UNIFEM asks: “Where are Women’s Voices…?”

UNIFEM asks:

“Where are Women’s Voices in response to HIV/AIDS?”

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Despite international commitments, HIV-positive women are largely missing from decision-making in response to HIV and AIDS. That’s the finding of a new report from the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the ATHENA Network. Korabi Boruah, Gender & HIV programme specialist for UNIFEM in South East Asia, talks to UN Radio’s May Yaacoub about the factors which contribute to women not having a voice in this important debate.

UNICEF issues report at AIDS conference in Vienna

‘Blame and Banishment’ of HIV - positive youth in Central Asia and Eastern Europe

UNICEF is concerned about the plight of HIV affected youth in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In a new report it finds that only 24 per cent of those who need anti-retroviral treatment receive it, and that stigma associated with HIV infection is rampant, especially when it comes to injecting drug users.

Sri Lankan IDPs 

UNHCR supports return of internally displaced people in Sri Lanka

A year after the end of the long civil war in Sri Lanka, the government is slowly helping internally displaced to return home. They are receiving support from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). We hear the story of Veeraketti Thanikalam and his wife who have started a produce stand and are raising their orphaned granddaughter.

 ”If it weren’t for her, I would have died a long time ago,” he says.

 ”And now, my only ambition is to raise her well.”