[REPORT] Test and Treat? 聚焦：化验和治疗？

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Consent and confidentiality: challenges in HIV testing

 

A growing chorus of countries, NGOs
and foundations at the conference called for routine testing as an effective
strategy for HIV prevention. However, a number of panels and sessions at the
conference disagreed with this approach, suggesting that rights abuses related
to drives to scale up HIV testing can actually undermine AIDS prevention.

 

 

同意与保密：艾滋病化验中的挑战

 

越来越多的国家、非政府组织和基金会都一致呼吁将例行化验作为预防艾滋病的有效措施。但是大会上，许多专门小组和专项会议不同意这个方法，并指出，和急于扩大艾滋病病毒化验相关的权利侵犯，将破坏艾滋病的预防工作。

 

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[COMMENTARY] Protest: An Honorable Tradition at the AIDS Conference 抗议：艾滋病大会上的光荣传统

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Sex worker protest at the conference to demand decriminalization (Photo by Zhao Gang)

At the Vienna conference, thousands took to the streets to call for human rights to be integrated into AIDS policies and programs. They gathered in the Heldenplatz, a historic square in front of the Austrian Parliament building, to cheer the heads of UNAIDS, the Global Fund, and international AIDS activists such as Mark Heywood, and to dance and sing with pop singer Annie Lennox.

在维也纳的会议期间，成千上万的人上街集会，要求把人权列入到艾滋病的各项政策和项目中去。集会的地点是位于奥地利国会大楼前的英雄广场，一个具有历史意义的地方。人们相聚一起，为联合国艾滋病规划署署长、全球基金会会长和国际艾滋病活动家如马克·西伍德欢呼，和流行歌手安妮·列克斯一起载歌载舞。

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[RESOURCE] Human Rights Mission Kit

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Asia Catalyst (New York), Korekata AIDS Law Center (Beijing), and Thai AIDS Treatment Action
Group (Bangkok) are cooperating on writing the manual Know It, Prove It,
Change It: A Rights Curriculum for Grassroots Groups. The Human Rights
Mission Kit, which you can download here, is a
collection of easy-to-follow steps, worksheets and templates groups can use at
home to start their own human rights research.

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[REPORT] China’s In the House: News from the International AIDS Conference

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By Meg Davis

 

At 5 pm, the crowd began to assemble
on the square in front of the Messe Wien convention center. Some handed out
signs reading “Broken promises kill” or “we are watching” over photos of giant
eyeballs. Others wrestled in the wind with a black-and-white banner reading “No
retreat, fund AIDS.”

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