Low-Grade Condoms Putting Lives at Risk, AIDS Activist Warns
Jakarta Globe - Samarinda, Indonesia, 9/29/2012
HIV and AIDS activists in Samarinda have flagged a worrying trend of men refusing to use condoms when having sex with prostitutes because of the reported poor quality of the contraceptive devices. Adi Supriadi, the HIV and AIDS program manager at the Laras Foundation, a social advocacy and rehabilitation group, said on September 28, 2012 that up to 85 percent of the sex workers in Samarinda’s three main red-light districts routinely offered condoms to their clients. However, he said the men refused because the condoms, handed out for free by the municipal authorities, were very thin and tended to tear easily. ‘So they proceed to have unprotected sex, which is dangerous,’ Adi said.
Call to Boost Gender Sensitised Reporting
Daily Times - Karachi, Pakistan, 9/28/2012
White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan (WRCP), a platform working for gender equality, has launched a workshop for journalists to sensitise them in regard with gender sensitised reporting. The workshop, held at a local hotel on September 27, 2012, was a part of ‘Nationwide Journalists Engagement Program’, which is an exclusive initiative of WRCP for journalists. The motive of the workshop was to take journalists on board for a code of ethics for gender sensitive reporting, which was developed by WRCP earlier this year in consultation with over 150 senior journalists across Pakistan.
Manual on Positive Care to be Launched
The Indian Express, India, 9/27/2012
‘It is so difficult to talk to our own children on matters related to sex. Then how do we explain children living with HIV about his/her sexuality and answer their innumerable questions?’ asks Anuradha Mukherjee, project director at NAZ foundation, a New Delhi-based NGO working on HIV and AIDS and sexual health. Malavika Tiwari, actor and American India foundation board of trustees’ member, launched the training manual at a function on September 27, 2012. Child care institutions from Pune, Ahmednagar, Latur, Sangli and other places have come together for a four-day workshop that commenced at Pimpri on September 27, 2012. Due to the stigma surrounding HIV, rehabilitation is a huge issue for these children, says Jameela Dhalait, project coordinator at city-based NGO, Manavya that provides shelter for 63 children who are orphaned and living with HIV.
Fighting Sexual Harassment at Work
The Times of India, India, 9/27/2012
In today`s corporate environment, its inhabitants are put under various kinds of pressures. One such nuisance is sexual harassment. Often, sexual harassment incidents fall into the category of the ‘merely annoying.’ In other situations harassment may lead to temporary or prolonged stress and/or depression depending on the recipient`s psychological abilities to cope up with it, and the social support or lack of it for the recipient. Victims who do not submit to harassment may also experience various forms of retaliation, including isolation and bullying.
Teenagers Lacking Safe Sex Knowledge
China Daily, China, 9/27/2012
China needs to improve the level of sex education as many teenagers lack basic knowledge of contraception, according to experts at a seminar on teenage sexual health education in Beijing, on September 26, 2012. Zhang Meimei, director of the center of sex education at Capital Normal University, believes schools should approach the subject in a subtle manner. In 2010, Peking University conducted a survey on 22,888 unmarried Chinese people aged 15 to 24, which found that of the 22.4 percent who had had sex, more than half had used no contraceptive method the first time.
Reproductive Health Excites Doctors
Pakistan Today - Karachi, Pakistan, 9/27/2012
Reproductive health is a cross cutting theme of medical and social sciences whereas its training is essential to equip medical graduates to address the behavioral disorders, experts said on September 26, 2012 at a seminar held at Dow University of Health Science (DUHS). The seminar was organized to highlight importance of reproductive health taught as a separate subject to the MBBS students at DUHS. Prof Subhana Tayyab, Chairperson Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Civil Hospital, Karachi, said that the vast majority of the causes of maternal and child morbidity and mortality are preventable or readily treatable with simple, inexpensive technologies and approaches.
M`sian AIDS Council Needs Foreign Funding
The Sun Daily - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9/27/2012
The Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) requires the support of international agencies to complement the HIV and AIDS prevention programmes carried out by the Health Ministry. The statement comes in light of recent controversy regarding the channeling of funds by foreign agencies to certain local organisations known to be pro-opposition and involved in anti-government activities including street demonstrations.
Sex Workers Want Anti-Sex Trade Laws Scrapped
The Korea Herald, South Korea, 9/26/2012
Workers in the sex industry called September 26, 2012 for the scrapping or revision of anti - sex trafficking laws, saying it restricts their right of sexual autonomy. The clause limits sex workers’ rights to sexual autonomy and their freedom to enjoy a free sex life as adults, they argued. South Korea has banned the sex trade since two pertinent laws went into effect in 2004, dealing a serious blow to the industry.
NGOs Against HR Draft
Bangkok Post - Bangkok, Thailand, 9/24/2012
Thailand`s civil society organisations have joined Asean colleagues in criticising the draft Asean Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) to be submitted to the Asean Foreign Ministerial Meeting in New York on September 27, 2012. Suntree Saeng-ging, secretary general of the NGO Coordinating Committee on Development, said several key principles were diminished in the declaration including the collective bargaining power of workers, the rights of indigenous peoples, minorities, lesbian-gay-bisexual-transsexual (LGBT) persons, and persons deprived of liberty.
Indonesia`s HIV and AIDS Sufferers Call for Domestic Production of Drugs
Jakarta Globe - Jakarta, Indonesia, 9/24/2012
People living with HIV and AIDS have called on the government to produce all antiretroviral drugs, or ARVs, within the country in a bid to secure stock availability. ’There has to be a policy to have a legal umbrella so that the ARVs can become fully generic and be produced in Indonesia,’ Aditya Wardhana, a coordinator with the Indonesia AIDS Coalition, said on September 23, 2012. He added that it was unfortunate that the test is only available in five provinces and comes with a restrictive price tag.
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