| Some sections don’t believe that people can be in sex work because they want to be there |
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 Sections of society refuse to believe that people may wish to choose
sex work as a profession says Meena Seshu, who has been working for the
empowerment of people in sex work since 1991. In this special interview with
Sandhya Srinivasan she describes a rights-based approach to sex work AND HIV
prevention programmes.
Meena is due to deliver the Jonathan Mann Memorial
Lecture at the Vienna AIDS Conference in July. ...More» |
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| Media Monitoring Report on HIV and AIDS in the Great Lakes Region |
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 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 exercise three national reports and one regional report (synthesising the findings of the three national reports) has been produced.
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| What the Papers Say |
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| Panos is currently undertaking groundbreaking research into how leading newspapers in 12 countries around the globe cover HIV/AIDS and TB issues. The study will provide detailed and rigorous country level research that will feed into a global comparative analysis. ...More» |
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| Women living with HIV and AIDS find a voice in Pakistani media, says Panos study |
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| The faces and voices of women living with HIV and AIDS are
beginning to be seen and heard in Pakistani media, although not as often as they
should be, says a study analysing Pakistani media’s coverage of HIV and AIDS. In
most HIV and AIDS coverage, women are represented only as commercial sex workers
(CSWs), the study found. The coverage also highlights a key aspect of the HIV
and AIDS epidemic in Pakistan -- the phenomenon of spousal infections. It
challenges the myth that HIV is a disease brought on by sexual
promiscuity. ...More» |
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| What the Papers Say |
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| Panos is currently undertaking groundbreaking research into how leading newspapers in 12 countries around the globe cover HIV/AIDS and TB issues. The study will provide detailed and rigorous country level research that will feed into a global comparative analysis. ...More» |
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