Asia Catalyst

Press Statements Archives

Asia Catalyst and 25 other regional networks and organizations called this week for methadone and buprenorphine access at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, to take place this month in Busan, Korea. 

Lack of access to these key medications in effect creates a discriminatory barrier to participation in the congress by delegates who are people using drugs. 

Please help us to circulate the letter and to raise these issues with conference conveners and the Korean government, both before and at ICAAP.
Award-winning rights advocates from China and Thailand are joining together to train grassroots HIV/AIDS groups in human rights skills. Their first manual, Prove It: Documenting Rights Abuses was published on World AIDS Day, December 1st. English press release (pdf) Chinese press release (pdf) Read more and download the manual/下载课本。
Asia Catalyst is proud to announce the “public beta” launch of its Asian AIDS Law Database.  The database is a free, user-friendly resource, searchable in Chinese and English, to help researchers to find HIV/AIDS-related statutes throughout Asia. It is the first database exclusively dedicated to this purpose. English and Chinese press release (pdf) Visit the database

Asian AIDS NGOs Face Restrictions

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Despite pledges by world leaders and the UN to support civil society, AIDS nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) face heavy restrictions in Cambodia, China, Myanmar and Vietnam, Asia Catalyst said in a report released for World AIDS Day. English press release (pdf) Download the report in English (pdf)
President Obama should meet with directors of independent nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on his November trip to China, Asia Catalyst said in an open letter today. They are likely to be followed, threatened, or placed under house arrest during his visit. A meeting with him would give them some political shelter.English press release (pdf) Letter to President Obama (pdf)
UNAIDS must speak out against government restrictions on AIDS NGOs in Asia, Asia Catalyst said today at the International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP). Physicians for Human Rights and over 30 international AIDS groups joined in calling on UNAIDS to take a stronger stand on the rights of frontline AIDS organizations.
Read more: English press release (pdf)
Asia Catalyst announces the launch of a new report on access to treatment for children with HIV/AIDS, I Will Fight to My Last Breath: Barriers to AIDS Treatment For Children in China.
Read more: English Press Release (pdf) Chinese Press Release (pdf) Report Page
Asia Report (亚洲调查), a new Chinese-language website, will link Chinese nonprofit groups with partners in Asia, Asia Catalyst (亚洲促进会) said today. Read more(pdf).
The Chinese government should immediately release prominent AIDS advocate Duan Jun (段军), Asia Catalyst said today.
Read more中 文.
Chinese authorities have shut down two popular websites for people with AIDS and hepatitis, and threatened the shutdown of a third unless it removes “illegal information”, Asia Catalyst said today. China should allow AIDS and hepatitis groups free access to the internet to fight the epidemics.
Read more, 中 文.