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Nov 15th, 2007 - 11:38:40 |
Kyaw Su Thway
Use condom to reduce HIV and AIDS spread!
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Jun 20th, 2006 - 08:40:19 |
stephen Onunga
Women, HIV/AIDS and human rights "Women must not be regarded as victims. They are, in many places, leading the way forward. In communities scattered around the globe, women and men are taking action to increase knowledge about the disease, expand access to sexual and reproductive health and educational services, increase women's ability to negotiate safer sexual relations, combat gender discrimination and violence and increase access to female-controlled prevention methods such as the female condom." Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis.(1) 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. Many women are exposed to sexual violence and coerced sex inside and outside marriage, including through harmful traditional practices such as genital mutilation, early marriage, and wife inheritance. They frequently lack information on and access to HIV prevention measures and to health care as well as to support and medication after infection. They are denied property and inheritance rights, employment and access to finance – denials which make them dependent on men – and are frequently excluded from participation in policy-making and implementation, including on issues which primarily affect them.However women are increasingly campaigning effectively for their rights. Grassroots activism by women, including in particular women living with HIV/AIDS, has grown for years with some striking successes – and in the face of a multitude of impediments.The HIV pandemic is increasingly viewed as a strongly gendered health, development and human rights issue.(2) It is a preventable disease yet some 40 million people live with the virus and the proportion of women affected is increasing. This paper offers a human rights analysis of the gender-specific factors which put women at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and of the consequences of contracting HIV/AIDS which women face. The evidence below makes clear that: · Violence against women and other forms of gender-based discrimination increase women’s likelihood of contracting HIV; · Gender-based discrimination also hinders women’s access to prevention methods and to treatment; · A comprehensive rights-based approach is needed to effectively tackle the pandemic, its causes and consequences; · Agendas for an effective response to HIV/AIDS agreed by the international community – including UNAIDS human rights guidelines, the Cairo Programme of Action, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Millennium Development Goals and others – have yet to be implemented effectively; · International cooperation is needed to tackle the global inequities surrounding HIV prevalence and lack of access to treatment.The report underlines in its conclusion the need for government action in a rights-based approach to the gender-related aspects of HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and support. The scale of the pandemic and its impact on womenThe number of people living with HIV/AIDS in 2003 was estimated by UNAIDS to be 35.7 million adults (of whom 17 million were women) and 2.1 million children.(3) More than 4 million adults and 630,000 children were newly infected in 2003 and 2.9 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses, bringing to 20 million the number of AIDS-related deaths since the start of the epidemic in 1981. Twelve million children have been orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa to the end of 2003.In Sub-Saharan Africa 57% of adults living with the virus are women, and two thirds of young HIV-positive people are women and girls.(4) The worldwide proportion of women living with HIV/AIDS is almost 50 percent.(5) Globally, young women are 1.6 times more likely to be living with HIV/AIDS than young men.(6) A review of HIV-infection levels among 15–24-year-olds which compared the ratio of young women to young men living with HIV found that in South Africa twice as many women as men had the virus while in Kenya and Mali the ratio of HIV-positive young women to young men was 4.5 to 1.(7)Around five to six million people in low and middle income countries do not have access to necessary life-saving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs).(8)HIV affects not only those living with the virus but others who depend on, or are related to, them. It affects: · Women living with the virus who face stigma, discrimination, violence, and unequal access to medication · Women at particular risk – through gender-based violence, unsafe sex, injecting drug use or living with people who are injecting drug users, as sex workers(9), and through discriminatory traditional practices. · Women caring for affected family members or others.
Jun 21st, 2005 - 14:01:08 |
David katamba
Candle Light HIV/AIDS Memorial day was successful, even though we had taken long to post this report. I take this opportunity to thank all the youths of Minkat/BaHiCo project that responded to my call to join the world in this celebration on March 13th, 2005. We took this day to celebrate and count on our achievements as HIV/AIDS activisits. Thanks to the Candle Light Foundation that selected us at Minsaki Katende Foundation(MInkat) to be part of the world to join in these celebrations.
Regards
David Katamba 
May 14th, 2005 - 03:08:47 |
Minsaki Katende Foundation(Minkat)
(Please use zoom 100% to read this article's photo)Minsaki Katende Foundation through its projects BaHiCo is pleased to mention these achievements in the HIV/AIDS contorl work. We still need more effort to track this HIV/AIDS epidemic down in the youths sector. We also need more support to help those perons Living with HIV/AIDS. At most, the orphans need help.
I know you can help us continue with this mitigation work. Drop us a support email and we discuss it out. Thanks for your commitement please.
Regards
David Katamba
Executive Director
Minsaki katende Foundation(Minkat) 
Mar 30th, 2005 - 10:27:06 |
David katamba
The Uganda Network of AIDS Services Organisations (UNASO) has recorgnised our HIV/AIDS participation and activities. On 19th January, 2005., it registered MINKAT as its member and awarded it a certificate of membership. Thanks a lot to all those that have made this BaHiCo project a success and still call upon every body and other organisations to join us. You can even send in financial contributions to these works, by simply drawing a cheque in the names of Minsaki Katende Foundation (MINKAT) and deliver it to our postal box 25734, Kampala Uganda. We confirm that MINKAT shall do all that it can to engage and promote HIV/AIDS control activities and spread amongst the youths and even help orphaned children.
Lets work with you, your efforts count a lot.
Regards,
David Katamba
Executive Director, Minkat
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