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The Loop News from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance: April 2007

Strengthening women's rights

Multi-country project strengthens women's rights

An Alliance initiative in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador has started targeting human rights infringements experienced by women living with HIV in the region, and strengthening their influence over decision-making about services.

Around the world

New testing centre in Senegal offers an entry point to better treatment
The opening of a new voluntary and anonymous testing centre by the Alliance Nationale Contre le SIDA in Senegal will bring people improved opportunities for HIV testing, which is also the entry point to better treatment.

Prevention messages get an airing on community radio

A community radio station has put in place an HIV prevention action plan with the help of Alliance Nationale Contre le SIDA in Senegal. GEO FM is now broadcasting in Senegal on HIV issues following training for presenters and staff.

Minimum service package agreed for vulnerable groups in Senegal

Key players involved in community care and support for orphans and vulnerable children and people living with HIV have agreed a minimum package of services in Senegal.

Cote d'Ivoire promotes positive prevention
Alliance Nationale contre le SIDA en Côte d’Ivoire has been shaping national strategy at a workshop regarded as a milestone in the country’s approach to positive prevention.

Alliance roll-out reaches 54,000 children in Zimbabwe
An Alliance programme for orphans and vulnerable children has used a roll-out approach to reach large numbers of children, and to challenge traditional attitudes surrounding children’s rights.

Building capacity on young people and prevention
The Alliance prevention team has been working with NGO and CBO staff from across Uganda to explore how best to reduce young people’s vulnerability to HIV.

Successful antiretroviral project supporting links between health services and the community
The Antiretroviral Treatment Community Education and Referral (ACER) project was launched in 2004, and provides evidence and examples for developing larger-scale interventions in support of ARV treatment.

Thinking about the future
The Alliance has joined partner NGO Saber Viver to work with adolescents in Brazil who have been living with HIV since childhood.

Policy and advocacy

Keeping universal access on the G8 agenda

There are early indications that a number of G8 governments have agreed ahead of this year's G8 meeting in Germany to take their AIDS commitments further, says Stop AIDS Campaign.

Links between civil society and World Bank projects in Latin America are weak

Civil society is often neglected in the implementation of World Bank projects in Latin America, a new Alliance report suggests.


And finally...

Foro 2007
The Alliance is to have a major presence at Foro 2007, this year’s Latin America regional HIV/AIDS conference.

Andes Project

New Alliance publications and resources

Alliance secretariat publications in production

  • Understanding and challenging HIV stigma – A toolkit for action
  • Our future: Sexuality and life skills education for young people (the third in a series of three books: Grades 8-9)
  • Keep the best, change the rest – Participatory tools for working with communities on gender and sexuality
  • Positive prevention
  • As crianças do amanhã – exercícios práticos
  • Policy briefing in English and French: The Observatoire: how civil society engagement turned around the national response to HIV in Senegal
  • Policy briefing in English and French: The Observatoire: how civil society engagement turned around the national response to HIV in Senegal
  • As crianças de 0 a 8 anos e o HIV: Fortalecendo a família e o apoio comunitário and Jeunes enfants et VIH : Renforcer le soutien familial et communautaire

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