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Everyone must play their part to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV

There are 20,000 people at the 18th International AIDS conference, moving  between 21 huge session rooms, exhibition halls and networking zones.  The enormity of it all is over powering but then so are the figures  that make up the pandemic itself - 33,4 million people currently living with HIV worldwide, 7,400 new infections every day, 5000 deaths every day.
The most heart wrenching figures are those that describe the situation of children: 2,4 million children already living with HIV every day,  1,200 new born babies infected with HIV  every day and more than 1

By Noreen Gumbo
26/07/2010

Trócaire at the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire

Summer at the seaside - what could be better?  Why not come and meet the Trócaire campaigns team during the Festival of World Cultures in the lovely coastal of Dun Laoghaire this weekend!

By Trish Groves
23/07/2010

Is Prevention better than Cure?

Nicola Ndovi, Malawi Gender Programme Officer at the International AIDS Conference

The title of this blog isn’t meant to be misleading – to date there is no cure for HIV and AIDS!
During the 2010 AIDS Conference in Vienna however there has been much discussion of scientific progress towards a cure and even a vaccine for HIV and AIDS. Achieving this goal however remains challenging. HIV/ AIDS is a complex disease that requires complex solutions.

By Deirdre Ni Chea...
23/07/2010

Why criminalising the transmission of HIV harms women

Your gut instinct and that rational part of your brain would tell you that laws are a good thing, that they are brought in to protect people’s rights, particularly the rights of the most vulnerable. However sometimes laws brought in with the best of intentions, do not always have the best of consequences.

By Sarah McCan
23/07/2010

Is my life not worth saving?

AIDS 2010 should be the year that we are celebrating universal access to prevention, care and treatment for all– a target agreed by World Leaders in 2005 and reaffirmed at the UN High Level Meeting on HIV in 2006. Instead we are discussing flat lining of funding and pitching one disease against another.  Few would argue with Bill Clinton and Bill Gates as they call for greater efficiencies in the response to HIV and the assertion that every dollar wasted contributes to a life lost. But efficiencies alone will not solve the funding gap.

By Finola Finnan
22/07/2010

Puppet Kibing and his HIV education films for children take AIDS2010 by storm!

Direct from who knows where, the man you didn’t know you needed, Kibii Kabooka Kibing, has been a busy man since he arrived in Vienna on Sunday. Turning up in the Austrian capital in a flash of light and a cloud of dust, Kibing immediately set to work, talking to as many of the 20,000 delegates about his work engaging children and young people in  East and Southern Africa on issues related to HIV.

By Deirdre Ni Chea...
21/07/2010

The benefits of science ... but not for all

Almost 30 years on, and science has finally given us the means to reverse the pandemic! 
Speaker after speaker at the 18th International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna has provided research findings and data proving how it can be done.

By Noreen Gumbo
21/07/2010

Put violence against women at the centre of all HIV responses

The theme of the XVIII International AIDS Conference, which is taking place this week here in Vienna is ‘Rights Here, Right Now’ and certainly women’s rights are high on the agenda. One of the biggest issues in relation to women's rights violations, that of violence against women is a key area of discussion  at the conference and in many of the sessions to date, there have been stark and challenging reminders of the need to put the issue of violence against women at the heart of the HIV and AIDS response.

By Sarah McCan
20/07/2010

Two Flags, Two Haitis

This is a new Haiti.

The differences between the country I arrived in this weekend and the zombie nation I left five months ago are startling, and incredible to behold.

For a start, and the simplest of things, the airport is open. No more flying to the Dominican Republic and tramping cross country for eight hours just to get here. And when we got off the plane a creole band – a band! - played Caribbean tunes to welcome us. Immediately the heavy atmosphere on the plane, imagined by me or otherwise, was lifted.

By Conor OLoughlin
05/07/2010

The meaning of governance

I've struggled a lot to explain the idea of governance to people. This little video sums it up beautifully. Thanks so much to everybody at the Participation and Practice of Rights Project for permission to use this! 

By Carol Ballantine
01/07/2010

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