Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+) is seeking a woman to coordinate the activities of its women working group (WAPN+) in the Asia Pacific Region. Based in Bangkok this challenging post will involve working with a dedicated team of women living with HIV in the region and APN+ secretariat and its team. A willingness and proven commitment to working for women living with HIV and people living with and affected by HIV in general is essential for a successful candidate.
[COMMENTARY] Where Are the Key Affected Populations at the International AIDS Conference?
By Sara L.M. Davis
Background
This spring, when the International AIDS Society announced the program for AIDS 2012, the big HIV/AIDS conference that recently concluded in Washington D.C., the MSM Global Fund expressed concern that “only a fraction of high-quality abstracts” from men who have sex with men (MSM) had been accepted. Other activists and networks representing Key Affected Populations (KAPs) concurred in emails sent to the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) list that they too felt they were being excluded from the program.
[REPORT] Washington, D.C.: What We’ll Remember from AIDS 2012
Meg Davis and Lanlan at AIDS 2012 in the Global Village.
This year Asia Catalyst sent four Chinese activists and ten staff members and volunteers to the AIDS 2012 conference in D.C. Here are a few short reflections of and pictures from our time.
- Our session on civil society in China was a really great, thoughtful, lively and overall optimistic discussion between three rising young advocates, Zheng Huang (China Sex Worker Organization Network), Yuan Wenli (China Network of Women Against HIV/AIDS), and Shen Tingting (Korekata AIDS Law Center). I only wish it had been on a platform where the speakers could have reached a larger audience.
[NEWS] Asia Catalyst Profiled on Voice of America
Voice of America, an international public broadcaster, profiled Asia Catalyst at the International AIDS Conference this week. Check out the great interviews with executive director Meg Davis and China program director Gisa Hartmann here (in Mandarin).
[PROFILE] Shen Tingting: Researcher For Action
Shen Tingting, a prominent HIV/AIDS and human rights advocate in Beijing, China, has been working with marginalized communities since her college days. In 2007, she, along with Li Dan, co-founded the Korekata AIDS Law Center. Until 2012, she was the deputy director of its parent organization, Dongjen Center for Human Rights Education and Action [https://www.dongjen.org/]. At Dongjen, she founded and managed an outreach program for sex workers in Beijing after she earned her masters from Renmin University in Social Welfare in 2009. Currently Tingting is a visiting research fellow at Asia Catalyst.
Tingting has written and advocated on a range of rights-related HIV/AIDS issues, including testing and confidentiality, compensation for victims of China’s blood disaster, and the rights of sex workers and drug users. She is the author of a new report on HIV testing and human rights in China, Real-Name Testing: Is China Ready? and previously conducted research to co-author a major bilingual human rights report, China’s Blood Disaster: The Way Forward. Her articles have also appeared in the HIV/AIDS Law and Policy Review.
She will present a poster on compensation for China’s HIV blood disaster on Tuesday, July 24th from 12:30 to 2:30pm and will speak in several other sessions. In the run-up to this year’s International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2012, Tingting sat down with Asia Catalyst to chat about her work.
