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'Policy makers lament women’s vulnerablity to HIV infection, yet for 15 years they have failed to utilise a technology which can help women to protect and empower themselves. The female condom is the only female-initiated method which provides protection from HIV infection; it also prevents unwanted pregnancy.
Studies have shown it is acceptable to users, increases the proportion of protected sex acts, and is cost-effective when provided in addition to male condoms. Yet most women cannot ac more...
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'The original project has two components. Component (A) provides support for the national health strategy for: (i) improved quality and utilization of maternal and child health services; (ii) malaria prevention and treatment; and (iii) treatment for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmissible infections. Component (B) supports the National HIV/AIDS Strategy through a pooled fund at the National AIDS Council to: (i) improve knowledge of HIV prevention and encourage adoption of lower risk behaviors, among more...
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Pathfinder International is pleased to announce the publication of 'HIV Prevention Among Vulnerable Populations: The Pathfinder International Approach,' a publication that provides background on the risks faced by populations especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. The document outlines strategies effective in prevention of HIV/AIDS among sex workers, men who have sex with other men, and injecting drug users. Programs described include peer education, provision of comprehensive health services and qu more...
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The ethics of responsibility has been a big subject in analysing the social aspects of AIDS. The point has been made, with considerable influence, that since HIV infection is primarily contracted through voluntary acts, such as
unsafe sex, it is the individual rather than the society that should take responsibility for avoiding the disease and accepting the consequences of irresponsible actions.
This way of seeing the social ethics of AIDS would have vast implications for what an afflicted pe more...
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SAATHII Electronic Newsletter. Source: The Times of India, Kangla Online, Newstrack India,
The Telegraph India, Mangalorean.com and The Statesman. This compilation contains news items about HIV/AIDS published in the Indian media, as well as articles relevant to HIV/AIDS in India published internationally. Articles in this
and previous newsletters may also be accessed at
http://www.saathii.org/orc/elibrary
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In Uganda the government is soon coming up with a law that criminalises HIV transmission. The draft law holds that any person who knowingly infects another with HIV or carries out an action while knowing that such action will pass on the virus to another person, shall be guilty of a criminal offence. The punishment for the offence has not yet been specified but the President has said that people who knowingly infect others with HIV should be hanged on conviction. Whereas it’s heinous to delibe more...
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Men's resistance to condom use will transform moderate-risk Indonesia into a country with the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the region within a few years, the Commission on AIDS in Asia has warned. In its latest report, the commission projected that Indonesia would see the number of people living with the virus grow significantly, even exceeding those in high-risk neighbouring countries, due to its 'limited success' in implementing preventive measures. The report, presented at the 17th International more...
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