PHA-Exchange> 'Asiafrica: Linking the Two Continents' ) focuses on news, information around the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Asia and Africa

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'Asiafrica: Linking the Two Continents' ) focuses on news, information
around the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Asia and Africa, linkages between them
and lessons that the two regions can learn from each other. A follow-up
project from the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand,
this initiative is coordinated by Inter Press Service (IPS)
Asia-Pacific, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. IPS Asia-Pacific
and IPS Africa are cooperating on this project.
 
http://ngo.c.topica.com/maadrDyabgmn4bpfCYdb/ 
 
Below are the first features, and watch out for more....
 
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INDIA
Deadly Mix: Drugs, HIV and Insurgency at the Border
by Ranjit Devraj, Churachandpur
 
Perhaps no place on earth deserves free anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs),
which helps slow the spread of HIV/AIDS, more than this remote district
of 240,000 people in the north-east Indian state of Manipur, just on
the porous India-Burma border.
 
http://ngo.c.topica.com/maadrDyabgmn5bpfCYdb/ 
 
ZIMBABWE
Secrets and Silence Around AIDS
by Kudzai Makombe, Harare
 
As AIDS affects a growing number of women and girls in sub-Saharan
Africa, a timely novel -- entitled 'Secrets of a Woman's Soul' has been
released by first-time Zimbabwean author Lutanga Shaba.
 
http://ngo.c.topica.com/maadrDyabgmn6bpfCYdb/ 
 
CHINA
Children Orphaned by AIDS Battle Double Stigma
by Antoaneta Bezlova, Beijing
 
The 2001 scandal in central China's Henan province - over the huge
number of poor people becoming infected with HIV through the sale of
their blood - forced a slow, painful change in Beijing's complacent
attitude toward an emerging AIDS crisis.
 
http://ngo.c.topica.com/maadrDyabgmn7bpfCYdb/ 
 
Other Resources:
 
Training Manual for the Media: Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rights
 
The manual was developed by an experts group and tested in two IPS
journalists training workshops in South Africa and Jamaica. Download
pdf version of the manual.
 
The Language of HIV/AIDS: A Tool for Journalists/Newsrooms
 
This tool was prepared for a briefing for journalists by IPS-Asia
Pacific, ahead of the production of the 'TerraViva' conference
newspaper edition at the XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok,
Thailand, July 2004. Download pdf file.
 
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IPS Asia-Pacific is the regional headquarters of Inter Press Service
(IPS) news agency. The World Service is available at www.ipsnews.net
For feedback on this page, pls write editors at aidsasiafrica.net or
ipsasia at ipsnews.net
 
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