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World AIDS Day 2016: Listen to Maximina Jokonya’s journey
Maximina Jokonya, a Zimbabwean HIV activist, born HIV positive, tells her personal journey and how treatment, love and respect changed her life to the better in 2006 when she commenced taking Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) at the Newlands Clinic supported by the Ruedi Lüthy Foundation.
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Levons la main pour #préventionVIH pour les adolescentes et les jeunes femmes
WORLD AIDS DAY 2016 - En anticipation de la Journée mondiale du sida 2016, la campagne Levons la main pour #préventionVIH étudiera différents aspects de la prévention du VIH et en quoi ils concernent des groupes spécifiques de personnes, comme les adolescentes et les jeunes femmes, les populations clés et les personnes vivant avec le virus.
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10.3 Billion USD is Available for the 2017-2019 Allocations to Countries
MMS/aidsfocus.ch participation at the 36th Global Fund Board Meeting from 16-17 November 2016 in Montreux - Efforts to Increase Impact in the Fight Against TB and MDR-TB is Urgent and CSOs call for urgency of operationalising the policy of sustainability, transitioning and cofinancing.
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Newlands Clinic patient addresses Medicus Mundi conference
Ruedy Lüthy Foundation - "When Maximina Jokonya found out she was HIV-positive at the age of thirteen, it was as if her world had fallen apart. Today, the Newlands Clinic patient helps young people who have been similarly affected. In November, she came to Switzerland at the invitation of Medicus Mundi to talk about her experiences.
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Campagne LOVE LIFE : les infections sexuellement transmissibles en hausse
Aids suisse contre le Sida - Les infections sexuellement transmissibles (IST) ont gagné du terrain en 2015. Le nombre de cas de gonorrhée a progressé de 23% par rapport à l’année précédente, ceux de syphilis de 7% et ceux de chlamydia de 5%, alors que les cas de VIH restent stables. La tendance est la même dans toute l’Europe. Ces chiffres montrent que les efforts en termes de prévention doivent être poursuivis.
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Sex for Fish: Toward Gender Equality and Fewer HIV Infections
The Global Fund - "With help from community health volunteers, a group of women have organized themselves to become economically less dependent on men, in order to avoid the degrading practice called "Sex for Fish"."
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Re-energizing HIV Prevention
The Global Fund - "An indispensable element of our efforts to end HIV as an epidemic – prevention – is lagging too far behind, and allowing too many people to be infected with the virus.
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HIV Fact Sheet
UNAIDS - The global HIV statistics have been published.
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UN calls for urgent action to protect young women from HIV/Aids in Africa
The Guardian - Urgent action is needed to help and protect girls and young women from Aids in sub-Saharan Africa, thousands of whom are still being infected with HIV every week, the UN says. In 2015, 7,500 girls and young women aged 15 to 24 were infected with HIV every week.
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Broken systems breaking people
www.aidsalliance.org - "Violence against women and HIV are inextricably linked, and for women of the populations most vulnerable to and affected by HIV this link is particularly strong. Research on violence experienced by women who use drugs in Malaysia provides insights into the nature of this relationship.
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African nations attempt to suspend UN's LGBT rights monitor
The Guardian - African nations are seeking to suspend the work of the first UN independent expert charged with investigating violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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World AIDS Day 2016: About 18 million people unable to access HIV treatment
Word Health Organization (WHO) - In advance of World AIDS Day, WHO has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing to improve access to and uptake of HIV diagnosis. According to a new WHO progress report lack of an HIV diagnosis is a major obstacle to implementing the Organization’s recommendation that everyone with HIV should be offered antiretroviral therapy (ART).
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Human Rights Handbook for Parliamentarians N° 26
Inter-Parliamentary Union / United Nations Human Rights - "Human rights are the bedrock principles which underpin all societies where there is rule of law and democracy. From the fight against violent extremism to the struggle to eliminate poverty and our approach to managing migration, international human rights law provides an essential framework and guidance to responsible and sustainable policy-making.
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Get on the Fast-Track — The life-cycle approach to HIV
UNAIDS - "In this report, UNAIDS is announcing that 18.2 million people now have access to HIV treatment. The Fast-Track response is working. Increasing treatment coverage is reducing AIDS-related deaths among adults and children. But the life-cycle approach has to include more than just treatment. Tuberculosis (TB) remains among the commonest causes of illness and death among people living with HIV of all ages, causing about one third of AIDS-related deaths in 2015. These deaths could and should have been prevented."
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Growing recognition of transgender health
WHO Bulletin - "Stigma, discrimination and lack of legal recognition remain major barriers for transgender people to access the health services they need. Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan reports.
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Link Up experiences of reaching adolescents living with HIV
www.aidsalliance.org - "This brief highlights new understanding, gained through Link Up, around engaging and providing services for adolescents living with HIV. (...) Link Up, implemented by a global consortium led by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, aimed to meet the SRHR needs of 10-24 year olds most impacted by HIV, including those living with HIV, by ensuring integration of SRHR and HIV services, information and advocacy.
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Building on Success – Malaria Control and Elimination
Swiss TPH Symposium, 8 December 2016 - The Swiss TPH Winter Symposium 2016 invites medical and health sector specialists to review and discuss the history, successes and future of Malaria Control and Elimination.
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7th European Conference on African Studies
7th European Conference on African Studies, 29 June 2017 - The Centre for African Studies Basel and the Swiss Society for African Studies welcome you to the 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2017 with the theme: Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban, which they organise on behalf of the Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS.
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