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SEA-AIDSFLASH
Number Six - 16 April 1996
The bi-weekly electronic news digest on HIV and AIDS
for the South East Asia Region
(Subscriber total today: 320)
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CONTENTS
- Candlelight Memorial on 19 May 1996
- Media coverage and press releases 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
CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL ON 19 MAY 1996
HIV/AIDS is a worldwide threat to the health of all people. This threat
is increased by discrimination against people with HIV and AIDS, and
against people at risk for HIV and AIDS due to their poverty, gender,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, drug use, and/or other factors.
This statement is from the declaration of the 13th Candlelight Memorial and
Mobilization, which commemorates those who have died of AIDS and offers
support to those living with HIV and AIDS.
This years event theme will be *AIDS Discrimination is a Global Epidemic*.
Through this issue of AIDSFlash we would like to highlight and support the
Memorial by providing suggestions and information for local organizations
that would like to participate in the event, and voice their statements
against HIV/AIDS discrimination.
This week five relevant materials have been added to the AIDSFiles archives
including:
- an event overview and a description of previous community-based events,
including those organized in the SE Asia region
- a description of the event theme and a call for your organization to
show your support for a declaration against HIV/AIDS discrimination
- a theme background document, which includes statements against
discrimination from the WHO Representative in Thailand, and the heads of
UNDP and UNAIDS
- an example of the Memorial events planned for thos year within the SE
Asia region - news from the Indonesia Candlelight coordinating group
- a model press release for you to use to increase the media coverage of
the memorial and local events.
Instructions for retrieving these files by e-mail are given in detail
below. Please pass these materials on to people and organizations in your
area. Contact details for the international organisers of the event are
included in each of the materials.
If there is any way that the sea-aids services can help with your plans for
19 May, either by asking for information or by relaying the events you have
planned in the region to colleagues, please let us know.
MEDIA COVERAGE AND PRESS RELEASES
Regionally-relevant clippings from: 2 to 16 April 1996 (11.4Kb; news12.txt)
including:
Children's Crusade (04/15/96)
300 New HIV Cases Reported Monthly in Malaysia (04/14/96)
AIDS Shakes Up Japan's Status Quo (04/06/96)
>From Freedom to Fear: When AIDS Hits China (04/01/96)
Malaysia to Give HIV Tests to Students in Drug Abuse (04/12/96)
HIV-1 Found in Variety of Drug Paraphernalia (04/08/96)
Vietnam to have largest regional growth figures (April 11)
Drug seizures in China's Yunnan fall in 1995 (April 9)
HIV Cases Climb in Indonesia (04/05/96)
Sri Lanka Counts Cost of AIDS Among Mideast Maids (04/04/96)
Safe sex on the menu at Vietnam cafe (April 3)
To obtain a copy of these clippings send an e-mail to:
ftpmail@inet.co.th with the following in the text of the message:
open
get /pub/sea-aids/news/news12.txt
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):
Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization materials
Event overview; includes the history, philosophy and nature of the
event (15.5Kb; congo1.txt)
Event theme and call for support to declaration (5.0Kb; congo2.txt)
HIV/AIDS discrimination: Theme background document (7.8Kb; congo3.txt)
Plans for events in Indonesia to commemorate the event (3.9Kb; congo4.txt)
Sample press release and advisory (5.0KB; congo5.txt)
Information about the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations. This
introduction describes the Federations objectives, its international
activities in the Asia-Pacific region, and its HIV/AIDS legal
link activities (6.5Kb; congo6.txt)
Managing grief in an AIDS organization (by Kitty Schoen) - a perspective
from an organization with over ten years community-based experience
(13.9Kb; plcbo3.txt)
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
(20.5Kb; stid1.txt)
Philippines: Young people at risk of HIV/AIDS & Young Love: Filipino
insights; extracted from a report of , the second Young Adult Fertility and
Sexuality Study implemented by the University of the Philippines Population
Institute.
Reproduced from Dispatches, the newsletter of UNFPA, February 1996 (6.5Kb;
stsex7.txt)
Technical cooperation among developing countries and the development of the
Asia-Pacific Population Information Network (POPIN) and Centres; by Pansy
Tun Thien (5.02kB; info1.txt)
FORTHCOMING EVENTS, MEETINGS AND TRAINING IN THE SE ASIA REGION
The National Centre in HIV Social Research organizes the HIV, AIDS and
Society Conference in July each year. Three such conferences have been held
in 1993, 1994 and 1995. The emphasis of the conference is on social
research and methodology. The next will be held in July 1996, at La Trobe
University in Victoria, and will be organized by the National Priority
Program for People Living With HIV/AIDS, another arm of the National
Centre.
For more information, contact:
Danielle.Campbell@mq.edu.au or cassie@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au
The Asian Research Centre for Migration (ARCM) is proceeding with work on a
project involving the role of migration in the spread of HIV/AIDS in
mainland Southeast Asia. Dr. Reto Gass (gassr@netserv.chula.ac.th) heads
the project. Edna Oppenheimer (oppenhei@netserv.chula.ac.th)
coordinates activities among those involved in the project and will perform
much of the fieldwork.
Please contact them for further information.
The Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Scholarship Fund is accepting applications
from journalists for fellowships to cover the 51st General Assembly session
which begins September 17, 1996. The fellowships offer a unique opportunity
for promising young journalists from Asia, Africa and Latin
America to see the United Nations at work and to report on its proceedings
for news media in their home countries. The Fund expects to award four
fellowships in 1996. Applicants must be full-time,
professional journalists between 25 and 35 years old and employed by
recognized print and broadcast media organizations. They must have a good
working knowledge of English.
To receive an application, contact Ms. Judy Aita: Fax: (1) (212) 826-4527
The deadline for submission is 15 May 1996.
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine announces a new MSc course:
Control of Infectious Diseases.
Countries with problems of endemic disease, international agencies and
rapidly changing health scenarios demand individuals with training in
intervention skills. This new course will bridge the disciplines of
epidemiology, laboratory sciences and public health & policy, and will
train or retrain students who wish to work directly on the implementation
of disease control. The course is suitable for the staff of health
ministries, regional or local health departments, national or international
disease control agencies, international aid organizations, and research
institutes. Full details and application form from Deputy Registrar,
LSHTM, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT. Tel: +44 171
927 2239. Fax:+44 171 323 0638. e-mail: registry@lshtm.ac.uk
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 COULD 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 Candlelight declaration above the brackets say
(5.0Kb; congo2.txt). The number shows the size of the file (5.0
kilobytes in this case), and the filename first shows the name of the
drawer (in this instance 'congo') and then gives the file
number (for this file it is 2). 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/congo/congo2.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).
If you would like further instructions for retrieving files in this way,
send an e-mail to:
majordomo@lists.inet.co.th
with the following in the text of the message:
get sea-aids retrev.idx
For a list of all the materials available in the archives send an e-mail to
the same address with the
following in the text of your message:
get sea-aids listing.idx
If you would like a list of the subject areas used for classification of
materials send the following
message:
get sea-aids categ.idx
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