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Treatment and Care
 HIV can be controlled in much the same way that diabetics manage blood sugar. But there are rules to be adhered to says PANOS INDIA in its new publication 'Treatment & Care' designed as a handbook for people living with HIV and AIDS or feel they are at risk.
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| ‘North’ Learns from ‘South’ on AIDS
 Survey results : In Dec. 2008 Panos Canada took a
group of 10 AIDS practitioners from Haiti to Vancouver on an exchange visit that
produced encouraging results. A good 69 percent of British Columbian
participants surveyed soon after the exchange said it would affect the way they
thought or acted on AIDS. And 70 percent of respondents rated the survey 8-10 in
a scale of ten. In all, 49 of the 95 exchange participants surveyed
responded.
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Bearing Witness to Living with HIV and
AIDS
 When journalists living with HIV and AIDS provide testimonies
they can be especially powerful in inspiring themselves as well as others. Here
Panos Eastern Africa presents a set of courageous stories that will help
discredit stereotypes associated with people living with the virus and the
syndrome.
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 An Assessment of HIV and AIDS Radio Campaign
A Panos assessment of HIV and AIDS on the value of radio campaign messages in Botswana is revealing. Radio messages can be flat, repetitive and so culturally acceptable that they run the risk of misinforming people on sensitive issues. On the other hand there is no other way to handle sensitive issues....
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| Media partnerships are difficult but unavoidable says
Africa study
Media coverage of HIV/AIDS in the Great Lakes Region of
Africa leaves much to be desired according to the report of a monitoring effort
mounted in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in 2008
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| Panos Story Prompts UNAIDS Study of Wives’
Vulnerability to HIV
A story on the plight of wives of migrant
workers, commissioned by Panos Pakistan as part of GAP’s 2010 features,
has prompted UNAIDS to conduct a series of workshops in all the four
provinces of Pakistan aimed at highlighting the special vulnerability of the
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| Breaking the silence: Untreated TB and HIV/AIDS in Haiti’s
prisons
With their overcrowded cells, filthy environment, and
rampant multi-partner sex, Haiti’s prisons are ideal settings for the spread of
tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS. Neither the penitentiary administration
nor the Haitian Ministry of Health have statistics on how many inmates are
infected with HIV/AIDS and/or TB. Inmates are not screened upon admission in the
prisons and their condition is discovered only when they become very ill. ...More» |
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Punjab's Forgotten HIV Widows
 Punjab is listed as a low-risk state for HIV
according to India’s National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO). But talking to
people and meeting experts suggests that NACO’s figures are very conservative.
The group at greatest risk for HIV in Punjab are truck drivers. There's also a
growing number of injecting drug users. What happens to widows and
survivors in forgotten towns, remote border villages and small towns once their
sole earning members are incapacitated or dead can be
heart-breaking.
Link to video: http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/86026/punjabs-forgotten-women-a-lonely-war-against-aids.html ...More»
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| Media Monitoring Report on HIV and AIDS in the Great
Lakes Region
 Institut Panos Paris (IPP) has published a detailed
qualitative and quantitative, of the coverage of HIV and AIDS by the media
in three countries of the Great Lakes region, Rwanda, Burundi and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo – where the conflicts, of yesterday and today,
have contributed and continue to contribute widely to its exponential
development. As a result of this, three national reports and one regional report
(synthesising the findings of the three national reports) has been
produced....More»
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