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Getting a seat at the table

Subhan Khotoon is a 42 year old widow with eight children. She used to live on the banks of the Indus eking out a living from selling some vegetables and from what her eldest son could earn as a casual labourer. She had to flee her home as the Indus flooded, leaving everything behind. She now lives here in Kotri Girls High School in Kotri, near Hyderabad in Sindh province in southern Pakistan.

By Maurice McQuillan
02/09/2010

Back in Pakistan

I left home in Maynooth at 4 am on Tuesday  morning and here I  am back again in Pakistan at 4am on Wednesday morning having travelled via England and Dubai.

By Maurice McQuillan
01/09/2010

Get your wellies on and come visit us at the Electric Picnic this weekend!

trocaire at electric picnic banner

Get into the festival spirit with Trócaire at Electric Picnic this weekend and join the céilí with the local Comhaltas group as they Trad for Trócaire or Spin the Wheel to see if you are 1 in 6 of the world’s population and help us highlight the outrageous scandal that is global hunger.

By Orla Quinn
01/09/2010

Nuns continue to respond to the needs of earthquake affected people in Haiti

 

One of the partners Trocaire is working with in Haiti is the Sisters of the Order of St Joseph of Cluny.  The Sisters have been present in Haiti since 1984, they run schools and charitable projects and all are committed to working for the good of the Haitian people.

By Cathy Ayer
12/08/2010

Recovery for the people of Haiti

Cathy Ayer, Trocaire Programme Officer, Port au Prince, Haiti.

By Cathy Ayer
12/08/2010

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 town 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

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