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Nearly one million people in the United States are living with HIV, and the numbers are growing each day. To help stem the spread of the disease, AED has been diffusing scientifically proven interventions across the country. The interventions target a range of individuals from those who are HIV-negative but at high risk for contracting the virus, to those who are HIV-positive. A woman plays a bongo drum during a SISTA meeting. The intervention is designed to teach African-American women about HI more...
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HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand signs on to UNIFEM’s Say NO to Violence against Women campaign at an official ceremony on 5 September 2008 to mark her designation as UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador in Thailand. HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand signs on to UNIFEM’s Say NO to Violence against Women campaign at an official ceremony on 5 September 2008 to mark her designation as UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador in Thailand.
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Supporting the active engagement of people living with HIV in the AIDS response is one of UNAIDS’ most important goals. Building on its work in this area, UNAIDS has developed a policy brief with recommendations for governments, civil society and international donors on how to increase and improve the involvement of people living with HIV in global, regional and country AIDS responses.
GIPA or the ‘Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS’ is a principle that aims to realize t more...
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People living with HIV understand each other's situation better than anyone and are often best placed to counsel one another and to represent their needs in decision- and policy-making forums. The idea that the personal experiences of people living with HIV could and should be translated into helping to shape a response to the AIDS epidemic was first voiced in 1983 at a national AIDS conference in the USA. It was formally adopted as a principle at the Paris AIDS Summit in 1994, where 42 countr more...
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2008 has been an exciting year for BEN Namibia. Since we began in May 2005 we have grown from a small NGO that distributed three bicycles in its first month, into a dynamic and rapidly expanding organisation that has implemented 5 community based bicycle shops (with 3 more on the way), developed a bicycle ambulance for emergency medical transport and delivered 50 throughout the country, conducted research into the impact of transport on access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS, traine more...
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Before she sets out to visit her client Ms. Heluda in Kisian, Yvonne prepares a bag with a towel, multivitamin tablets, over-the-counter painkiller tablets, a packet of porridge flour, liquid detergent, hand gloves and soap. Then, she takes a bicycle taxi to Kisian village, 12 km away.
On her arrival at Ms. Heluda’s home Yvonne is met by three young children who are not in school today because their mother was too sick to get up this morning and has been too weak to cook for them, she is HIV- more...
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According to latest data released by UNAIDS in its 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, the situation in the Caribbean regarding HIV remains precarious, despite a range of successes and gains. A number of Caribbean countries have experienced an apparent stabilisation in the epidemic and several, such as Haiti and the Dominican Republic, have reported declines in urban areas. However,
by the end of 2007 an estimated 20 000 [16 000 – 25 000] people were newly infected and 4 000 [11 000 – more...
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