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		<title>5 iPhone apps to help fight poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/5-iphone-apps-to-help-fight-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggers Unite!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cell Phones & Social Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To end poverty and hunger, we&#8217;re going to need everyone&#8217;s help &#8211; even the busiest amongst us. Thanks to the iPhone and the technological innovators who are working for the global good, we can now say: MDG1? There&#8217;s an app for that. Hectic lives, jam-packed schedules and the all-too-common feeling of powerlessness can keep us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A silent phenomenon spreads HIV</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/crossing-the-crack-lines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Mukondiwa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV & Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What are the real barriers to getting condoms?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the magenta sun sets on the small but sexually charged town, life amongst the  workers becomes visible. Tonight, there may very well be another young woman who will walk into the night a virgin and wake up, hymen intact, but with a new disease to grapple with at the end of it all.]]></description>
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		<title>Ending poverty: our discussion, our vision</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/new-visions-for-the-end-of-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/new-visions-for-the-end-of-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KwasiSelassie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth in humanitarian crises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 to share possibilities, solutions and experiences in the effort to end poverty across the globe.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>HIV prevention: are we really doing it right?</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/hiv-prevention-how-to-make-it-happen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/hiv-prevention-how-to-make-it-happen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HIV & Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV & Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What are the real barriers to getting condoms?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[40% of new infections still occur among people aged 15 to 24, but things are starting to change…I think.]]></description>
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		<title>Stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV/AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/hivaids-related-stigma-and-discrimination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/08/hivaids-related-stigma-and-discrimination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angella</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HIV & Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV & Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth, Love & Sexuality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 by the cruelties of social discrimination. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Women are predominantly the victims of HIV/AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/03/women-are-predominantly-the-victims-of-hivaids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/03/women-are-predominantly-the-victims-of-hivaids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharmin Ubaid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A response to the blog-post "HIV thrives on poverty." Overwhelmingly, it is women who are victimized by HIV/AIDS.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The fight against HIV and young volunteers</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/the-fight-against-hiv-and-young-volunteers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/the-fight-against-hiv-and-young-volunteers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Remmy Shawa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth, Love & Sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[peer educators]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The young volunteers who are involved in the fight against HIV get nothing in return. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Diamonds: Real stories of women living and HIV/AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/real-stories-of-women-living-and-hivaids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/real-stories-of-women-living-and-hivaids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Fortuna</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diamonds: Stories of Women from the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminization of HIV/AIDS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Diamonds: Stories of Women from the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV, a book and documentary, tells the stories of ten women and one girl who are all HIV-positive. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>AIDS and HIV: An alarming new statistic</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/10/aids-and-hiv-an-alarming-new-statistic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/10/aids-and-hiv-an-alarming-new-statistic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scilla Alecci</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Japan appears to be the only developed country where the number of HIV positive and AIDS infected people is growing. These statistics about the spread of HIV and AIDS in Japan are particularly alarming because cases of infection are decreasing in rest of the developed world (according to UNAIDS), and because the government has done little to combat the problem. ]]></description>
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		<title>Online campaigns to combat spread of HIV/AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/online-campaigns-to-combat-spread-of-hivaids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/online-campaigns-to-combat-spread-of-hivaids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rezwan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blogging About Poverty And Development In The Arab World</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/blogging-about-poverty-and-development-in-the-arab-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/blogging-about-poverty-and-development-in-the-arab-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayesha Saldanha</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In some Arab countries, more than half of the population lives in hunger and want. In this post we hear from bloggers writing about poverty and development around the Arab world.]]></description>
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		<title>Three Priority Actions on HIV/AIDS for Women and Girls</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/three-priority-actions-on-hivaids-for-women-and-girls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/three-priority-actions-on-hivaids-for-women-and-girls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrienne Germain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Changing the HIV/AIDS prevention paradigm to reduce and eliminate, as a central priority, girls’ and women’s vulnerability to HIV requires three priority actions.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>A wave of suicides among Indian farmers</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/a-wave-of-suicides-among-indian-farmers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/a-wave-of-suicides-among-indian-farmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rezwan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Dirty Little Secret of Global Poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/the-dirty-little-secret-of-global-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/the-dirty-little-secret-of-global-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anusha Alikhan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most wretched suffering is caused not just by low incomes but also by unwise spending by the poor — especially by men.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bloggers Reflect On HIV/AIDS Awareness In Arab World</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/bloggers-reflect-on-hivaids-awareness-in-arab-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/bloggers-reflect-on-hivaids-awareness-in-arab-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayesha Saldanha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS is a taboo topic in much of the Arab world. While some bloggers in the region report encountering ignorance about HIV/AIDS, others are impressed at the progress being made in destigmatising the disease.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>HIV-positive bloggers: love is still possible</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/hiv-positive-bloggers-love-is-still-possible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/hiv-positive-bloggers-love-is-still-possible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rezwan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Women are trapped in a cycle</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/women-are-trapped-in-a-cycle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/women-are-trapped-in-a-cycle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deni Robey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sex workers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the 51 million of girls around the world who were married off as children, marriage is risky sexual behavior. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Strong Women from Salvador da Bahia</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/strong-women-from-salvador-da-bahia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/strong-women-from-salvador-da-bahia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Etienne Franca</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The notion that chronic poverty and crisis have a deep impact on population, especially women, is more than an economic axiom, but a crude, often overwhelming reality.]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty is one part of HIV risk, but not the most important part</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/poverty-is-one-part-of-hiv-risk-but-not-the-most-important-part/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/poverty-is-one-part-of-hiv-risk-but-not-the-most-important-part/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Greener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not correct to say that HIV risk is primarily associated with severe poverty (which is also concentrated in rural areas), although the poor are also at risk.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Drives the HIV Epidemic in Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/what-drives-the-hivaids-epidemic-in-nigeria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/what-drives-the-hivaids-epidemic-in-nigeria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taiwo Oyelakin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who are infected with HIV around the world often suffer terribly from stigma, in that people who have HIV are somehow thought to be ‘dirty’, or to have ‘brought it on themselves’ by ‘immoral practices’. They often experience discrimination in terms of housing, medical care, and employment.]]></description>
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		<title>The Status of Women is The Real Culprit</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/the-status-of-women-is-the-real-culprit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anika Rahman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look at global national data, the fact is that the world’s poorest nations do not have the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates.  While true that two-thirds of the people living with HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa – the poorest region in the world – the rates by African country do not neatly match up to the poverty index.]]></description>
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		<title>HIV Thrives on Poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/hiv-thrives-on-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/hiv-thrives-on-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIV thrives on poverty, is spread by poverty and produces poverty in its turn. The relationship isn’t simple. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Society Plagued With Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/a-society-plagued-with-discrimination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/a-society-plagued-with-discrimination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen Barroso</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 the HIV epidemic as much as the specific social behaviors that typically lead to infection. From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, stigma and discrimination have been recognized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Facebook has to do with poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/what-facebook-has-to-do-with-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/08/what-facebook-has-to-do-with-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Jeng</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poverty & AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t get me wrong. I am not even implying that the Internet can replace a relief package, neither am I suggesting that the Internet can compensate for the social and personal losses that follow poverty. I am rather suggesting, similar to Mr. Gordon Brown, that the Internet can provide a platform where we can be ourselves and have a global conversation with each other on important topics, such as poverty and AIDS.]]></description>
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