Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'AIDS'
How to Survive a Plague – A Model for Human Rights Social Activism.
by Alexandra Marie Daniels Arts, Culture & Media Editor Although it feels like it is a film from the 1990’s recently stumbled upon and re-discovered high up on a shelf in a dusty box, How to Survive a Plague directed...
From White Cloth to Precious Gems: Cambodian Women Challenge Gender Stereotypes and Defend against HIV
by Meghan Lewis -Cambodia- An ancient Khmer proverb says, “A man is gold; a woman is a white piece of cloth.” Gold can get dirty or be dropped in the mud, but it can be polished and become as shiny...
Gender Parity Report Finds Zambia’s Media Houses Lagging
by Delphine Zulu - Zambia - One of the key challenges facing Zambian female journalists is sexual harassment. “There are very few female Zambian journalists who have not experienced sexual harassment at the hands of male counterparts, [but] few [cases]...
Refugees and the Risk of Rape
by Elizabeth Stannard Gromisch - USA - “We need the NGOs to bring firewood in lorries [trucks]. If they do not, we have to keep going. We have heard and seen rape with our eyes here outside the camp. In...
HIV/AIDS in India: New Theories Versus the AIDS Lobby
by Rupa Chinai - India - During the course of the past decade, women diagnosed as HIV/AIDS patients in Mumbai have been trying to say something important that deserves close attention. These widows, whose husbands died from AIDS, claim their...
HIV/AIDS in India: Rampant Misdiagnosis & the Burden of Disease
by Rupa Chinai - India - Monday, December 1st marked World AIDS Day. As experts continue to search for a cure, we are honored to present Rupa's informative 3-part series on AIDS in India, a compelling look at the gaps...
HIV/AIDS in India: Narrow Focus, Inflated Projections & Poverty
by Rupa Chinai - India - On August 5, 2008 a young “HIV-positive” couple in Mumbai - Babu Ishwar Thevar, 39, his wife Amothi, 33 - committed suicide after killing their three children, sons Venkatesh and Mani, ages 10 and...
Saving Sex Workers in Malawi
by Pilirani Semu-Banda - Malawi - Twenty-seven year-old Lima Wochi from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, looks dejected. She ventured into prostitution at the tender age of 12. She says she is tired of sex work and is looking for a way...
How to Solve the Food Crisis: Cut trade barriers and start a Green Revolution in Africa, says Jeffrey Sachs
by Eva Sohlman - Sweden - In Haiti people eat cakes baked with mud for lack of flour. In Bangladesh, Indonesia and across Africa, riots are spreading among the hungry. And in the world’s richest country, the United States, the...
A Journalist’s Despair: HIV-Positive Zimbabweans Can't Access ARVs
By Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - I am always left cursing and depressed and angry after covering assignments where I meet with People Living With HIV and AIDS. (We call them PLWAs here.) • Weighing only 90 pounds when she...
4th Annual International AIDS Society Conference Addresses Successes and Failures in the Global Fight Against the Virus
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines • Opening session of the conference. Photograph courtesy of AIS 2007 •The AIDS epidemic remains a global crisis; its impact will be felt for decades to come. Today, as when it was officially first recognized...
HIV/AIDS Epidemic Raging Among Men Having Sex with Men (MSM): amFAR Announces New Initiative in Sydney to Address the Crisis
by Imelda V. Abaño & Esther Nakkazi Philippines/Uganda Reporting from Sydney, Australia One of the greatest public health failures in the fight against AIDS is the world’s inability to prevent widespread HIV infection among Men who have Sex with Men...
Open Letter to the Next US President: Get Tougher on Mugabe's Despotic Government, But Send Aid for the Suffering Zimbabweans
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - “When elephants fight, it is the grass which suffers.” – African Proverb The Zimbabwean government introduced an ambitious Antiretroviral Drugs (ARVs) program in 2004, but Ropafadzo Kondo, who tested HIV positive in 1999, got...
Will Sex with a Virgin Cure HIV/AIDS? - Why Zambian Children Are Being Defiled: The Courts Try New Measures to Stop the Record Number of Cases
by Delphine Zulu - Zambia - • Zambian school children. Photograph by Jennifer Milner. •The number of children being defiled in Zambia has continued to increase dramatically because of a widespread belief that having sex with a virgin will cure...
Orphaned by AIDS, Millions of Children in Asia Face an Uncertain Future
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines Helena, from Hyderabad, India, lost her father when she was 13 and her mother when she was 15, both from AIDS-related illnesses. And now at age 18, she is the head of the household, looking...
AIDS Crisis in Zambia Weighs Heavily on Women
by Delphine Zulu - Zambia - The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Zambia among adults aged 15-49 is currently at 16%. For every infected man, three women are infected with the virus....
The New Face of AIDS—Young Asian Woman
By Imelda V. Abaño, Philippines Philippines --- HIV/AIDS, like other life-threatening illnesses, can open a path of reflection for many, redeeming them from living in dread of death, allowing them to relish, instead, each day as a gift of life....
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