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Empowering women and PLHIV in rural India
India is a country with diversified culture and social systems, but it is still gripples with taboos and misconceptions about HIV/AIDS. The fight against HIV, particularly in rural areas, becomes more pronounced because of stigma and discrimination, resulting in poor access to healthcare and other livelihood services. In rural areas, women with HIV are often accused of moral corruption as many believe that HIV is a disease associated with sex workers and truck drivers. With most of them having little education and seldom having jobs, these women face many socio-economic challenges.
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Tackling HIV stigma and discrimination in rural India through women support groups
Globally, India has the third-largest population of people living with HIV/AIDS. According to national estimates, in 2019, there are more than 2.35 million PLHIV in India, of which about 1.35 million are women. As nearly 65% of India’s population reside in rural settings, around 57% of PLHIV are estimated to be from rural areas. This results in issues becoming more pronounced in the fight against HIV for women and those living in rural areas. A non-exhaustive list would include poor access to healthcare services and limited awareness and capacity to address issues like sexuality, condom use, STD and STIs, and HIV.
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Building the capacity of HIV community leaders
For any organization, capacity building of members is extremely important. In particular, for organizations of people living with HIV (PLHIV), capacity building that includes HIV knowledge will have a wider and positive impact on their work. During my more than 13 years of fighting against HIV in Vietnam, I realize that the opportunities to improve the capacity on HIV knowledge involving the PLHIV community leaders, were limited. Particularly in the last 3 years, there have been few, or no, courses on HIV where the PLHIV community could participate.
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Sexual health education with the youth community in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, the high HIV and STI prevalence among the youth population points to the lack of and poor sex education in schools. With that in mind, AIDS Concern Hong Kong launched a prevention and education project in 2019, aiming to equip vulnerable youths with the right knowledge, skills and attitude to tackle HIV and STIs. To optimize reach, AIDS Concern also adopted a youth-friendly approach with a social media outreach campaign.
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On the ground with The Good Living Project
The Good Living project brings a series of folk-art performances to 40 remote communes of Dien Bien – a mountainous province in Northern Vietnam, to improve the lives of ethnic minorities affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as their access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services.
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Welcome to Rainbow Queer Cultural Center of Health
The Rainbow Queer Cultural Center of Health, based in Taipei, Taiwan, dishes on events organized in 2019, and services and facilities it has to offer.
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HIV in Malaysia: Focusing on the young population and advocacy through arts
In Malaysia, discussions on sex and HIV are commonly centred on key populations and adults, placing little emphasis on young people. There is also constant denial that young people are sexually engaged much earlier. Leaving the young population out of such discussions has limited their awareness on risky sexual behaviours and the existence of preventive methods that can protect them from sexually transmitted diseases and HIV.
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“Good living” for the ethnic minority community in Dien Bien
In 2019, Gilead Asia Pacific Rainbow Grant funded the Good Living project by The Center for Community Health Research and Development (CCRD) to be implemented in Dien Bien – the poorest province in the Northern Mountain of Vietnam. The project seeks to improve the life of ethnic minorities affected by HIV/AIDS by creating a more supportive community through the reduction of stigma and discrimination. The project intervention methods apply social behavior change communication theories and are tailored to the local culture and audience preference for better learning outcomes.
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HIV in Bangkok: Prioritizing preventive education
According to the 2018 UNAIDS data for Thailand, 9% of men who have sex with men (MSM) are living with HIV, but in Bangkok specifically, HIV prevalence rate within the MSM population is estimated at 28.6%. Of the MSM population in Bangkok, HIV incidence is also much higher in younger men aged 18 to 21, compared to men over 30, presenting a difference of 5.1% of incidence – surely more needs to be done to educate the youths on HIV.
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“I am an AIDS-Free Runner” Charity Run
The Hong Kong AIDS Foundation is deeply concerned about the HIV epidemic, and the alarming decrease in the average age of new infections in Hong Kong. As of the fourth quarter of 2018, the accumulated number of HIV infections has reached 9,715 cases since the first reported case in 1984. Furthermore, while Hong Kong is one of the most economically liberal and progressive markets in the world, HIV/AIDS is still widely misrepresented in the local entertainment industry. For example, circumstances in the contraction of HIV is constantly over-dramatized despite vehement criticism from healthcare workers, like us. More poignantly, officials from Hong Kong’s Department of Health remain indifferent to the reinforcement of HIV/AIDS stereotypes in the entertainment industry.
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International Day Against Homophobia
Today, the LGBTQ+ community in Korea still fights the antiquated stigma and propaganda that equates “homosexuality with HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS with death.” This destructive misconception continues to fuel the discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community and people living with HIV/AIDS in Korea. To combat this, at the Sinnaneun Center we organize multiple awareness and outreach programs, including our annual PRIDE Gala that features: the PRIDE Awards, PRIDE Calendar, and the production of three, HIV/AIDS related, short films every year.
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Fearless Night: Innovating Sexual Health Education
The Taiwan Love and Hope Association hosted its third Fearless Night during the Spring Festival. Fearless Night is an initiative to innovate and change the perception of public health education. The official promotion of HIV prevention methods was usually confined to the doctor’s office and street-corner outreach, however, through “Fearless night”, their promotion was brought to a nightclub.
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Getting to Zero (GTZ) initiative
The global consensus on the HIV/AIDS epidemic is that it can be eliminated, only if there is a committed global effort. The Taiwan Lourdes Association (TLA), a pioneer in HIV advocacy in Taiwan, is constantly finding ways to be at the forefront of strategies to build effective HIV prevention/care cascade, while strengthening international partnerships.
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HIV/AIDS Open Exhibition in Taiwan
In 2017, at the 20th anniversary of Persons with HIV/AIDS Rights Advocacy Association of Taiwan, or PRAA, our community was discussing how rare it was for a HIV-related organization to survive in Taiwan for 20 years.
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