Research On The Community By The Community

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Shobha Shukla - CNS India HIV/AIDS Alliance, through a Global Fund supported Pehchan (meaning identity) project is working to build the ...

First-ever rectal microbicides study in Asia-Pacific to begin soon

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Bobby Ramakant - CNS According to Jim Pickett, Chair of International Rectal Microbicides Advocates (IRMA): Rectal microbicides are prod...

Waking up: Eliminating parent-to-child HIV transmission

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Shobha Shukla - CNS According to a new UNAIDS report on HIV in Asia and the Pacific, there is mixed progress on eliminating new HIV infe...

Discrimination and criminalization impede access to HIV services

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Shobha Shukla — CNS Based on pre-ICAAP interviews conducted by Jeanne Marie Hallacy:  Voices of affected community representatives Repe...

Tackling Stigma and discrimination in health care settings

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Nenet Ortega - CNS Two decades ago, people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) including their families had been stigmatized in all areas o...

Treat Everyone With Equality For An AIDS Free World

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Shobha Shukla - CNS The Regional assessment of HIV, STI and other health needs of transgender people in Asia and the Pacific (jointly...

Positive Impact of Commission on HIV and the Law in Asia-Pacific

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Lwin Lwin Thant - CNS Since the launch of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law report in July 2012, there have been significant posi...

Zimbabwe makes steady progress against TB-HIV

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Citizen News Service - CNS Zimbabwe has the dubious distinction of having an estimated 15% of all 15- to 49-year-olds to be living with ...

The Current Fight With HIV

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Diana Esther Wangari - CNS Recently, the international media was flooded with reports of a baby in Mississippi who was cured of HIV. The...

Women in all their diversity for the Global Fund Gender Equality Strategy

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Nenet Ortega - CNS Gender diversity has a long and rich history in the Asia-Pacific region. Most societies are patriarchal, leaving wome...

Will Indonesia Test and Treat Members of Key Populations?

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Jamie Uhrig - CNS As many people from around the region head to Bangkok to be on time for the opening of the ICAAP 11, those from Indone...

Look Inside: Do not neglect self-stigma among young MSM and transgender

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Bobby Ramakant - CNS At 11th ICAAP, all delegates must have heard the words: stigma and discrimination. But often we refer to external f...

Childhood TB: Do we really know how big the problem is?

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Bobby Ramakant - CNS Despite significant momentum to responding to childhood TB in 2013 with launch of first-ever roadmap, are we gropin...

Responding to the Global Fund Gender Equality Strategy….. And making it work!

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Hara Mihalea - CNS In response to the numerous unmet needs of women, girls, and transgender people-- especially those affected by HIV, T...

Metabolic Surgery for people living with Diabetes

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Citizen News Service - CNS Recent guidelines by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) state that metabolic surgery is a treatment...

Fighting AIDS resides in the future, not the past

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Photo credit: Vinai Dithajohn/UNAIDS Hara Mihalea and Bobby Ramakant  Signalling an essential shift away from tokenistic participation...

Good. Safe. Sex.

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Sumita Thapar – CNS “A man is not a financial plan”, a website advises young women in the Philippines. “Babies are not blessings” it fur...

Marriage between TG and MSM: On the rocks?

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Shobha Shukla - CNS The complexity in addressing sexual orientation and gender identity in the HIV response has marginalized the issues ...

Stigma within healthcare facilities blocks access to services for MSM and TGs

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Shobha Shukla – CNS Born in 1948 in India, Shivananda Duncan Khan migrated to the UK when he was ten years old. In 1988 he founded an or...

AIDS funding landscape in Asia and the Pacific

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Ishdeep Kohli – CNS A number of countries in the Asia and the Pacific are showing commitment and leadership by increasing domestic inve...

New AIDS response: Will there be funds to continue community work?

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Nenet Ortega - CNS The Global Fund has helped governments and civil society organizations to ‘jump start’ their programmes by funding na...

Five things you need to know about naloxone

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Citizen News Service - CNS You may think that superheroes only fight crime, but they can also fight serious public health issues like dr...

Getting to Zero: Country perspectives

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Nenet Ortega – CNS “Getting to Zero” is UNAIDS’ strategic mantra for attaining zero new infections, deaths and discrimination. To get th...

ICAAP 12: Will it happen? Should it happen?

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Le Nguyen – CNS Discussions and split opinions about the next ICAAP are swirling around the corridors of the Queen Sikirit Convention Ce...

Migrants want Equality and Dignity

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Ishdeep Kohli - CNS Many developed countries in Asia and the Middle East rely on migrant workers to keep their economies functioning. Mi...

Effective HIV/AIDS Responses Are Built On Data and Humanity

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Sumita Thapar - CNS “As religious leaders we tend to believe we have a direct line to God, we tend to think we know it all. We don’t. We...

Living with HIV, but dying of co-infections

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Bobby Ramakant – CNS HIV co-infections were in the spotlight at a few sessions on the second day of ICAAP. Neglecting infections with he...

Scientific Research for an AIDS ‘cure’ and HIV Prevention and Treatment for Key Populations

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Ishdeep Kohli - CNS In the race for a cure for HIV, we have the Berlin Patient, the Mississippi Baby, the Visconti Cohort - 14 patients ...

Glimpses of the HIV picture in the PICTS

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Shobha Shukla – CNS Beginning with the Lord’s Prayer, HE Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, President of Fiji began the ‘Pacific Islands Voyage’ w...

Walk the Talk: Towards an AIDS-free generation

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Photo credit: Sumita Thapar - CNS Sumita Thapar - CNS Leaders from different walks of life – politics, bureaucracy, private sector, ga...

What did we miss while treating HIV?

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Dr BB Rewari, NACO Bobby Ramakant - CNS Expanding access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and HIV care services have helped people livi...

Community-based VCT demanded

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Citizen News Service - CNS Civil society networks, United Nations agencies and other partners in Asia and the Pacific are urging a rapid...

Giving drug users a path

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Sumita Thapar - CNS Oral substitution therapy (OST) saves lives, improves quality of life, and helps people who use drugs to lead functi...