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Rezwan, Global Voices Online
All across the world stigma and discrimination against those who carry the HIV virus is rampant. In many countries cultural practices and social norms hinder people to discuss about these issues. To c...
Ayesha, Global Voices Online
Two in five Arabs live in poverty, according to a recently released UN report [pdf]. The Arab Human Development Report 2009 says that in some Arab countries, more than half of the population lives in ...
Adrienne, IWHC
In 1981, when the first cases of HIV/AIDS were identified in the United States and Africa, I was living in Bangladesh. Since then, I have watched with horror the gathering momentum of the AIDS pandemi...
Rezwan, Global Voices Online
India is the world's second most populous country with a population of 1.2 billion people and 70% of its population lives in the villages. Over 456 million Indians (42% of the population) fall below ...
Anusha, United Nations
In a recent New York Times Magazine article by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn entitled, “Saving the World’s Women” the writers convincingly delineate the marginalization of women in developi...
Ayesha, Global Voices Online
HIV/AIDS is a taboo topic in much of the Arab world, although programmes such as the UNDP's HARPAS are attempting to raise awareness about it. While some bloggers in the region report encountering ign...
Rezwan, Global Voices Online
A growing number of HIV-positive bloggers around the world are using citizen media to express how they live with the virus.
Speaking openly about HIV/AIDS can be difficult. Millions of people have ...
Deni, Americans for UNFPA
The feminization of AIDS and poverty are linked in a cycle that practically ensures the spread of the disease, even if a vaccine were developed.
For the 51 million of girls around the world who wer...
Etienne, UNFPA
“My name is Vera. I come from the outskirts and I’m very proud of it. I don’t have a job, but I manage to survive.”
“I am Marta. I also come from the outskirts. I participate in a women...
Robert, UNAIDS
It has been widely assumed for many years that poverty and underdevelopment were driving factors behind the transmission of HIV, but empirical evidence does not appear to bear this out. For example:...
faizul (tanim), Neway Bangladesh (Pvt.) L
Around 60 percent of more than four lakh street children in Dhaka are leading a vulnerable life as they are compelled to indulge in anti-social activities, according to studies conducted by a number o...
Kishalaya (Dodo), NEIHRN
Harm Reduction saves lives, though it has been misunderstood by a majority of people and some governments are even against it. For the sake of clarity and the purpose it has served to our community, e...
Taiwo, APYIN
The major drivers of the HIV epidemic in Nigeria includes: Poverty, according to the National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA) in Nigeria, about 3 million Nigerians are living with the dreaded Human ...
Anika, Americans for UNFPA
It is an almost universally held belief that the biggest factor in the spread of HIV/AIDS is poverty. If that were true, poverty should correlate with higher HIV/AIDS rates but, as Steve Kraus, HIV/...
Neil, UNFPA
HIV thrives on poverty, is spread by poverty and produces poverty in its turn. The relationship isn’t simple – if it were, AIDS might not have struck so hard in a relatively prosperous country lik...
Carmen, IPPF/WHR
In many parts of the world women and girls are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly poor women in marginalized communities. Discrimination, poverty, and marginalization are drivers of...
Ida, UNFPA
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It’s exciting to see how UK Prime Minister links ‘poverty’ to ’the Internet’. As a communications consultant, blogger and som...
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