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======================================================== SEA-AIDSFLASH Number Fourteen - 2 September 1996 The bi-weekly electronic news digest on HIV and AIDS in the South East Asia Region (Subscriber total today: 520) ________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS - This week - Media coverage of HIV/AIDS from the region - New information and resources available in SEA-AIDSFiles - Forthcoming events, meetings and training in the SE Asia region - How to retrieve materials from SEA-AIDSFiles THIS WEEK In Stockholm delegates from 130 countries convened the first World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - several articles presented at the congress, and an opening address read on behalf of South African President Nelson Mandela, have been added to the SEA-AIDSFiles archives. Also this week the SEA-AIDS group discussed the possibility of HIV transmission through 'deep' kissing. We have searched the literature available on the Internet and no definitive and authoritative recommendations could be found regarding the risk of HIV transmission by this route. Some organizations avoid any mention of deep kissing as a potential transmission route in their advice and documentation, while others (such as the US/CDC) state that the probability of transmission is very small and add that no known incidences of transmission through kissing have been documented. Several general descriptions of transmission modes have now also been added to SEA-AIDSFiles this week. MEDIA COVERAGE OF HIV/AIDS FROM THE REGION The past two weeks headlines from or concerning the SE Asia region (news 23.txt;17.8Kb): - Japan Arrests Doctor in Case of Bad Blood - AIDS Fears Prompt Brothel Raids - AIDS fear fuels demand for sex with children - Prostituted Children - Australia to give Cambodia A$30 mill aid for 96/97 - AIDS-Tainted Blood Probe in Japan - Japan Police Raid Firm at Center of AIDS Scandal - Vietnamese children rescued from brothel - Indian Government Increases Allocated Funds For AIDS Research - Cambodian visitor arrivals up 28.6 percent - India--AIDS: Women Are Captive Partners - HIV Trends Reported for China - Changes in Sexual Behavior and a Decline in HIV Infection Among - Young Men in Thailand - Blind in Rangoon - Thailand Places HIV/AIDS Information in Internet - Burma Headed for Health Crisis--UK Rights Group NEW INFORMATION AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN SEA-AIDSFILES The following information/materials have recently been added to the SEA- AIDSFiles archives (see below for retrieval instructions): Easy Prey - Sexual exploitation of children is a global scandal A document from Save the Children (UK) (stdis27.txt; 5.7Kb) World Congress Against Sexual Exploitation of Children Stockholm, Sweden Statement by President Nelson Mandela; Issued by the Office of the President (stdis28.txt; 4.0Kb) A child's right to protection from commercial sexual exploitation - An introduction to a new publication of Save the Children (UK) called 'Kids for Hire' (stdis29.txt; 3.6Kb) The HIV Seroprevalence Study Group of Pakistan. HIV seroprevalence surveys in Pakistan. (1996) esgen4.txt; 1.5Kb) Executive Summary of World Development Report 1996: From Plan to Market Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press (pludn40.txt; 64.9Kb - BIG file) Transmission of HIV - From CDC Atlanta, USA (revw7.txt; 6.2Kb) The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Its Transmission CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse (revw8.txt; 10.6Kb) Access to Treatment in Developing Countries GNP+, North America sponsored a satellite symposium at the XI International Conference on AIDS - Vancouver,British Columbia (care25.txt; 2.4Kb) Facts about. . . :Women and HIV/AIDS Factsheet from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (stdis30.txt; 7.8Kb) Dual AIDS theory explains Third World epidemic By James Deane, director of the AIDS programme at Panos (revw9.txt; 6.8Kb) TB/HIV A Clinical Manual - a new publication from the World Health Organization (care26.txt; 3.4Kb) Family Planning Programs in Asia: Approaching a Half-century of Effort By Amy Ong Tsui (popdm3.txt; 2.2Kb) Demographic and Social Change in the Island Nations of the Pacific By Dennis A. Ahlburg (popdm4.txt; 3.7Kb) How Japan and the Newly Industrialized Economies of Asia are responding to Laobor Scarcity By John G. Bauer (popdm5.txt; 3.2Kb) AIDS in the World II Edited by Jonathan Mann and Daniel J. M. Tarantola of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights: Summary, table of contents and ordering information (revw6.txt; 4.4Kb) 4th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific - conference and registration details October 25-29,1997, Manila, Philippines (conf22.txt; 11.6Kb) Labor Crossing into Ranong: A New Chapter in the Problem of Globalization by Amorntip Amarapibal and Supang Chantavanich translated by Aaron M. Stern and Boontarika Saengarun (stmob4.txt; 6.4Kb) The Technical Consultation on Information Regarding Population Movements & HIV/AIDS (Asian Centre for Research on Migration, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)- Executive Summary (stmob5.txt; 4.8Kb) FORTHCOMING EVENTS, MEETINGS AND TRAINING Vaccine researchers will gather in Toronto, Canada, 27-29 October 1996, for Vaccines 2000, an international conference on the latest in scientific research, public health policy and biotechnology. The meeting is part of the global Year of the Vaccine celebration of the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccine initiated by the International Task Force for Child Survival and Development, whose members, besides UNICEF, are the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation. For further information, e-mail: vaccines.impact@ifias.ca IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY, WHY NOT send sea-aids details of forthcoming events and activities in the region. This might include meetings, seminars, forthcoming study tours, training opportunities or electronic events. Details should be sent to: tfran@mozart.inet.co.th INSTRUCTIONS FOR RETRIEVING FILES [YOU SHOULD PRINT THIS SECTION FOR FUTURE REFERENCE] The materials mentioned above are stored in a computer. The computer is like an electronic filing cabinet - it has drawers and files. You have to tell it which drawer to open and which file to select. Following each of the document descriptions above there is a number and a file name given in brackets. So for example, if you want to retrieve Nelson Mandela's staement to the Stockholm Congress (stdis28.txt; 4.0Kb) - the number shows the size of the file (4.0 kilobytes in this case), and the filename first shows the name of the drawer (in this instance 'stdis') and then gives the file number (for this file it is 28). To obtain a copy of this document you send an e-mail to: ftpmail@inet.co.th with the following in the text of the message: open get /pub/sea-aids/stdis/stdis28.txt Other files can be retrieved using the same general format for your message. For example: open get /pub/sea-aids/drawername/filename Because these requests are answered automatically by computer, you must be very careful to copy the format of the message carefully (including spaces and slashes). 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