Just keep working harder and harder we will overcome HIV/AIDS soon. Please do go through the article below. The first step to ending the HIV travel ban in the United States has been taken by the Obama administration. The Office of Management and Budget posted a notice on its site Friday afternoon indicating that the department of Health and Human Services could move forward with steps to change a regulation that has restricted HIV-positive people from gaining entrance into the United States. The proposed change will likely have an impact on both travel and immigration to the United States. Under current regulations, non-U.S. citizens who are HIV-positive cannot travel to the United States unless they are granted a waiver by the Department of Homeland Security. Immigrants have also been required to be tested for HIV. The actual regulatory change, however, will not be available until next week, and advocates are waiting to analyze the exact language. “We won’t know all of the details unt...

Isis International, together with AMARC (World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters) Asia Pacific is set to conduct a radio seminar for women broadcasters on the role of community radio in peace building and disaster management from 3 to 7 October 2009 in Bangalore, India. Isis also encourages the participation of selected women in AMARC Asia Pacific’s 2nd Regional Community Radio Conference from 10 to 13 October 2009 also in Bangalore, India. Women Making Airwaves for Peace (WMAP) is a five-day seminar that gathers around 30 women community radio broadcasters from the Asia Pacific region. It is a space where participants share their experiences, particularly best practices towards engendered peace building and disaster management -- enabling community radio to empower women in crisis situations. The seminar also enhances the skills of the participants in radio production and digital audio editing. It sharpens their perspectives in engendered peace journalism, interview techniqu...

By:Igor G. Mocorro (Philippines)Youth Observer/Reporter sponsored by the World AIDS CampaignDay 2 of the 24th UNAIDS PCB Meeting; June 23, 2009 “When Pandora closed a box again, the only thing left inside was hope." Hope, and the conviction it inspires, is what has enabled millions of people living with HIV to keep fighting, against all odds, to change the world. It is this hope that has driven UNAIDS," Michel Sidibe, as he delivered his first report as the UNAIDS Executive Director at the 2nd day of the 24th UNAIDS ProgrammeCoordinating Board Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. In his 48-minute speech, Sidibe reaffirmed UNAIDS commitment on universal access to HIV & AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, despite the challenges and threats of economic crisis and other emerging global infectious diseases such as the AH1N1virus. With AIDS killing 2 million people each year, he stressed the importance of evidence-based interventions as pillars of effective HIV & AIDS ...

FORUM DES JEUNES SUR LES RISQUES LIES A LA SEXUALITE Moroni du 1er au 3 octobre 2009 Présentation d'USONI Le Réseau National des Jeunes en Population et Développement (USONI) est une affiliation d'associations de jeunes comoriennes crée le 21 septembre 2006, dans le but promouvoir le leadership de la jeunesse et des organisations de jeunes dans le traitement de questions de jeunesse, et sa participation dans le processus de développement. Il a pour objectifs globaux la lutte contre les IST/VIH/SIDA, la promotion de la santé des jeunes à tous les niveaux et la réduction de la pauvreté pour un développement humain durable. Ayant son siège à Moroni, Immeuble CASM/Mtsangani, USONI est composé de trois bureaux exécutifs insulaires, chapeautés par un bureau exécutif national et compte actuellement 7O associations de jeunes membres dans le territoire comorien. Il est au niveau international membre du Réseau Africain des Jeunes contre le SIDA (RAJS), et du Réseau Africain des Jeunes e...