July 11 2002: CRINMAIL 392: Focus on XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Contents: - INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: XIV International AIDS Conference [website] - XIV INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE: Protesters Call US AIDS Spending Unacceptable, Drown Out Thompson's Speech in Barcelona [news] - AFRICA: Challenge of Treatment Access [news] - SENEGAL: Hope for African Children [news] - UNICEF: Joint Report Details Escalating Global Orphan Crisis Due to AIDS [news] - FORMER SOVIET UNION: Ex-Soviet Bloc Faces Aids on African Scale [news] - SAVE THE CHILDREN: HIV and Conflict: A Double Emergency [report] - ASSOCIATION FRANCOIS-XAVIER BAGNOUD: XIV International AIDS Conference [publications] ---------------------------------------- Your submissions are welcome if you are working in the area of child rights. To contribute, email us at info@crin.org . Please note that we are unable to respond to emails addressed to crinmail_english@domeus.co.uk ---------------------------------------- - INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: XIV International AIDS Conference [website] One-stop daily coverage and comment from Barcelona Up to the minute coverage of the largest and most comprehensive international AIDS meeting in two years, the XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, can be found on the new IPPF Barcelona web site at www.ippf.org/aids2002. More than 10,000 scientists, activists, policy makers, and people living with HIV will come together in Barcelona from July 7-12th. The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) - the world's largest voluntary organisation working in sexual and reproductive health and rights - will be relaying news and comment from the conference and sharing its experience in working in STI/HIV/AIDS prevention and counselling around the world. Visit: www.ippf.org/aids2002 For more information, contact: The International Planned Parenthood Federation Regent's College, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London NW1 4NS, UK. Tel: 00 44 20 7487 7866; Fax: 00 44 20 7487 7865; Email: info@ippf.org Website: www.ippf.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - XIV INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE: Protesters Call US AIDS Spending Unacceptable, Drown Out Thompson's Speech in Barcelona [news] [July 10, 2002, Barcelona] - As reported yesterday, AIDS activists "drowned out" US Department for Health and Human Services (HHS), Secretary Tommy Thompson's speech at the XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, with angry chants criticising the Bush administration for not pledging more money for international HIV/AIDS efforts, the Washington Post reports. The protesters began blowing whistles and yelling "Shame! Shame!" and "No more lies!" as Thompson ascended to the podium. The chanting continued until the end of his speech, rendering the address "virtually unintelligible to the audience" (Brown, Washington Post, 7/10). The protesters also carried placards stating, "Wanted: Bush and Thompson for murder and neglect of people with AIDS" (Ross, AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/10). The protesters, who represented 12 US advocacy groups, focused on Thompson's statement to the conference on Sunday that the Bush administration is "committed" to halving the incidence of HIV among US youth by 2010, supporting domestic and international anti-AIDS efforts and "redressing racial and ethnic disparities fueling the epidemic" in the United States. For the full story, go to http://allafrica.com/stories/200207110017.html [Source: AllAfrica] ---------------------------------------- - AFRICA: Challenge of Treatment Access [news] [BARCELONA, 10 July] - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has thrown down a challenge to the international community at the AIDS 2002 conference in Barcelona this week, calling for three million people to have access to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy by 2005. WHO's goal represents half of the six million people who need treatment now, and a fraction of the 40 million currently living with the virus. Although modest in numbers, the challenge represents a significant hurdle given the current state of global funding for AIDS, doubtful political will, drug availability and technical capacity. WHO has not produced a road map or a detailed timetable to reach its goal. It has been quick to point out that the three million figure was "aspirational". But it does at least represent a target to work towards, some activists acknowledge. Especially since, in Africa, fewer than 30,000 people were on ARVs in 2001. For the full story, please visit: http://www.irinnews.org/AIDSreport.asp?ReportID=1375&SelectRegion=Africa&Sel ectCountry=AFRICA [Source: IRIN] ----------------------------------------- - SENEGAL: Hope for African Children [news] Every time a parent gets ill or dies of HIV/AIDS, children become grossly vulnerable to hosts of physical, emotional and societal dangers. In the wake of today's AIDS crisis in Africa, at least 14 million orphans have been left grappling with the dangers associated with the disease. That number, according to a survey, is expected to double if nothing is done. A whole generation is destined to ruin, faced with poverty, ignorance and stigmatisation, unless the children and orphans are rescued. To read the full story, visit: http://allafrica.com/stories/200206280357.html [Source: Pambazuka Newsletter, 8 July 2002 ] ----------------------------------------- - UNICEF: Joint Report Details Escalating Global Orphan Crisis Due to AIDS [news] Number of Children Orphaned by AIDS Will Rise Dramatically [BARCELONA, SPAIN, 10 July 2002] - A major international report released today finds that an already grim global orphan crisis is set to get much worse as more and more adults with children die from AIDS, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The report, Children on the Brink, calls for action at all levels to assist children, families and communities who are affected by the unprecedented emergency. The report contains the broadest and most comprehensive statistics yet on the historical, current and projected number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. It finds more than 13.4 million children have lost one or both parents to the epidemic in the three regions studied (Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean), a number that will increase to 25 million by 2010. In addition to the millions of children orphaned by AIDS, millions more are being adversely affected by the disease. Children on the Brink was released at the XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, and is the third in a series (earlier versions were published in 1997 and 2000). For the first time, the report is being published jointly by USAID, UNAIDS and UNICEF, with estimates developed by the US Bureau of the Census. The report is available in pdf format at: http://www.usaid.gov/pop_health/aids/Publications/docs/childrenbrink.pdf For the full story, visit: http://www.unicef.org/newsline/02pr43brink.htm Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=2749&flag=report ------------------------------------ - FORMER SOVIET UNION: Ex-Soviet Bloc Faces Aids on African Scale [news] [BARCELONA 10 July, 2002] - The AIDS epidemic in the former Soviet Union, which is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, threatens the same sort of devastation as in sub-Saharan Africa and could soon menace the rest of Europe, the International AIDS conference in Barcelona heard yesterday. Many of those facing the tragedy of soaring HIV infection in eastern Europe accuse the west of having abandoned them once communism crumbled, said Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, director of International Harm Reduction Development, which is part of the Open Society Institute chaired by George Soros. "As a native of Poland, not only am I terrified at the prospect of the rapidly growing HIV epidemic, but I'm frustrated and angry as well," she said in one of the conference's keynote speeches yesterday. "The world celebrated with us when the Berlin Wall fell, and then left us alone to deal with the consequences". For the full story, please visit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,752368,00.html [Source: The Guardian] --------------------------------------------------- - SAVE THE CHILDREN: HIV and Conflict: A Double Emergency [report] In the decade ahead, HIV/AIDS is expected to kill ten times more people than conflict. In conflict situations, children and young people are most at risk - from both HIV/AIDS infection and violence. In this report, Save the Children calls on governments, donors and humanitarian agencies to uphold children?s rights and to channel resources into preventing ? what for many young people is already ? a ?double emergency?. The report is available in pdf format: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/whatnew/index.html For more information, contact: Save the Children UK 17, Grove Lane, London, SE5 8RD, UK. Tel: 00 44 20 7703 5400; Fax: 00 44 20 7793 7626; Email: enquiries@scfuk.org.uk Website: www.savethechildren.org.uk Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=2750&flag=report ---------------------------------------------------- - ASSOCIATION FRANCOIS-XAVIER BAGNOUD: XIV International AIDS Conference [publications] Three Major New Publications to be presented at the Conference Albina du Boisrouvray, founder president of AFXB, conscious of the growing problem of children left in the wake of the AIDS pandemic, asked various authors to scientifically document the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS on a global scale. This gave birth to the following publications: - AIDS in the 21st Century, by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside - Orphans Alert 2 - Children of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. The Challenge for India, by Neil Monk. Exists in PDF format. - Enumerating Children Orphaned by HIV/AIDS: Counting a Human Cost - a study paper on the number of AIDS orphans by 2010, by Neil Monk. Exists in PDF format. For more information about the publications, please visit: http://www.afxb.org/explore/news/aids2002-pubs.html ------------------------------------------------ The CRINMAIL is an electronic mailing list of the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN). CRIN does not accredit, validate or substantiate any information posted by members to the CRINMAIL. The validity and accuracy of any information is the responsibility of the originator.
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