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Welcome to a special edition of The Loop to mark World AIDS Day. This issue focuses on recent work the Alliance has been supporting with marginalised and vulnerable groups – key populations that are disproportionately affected by HIV, such as sex workers, gay men and other men who have sex with men, injecting drug users and people with HIV. |
Recent highlights include a week of activities to share learning on Alliance focused prevention projects; a participatory photography project with marginalised communities in Cambodia, Ecuador and India; evidence to the UK parliament’s International Development Committee urging action on the global HIV services gap; and a restatement of support for the Code of Good Practice for NGOs responding to HIV/AIDS.
Read on to find out more.
Transcending geographical and cultural boundaries
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Project Celebration, a series of activities to share experiences and learn from the work of the Alliance’s Frontiers Prevention Project, took place in November in Brighton and London, UK.
Representatives from sex worker organisations, groups of people with HIV, transgenders and men who have sex with men, staff from Alliance organisations, and peer outreach workers in Cambodia, Ecuador, India, Madagascar and Morocco came to Brighton, UK for the week’s activities. Despite participants speaking six different languages, and coming from different countries and contexts, Project Celebration highlighted that certain issues facing key populations are common and fundamental, transcending boundaries.
The meeting ended with a one-day policy event in London to share the week’s learning with policy and decision makers.
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Close the global HIV services gap
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95% of injecting drug users, 89% of men who have sex with men, and 84% of sex workers do not have access to basic HIV services. Without delivering services to these marginalised and vulnerable groups, G8 and UN Member State commitments to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010 will not be achieved. This was the Alliance’s message at a session of the UK’s International Development Committee on 16 November that looked at the UK’s progress in delivering HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to marginalised populations and the extent to which policy and programming is effectively addressing newer epidemics in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Read the full news story. |
Code of good practice
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Accountability is the theme of this year's World AIDS Day. The key message is Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise. This applies to everyone in the HIV response.
Donor governments are being called on to keep their promise to deliver universal access by providing the necessary funds.
Governments receiving funds are being called on to engage meaningfully with affected communities as they set national targets for comprehensive treatment and prevention.
NGOs also need to reflect on their own performance. As Signatories to the Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS we hold ourselves accountable to continuously improve our practices in line with the code’s principles. For this year's World AIDS Day, signatories are restating their support for the code and calling on others to examine their own policies in an open letter. |
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Unheard Voices, Hidden Lives
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This participatory photography project in Cambodia, Ecuador and India gave those that are often unheard and unseen in the HIV epidemic the opportunity to tell their stories and those of their communities in their own images and words, aiming to challenge the stigma and discrimination that key populations face.
An exhibition of the photographs and accompanying book was launched in November, and a series of events are set to continue over the coming months.
Find out more about these exhibitions and events. |
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