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UNICEF: Strides made in Namibia against HIV/AIDS

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 05:47:05 +0000

Towards Universal Access, a new report on scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts, highlights gains in HIV testing and counselling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and other areas. Here is a related story. OHANGWENA DISTRICT, Namibia, 30 September 2009 More than 4 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy at the close of 2008 a 36 per cent increase in one year and a 10-fold increase over five years, according to a new report released today by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, also known as UNAIDS. The report, Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector, puts the success down to expanded HIV testing and counseling, as well as improved access to services aimed at prevention of mother-to-child transmission, or PMTCT. Namibia, with one of the worlds highest rates of HIV infection, is at the forefront of this change. In 2006, Namibia could afford ARV treatment for only a few hundred people. Last year, it treated tens of thousands almost 70 percent of those in need. To read the full story, visit www.unicef.org

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admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:41:01 +0000

“HIV/AIDS Prevention among Youth” Project is the biggest project on HIV/AIDS that has been done so far. It is sponsored by Asian Development Bank and is carried out by the General Department of Population and Family Planning, Ministry of Health. DIGISUN initially participated in this project as the sub-contractor of IDS Media Vietnam to produce 90 one-minute TV Spots with a variety of messages about HIV/AIDS prevention. HIV/AIDS is a sensitive topic that needs to be dealt with carefully. To fulfill this assignment, we have applied a bright approach which can be summarized in five words, say “young, creative, stylish, confident, and proactive” These are also the characteristics of the youth, the target audience of the project. Sensitive messages were smoothly and pleasantly imparted through various presentation styles including animations, music video clips, game shows, normal spots, blog-style spots and so on. These spots have gone far from normal communication spots and have become favorite clips for the youth which have been downloaded thousands of time.

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admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:07:09 +0000

is there a way of getting HIV/AIDS by being in contact with people with HIV? sorry, i know its like a stupid question but i’ve always wondered why celebrities are never worried about getting it when they go visit HIV orphans in Africa and stuff

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admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:45:45 +0000

Phil Johnson, MD discusses HIV/AIDS prevention efforts around the world that have proven effective including examples from Uganda, Thailand, and Brazil. This video is freely downloadable from www.archive.org . Visit www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http tolearn more. [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate a video into another language! Click AIDSvideos.org to to learn how you can help!!!]

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admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:46:01 +0000

Dr Alex Coutinho, TASO Uganda, speaks at Sida Development Area on May 25, 2007. This forum was on HIV Prevention, Gender Equality and Business Actors”. Sida is the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

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admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 05:34:03 +0000

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Reducing Hiv/aids Vulnerability Among Adolescents

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:41:29 +0000

Reducing HIV/AIDS vulnerability among adolescents Anirudha Alam

To reduce HIV/AIDS vulnerability among adolescents, there is a need to develop strategies and methods for effective curriculum focusing on sex education and life skills especially. Internalizing more participatory learning-teaching method, it is felt that a stronger integration of prevention education vis-à-vis sex & reproductive health approaches is essential for improving the high-quality HIV prevention & care. It is estimated that there are 1.2 billion adolescents in the world. Near about eighty seven percent of these adolescents live in the developing countries. More than eighty five percent adolescents of Bangladesh do not know what reproductive health is and how to practice safe sex. Most of them are not aware of how to undermine the vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. To make them free from such encumbrance as HIV/AIDS, we have to ensure a healthy and promising environment. It is believed that if the adolescents have qualitative reproductive health literacy ultimately HIV/AIDS prevention programs initiated by GOs and NGos will be successful.

Only effective education can ensure qualitative reproductive health literacy. This kind of literacy helps adolescents analyze thoroughly basic information, core messages, values and praxis related to HIV/AIDS prevention. Simultaneously they are able to inculcate caring and supportive attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). They possess the basic facts and information bringing about acquisition of knowledge and development of attitudes, values, skills and practices (KAVSP) as to undermining the spread of HIV/AIDS. Consequently they have profound awareness on practicing safe sex, use of condoms, gender equity, harmful effect of early marriage, premarital sex and unplanned pregnancy.

Reducing HIV/AIDS vulnerability among adolescents may be promoted auspiciously through evaluating the attitudes and values within community based social norms/beliefs, cooperation and teamwork. From the salad days, adolescents have to be guided by active and participatory learning that they may analyze, study ideas, solve problems and apply what they learn. It is important to ensure that active learning would be fast-paced, enjoyable and personally engaging. In this regard, cooperative learning may play a vital role to make the adolescents aware of HIV/AIDS significantly. It is one kind of effective group approaches with a view to learning with common objectives, mutual rewards, shared resources and complementary roles. Through this approach, group members are stimulated to help each other to master the lesson or activity. Thus an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect are established. Eventually the learning environment is warm as well as adolescents are made to express their views, opinions, attitudes and behaviors freely.

Adolescence is the prime and sensitive period of so many physical, emotional and cognitive developments. So adolescents have to experience many changes unexpectedly. In most cases, they remain unaware of how to efficiently cope with these kinds of physical and psychological changes. Attitudes to sexuality are being developed gradually during puberty. In this time, if adolescents are misguided or deprived of acquiring reproductive health literacy they will suffer all the time in their lives. There is no doubt that sexual maturity leads to happiness and fulfillment in future personal and social relationships. So there is no alternative for adolescents to learn about issues related to reproductive health from parents, teachers and other elders for being able to understand and develop a healthy attitude.

Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS is skyrocketing in the developing countries jeopardized by lack of qualitative reproductive health literacy among the adolescents. But reproductive health literacy itself offers one of the key hopes against HIV/AIDS epidemic as well as its influential eventualities. In fighting the pandemic, reproductive health literacy comprising transfer of skills and attitudes to reduce adolescents’ vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS is the most effective means. It is seriously necessary to reduce the fear of HIV/AIDS any how. Reproductive health literacy can do a lot to combat HIV/AIDS facilitating adolescents in attaining the knowledge, attitudes and skills that they need to delay sexual intercourse, reduce their number of sex partners, prevent illicit drug/substance use and avoid infection by using condoms.

The academic curriculum of the developing countries like Bangladesh should provide adolescents with opportunities to learn and practice life skills, such as decision-making and communication skills, which can strengthen other important areas of early life development. It is expected that different aspects of inclusive HIV/AIDS/STI study must be built-in into all suitable subject areas, such as reproductive health, human rights & legal aids, home economics, gender development & women empowerment, social studies and science.

Anirudha Alam
Deputy Director
(Information & Development Communication) and Trainer
BEES (Bangladesh Extension Education Services)
183, Lane 2, Eastern Road, New DOHS
Mohakhali, Dhaka 1206
Bangladesh.

Phone:8801718342876, 88029889732,88029889733 (office), 88028050514 (res.)

E-mail: anirudha.alam@gmail.com,
info@bees-bd.org, bees@worldnetbd.net

Website: www.bees-bd.org
Ref: FHI, UNESCO, World Bank

Anirudha Alam is a prominent human resource development specialist and trainer. At present he is working in a national NGO and community based organization named BEES (Bangladesh Extension Education Services) as a Deputy Director (Information & Development Communication) and Trainer. He is one of the Executive Board Members of Bangladesh Project Management Institute (BPMI) as well. He writes and edits more than forty books and a good number of articles on various issues like human resource development, training, women empowerment, human rights, education awareness, social development, income generating activities, environment awareness, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS awareness, juvenile literature, short stories and so on. His noteworthy books are Kulsums and Karims (a collection of success stories of disadvantaged people of Bangladesh), Kulsums (a collection of success stories of disadvantaged & destitute women of Bangladesh), The Reflections (a collection of posters on literacy & education of Bangladesh), Towards a New Hope, Social Assistance Message Collection, Social Assistance Advocacy Manual, Eaisab Rat Din (a collection of juvenile poems), Du Sha Bachharer Sera Bangla Kishor Galapa (a collection of juvenile Bengali stories of two hundred years) etc.

Website: http://anirudhaalam.onsugar.com/

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admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:15:40 +0000

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admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:32:48 +0000

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admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:56:28 +0000

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