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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
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In this issue: |
The Canadian
HIV/AIDS Information Centre posts information to this listserv
on a bi-weekly basis as well as any additional more urgent
information as it arises. Included in this issue: HIV in the
News, Conferences, Events & Workshops, Noteworthy Research,
Community Initiatives & Projects, and
Resources HIV Edmonton E-Update will periodically include
this listserv as part of regular postings. Enjoy!
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World AIDS DayMessage from AIDS Action Now and the Day of Action Committee At the last Canadian AIDS Society’s People Living with HIV/AIDS Forum (Forum) and Annual General Meeting (AGM) a resolution was passed stating that Canadian AIDS Society and its member agencies should support a "Still Time to Deliver" Working Group of People living with HIV/AIDS in an ongoing National Campaign to raise awareness of the need for a public response to HIV/AIDS in Canada. The proposal was passed unanimously by the members present. Since then CAS has been hosting a series of teleconferences for individuals interested in pursuing these activities.>> Click Here for Advocacy Alert (eng/fr)
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Five Myths about the HIV Epidemic in Asia(The Drum Beat) - by Peter Godwin, Nigel O'Farrell, Knut Fylkesnes, and Sujaya Misra This essay shares the perspective of implementers who have worked with HIV/AIDS programmes in several countries in the region - personnel who "are concerned...about a number of misinformed beliefs, or myths, about the epidemic - myths that are widely circulating in Asia, disseminated in both public and professional discourse, and often dominating policy and political debate." They explore 5 such myths, suggesting areas of policy related to each one that they feel need attention in order to guide focused, coherent, evidence-based HIV/AIDS programming in Asia and the Pacific.>> Click Here for PDF of Essay
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Sexual Development, Social Oppression, and Local Culture(The Drum Beat & Sexuality Research & Social Policy Journal) This paper explores the role of social oppression in the development of young people's sexuality. Gilbert Herdt delineates a new research and policy framework to understand how "structural violence" resulting from poverty, racism, heterosexism, religious persecution and anti-Semitism, homophobia and anti-gay violence, the diaspora of transgender people, xenophobic bias against immigrants, ageism, and discrimination against individuals with disabilities impacts young people's sexuality. Herdt's key conclusion is that by, taking into account cultural and social factors impacting sexuality in health communication research, policymaking, and programming, "we can increase the sense of inclusion and belonging...by creating, through the best research and thoughtful social policies, the means for people to achieve a better voice in their own sexual and social development and destinies."
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the HIV/AIDS Theme Website of The Drum Beat the mediaThe
Communication Initiative Network.
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Cancelled Trial Might Have Increased Risk for Participants(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report) New evidence suggests that Merck's experimental HIV vaccine was ineffective among some trial participants with a pre-existing immunity to a common cold virus and might have increased their susceptibility to HIV infection, researchers reported Wednesday at an HIV Vaccine Trials Network conference in Seattle, the Washington Post reports (Timberg, Washington Post, 11/8). However, the researchers also said that the findings could be a statistical coincidence and that there is insufficient data to determine the full meaning of the findings, the New York Times reports (Altman/Pollack, New York Times, 11/8). (For a related article on the reaction of participants - Click Here)
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4 transplant recipients get HIV from donor>> Click Here for Article and Video Newsclip
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New HIV/AIDS, Global Health Video Footage Available"Kaiser Video Library," GlobalHealthReporting.org: The library provides free HIV/AIDS-related, rights-free footage of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, India and Latin America to television reporters and filmmakers. Clip reels contain video sequences that include footage of physicians with HIV-positive people, the drug manufacturing process, counseling sessions, prevention and awareness classes, blood tests, and city and rural settings. The clip reels can be screened online and ordered in different formats. Journalists, filmmakers and organizations can submit material they would like to contribute by e-mailing VideoLibrary@KFF.org (Kaiser Family Foundation release, 11/14).>> Click Here to Access Kaiser Video Library
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The Body Pro
produces a monthly newsletter about most aspects of HIV Treatment,
Treatment Complications and Research. HIV Edmonton will periodically
include their full newletter in our regular postings. Included in
this edition: HIV Treatment and Care, HIV/HAART Related
Complications, Mental Health/Quality of Life, Pregnancy &
Pediatrics, HIV/STD Transmission, HIV in the U.S. News, and HIV
Outside the United States. Enjoy!
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AIDS Awareness Week - Nov 23 - Dec 1
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AAW National CampaignCheck out the National AAW Campaign materials. The materials can be ordered and even though it is a bit late for AIDS Awareness Week, the materials can be used the year around. These are just a few samples.
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World AIDS Day - December 1stThese are a couple of images from the global World AIDS Day Campaign.
Click Here for More on Global Campaign
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