Posts Tagged with ‘Poverty & AIDS’
Stephanie, mashable.com
To end poverty and hunger, we're going to need everyone's help - even the busiest amongst us. Thanks to the iPhone and the technological innovators who are working for the global good, we can now say:...
Robert
Young sex workers in rural Zimbabwe have embarked on a fatal path that increases their likelihood of contracting and spreading HIV. Poverty and a lack of information intensify the problem, but instead...
Ishmael Kwasi, Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana
Young people have the talent and creativity to end poverty. It is our inherited problem, and we must solve it together. The Kwasi Selassie Poverty Discussion is a blog space for young people who want...
Ricardo
40% of new infections still occur among people aged 15 to 24, but things are starting to change…I think.
A few weeks ago at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, we saw young people doing thea...
Angella
A young woman in Uganda contracts HIV/AIDS and faces relentless prejudice that alters every aspect of her life. She is only one of the millions of young people whose physical challenges are multiplied...
sharmin, BRAC
A response to the blog-post "HIV thrives on poverty." Overwhelmingly, it is women who are victimized by HIV/AIDS.
Poor women who have no decision making power their partners, specially their husban...
Remmy, UNAIDS
A response to the blog-post "HIV thrives on poverty". The young volunteers who are involved in the fight against HIV get nothing in return.
I come from a country whose HIV prevalence is one of the...
Sarah, UNIFEM
Image by Robert Miller via Flickr
The new book and documentary Diamonds tells the stories of ten women and one girl who are all HIV-positive.
Globally, the incidence of HIV/AIDS among women is r...
Scilla, Global Voices
Though HIV/AIDS has decreased in almost all developed nations, it is on the rise in Japan.
Japan appears to be the only developed country where the number of HIV positive and AIDS infected people...
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:...
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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