Proteger a la infancia, los adolescentes y sus familias.
El VIH/SIDA está afectando de la manera más brutal a los niños y los jóvenes. Más de la mitad de las nuevas infecciones de VIH son en personas menores de 25 años. Millones están creciendo sin padres o viven en casas con algún miembro de la familia enfermo o muriendo, con poco o ningún acceso a la educación y a los servicios sanitarios, y sin una nutrición mínima. Para las niñas, esta situación es exacerbada por factores como el tráfico, la prostitución forzada, las violaciones, la circuncisión femenina y matrimonio temprano – todos ellos factores que aumentan exponencialmente el riesgo de infección de VIH de las niñas.
Se necesita una acción a gran escala para cerrar el abismo que existe entre lo que se ha hecho hasta ahora y lo que es imperativo para proteger a los niños y niñas afectados por el VIH/SIDA.
Se necesita una acción a gran escala para cerrar el abismo que existe entre lo que se ha hecho hasta ahora y lo que es imperativo para proteger a los niños y niñas afectados por el VIH/SIDA.
Conferencia Internacional de SIDA
La Conferencia Internacional de SIDA es el primer encuentro entre personas que trabajan en el ámbito del VIH y de jefes de gobierno, personas que conviven con el VIH y otros individuos comprometidos para terminar con esta pandemia. Se trata de una oportunidad para establecer dónde estamos, evaluar los descubrimientos científicos recientes y las lecciones que hemos aprendido y para, entre todos, trazar el camino a seguir en el futuro. Entre el 18 y el 23 de julio de 2010 la Conferencia Internacional del SIDA tendrá lugar en Viena. Pese a los grandes avances llevados a cabo durante los últimos años, todavía quedan grandes desafíos a los que enfrentarnos. Está claro que la estigmatizac...
Communicate and fight
‘The greatest weapon in humanity’s armoury to contain this pandemic
remains humanity’s most unique characteristic – communication.’ The
Panos Institute
The sheer numbers of people dying from AIDS today despite the
efforts of governments and civil society demands a rethink in our
responses to the epidemic. The world’s few success stories show that
HIV prevention messages work only in a healthy communication
environment, where people are free to talk openly about sex within and
between communities. Programmes that support this and the development
of local, active and organised civil society are more likely to work.
Prominence must be given to solutions that focus as...
Hope for African Children Initiative
The Hope for African Children Initiative (HACI)
is a pan-African effort created to address the enormous challenges
faced by millions of African children who have either been orphaned by
AIDS or live with parents who are sick or dying from AIDS-related
illnesses.
Established in 2000, this unique partnership brings together
six organizations that share an international focus - Care, Plan, Save
the Children, the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa, World
Conference on Religion and Peace, and World Vision - working together
to increase the capacity of local communities to provide support
services to orphans and vulnerable children in Africa. Recently, NAP+
(Network of...
Lessons for Life
Lessons for life was the GMC’s one of the most successful campaigns. It was launched on the occasion of World AIDS Day (December 1) 2004 and continued through 2005 until 2006. Lesson for Life was a global effort to educate children about HIV/AIDS prevention and to spur them, their communities, and governments to accelerate action on behalf of children and young people affected by HIV/AIDS. In honour of World AIDS Day, children around the world drew on the GMC's internet-based resources to plan community-based discussions, plays, dramas, and writing that were designed to stimulate learning about HIV/AIDS and to explore ways to act on behalf of affected children. Lesson for Life's objectiv...
Think global act local!
This article is based on information from
Stop Global Aids
.
Think Global Act Local! Campaigners all over the world are putting the
importance of the global HIV/AIDS problem to the forefront of
everybody’s minds. Politicians and leaders, in the North and South,
have already committed themselves to helping prevent HIV/AIDS, but are
they doing enough? Urgent action is needed to tackle the escalating
deaths, illnesses and catastrophic effects of men, women and children
infected with HIV/AIDS.
Talking about reducing HIV/AIDS is not enough when there is a 13
billion dollar gap in funding needed to support HIV/AIDS programmes in
countries in the South (2001), when ...
HIV-Positive Lives
‘HIV-Positive Lives’ (published under the title ‘Acercandonos’ in Spanish) presents the diverse stories of 28 individuals in 14 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean
who are either living with HIV/AIDS or reaching out to those who do.
Their personal stories reveal the deeply rooted stigma and prejudices
surrounding HIV/AIDS, and their foundations in myths that perpetuate
ignorance, indifference and fear. Yet these stories are for the most
part positive - transitioning from times of profound crisis and loss
into phases of recovery, hope and newly found purpose.
The book begins with a Preface from the Executive Director of
UNAIDS, and an overview of the HIV/AIDS ep...
Addressing the blockages to universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support for children affected by AIDS
At the 2006 UNGASS Review UN Member States will be evaluated on their
performance on the DoC, utilizing UNAIDS Guidelines on Construction of
Core Indicators issued in July 2005.
The UK Working Group on Orphans and Vulnerable Children is
particularly concerned with the implementation of Articles 65-67 which
are meant to ensure special assistance for children orphaned and
affected by HIV and AIDS and provide a means by which world leaders can
be held accountable to a clear timetable of action for children
affected by HIV and AIDS.
Recommended additional paragraphs to be included in the Draft Political Declaration
27. Commit ourselves to intensify...
