’s conference coincides with two important dates in the history of the epidemic -- the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first reported case of AIDS, as well as ten years since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The theme of this year’s conference – “Time to Deliver” – highlights the sad fact that the advances made in HIV treatment and prevention have yet

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According to Time magazine "More Americans are living with HIV into middle age and beyond, but they are often ignored by doctors and society. Six people share their stories about surviving with HIV". They have put together very interesting photoessay titled as The Graying of AIDS .

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The UK Guardian recently reported that the city of Washington DC is planning to test every resident between the ages of 14 and 84 for HIV. The campaign called "Come Together DC, Get Screened for HIV" will be able to report on a person's HIV status within 20 minutes using the "saliva" based test. It is hoped that by December 31st all DC residents will know their HIV status. According to the

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At the Toronto conference, the Caucus for Evidence-Based Prevention will promote HIV prevention efforts supported by sound science, report on HIV prevention-related proceedings to a wide audience, and alert the community when ideology, prejudice, or opinion interfere with evidenced-based approaches to reducing the further spread of HIV/AIDS.Advocates.com also posted information describing plans

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As in most of Africa, HIV in Nigeria is feminized. 58% of those with HIV are women. In addition the numbers of girls and women contracting HIV continues to increase. Therefore an essential aspect of any HIV/AIDS policy needs to address this reality.Nigeria's "Journalists Against Aids" (JAAIDS) recently published an article on traditional forms of female contraception and hygiene –the use of Lime

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XVI International AIDS Conference to be held in Toronto during August 13-18, 2006 will afford the world’s leaders in the fight against the scourge of HIV/AIDS a landmark opportunity to infuse new energy and ideas into global solutions for a global problem. In addition to the extensive coverage of the conference by mainstream media, we think it is important that the perspective of bloggers be

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