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Statement by the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights regarding anti-homosexuality laws and prosecutions that violate human rights and threaten AIDS responses. Full statement in EN | ESP
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| ICASO joins advocates for the development of new prevention options against HIV and AIDS in a call to Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, to continue support for the development of
urgently needed tools to fight the global pandemic. Read the letter ... |
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| AIDS Advocacy Alert: Be involved! Be heard! Country Progress reports to be submitted to UNAIDS by March 31, 2010. Learn more about five key actions you can take now by downloading the PDF version of the alert in EN |
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BARRIERS TO CONDOMS – IMPLEMENTING AND DOCUMENTING ADVOCACY STRATEGIES
More than 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, community-based organizations continue to struggle to maintain and expand access to the single most effective HIV prevention intervention for the vast majority of infections – the use of condoms.
This report is an analytical summary of three case studies in India, Jamaica and Cambodia. It indentifies consistent themes in the barriers faced by the populations they serve, in accessing condoms, as well as the process the Jamaican Network of Seropositives (JN+), Sangram (a sex worker peer education project in Southern India), and the Cambodian Alliance for Combating HIV/AIDS (CACHA) followed to develop their advocacy plans and activities. The lessons learned from these three case studies will hopefully inform and inspire similar efforts around the globe.
Download the PDF files in EN | FR (Summary Report) | ESP (Summary Report) |
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Civil Society Action Team (CSAT)
Action AlertHave your say on
Community Systems Strengthening
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| Toolkit for Community Involvement in HIV Vaccines Research and Advocacy. The toolkit was designed to increase and improve the active and meaningful involvement of the community sector in HIV vaccine advocacy, research and development through action planning. Find guides, primers on the ethics and science of HIV vaccine research, and many other resources in EN, FR and ESP by clicking here. |
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| AIDS has not gone away - nor should the funding: a statement by the ICASO network of networks to mark World AIDS Day on December 1, 2009. EN | ESP |
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| APCASO recognized for work in AIDS advocacy -
The Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organizations (APCASO) has been awarded the 2009 Positive Commitment Award in Community Mobilization by International Initiatives by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition’s (ITPC) China office, with support from UNAIDS China. Full story ... |
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| HIV-related travel restrictions -
ICASO welcomes President Obama’s announcement of the end to the US government policy to restrict entry to people living with HIV without a special waiver, which has been in place since 1987. The change will take effect in early 2010. As a member of the International Task Team on HIV-related travel restrictions, ICASO led the process for a civil society sign-on letter submitted to UN member states in 2008, calling for the removal of restrictions and for no further AIDS-related meetings to be held in countries that have such restrictions. The letter was signed by over 400 organizations. The immediate effect was felt at the United Nations High-level meeting, where the president of El Salvador and the UN Secretary General made a public appeals for the removal of the restrictions in countries such as the US and China. Also see the UNAIDS Press Release |
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| Sign on letter - Civil Society Statement on ART for Prevention.
On October 14 - 15, 2009, civil society organizations from around the world came together to discuss the many issues related to ART as prevention. Participants issued a statement to the participants at the consultation on ART as prevention, hosted by the World Health Organization, held in Geneva on 2-4 November. EN | ESP | FR |
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| Read about ICASO's work in our Annual Report for 2008 |
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A new
publication – Verdict
on a Virus: Public Health, Human Rights and Criminal Law – shows
that a simplistic ‘law-and-order’ response
to HIV and the way in which individual court cases are reported
in the media only serve to intensify a climate of denial, secrecy
and fear. This creates a fertile breeding ground for the continued
and rapid spread of HIV.
Verdict on a Virus is a joint
publication of IPPF, ICW and GNP+ |
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| The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition's (ITPC) latest report, Making Global Fund Country Coordination Mechanisms work through full engagements of civil society, is now available. Click here to download the PDF version. The new report looks at the functioning of CCMs in seven countries: Argentina, Cambodia, Cameroon, India, Jamaica, Romania and Uganda. ICASO supported this work as a member of the Project Advisory Committee and funded the research by ITPC partners in five countries. |
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| The final Summary 'Note' by the President of the General Assembly on the 2008 high-level meeting (HLM) on AIDS in June. This outcome document is meant to reflect the discussions during the HLM, including those by and with civil society. Download the report (PDF) here. |
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Read ICASO's global report,
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and Political Declaration
on AIDS: A review on progress from the community sector,
published on the occasion of the UN High
Level Meeting on AIDS on
June 10 – 11.
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