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Who is really affected by laws criminalizing HIV transmission?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: AIDS and Rights - August 7, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Beyond Barriers: Disability and HIV/AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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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
Source: AIDS and Rights - August 6, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

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August 4, 2008 MEXICO 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
Source: AIDS and Rights - August 5, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

HRW at the International AIDS Conference, Mexico CityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mexico City, August 3, 2008 The 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
Source: AIDS and Rights - August 3, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Letter to Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - October 3, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

The Bush Policy on AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
By Joe Amon Published in The Huffington Post July 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
Source: AIDS and Rights - August 6, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

How, and How Not, to Stop AIDS in AfricaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - July 23, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Sydney AIDS Conference: Scientific Advances Undercut by Rights AbusesAdvances in HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment Hinge on Respecting Human RightsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - July 20, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

HRW: Health and Human RightsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 Annan Promoting and protecting health and respecting, protecting and fulfilling human rights are inextricably linked, and every country in the world is
Source: AIDS and Rights - July 18, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

HIV infection in conflict settingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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, social instability, poverty and
Source: AIDS and Rights - July 18, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Civil Society Leaders Announce New Global Call to Stop Cervical CancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Thirteen civil society and public health organizations, including World YWCA and Rockefeller Foundation, seek global access to new HPV vaccines and screening NAIROBI (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
Source: AIDS and Rights - July 11, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

New Report from UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins: "The Gathering Storm"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Burma junta faulted for rampant diseases By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations 28 June 2007 BERKELEY – 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
Source: AIDS and Rights - June 29, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Op-ed TrifectaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 $60 billion is actually a “retreat from previous
Source: AIDS and Rights - June 18, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

World Bank: Not one approach, but manyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - June 15, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

The Basics on PEPFAREmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Recent developments on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) 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 spending and boost the amount to $30 billion
Source: AIDS and Rights - June 12, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

China: Activist Couple Accused of Endangering State SecurityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - May 22, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Curb HIV infection rates in Texas prisonsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - May 15, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Woman AIDS activist nominated for Nobel Peace PrizeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - May 14, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Debate: Global Public HealthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Challenge of Global Health by Laurie Garrett, Foriegn Affairs, January/February 2007 Thanks 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
Source: AIDS and Rights - May 7, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Towards Universal Access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sectorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 away.
Source: AIDS and Rights - April 24, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

World Bank: New Policies Backslide on Family PlanningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - April 18, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

"Salud" the movie playing in New York on April 19thEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: AIDS and Rights - April 16, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

WHO speaks out on health security on World Health DayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
"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
Source: AIDS and Rights - April 9, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

“Shackles” or “budget allocations”?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - April 3, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Hard sellsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
“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
Source: AIDS and Rights - March 29, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Jen Nagle Source Type: blogs

HIV/AIDS in HondurasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - March 27, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

HIV Testing and Reproductive Choice – How Did The Rights-Based Approach Play Out?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 Bruyn Created Aug 28 2006 - 8:20am Any reflections on the XVI International Conference on AIDS are necessarily subjective, as each person
Source: AIDS and Rights - March 21, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Tyler Crone Source Type: blogs

McCain Stumbles on H.I.V. PreventionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - March 21, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

International Women's DayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - March 8, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Update: Dr. Gao will travelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - February 16, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Women, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Skills Building W...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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.htm Table of Contents 1) Overview Articles 2) Sex, Gender & Social Context in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (a) Stigma, Discrimination, and Violence (b) Gender,
Source: AIDS and Rights - February 16, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Tyler Crone Source Type: blogs

ICW: Reproductive Rights and WrongsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - February 16, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Tyler Crone Source Type: blogs

Intensive course in Health and Human RightsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Intensive Course in Health and Human Rights: June 18-22, 2007 Boston, Massachusetts Learn How to Incorporate a Human Rights Framework Into Your Professional Activities Presented 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 Health
Source: AIDS and Rights - February 13, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Update: Global Fund names Executive DirectorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 Fund Boston Globe Agence Nationale de Recherches
Source: AIDS and Rights - February 9, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

AIDS doctor detained by Chinese officialsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - February 6, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Update: Global Fund Executive DirectorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - January 31, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Update: Médecins Sans Frontières to NovartisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Quarter of a Million People Urge Novartis To Drop Case Against India Company 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
Source: AIDS and Rights - January 30, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Update: Thailand to allow generic versions of Plavix and KaletraEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - January 29, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Access to essential medicinesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - January 26, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Boston Globe: Global Health Organization prepares to name leaderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - January 12, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

The two sides of opiumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - December 15, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Signs of a new Congress: Questioning the roots of US HIV/AIDS policyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - December 5, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

New York Times: Needles, AIDS, ChinaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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, "
Source: AIDS and Rights - November 13, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Questions from Civil Society to All Nominees for WHO Director GeneralEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - October 24, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Kennedy and Waxman urge U.S. to promote access to healthcare in its trade practicesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - October 19, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Alert to CHAMP’s new monthly bulletinEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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:
Source: AIDS and Rights - October 4, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Report from New York City: the immigrant experience and HIV/AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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
Source: AIDS and Rights - October 2, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

South Africa: Allocation of resourcesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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?
Source: AIDS and Rights - September 28, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs

Uganda: Another approach to testingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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,
Source: AIDS and Rights - September 27, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: webadmin Source Type: blogs