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============================================================= SEA-AIDSFLASH Number Seven - 2 May 1996 The bi-weekly electronic news digest on HIV and AIDS for the South East Asia Region (Subscriber total today: 338) ______________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS - AIDSFiles newsletter distribution service begins - 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 AIDSFILES NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION SERVICE BEGINS This issue of AIDSFlash carries an announcement that the AIDS Health Promotion Exchange, an international newsletter on HIV and AIDS, will now be available throughout the region as part of the SEA-AIDS services. Making other newsletters from the HIV/AIDS community available through this electronic network is a service we would also like to offer (free of charge) to other organizations. If you would like your organization's newsletter to be made available through electronic mail, just let us know. An introduction to the first newsletter archived in this way follows: "AIDS/STD Health Promotion Exchange" is a quarterly 16-page newsletter co-published by the Royal Tropical Institute in The Netherlands and the Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) in Zimbabwe. Each issue focuses on a specific theme and/or target audience regarding HIV/AIDS and STD-related health promotion and education; special care is taken to include information from developing countries. Past issues have addressed topics such as the use of theatre, incorporating a gender perspective into programmes and reorienting health and social services. Other issues have focused on programmes targeting different audiences such as youth, women, men, drug users, sex workers and clients, people with learning disabilities and people living with HIV/AIDS. The 1996 issues will deal with: human rights, religion and HIV/AIDS, sexual health education for youth and using the mass media. See below for instructions on how to retrieve this newsletter from the AIDSFiles archives. MEDIA COVERAGE AND PRESS RELEASES Regionally-relevant clippings from: 17 April to 2 May 1996 (13.9Kb; news13.txt) including: AIDS Hits Africa Most, but Asia Set to Overtake; (04/28/96) Greater Mekong region seen newest emerging market; 29 Apr 2 ADB warned of perils of private sector unleashed; 29 Apr 8 Infectious Diseases Defy Optimism; (04/22/96) Diplomacy, natural allies: Thailand's neighbours forge closer ties; April 18, 1996 Beijing Finds 122 People HIV-Positive Since 1985; (04/18/96) AIDS Scandal Old News to TV Anchor; (04/08/96) China to Define Quarantine Zone (04/17/96) China Plans to Combat Infectious Diseases (04/16/96) Indonesia AIDS at a Glance (04/16/96) Japan Provides Anti-TB Medicines to Nepal (04/16/96) 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/news13.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): The role of ESCAP in the development of population information, by John P. Loftus FID News Bulletin, Volume 44, Issue 9, September 1994 (popdm1.txt; 16.2Kb) Coping after a lover's death, by Stephen McFadden (expe4.txt; 10.2Kb). An inventory of NGOs in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand is being compiled as part of an initiative organized by Computer Services Department of Chiang Mai Universtity in Northern Thailand. This file is the form you should use to submit information about your organization for inclusion in this inventory; (congo7.txt; 1.7Kb). Regional cooperation in response to the spread and consequences of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the Asian and Pacific region (Resolution to 32nd Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; April 1996); (plun23.txt; 3.9Kb). WE, the Heads of State and Government of ASEAN....... Full-text copy of the Fifth ASEAN Summit, Bangkok, 14 - 15 December 1995 Summit Declaration; (plpub9.txt; 19.2Kb) ASEAN Regional Programme on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control (1995-2000) - outline of action plan agreed at the Fifth ASEAN Summit, Bangkok, 14 - 15 December 1995 (plpub8.txt; 3.3Kb) AIDS/STD Health Promotion Exchange No. 1, 1996, published four times yearly by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS); (nlett1.txt; 65.2Kb). Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) - Fact Sheet (April 1996) World Health Organization, Office of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (ASD) (ststd5.txt; 4.1Kb). FORTHCOMING EVENTS, MEETINGS AND TRAINING IN THE SE ASIA REGION As part of an initiative organized by Computer Services Department of Chiang Mai Universtity in Northern Thailand, a computer-based inventory of non-governmental organizations based in the region is being compiled. In the first instance the inventory will be fosusing on Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. The aim of this activity is to help facillitate communication between interested individuals and the numerous NGOs working in SEAsia. It is hoped that the resulting inventory will provide a useful tool that will aid individuals and organizations in this task. If your organization would like to include contact details and a brief description of activities in this inventory retrieve the file congo7.txt above, complete it and send it to: bruce@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 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 AIDS Health Promotion Exchange above, the brackets say (62.5 Kb; nlett1.txt). The number shows the size of the file (62.5 kilobytes in this case; a BIG file!), and the filename first shows the name of the drawer (in this instance 'nlett') 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/nlett/nlett1.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 FEEDBACK PLEASE! 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