HIV Positive
This link provides information related to HIV. A wide-ranging resource where HIV positive people can learn something new every day |
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HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
HIV/AIDS-related human rights issues include advancement of the right to health, the right to education, the right to life, the right to freedom from torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and freedom from slavery and servitude, the right to liberty and security, freedom of movement, the right to information and freedom of expression, the right to marry and found a family, the right to privacy, the right to equality between men and women, and non-discrimination and the right to information and education. |
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Women, HIV/AIDS and human rights
Women are fighting both a virus and systemic discrimination in trying to overcome the threat of HIV/AIDS. Across the world, they face a number of circumstances which increase their risk of HIV infection in gender-specific ways. |
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Rights abuses fuel AIDS
HIV/AIDS has claimed 22 million lives and infected over 60 million persons, and it will kill millions more before it is controlled. |
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Buddhist Hospices and HIV/AIDS
This website has links of Buddhist organization that are working for People Living with HIV/AIDS across the world. |
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Africa-Japan Forum (AJF)
AJF has two task forces, one focused on HIV/AIDS and the other on food security. These task forces provide information and advice to the Japanese government and charitable foundations. |
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Pathways to PLWHA Involvement in CBOs and NGOs
PLWHA and NGOs/CBOs face a paradoxical situation: the greatest barrier to PLWHA becoming part of prevention and care is the stigma that surrounds HIV. The prospect of stigma and rejection - on top of all their other problems - scares off many PLWHA who contemplate making their HIV status known to others. |
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The coalition of Asia Pacific regional network on HIV/AIDS (the Seven Sisters)
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Regional Network on HIV/AIDS (the Seven Sisters) is a broad-based alliance bringing together seven regional networks: AIDS Society of Asia Pacific (ASAP), Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organisations (APCASO), Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+), Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW), Asia Pacific Rainbow (APR), Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN), and Co-ordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility in Asia (CARAM Asia). These networks have tremendous experience and expertise in initiating and implementing programmes dealing with affected communities and vulnerable populations such as drug users, sex workers, transgender communities, men who have sex with men (MSM), HIV positive people and mobile populations. |
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HIV/AIDS in Asia
The prevalence of HIV varies widely between countries and within countries, and vulnerable segments of the population have disproportionately high HIV infection rates. Male and female commercial sex workers (CSWs) and injection drug users (IDUs) were the first groups to be seriously affected by HIV/AIDS in most of Asia and the Pacific and remain critical engines of the epidemic. |
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Global Reproductive Health Forum - South Asia
Forum for issues like gender and reproductive health in South Asia. From the Harvard School of Public Health platform. Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), New Delhi and SNDT Women's University, Mumbain are the partners. |
