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======================================================== SEA-AIDSFLASH Number Sixteen - 2 October 1996 The bi-weekly electronic news digest on HIV and AIDS in the South East Asia Region (Subscriber total today: 530) ________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS - Human rights, health and HIV/AIDS - 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 HUMAN RIGHTS, HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS The goals of public health (to prevent and control the worldwide epidemic of HIV/AIDS) and the goal of human rights (to ensure human rights and dignity of all individuals, whether infected with HIV or not) are deeply inter-connected. Efforts to prevent HIV transmission and to provide adequate care to people with HIV/AIDS are compatible with and complement efforts to promote and protect human rights and dignity. To coincide with the second International Conference on Health and Human Rights this week in Boston (organized jointly by the Harvard School of Public Health / Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights), this issue of AIDSFlash focuses on the issue of HIV/AIDS and human rights. The quote above is taken from one of the resources on human rights that have been added to the AIDSFiles archives. As usual, full instructions on how to retrieve these materials by e-mail are given at the end of this edition. Of particular relevance to the Asia Pacific region is the proposal for human rights priority issues, presented to the Royal Thai Government jointly by 52 groups of people living with HIV/AIDS in Thailand. MEDIA COVERAGE OF HIV/AIDS FROM THE REGION The past two weeks headlines from or concerning the SE Asia region (news25.txt;13.5 Kb): - Unprotected Sex During Pregnancy Increases Perinatal Transmission Of HIV-1 - Sri Lanka-Health: Condom Sales Surge - AIDS in Position to Ravage India - India Enlists Barbers in the War on AIDS - South Asia to Work Out Strategy Against AIDS - Denial and Taboo Blind India to the Horror of its AIDS Scourge - Three Drug Firm Executives Held in Japan AIDS Case - Condom Day to Be Observed in East Nepal - 6,800 Sri Lankans Suspected to be AIDS Carriers - Outlook On Global AIDS Epidemic Outlined In New Book - Vietnam calls for ASEAN drive against drug abuse - AIDS Claims Five Each Day in Northern Thailand - Vietnam Largely Unprepared For HIV 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): Document proposal on human rights and policy for people with HIV/AIDS for the Consideration of the Royal Thai Government Prepared by 52 groups of People with HIV/AIDS Network in Thailand September 15, 1995 (hrgt1.txt; 6.8Kb) AIDS, Health and Human Rights: An explanatory manual International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health Three sections of this book have been archived: Introduction: Why AIDS and human rights? (hrgt2.txt; 11.05Kb) Access and barriers to caring for people with HIV and with AIDS (hrgt3.txt; 11.4Kb) Conclusions: AIDS and human rights to health and human rights (hrgt4.txt; 4.5Kb) "I believe we should claim certain Rights for the children and labour for their universal recognition" Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children - Save the Children's work is firmly based on the Rights of the Child, first drafted by its founder Eglantyne Jebb in 1923, and outlined here in their original form (hrgt5.txt; 1.5Kb) 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights - with a brief introduction by Amnesty International (hrgt7.txt; 9.8Kb) UN seeks guidelines on HIV/AIDS and human rights - Joint press release by UNAIDS and the UN Centre for Human Rights - September 1996 (hrgt8.txt; 4.0Kb) Discrimination and HIV/AIDS - Statement by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to the UN Commission on Human Rights (August 1996) (hrgt13.txt; 9.4Kb) HIV/AIDS in Prisons - Statement by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to the UN Commission on Human Rights (August 1996) (hrgt15.txt; 6.8Kb) HIV/AIDS and Disability - Statement by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to the UN Commission on Human Rights (August 1996) (hrgt14.txt; 10.0Kb) Discrimination in the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) - Draft resolution presented to the UN Commission on Human Rights (August 1996) (hrgt9.txt; 6.6Kb) Bibliographic listing describing 44 titles dealing with the topic of HIV/AIDS and human rights - provided by Hilary Curtis, Executive Director, BMA Foundation for AIDS (hrgt10.txt; 20.1Kb) Women, Human Rights, and Vulnerability to HIV: Findings from the Women and AIDS Research Program - Oral Presentation delivered at the XI International Conference on AIDS Daniel Whelan, Program Associate, International Center for Research on Women (hrgt11.txt; 14.8Kb) The Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) recently agreed to the establishment of a health rights desk in the Philippines. This resolution describes the rationale and approach taken (hrgt12.txt; 2.6Kb) United Nations Background Note - The Challenge of Human Rights and Cultural Diversity (hrgt6.txt; 17.7Kb) Previously archived materials on HIV/AIDS and human rights: Statement of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) at the UN Commission for Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Geneva April 1996 ( Delivered by Dorothy Odhiambo) - (plngo6.txt; 5.3Kb). Statement of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) at the United Nations Commission for Prevention of Discrimination and protection of minorities, Geneva, April 1996. UNAIDS recently invited Patrick Levy, on behalf of ICASO, to address the UN Commission on Human Rights during its 52nd session in Geneva (plngo3.txt; 5.3Kb).. Human rights, public health and the reduction of drug-related harm Address to the 7th International Conference on the Drug Related Harm Hobart, Australia, 3-7 March 1996; Presented by Rob Moodie, UNAIDS (stid1.txt; 20.5Kb) The economic impact of HIV/AIDS mortality on households in Thailand (including discussion of the indirect household impact of discrimination) - (Joint study by Chulalongkorn University and the Royal Thai Ministry of Public Health - first reported October 1994) - (imeco1.txt; 8.8Kb) 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) Remarks from the Opening Ceremony by Eric Sawyer of ACT-UP, XI International Conference on AIDS, Vancouver July 1996 (conf20.txt; 8.9Kb) FORTHCOMING EVENTS, MEETINGS AND TRAINING The Department of Geography, Chiang Mai University, is organizing a symposium on POPULATION, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT on behalf of the IGU Commission on Population and the Environment in Chiang Mai, Thailand 7-11 January 1997. The symposium will be held with the participation of the Commission on Health. For further details, retrieve the file conf23.txt (see instructions below) or send an e-mail to: soggi001@cmu.chiangmai.ac.th 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 The human rights proposal prepared by the Thai PWA groups: (hrgt1.txt; 6.8Kb) - the number shows the size of the file (6.8 kilobytes in this case), and the filename first shows the name of the drawer (in this instance 'hrgt') and then gives the file number (for this file it is 1). 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/hrgt/hrgt1.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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