Author Archive

In recognition of the hundreds of HIV-positive bloggers chronicling their lives worldwide, a group of online activists affiliated with the project Rising Voices have created a new guide to blogging about HIV/AIDS.

To combat the spread of AIDS, to make people aware of the disease and protective measures, many organizations and activists worldwide are engaged with innovative and localized campaigns and initiatives. Today we will discuss some of them who use ICT and citizen media to augment their cause.

An epidemic has hit the Indian farmers. Increasingly farmers are resorting to extreme measures like taking their own lives to bail them out of miseries due to a complex problem consisting of poverty, crop failure and growing indebtedness. Indian bloggers analyze the situation.

A growing number of HIV-positive bloggers around the world are using citizen media to express how they live with the virus. Busi, a blogger and poet from South Africa found out she had HIV in April 2006, six months after she was raped.