[NEWS] Shanghai Daily Highlights Red Ribbon Home

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We’re delighted to see the fine work of Red Ribbon Home was featured in the Shanghai Daily on December 1, World AIDS Day. As the Daily write, Red Ribbon Home was founded by Zhang Lin, a woman living with HIV/AIDS, in Ruili, Yunnan. Red Ribbon Home provides frontline services to people living with HIV/AIDS, and holds social activities to provide a safe space for the community to connect with one another.

Red Ribbon Home was selected as a member of Asia Catalyst’s 2012 NGO Leadership Cohort program, which is training ten grassroots health rights groups in organizational management and advocacy skills.

[RESOURCE] Know It: The Rights Framework

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Asia Catalyst, Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group and Dongjen Center for Human Rights Education and Action announce the publication of the second in our series of human rights manuals for grassroots groups from HIV/AIDS-affected communities: Know It: The Rights Framework. 

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[RESOURCE] 中国应当赋予艾滋病感染者平等的权利

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作者：马克海伍德和王翠凤

目前在中国，成千上万的艾滋病患者和感染者在合法化的歧视面前沦落为二等公民。我们来自南非和美国两个国家。这两个国家历史上都曾经历过许多制度化的歧视：南非的种族隔离制度和美国南部各州的吉姆克罗法。我们应当从我们自己过去的经历中吸取经验教训和展望未来。

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[COMMENTARY] Prejudice Mars China’s AIDS Record

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From the Wall Street Journal Asia

By Mark Heywood and Sara L.M. Davis

China will observe World AIDS Day on Thursday with events in which Chinese leaders publicly embrace people living
with HIV/AIDS. But on every other day of the year, hundreds of thousands of Chinese living with HIV/AIDS are treated as second-class citizens.

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[URGENT APPEAL] Thai People Living with HIV/AIDS Devastated by Floods

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Asia Catalyst is urging supporters and friends to give what you can to the Thai Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+) in their urgent appeal for a disaster response.

According to TNP+, the floods in 26 provinces of Thailand which began in October 2011 have affected about 2 million people.  In some towns and villages the water is as high as three meters above street level.

The members of the Thai Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+) who live in those provinces are affected in many ways:

– homes and household equipment have been damaged, with water levels reaching the roofs of some properties

– equipment damaged

– farm land damaged

– cars and motorcycles under water

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