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Australia: Community groups say Qld Govt is gagging debate

In Queensland, the State Government's trying to gag community organisations that it funds under the Health Department umbrella. The department's asking them to sign contracts which would limit their freedom to speak or advocate. They'd even be banned from providing links on their websites to other groups advocating for change.

Published
19 September 2012
From
ABC News
Activism
From saving lives to cutting costs? Challenges for a new era for activism

Whereas during the mid-1990s there seemed to be an unquestioned global consensus on the need to save lives at any cost by providing ARVs to people living with AIDS, this humanitarian salvation discourse is now being questioned in influential quarters. The basic premise is that the AIDS crisis is over, and HIV should no longer be treated as an exceptional case. But is the crisis over?

Published
14 September 2012
From
Somatosphere
Infant feeding
South Africa: Government formula milk sold for profit

When branch members from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) noticed that the shops were selling formula milk they informed the TAC Khayelitsha district office. A team from the TAC office went around Khayelitsha and discovered 16 shops were selling formula milk.

Published
12 September 2012
From
Ground Up
Activism
Chinese AIDS activism: Bad blood

AMID the daily drumbeat of protest across China involving citizens aggrieved by local injustices, a demonstration by around 300 AIDS victims outside the headquarters of the Henan provincial government late last month might have seemed routine. But the protesters’ growing frustration worries officials far beyond AIDS-wracked Henan. As the Communist Party prepares for an imminent leadership change it is more than usually anxious to keep the AIDS scandal quiet.

Published
11 September 2012
From
The Economist
Human rights
China AIDS patients topple gate of government office

About 300 AIDS patients and their relatives tore down the main gate of a government office in central China during a protest Monday over unmet demands for financial assistance. "We want the government to give us some help," said Protester Li Xia, who like many of the protesters was infected with HIV when she sold blood in 1995. Tens of thousands of people contracted the virus that causes AIDS in a blood-selling scandal in Henan in the 1990s that is widely seen as a failure of government leadership.

Published
28 August 2012
From
Business Week
Access to medicines and treatment
Groups to Global Fund, PEPFAR: Support switch from toxic treatment

The global health advocacy organisation HealthGAP and the two largest civil society organisations for people affected by HIV in Malawi have asked the country's government, the Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria, and PEPFAR to find a way to stop using the drug d4T (stavudine) in the HIV combination therapy it provides. Stavudine is far cheaper than its alternative, tenofovir, but causes severe and sigmatising side effects that have led to its being dropped in richer countries.

Published
16 August 2012
From
Science Spreaks
Access to medicines and treatment
AIDS Sufferers Seen Hurt in Pacific Trade Pact Limits

HIV patients in lower-income Pacific nations are worried that a trade deal being negotiated by nine Pacific-region nations including the U.S. may curtail access to those cheap drugs in favor of patented pharmaceuticals, raising costs to survive HIV/AIDS in developing nations.

Published
09 August 2012
From
Business Week
HIV and criminal law
Fearing advocacy, Ottawa rejects HIV/AIDS funding proposals - Globe and Mail

Canada has turned down funding for an HIV/AIDS charity for fear it might result in advocacy – an indication of a growing tendency within the Conservative government to steer clear of groups pushing causes out of step with its policies. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, whose mission is to promote the human rights of people living with or at risk of contracting the virus, has received a significant portion of its funding from Ottawa over its 20-year existence. But in this year’s round of funding applications, 16 of its 20 proposals were rebuffed. Fifteen of those were rejected citing an identical reason: “It was unclear from the details provided in the proposal whether the resource would be used for advocacy purposes, which is ineligible for funding,” the health agency wrote in an April e-mail to the group. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network has pioneered the investigation of criminal prosecution for HIV exposure in Canada.

Published
07 August 2012
From
Globe and Mail
Tuberculosis and HIV
Let's Learn From HIV Activists How to Achieve Zero Tuberculosis Deaths

The International AIDS Conference is gathering thousands of people, from patients to researchers to activists, to achieve nothing less than an "end to the HIV epidemic." And although the epidemic is still claiming way too many lives, recent advances in research, treatment, and prevention have been nothing but phenomenal. As someone who has been fighting another deadly scourge, tuberculosis (TB), I find myself wondering: what can we learn from HIV activists?

Published
27 July 2012
From
Huffington Post
Activism
The core of AIDS 2012: the Global Village

The Global Village, over the years, at AIDS conference has been the platform of communities, activists and practitioners representing diversity and solidarity. Put simply, it is the core of the conference.

Published
27 July 2012
From
Key Correspondents
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