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Thailand's lessons to help local HIV/AIDS responses

Posted: ?Thursday, September 26, 2002
25 September 2002. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.

A delegation of community-based organisations from Thailand and Cambodia recently visited four African countries on a learning exchange programme to look at the greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs) and the role of religious bodies in local responses to the pandemic.


TAC calls for comprehensive treatment and prevention plan

Posted: ?Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Zackie Achmat, Treatment Action Campaign, 26 Sept 2002Reposted courtesy of AF-AIDS ([email protected])

New research demonstrates the enormous social and economic costs our country will face if government does not lead civil society and the private sector in the use of anti-retroviral therapy. The Treatment Action Campaign's call for a national treatment plan by government with clear budgets and time-frames is the only chance this government has to avoid a social catastrophe.


Star athlete joins fight against HIV/AIDS

Posted: ?Thursday, October 10, 2002
09 October 2002. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.

Ethiopia's Olympic gold medallist Haile Gebreselassie on Wednesday urged young Ethiopians to fight the scourge of HIV/AIDS.


Anti-HIV/AIDS communications strategy under consideration

Posted: ?Wednesday, October 16, 2002
15 October 2002. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.

Media experts and other specialists from across the Central African Republic began a three-day workshop on Monday to map out a national strategy for communicating HIV/AIDS-prevention messages.


MRC AIDS FORUM - CINDI Network Presentatation

Posted: ?Friday, October 25, 2002
Judith King.HIVAN Media team

The guest Speaker at the MRC's March 2002 AIDS Forum was Yvonne Spain, Co-ordinator of the CINDI Network. Formed in 1996, Children in Distress (CINDI) is a network of 68 organisations in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands concerned about the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in the region, and seeking to respond effectively to the growing numbers of children affected by HIV/AIDS in Pietermaritzburg and its surrounds.


SCIENCE AND SPIRIT: Uniting in the struggle against HIV/AIDS

Posted: ?Thursday, October 31, 2002
Judith KingHIVAN Media Office

The first of a series of seminars convened to forge firm links between KwaZulu-Natal's religious leaders and HIV/AIDS medical researchers in response to the epidemic was held at Durban's Jewish Club this week. Co-hosted by HIVAN (Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking) from Natal University and the Interfaith AIDS Forum of the World Council of Religion and Peace (WCRP), the seminar focused discussion on the ethics of AIDS vaccine trials and prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV.


Architecture For Humanity

Posted: ?Friday, November 01, 2002
01 November 2002. Adapted by the HIVAN Media Team.

Architecture For Humanity is a volunteer, non profit organisation established to promote architecture and design with the specific aim of seeking solutions to global social and humanitarian crises.


HIV/AIDS - the price our children pay

Posted: ?Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Judith King. HIVAN Media teamChildrenFIRST Oct/Nov 2002, Vol.6 No 45

In recognition of 6 November being International Children's Day, we have republished, with kind permission, three items featured in the October/November 2002 edition of ChildrenFIRST Journal (Vol 6 No. 45), each with a specific focus on children and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.


Stop talking and act on HIV/AIDS, urges Mandela

Posted: ?Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Lynne Altenroxel.The Star. 04 December 2002. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.

"Don't just talk about HIV/AIDS - do something about it." With these words, Nelson Mandela on 3rd December called on all South Africans to take action to fight HIV/AIDS, rather than merely discuss the pandemic.


Unified bid to step up AIDS treatment

Posted: ?Friday, December 06, 2002
Liz Clarke.Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (pty) Ltd

The government faces its biggest challenge yet as South Africa's powerful lobby of health-care providers joins forces with AIDS activists to thrash out a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan for the country, including a roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs.


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