Asia Catalyst Launches New Health Rights Advocacy Training Program

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Asia Catalyst aims to encourage regional exchange and collaboration through our newest initiative – the Health Rights Advocacy Training Program. The prog­­ram builds off of the rights training curriculum, Know It, Prove It, Change It: A Rights Curriculum for Grassroots Groups – a joint project with Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG) and Dongjen Center for Human Rights Education and Action.

On May 20, 2013 Asia Catalyst brought together eighteen health rights advocates from nine countries across East and Southeast Asia who are promoting the rights of marginalized communities directly affected by HIV/AIDS. The group spent a week in Bangkok, Thailand, where they participated in sessions led by experts in health rights and advocacy skills, received peer-feedback on their advocacy projects, and visited organizations that are leading grassroots movements in sex worker rights and fighting discrimination and stigma against people living with HIV/AIDS. Hai Vuong, a health rights advocate and photographer from Supporting Community Development Initiatives in Vietnam, captured some of the highlights.

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[COMMENTARY] Marginalization and HIV Risk Among Sex Workers in China | 中国性工作者的边缘化及艾滋病感染风险

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By Mike Frick

A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases examines the burden of HIV among female sex workers in 50 low- and middle-income countries. This is the first systematic review of HIV risk among female sex workers globally. The authors find that female sex workers in China face a 50-times increased odds of HIV infection compared to all Chinese women of reproductive age. This increased risk is slightly lower than the risk faced by female sex workers in India, but much higher than the increased odds of HIV infection among sex workers in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam.

近日，约翰霍普斯金大学公共卫生学院研究人员在《柳叶刀传染病》杂志 (The Lancet Infectious Diseases)上发表最新研究，研究调查了在世界50个低、中等收入国家，艾滋病毒给女性性工作者中艾滋病感染的情况。这是第一份全球性的针对女性性工作者所面临的艾滋病风险的系统性综述研究。作者指出，在中国，与其他育龄女性相比，女性性工作者感染艾滋病毒的风险按50倍的几率增长。这一数值只稍稍低于印度女性性工作者面临的艾滋病毒感染率，但却远远高于泰国、柬埔寨、印度尼西亚和越南。

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[NEWS] Week of Jan 20, 2012

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1.
[China Dialogue] What the smog can’t conceal 
(English)
https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4734-What-the-smog-can-t-conceal-
(Chinese)
https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/ch/4734-What-the-smog-can-t-conceal-

Since
the autumn, a series of polluted “hazes” in cities across China –
and discussion of that now ubiquitous term for fine particulate
matter, PM2.5 – have attracted widespread public attention. So too
has the official response: while urban air pollution fast became a
focus of public anger, the Ministry of Environmental Protection
(MEP), which is responsible for monitoring air quality, took the
opportunity to show its sluggish and bureaucratic side.

2.
[Blog | New Yorker] The Chinese View of
SOPA
https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/01/the-chinese-view-of-sopa.html

In
China, the reaction to American protests has ranged from sympathy to
gentle Schadenfreude. A commentator known as Dr. Zhang wrote on
Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site: “I’ve come up with a
perfect solution: You can come to China to download all your pirated
media, and we’ll go to America to discuss politically sensitive
subjects.”

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[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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[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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