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HEALTH-AFRICA: Financial Crisis Scapegoat for ARV Stockouts?
By Ntandoyenkosi Ncube and Kristin Palitza
PRETORIA - Shortages in supply of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are caused by lack of political will and bad supply management, not by the global economic crisis, health experts say.
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BRAZIL: Getting Beyond the Taboo to Fight STDs
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - Although Brazil has the reputation of being more sexually liberal than its Spanish-speaking neighbours, Brazilians suffer their own fears of stigma when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) – the target of a new public health campaign.
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HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Learning From Criticism, U.S. Committed to AIDS Fight
Stanley Kwenda interviews ERIC GOOSBY, United States global AIDS coordinator for PEPFAR
HARARE - The United States has embarked on a mission to restore Africa's trust in U.S. commitment to global AIDS relief.
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DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Muslim Community Leaders Join AIDS Fight
By Ranjita Biswas
KOLKATA, India - Muslim religious leaders may seem too conservative to promote the message of safe sex to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic. But that image seems to be changing. Thanks to community-based organisations and young social entrepreneurs working quietly in villages.
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INDIA: HIV-Positive Women Get User Rights to Till Land
By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna
THIRUNELVELI, India - Till four months back, 33-year-old Mugil hardly ventured out of her parent’s home, preferring to stay indoors and tend to the household chores.
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DEVELOPMENT: Dying at Childbirth Every Minute
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Fifteen years after 179 nations agreed to implement a plan of action on sexual health, a woman still dies every minute because of inadequate pregnancy and birth services, according to the World Health Organisation.
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MALAWI: High-Risk Sex Among Those Who "Do Not Exist"
By Christi van der Westhuizen
CAPE TOWN - A study on men having sex with men (MSM) in Malawi shows that, as elsewhere in the developing world, this vulnerable group is at greater risk of contracting HIV and AIDS than the general population. Moreover, their risk status is exacerbated as governments fail to target them for health services or information to stem HIV transmission.
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HEALTH: Why Is Viagra Popular and the Condom Controversial?
By Johanna Son*
BALI - Why is the popular drug Viagra so praised for its virtues, while the condom is vilified by conservative religious groups among others the world over?
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Q&A: ‘It’s Not Difficult to Bring About Social Change’
Johanna Son interviews GEETA RAO GUPTA*
BALI - Geeta Rao Gupta, president of the Washington-based International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), explains to TerraViva’s Johanna Son why gender needs to be weaved more tightly into the response against HIV and AIDS.
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POPULATION: UNFPA Partners With Faith-Based Groups
By Sonali Salgado
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has realised that if it wants to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, it will have to partner with like-minded faith-based organisations (FBOs).
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ASIA: Prescription for HIV/AIDS Pandemic - Social Justice
Analysis by Johanna Son*
BALI - The prescription that thousands of participants effectively issued at a just- ended AIDS conference here was clear: It is time to fight social and political inequities so that the medical gains in curbing HIV and AIDS can work with maximum efficacy.
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HEALTH-ASIA: Where Are the Religious Leaders?
By Lynette Lee Corporal*
BALI - "Thank God for condoms!" Donald Messer of the U.S.-based Centre of Church and Global AIDS declared during one of the many sessions at an AIDS conference for the Asia-Pacific, which ended here Thursday.
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RIGHTS-ASIA: Transgenders Assert Identity At AIDS Meet
By Lynette Lee Corporal*
BALI - "There has been so much confusion going around transgenders. We are not MSMs [men who have sex with men] and don’t lump us under the transvestite [category either] because we have different needs," declared Kartini Slemeh at the 9th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) here.
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More than two decades after the first case of HIV infection was reported, this deadly virus is spreading inexorably around the globe: almost 40 million adults worldwide are now infected by HIV, which constitutes far more than a health crisis. HIV/AIDS makes its presence felt in many areas -- it undermines the ability to work, food production, education and the advancement of women.

Training Manual for the Media: Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rights

IPS - Inter Press Service has published a training manual for the media on how to report on HIV/AIDS from a gender and rights perspective which is now available online here (pdf, 503KB).

Q&A: ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’

INDIA: ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers

US-INDIA: State Visit by Singh Could Smooth Bumpy Relations

PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops

RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces

LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job

POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals

CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk

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UNAIDS
UN Millennium Development Goal #6
World Health Organisation - HIV
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Treatment Action Campaign
Africare
Africa Centre for Health & Population
U.S. NIH - Office of AIDS Research
Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS
China AIDS Network
Asian Community AIDS Service
Indian NGOs HIV/AIDS
EuroHIV

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