اليوم العالمى للايدز 2005: النساء و البنات الصغيرات و متلازمة نقصان المناعة

Quote: Have you Heard Me Today Many women and girls are vulnerable to HIV because of the high-risk behavior of others. This year’s World AIDS Campaign, with the strapline ‘Have you heard me today?,’ seeks to raise awareness about, and help address, the many issues affecting women and girls around HIV and AIDS. Globally, young women and girls are more susceptible to HIV than men and boys, with studies showing they can be 2.5 times more likely to be HIV-infected as their male counterparts. Their vulnerability is primarily due to inadequate knowledge about AIDS, insufficient access to HIV prevention services, inability to negotiate safer #######, and a lack of female-controlled HIV prevention methods, such as microbicides. At the same time, all over the world women do not enjoy the same rights and access to employment, property and education as men. Women and girls are also more likely to face sexual violence, which can accelerate the spread of HIV. Around half of all people living with HIV in the world are female. This is why HIV-positive women have a unique and valuable role to play, both in society and in fighting HIV and AIDS. Women hold families and communities together and they are a source of great strength in the face of HIV and AIDS. This year’s World AIDS Campaign, which culminates on World AIDS Day – 1 December 2004, explores how gender inequality fuels the AIDS epidemic, and is conceived to help accelerate the global response to HIV and AIDS by encouraging people to address female vulnerability to HIV.

Quote: The World Health Organization declared the first World AIDS Day in 1988. The day, 1 December, quickly became established as one of the world’s most successful commemorative days and is now recognized and celebrated by a diverse range of constituents every year around the globe. Then, in 1997, recognizing the need for year-round campaign activity for HIV and AIDS, UNAIDS launched the first year-long World AIDS Campaign. Since then UNAIDS has coordinated the World AIDS Campaign as a loose partnership of UN agencies, governments and all sections of civil society campaigning around particular themes. For example, in 2002-2003, under the slogan Live and Let Live the Campaign focussed on highlighting the damage associated with HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination. Over the years feedback has suggested the World AIDS Campaign has helped influence the international agenda around HIV and AIDS but due to its global nature and, to some degree, its close association with UN agencies, the Campaign has sometimes failed to achieve its full potential at a national and local level. UNAIDS now seeks to change that through an increased emphasis on the role of civil society - in particular through the stronger leadership and involvement of HIV and AIDSrelated NGOs at national level. To date civil society has not yet organized itself at a global level around any comprehensive blueprint to fight AIDS. The World AIDS Campaign is positioned to become the key mechanism to help civil society realise its potential globally through supporting a network of complementary national campaigns. In June 2001 the United Nations General Assembly held a Special Session on HIV/AIDS where governments agreed to a set of targets and goals to fight AIDS in a Declaration of Commitment. Following the session, UN agencies and governments started to organize themselves around the promises outlined in the Declaration. Now, civil society is also seeking to ensure its campaigning and advocacy efforts are similarly coordinated through a strengthened World AIDS Campaign. The year 2004 sees the Campaign entering an exciting transition phase. At the same time as delivering a thematic focus on Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS it is moving to bolster the role of civil society by shifting the governance of the Campaign from UNAIDS to NGOs. The strengthening of the Campaign’s civil society element is manifested in the Campaign’s management through a new Global Steering Committee of representatives from NGOs from each continental region. UNAIDS is also supporting the creation of a Secretariat to coordinate campaign activity. This Secretariat seeks to encourage national campaigns, where appropriate, to focus on mobilizing resources for the response in accordance with targets within the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment. Where resource mobilization is neither appropriate nor a priority, national campaigns are encouraged to pursue political and awareness-raising objectives that move their national agendas towards the goals contained in the Declaration of Commitment. The 2004 transition period seeks to be less prescriptive and more flexible to allow ownership by civil society at national level where campaigns can be more responsive, relevant and effective. The World AIDS Campaign aims to be the Campaign of nationally-driven HIV and AIDS campaigns - bringing them all together under a global umbrella united by the UNGASS Declaration.

Quote: Violence against women in conflict In many other parts of the world, rape and other sexual violence arising in the context of conflict are helping to drive the HIV pandemic. Rape and sexual violence have been used as a weapon of war through history and have been an all-too-common feature of contemporary conflicts. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) both civilian women and girls and women forced to fight as combatants are at risk of sexual violence and exposure to HIV. Local and international NGOs have attempted to intervene with the armed groups in the DRC to secure the release of child soldiers. Following an intervention in early 2004 that led to the release of 36 girl soldiers, mostly aged around 14 or 15, one Congolese activist reported that 17 of the girls were found to be HIV positive.(34) The violence and destruction arising in the context of conflict has other ramifications for the health system. No more than eight percent of blood used in transfusions is tested for HIV, because either the infrastructure has been destroyed or the resources are not available.(35) According to the DRC National AIDS Programme, 80 per cent of health centres in the DRC do not test blood prior to using it for transfusions, seriously endangering those who receive blood transfusions.(36) Reports emerged in mid-2004 that members of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo(37) were having sexual contact with young girls living near the UN compound in a centre for internally displaced people in Bunia, DRC. Comments made by the girls made clear that they saw the ####### as "transactional" – that is, they agreed to ####### in order to receive food and other basic goods.(3 The responsibility of women for gathering food and water can render them liable to sexual violence in conflict zones. In the Central African Republic, hundreds of women and girls were raped in late 2002 and early 2003 during internal conflict. AI reported on a number of individual cases including that of a woman, known in the report as ‘BEY’, aged 24, who was raped by three combatants in December 2002 while on her way to fetch water. She was wounded by the men and was subsequently treated with traditional medicines. She was later found to be HIV-positive though how she contracted the virus is uncertain. It is common for women who have been raped to believe that they contracted the infection through rape and it is certain that for many this is the case.(39) HIV infection can compound the social as well as the health consequences for women who have been raped during conflict. One women who was repeatedly raped during the genocide period in Rwanda told AI: "I learned I had HIV when I got tested before the birth of my youngest, in 1999. Since I learned I was infected, my husband said he couldn’t live with me. He divorced me and left me with three children, so now I don’t know how to pay for food, rent, school and so on. I have no family left… My six-year-old has many health problems, and she must have HIV. She looks three-years-old, coughs, and X-rays show that her left lung is destroyed, but she is allergic to antibiotics. She should be on ARVs [antiretroviral drugs], but there isn’t the money, and it’s hard to get children onto ARVs in Rwanda…"(40) In both Rwanda and Burundi there remains a stigma against both survivors of rape and those living with HIV. AI has reported that some women in Burundi refrain from seeking medical treatment following rape because of the risk that they will subsequently be identified as rape victims within their community. The epidemic of rape and women’s inability or unwillingness to find treatment following sexual assaults is contributing to the HIV crisis in Burundi.(41) The same picture is replicated in other areas of conflict in Africa. Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) "addresses protection of women during armed conflict, and calls for an end to impunity for gender-based abuses during and after conflict, the integration of a gender perspective in peace-making and peace-keeping, and the participation of women in all levels of decision-making and issues related to prevention management and resolution of conflict. It calls for action from a wide range of stakeholders, including governments, the UN Security Council, UN Secretary-General and all parties to armed conflict." (42) In Colombia, women targeted for gender-based violence are among the casualties of the continuing internal conflict. A significant component of the strategy of armed groups for exercising control over the population is the imposition of rigid gender norms and rules of conduct that apply even within the family unit. This type of control is often preceded or accompanied by what the paramilitary groups call "social cleansing" – the killing of petty criminals, prostitutes, and others perceived as "socially undesirable". Gender-based violence is used to impose a moral code based on rigidly differentiated roles for men and women. Amnesty International has received testimonies which point to the persecution, disappearance and killing of women who depart from these social codes as well as persons from other stigmatized groups, including ####### workers, people targeted on account of their sexual orientation and alleged carriers of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as HIV/AIDS.(43) The sexual and other violence directed at women which is seen in conflicts in different continents not only traumatises women and girls, but puts them at risk of STIs including HIV.

Quote: ارسلنا لك قبل عدة اسابيع دعوة لالقاء الخطاب الرئيسى فى فعالية يوم الاربعاء هنا فى جرينتش لكن يبدو انها لم تصلك؟

(عدل بواسطة Adil Isaac on 12-01-2004, 03:41 PM)

Quote: هذا العام اهدانا دارفور

Quote: موضوع مهم ولازم ناخذه فى السودان بجدية وتعامل اوضح لانو انا شخصيا عايش هسة جوه السودان و(شايف ) ان الخروج (عن النص ) كتر وواضح ان تعامل المجتمع بحذر مع الموضوع دا حينتهى بالناس عند امات طه

Quote: Jim Wooten, an author and award-winning correspondent for ABC News, has written an extraordinarily moving account of a courageous South African boy's battle with AIDS in his new book "We Are All the Same

Quote: رغم اننى اتفق معك فى قدسيه جسد الأنسان أحزننى ان رايك لايزال كما هو عن مرضى الآيدز.

(عدل بواسطة إيمان أحمد on 12-01-2004, 08:24 PM)

(عدل بواسطة إيمان أحمد on 12-02-2004, 07:49 PM)

Quote: خذي مثلا هذه الخزعبلات و التي تسمى بحقوق الإنسان من دعوات شاذة لزواج المثلية، فكيف تستقيم الفطرة السليمة بزواج رجل و رجل أو إمرأة و إمرأة! هذا شئ محزن و بغيض، فمفهومي الأوحد للزواج هو علاقة و إتحاد بين رجل و إمرأة و ليس غير ذلك. و من مثل هذه العلاقات الشاذة و الفوضى الجنسية إنتشر الإيدز و صار شبحاً يهدد بقاء الإنسانية و يحيل البشر أنفسهم الى أشباح.

(عدل بواسطة Adil Isaac on 12-02-2004, 03:34 PM)
(عدل بواسطة Adil Isaac on 12-02-2004, 04:40 PM)

Quote: ان من يصاب بالآيدز (غض النظر عن الكيفيه) لايصح (تجريمه) اخلاقيا، انما يدخل ضمن (ضحايا) مرض الآيدز وحسب...و من يصاب بهذا المرض ياعزيزتى يصبح مريضا و لابد من التعامل معه فى كل الأحوال (كمريض) وحسب ...ليس لأحد ان يسأل انسانا (كيف اصابك الأيدز) ومن ثم يتعامل معه/ها سوى كان ذلك بتقديم (خدمات) الرعايه الصحيه او التضامن، او حتى الملاحقه بالنظرات المصنفه....حسب طريقة الأصابه بالمرض

Quote: I did not get any correspondence about this, and I hope you managed to sort something out?. Our group in Kent organized a series of functions and a church serive a long with some posters.

Quote: من وجهة نظري الشخصية أن الإنسان الواعي العاقل يجب عليه العمل على حماية نفسه بنفسه من الإيدز. و إذا أستثنينا الأشخاص الذين يصابون بالمرض لأسباب خارجة عن إرادتهم مثل الجروح و عمليات نقل الدم و النساء اللائي يصبن بالمرض من أزواجهن أو الأطفال الذين يولدون بالمرض، أنا أعتقد أن البقية يجب عليهم تحمل تبعات أفعالهم. فالرجل ذو العلاقات المتعددة و المرأة العاهرة مثلا يجب عليهم تحمل ما ينتج من أفعالهم. و مع وضعنا في الإعتبار أن أغلب حالات الإصابة بالإيدز ترجع الى الفوضى الجنسية فأنا موقنة أن لجسد الإنسان/ة قداسته الواجب حمايتها و بالتالي حماية نفسه/ا و صحتها.

Quote: REPORTS FROM THE FIELD "I couldn't believe it. I can't accept it. In this success story, this model nation, issues of stigma, rejection and isolation have not yet been put on equal footing with access to medicines and prevention . . ."