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Strollerderby (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
A general consensus that has emerged from the International AIDS conference currently being held in Mexico is that the global approach to fighting AIDS does too little for children . According to health workers at the conference, much of the government money earmarked for combating AIDS in developing countries goes to consultants and overheard costs, with little of that money directly helping children....
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Babble.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
A general consensus that has emerged from the International AIDS conference currently being held in Mexico is that the global approach to fighting AIDS does too little for children . According to health workers at the conference, much of the government money earmarked for combating AIDS in developing countries goes to consultants and overheard costs, with little of that money directly helping children....
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
(Mexico City, August 6, 2008) The Asia Pacific Network of Sex workers (APNSW) is the recipient of the 2008 international Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch announced today. The award, which recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations that protect the rights and dignity of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, was...
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RHRealityCheck.org blogs (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The message of sex workers at the International AIDS Conference was loud and clear -- sex workers demand to be recognized as a legitimate profession and see themselves as part of the solution.
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Not Ready for my Burqua (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Somalia three months ago have been released after a ransom reported to be in the range of $1 million was paid. Via Reuters : One Somali elder involved in the negotiations said a ransom of between $700,000 and $1 million was paid before the pair left for Nairobi in neighbouring Kenya. In Rome, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the two former hostages were in...
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ac360blog (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Harris Whitbeck CNN Correspondent In the space of three days, I’ve talked to prestigious scientists, sex workers from Thailand, proud parents of gay teenagers ... All have a story to tell, but I only have a few minutes a day to get all those stories out.
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The United Nations says NATO forces in Afghanistan have agreed to new guidelines meant to stop the blurring of distinctions between soldiers and aid workers. Humanitarian relief organizations have long complained their efforts are hampered by soldiers performing relief work as a cover to achieve military aims, sowing distrust of legitimate humanitarian help among Afghans. But the new U.N. agreement,...
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VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Conferences about AIDS/HIV are important and generally a good thing, right? But what happens when the people most affected by AIDS/HIV are (perhaps deliberately) kept out of the conference? Who is a conference like that really benefiting? Some 25,000 people...
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Fark.com (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
FTA: "The men in the study were three times more likely to have sex with a prostitute in California than they were before leaving Mexico, Lemp's research showed. They were five times more likely to have sex while using drugs or drinking and 13 times more likely to have sex with another man."So the US is Mexico's Vegas'Win.I've heard stories here in the KC area where there are houses full of Honduran...
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The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Daniel Hernandez, Intersections: “A global AIDS conference that opens in Mexico City on Sunday is meant for people infected with HIV, but transsexual sex worker Elma Delea cannot get inside,” begins this Reuters dispatch from the streets of D.F. (More good info and updates at AIDS2008.) For an event as large, international, and glittering as the [...]
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RHRealityCheck.org blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sex workers' advocacy groups shared strategies for funding at the International AIDS Conference.
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Afgha.com (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Two French aid workers kidnapped in central Afghanistan last month have been freed, their employers have said. read more
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worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Many developing countries that are combating AIDS are facing dire shortages of qualified doctors and nurses as healthcare workers leave for developed countries where they are paid many times more. Go to news source
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Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
HOUSTON, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Consejo de Latinos Unidos, a national public charity that educates and assists Hispanics and others, announced today that the Consejo and the Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (T.E.J.A.S.) will provide free medical aid to victims of yesterday's early morning blast at the Valero Refinery....
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Not so very far from yesterday's bombing that killed 16 police officers, in a region subject to a recent Chinese crackdown to protect the Olympics,...
