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News in Brief
SUDAN: Universal access still a long way off in the south
GLOBAL: Breakthrough could create better ARVs
World AIDS Day 2009
Zambia
World AIDS Campaign and African Civil Society Partners Launch Road Map to Universal Access
The World AIDS Campaign and its African civil society partners and network have launched an Africa Road Map to Universal Access to Treatment, Care and Support. The Road Map seeks to follow up and highlight African civil society advocacy programmes around the deadlines related to the UNGASS process that are due to lapse in December 2010.
The Road Map will focus on key population groups such as women and youth as well as important priorities like human rights, funding health, political leadership and living positively. Some of the specific issues to be addressed in the Road Map are a programme on prevention of mother to child transmission, monitoring government agency responses to gender based violence and applying pressure for better performance when it so required, organising social mobilisation events on World AIDS day.
World AIDS Campaign: World AIDS Day 2009
On World AIDS Day 2009, World AIDS Campaign took it’s message to the grassroots in Cape Town, South Africa. The World Aids Day event was held in Samora Machel informal settlement. The event brought together parliamentarians, teen superstars, 2000 learners, a street march and some powerful messages from Cape Town’s young people about the impact of HIV on their communities.
The World AIDS Campaign for the first time embarked on a project with a hundred learners from ten different high schools on the Cape Flats, in preparation for World AIDS Day. These learners received Human Rights, HIV and Photography training. They were then asked to capture photo images of HIV as they perceive it.
There was a mix of images of service providers, images of people living in the community, some with HIV; and the lack of basic services access to clean water, to a health environment, to adequate housing and sanitation that were exhibited at the event. Learners were also encouraged to come do voluntary testing which was available at the event.