Please follow this link for his presentation
HIVAIDS care with Buddhism_Yan Hanen.pdf

The rule of law can be a powerful and effective tool
for building a society that is free of injustice and filled with opportunities
for all, but the operational environment that accompanies human rights advocacy can limit its effectiveness. This summer, while working as a legal intern at an NGO in Kathmandu,
Nepal, I experienced these challenges firsthand.


By Celina
Su
In
2000, I began to work with a small, community-based project called the Burmese
Refugee Project (BRP) in northwest Thailand. Using a participatory
model of community development, the BRP helps over 100 Burmese Shan refugees in
northwest Thailand access education, health, and legal services. Through this
work, I learned that refugees are the victims of what public health researchers
call structural violence--physical and
mental harm that results from unjust social, economic, and political
structures. Many of the
prescriptions that would treat these ailments--such as a shared wheelbarrow so
that the refugees do not have to carry 50-kilo bags of rice on their shoulders,
and for the man above, sunglasses to treat pterygium (a scar on the eyes caused
by sun damage)--fall outside typical medical practice.
This post is based on the
presentation that Asia Catalyst scholarship recipient Zhao Gang from Kang Xin
Home, a drug user NGO based in Yunnan, China, gave at the International AIDS
Conference in Vienna this July. Kang Xin Home (pronounced Kang
Shin) aims to bring together Chinese people living with HIV (PLHIV), injecting
drug users (IDU), and methadone treatment personnel in order to promote
HIV/AIDS prevention, self-help and mutual support. Kang Xin aims to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS
on their community, improve the quality of life
for drug users and PLHIV, and promote social equality.
The Situation of drug users
There are several main problems that drug users face in their daily life
which impact their ability to build an organization. Long-term drug abuse leads
to low self esteem. Drug users in our area lack stable employment and therefore
a secure livelihood. They are marginalized and lack support and trust from the
community they live in. The resulting instability makes it difficult for them
to integrate into society. Grassroots nongovernmental organizations (NGO) can
benefit drug users and give them hope through both the services they provide
and the opportunity to get active. However, organizing drug users faces some
distinct challenges that I would like to discuss here. This discussion is part
of a process to actively find solutions and to build sustainable organizations
by and for drug users in China.
By Meg Davis
The crisis of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is
creating incentive and space for mobilization of marginalized communities, and
otherwise restrictive states such as China and Myanmar (Burma) are largely
allowing it. In recent months, both Chinese and Burmese sex worker-led
organizations have moved into the public eye.
By Wen-Hsuan Tseng
Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary directed by Chinese-Canadian
director Lixin Fan, will open in New York on September 3rd at IFC
Center. Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million
migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration--an epic spectacle that
reveals a
country tragically caught between its rural past
and industrial future.
For most drug users and people who
work with them, overdose is an urgent issue. Many AIDS,
在大多数地方,参与药物服务的人很清楚过量是一个事关重大的问题。从事艾滋病、伤害减低和其他药物服务的许多组织已创建了项目,以便:向吸毒者提供过量预防和应对技巧的教育;发放纳洛酮----这是一种包含在《世界卫生组织基本药品示范清单》中,安全高效的鸦片类药物过量的解药;并且记录过量的普遍程度和应对措施的成效。过量预防对HIV/艾滋病的项目为什么重要,本文作了概括性的评述。在这里下载文件。
By
Chan Fei
AIDS
Concern is proud to launch its newly published Chinese-language manual POZ in the City, coauthored by AIDS
Concern and a group of people living with HIV (PLHIV) experienced in public
speaking. We invite you to step forward and work together to combat stigma and
prejudice attached to PLHIV. 香港「关怀爱滋」伙拍一群公众演说经验丰富的感染者共同撰写了「正能量计划」手册,希望籍此和各位同工及感染者分享如何进行感染者公众演说,共同为消除对爱滋病和爱滋病病毒感染者的标签及偏见努力。
Download:
Handbook in Simplified Chinese
By Mike Frick
From June through early August, I
helped Asia Catalyst's partner organization, Phoenix, to train five volunteers
in research and rights documentation skills. Phoenix is an NGO that serves
women living with HIV/AIDS - many of them sex workers and drug users -- in
Gejiu, Yunnan Province, China. The five participating volunteers on our
research team are all former drug users, and several of them also work as sex
workers. Our goal was to build their capacity to conduct the kind of research
that can inform advocacy and make a difference in the lives of the community
Phoenix serves.
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