AIDSCAREWATCH Monitor
Issue 19 october 2006
From the Campaign Trail
Universal Access: Meeting notes from the Asia-Pacific regional civil society consultation
ACW Campaign, October 2006
As many of you are aware, each country has been asked to develop a national strategic plan, targets, and operational plans for scaling up towards universal access to HIV prevention, care, treatment and support services by 2010. This process is currently underway and countries are expected to have finalised plans and targets by December 2006.
As part of this process in the Asia-Pacific region, UNAIDS organized [the second] civil society consultation on 25 August 2006 to discuss civil society involvement in the universal access process and to identify a set of recommendations on key targets for the region. To read the notes from this meeting please click here.
As part of this process in the Asia-Pacific region, UNAIDS organized [the second] civil society consultation on 25 August 2006 to discuss civil society involvement in the universal access process and to identify a set of recommendations on key targets for the region. To read the notes from this meeting please click here.
Feature Story
South Africa - The world’s biggest ARV Programme?by IRIN Plus News, September 14, 2006
South Africa: To be HIV positive and living in South Africa is to be part of a national lottery that puts your current chances of accessing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at about 25 percent. If you cannot afford private healthcare, make that just under 20 percent. Aside from your income bracket, the next best indicator of whether you will get your hands on those vital drugs is the province and the district in which you live. more...
Frontline
Psychosocial support for children affected by AIDS
by HDN Key Correspondent, Thailand, September 2006
Thailand- Although medical treatment is clearly essential for children affected by HIV, ensuring their psychosocial well-being may be the most critical and urgent requirement. more...
Spotlight
Unique partnership forged to fight TB in Kenya
by Henry Neondo, HDN Key Correspondent, September 2006
Kenya- A unique partnership bringing together health organisations, an advertising agency, Olgivy and Mather, and affected individuals has been forged to counter the re-emergence of tuberculosis (TB) in Kenya. Breaking with the norm, the partnership now targets spouses of TB sufferers in the home. more...
Unsung Heroine- P. Kousalya
The ACW campaign highlights the many unsung heroes/heroine’s working on the frontlines of the HIV epidemic. The following piece was written by P. Kousalya, President of Positive Women Network, India.
India- I am Kousalya from a village in Namakkal district in Tamilnadu, located in the southern part of India. Presently, I am settled in Chennai and I am working on women and children issues through the national network of women living with HIV, Positive women Network (PWN). more...
Positively Alive
Love vs stigma
by Chilombo Mwondela-Katukula, HDN Key Correspondent, Namibia, September 2006
Namibia- "I need love," says Emma Tjirimuje, an HIV positive mother living in Katutura, a vast, poor, black suburb in Windhoek, Namibia.
Partner Highlight
Emma is struggling to live positively with HIV, working as a volunteer counsellor for Lironga Eparu, the organisation of HIV positive people in Namibia. Emma's biggest wish is to have a ‘love centre’ for HIV positive people. more...
Partner Highlight
New Campaign Partners
AIDS-Care-Watch welcomes six new campaign partners this month. They are: Abdoulie Cham -The Gambia; Afya Mzuri HIV and AIDS Resource Centre -Zambia; AIDS Information & Support Centre -Estonia; Fair International Association for Development (FARIAD) -Ghana; Headp Nepal -Nepal; Janata Unnayan Society - Bangladesh; Sahodaran Community Oriented Health Development Society (SCOHD) - India.
If your organization would like to join the campaign, please click here.
Quote of the Month
Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
“I was in Malawi and met with a group of women living with HIV. As I always do when I meet people with HIV/AIDS and other community groups, I asked them what their highest priority was. Their answer was clear and unanimous: food. Not care, not drugs for treatment, not relief from stigma, but food.” (The First Line of Defence in World Food Program: Why Food and Nutrition Matter in the Fight against HIV/AIDS (Rome, United Nations, 2003)
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