[Goanet] World AIDS Day commemorated by Human Touch and Caritas Goa, with focus on children and adolescents
*World AIDS Day commemorated by Human Touch and Caritas Goa, with focus on children and adolescents* 01 December 2017 On World AIDS Day 2017, Human Touch Foundation and Caritas Goa, brought together adolescents living with HIV, representatives of NGOs, government officials at ASRO, Tivim on 1 December. The event saw the launch of “Bloom and Blossom” club of adolescents living with HIV by Honourable Minister for Health and Women and Child Development, Government of Goa, Shri Vishwajeet Rane, a presentation by adolescents on the outcome of the consultation organized by Human Touch and Youth LEAD, experience sharing by the adolescents on TeenGen Leadership Course held at Bangkok and a cultural programme. “Children and adolescents living with HIV have been left behind. They need to be in the focus of the government as well as other organizations, if we are to end AIDS by 2030,” explained Human Touch Treasurer, Dashmi Mandrekar. Fr. Maverick Fernandes, Director of Caritas Goa, spoke on the work by faith-based organizations in response to the needs of children and adolescents. ”I acknowledge all the people who have been supporting us, including the government, in this initiative. We are determined to coordinate a response with others, including the government and give care, love and protection to those in need,” Fr. Maverick reflected. A unique club of adolescents living with HIV, Bloom and Blossom was launched during the programme. “The concept of adolescent club is to provide a safe space for these adolescents to receive treatment and ensure that health is optimized, and spend some time tending to their emotional needs at this critical time in their lives, where establishing peer relationships is particularly important”, explained Peter F. Borges, CEO of Human Touch. “We face great difficulties in having our voices heard. We need that seat at the table. We want to speak about our issues. We want those working for us to engage us to drive the response”, expressed Shanku, President of the newly launched club, detailing out the issues faced by them in accessing care and support and coping with HIV and presenting the same to the Health Minister. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Vishwajeet Rane, said “You are special children and I will do whatever I can to help you cope with better quality of life and will consider facilities needed in the health system. “I will ensure that AIDS Control Society is once again reorganized so that we can reach out to the people living with HIV. The whole focus will be on providing better quality of life for children living by HIV. I will work towards creating a better environment for them within the framework and funds that are available. I will be putting a monitoring committee in place with different NGOs and like-minded people so that I can deliver and do something to help the people living with HIV.”, Rane concluded.
[Goanet] World AIDS Day 2009 - Human Rights and Univers al Access – What it means for us?
Today is World AIDS Day’s and it is celebrated on the theme “ Human Rights and Universal Access” which is very apt and timely. In 2006, at the UN High-level Meeting on AIDS, the world committed itself to reach universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for all people in need by 2010. Come 2010 and there will be evaluation of MDGs – Millennuim Development Goals - encouraging high level review of what has, and has not, been accomplished in the aim to achieve access for all to essential care by 2010. The theme will help us to draw attention to key populations affected by HIV and be part of the current momentum around the issue of human rights. Further, the language and framework of human rights makes new dialogue possible, and pulls together many issues including the right to information, right to treatment, non- discrimination as well as the right to health. Although progress has been made on many fronts (i.e. accelerating access to HIV treatment and care, mobilizing increasing amounts of funding, resources and expertise to respond to the epidemic), current situation in our country, suggest that we are lagging far behind. It’s high time that we reflect and ask ourselves whether we are heading towards universal access targets in 2010, especially in the area of preventing new infections among populations at higher risk. Focussing on theme and relating it with situation in our State, there is a need that the stakeholders working on the issue, needs greater support and cooperation. Now more than ever, greater attention to human rights is essential to an effective response to HIV, including attaining universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support. People from all sections of the society, including religious leaders from all faiths, should extend support to NGOs in addressing the controversial issues at the heart of the epidemic, including gender inequality, violence against women, harmful male gender norms, age disparate sex and underage sex, sex out of marriage, sexual violence in relationships and marriage, sex work, same sex behaviour, drug use, stigma and discrimination, marginalization and criminalization of populations at risk. Currently, there is tendency to oppose all the moves made in relation to the HIV issue, without getting to know the ground situation. Leaders from political spectrum should direct sufficient resources, programming and political commitment to the populations most affected by HIV infection and its impacts: women, young people, orphans, vulnerable children and children living with HIV, as well as criminalized and marginalized populations that often face major barriers to accessing HIV prevention, treatment, care and support: people who use drugs, sex workers, men who have sex with men and prisoners Lastly, it is essential that HIV is viewed as more than a health issue. We should endorse the idea that “linkages to other areas, such as gender, human rights, education, are crucial”. In the new environment, it is critical that HIV not be subsumed under health. Peter F. Borges, HIV activist from Goa, is member of UNAIDS Interagency Task Force on HIV/AIDS and Young People, Advocacy Working Group. He is currently based at Nagpur and can be contacted on peter.bor...@humantouch.org.in The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/
[Goanet] WORLD AIDS DAY
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet mourns the passing of Jorge de Abreu Noronha in Portugal - Nov 27/07 http://tinyurl.com/2dk2bl http://tinyurl.com/29kpdx --- I thought i could read something interesting on the above topic as it is a very important day for many , those who are aware of the disease as well as those totally ignorant. Bonefacio UN marks World AIDS Day - 'a disease unlike any other' New York, Dec 1 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an end to the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, saying it remains the biggest challenge in fighting the disease that has infected tens of millions of people. World AIDS Day Dec 1 each year brings together organisations that have been fighting the disease that has killed more than 25 million people since the 1980s. The millions of people infected and living with the AIDS virus bear the stigma of the disease, Ban said Friday. 'Overcoming stigma remains one of our biggest challenges,' Ban said. 'It is the single barrier to public action on AIDS. It is one of the reasons why the epidemic continues to wreak its devastation around the world.' He said HIV/AIDS is 'unlike any other' disease because it is also a social and human rights issue, and an economic issue, targeting young adults at a time they can contribute to economic development, intellectual growth and childrearing. The UN has called for halting the spread of the disease by 2015, but some countries have succeeded more than others in implementing national programmes in fighting AIDS. 'We have made tangible and remarkable progress on all these fronts,' he said. 'But we must do more.' 'On World AIDS Day, let us show the leadership it takes to live up to our responsibility,' Ban urged UN members. The Unaids programme and World Health Organisation said in Geneva in November that more than 33 million people are currently living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, down 16 percent from last year's 39.5 million, after the two organisations revised the numbers. Around 2.5 million new people will have been infected and 2.1 million will have died of AIDS in 2007. Unaids said the decline in AIDS cases, which has been seen in the last two years, was in part due to the life prolonging effects of antiretroviral drugs therapy and to the success of HIV programmes. Unaids Executive Director Peter Piot said in Geneva: 'These improved data present us with a clearer picture of the AIDS epidemic, one that reveals both challenges and opportunities. 'Unquestionably, we are beginning to see a return on investment, new HIV infections and mortality are declining and the prevalence of HIV levelling,' Piot said. 'But with more than 6,800 new infections and over 5,700 deaths each day due to AIDS we must expand our efforts in order to significantly reduce the impact of AIDS worldwide.'
Re: [Goanet] WORLD AIDS DAY: Oh is it Love? At What Price?
Dear Bonefacio, Please read Lino Dourado's "Aitaracheo Kaskutleo: Mog Khorcho, Punn Samballun Khorcho" of last Sunday, December 2, 2006. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanetgoanet.org/2006-December/051213.html Lino: Could you please translate the article in English for the benefit of all? Thank you. Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA Domnic bab, As per your request Lino Oh is it Love? At What Price? For sure! You will read the below mentioned e-mail. But after reading, ponder over its serious contents. And, please do not ignore it. And, bear in mind. December 1st is marked as WORLD AIDS DAY. A day dedicated to reflect upon the dreaded disease. Also, note that I have intentionally refrained form giving out the names, places and other matter that is not worth reading Dear Bab Lino, I love your e-column Aitaracheo Kaskutleo I am XXX and I hail form YYY place in Goa. I run my own small business in Dubai for the past several years. I am an auto-technician and I have an auto garage with four workers. Due to the nature of my business a lot of money roll in my hands day in and day out. I am married and have two children a girl and boy. Both are studying in Goa and my wife too is in Goa with my children. I am so obsessed with my work that it is almost my religion. I work assiduously to make my living. I open my garage at 6.00 a.m., even before my workers report for duty. And, I close my garage around 11.00 pm or 12 midnight. My single bedroom flat is adjacent to my garage. My family joins me during the school vacations in Goa. Otherwise, I live alone in my flat. Before dinner I go in for two or three large ones of whisky. I am nor used to socialize at parties, dances, picnics, or dramas. But I love to go online on net to have a peep at the Goan newspapers. Last year, a very good and close buddy of mine landed in Dubai from Kuwait. I picked him up from the hotel he was staying and brought him to my flat. Being good old friends, we joked, we laughed and cheered with drinks. All of a sudden my friend expressed a desire to see the night life of Dubai. I never visited a night club but, being a bosom friend and not to hurt his feelings, we both visited a night club. Once inside the club I came across a female college mate of mine who was studying with me in Goa. She was employed in the night club as an entertainer. Although a bit tipsy yet, I was in my senses when I gave her my business card. And lo! The next day she was already at the threshold of my flat. And then followed my extra marital affairs with her every week. I turned out to be an unfaithful husband. And recently, to my horror I found out that she was infected with the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and also her partners who have had sexual relations with her. It is a fact that most Indians working beyond the shores of India are victims of AIDS. Therefore, the Government of India are will soon enact a legislation to make mandatory/voluntary tests for HIV for all those entering into marriage bonds. Here is my fond request to you to warn our Goan brothers and sister through the columns of your Aitaracheo Kaskutleo about the dangers of illicit sex without taking preventative measures. Yours faithfully XXX I replied to this e-mail with the following query. Dear XXX You did not reveal whether you have been infected with AIDS after having sex with your female friend. And he was swift in his reply. NO!!! I made good use of condoms Lino B. Dourado http://www.goa-world.com/goa/poems http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=gulf-goans_yahoogroups_com&restrict=&exclude=&words=Lino+B.+Dourado Have a burning question? Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know. Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com
Re: [Goanet] WORLD AIDS DAY
Bonny, I totally agree with you that all help that we can give should be extended to HIV and AIDS sufferers in Goa irrespective of background. A society is only as strong as it's weakest links and our HIV/AIDS affected brethren and our brethren who are physically and mentally challenged should hold a special place in our hearts. I hope that the next year for Goa Sudharop will be the year of the AIDS affected and the year after that the year of the physically and mentally challenged. They will have my full support. Roland. On 12/4/06, Bonefacio Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does WORLD AIDS DAY mean to all of us? I have not seen any interesting > article or any contribution of any kind on the Goa net about this day, how > it was commemorate? By way of rallies, creating awareness, distributing > leaflets by educating the educated and ignorant, but touching the lives of > those who have been infected and remembering those near and dear ones whom > we have lost. > > A treat to those infected in any form by vocal groups, social activists, > politicians, Govt, NGO's , church and expressing love would be remembered > not only by those infected but we would be blessed by the Creator. > > We are fortunate to witness this World Aids Day, should it be an > IFFI,cultural event,elections,etc etc we are preparing for it a year in > advance but what about a day like this just comes and goes like a silent > wind. We only get up from our sleep when our kids succumb to such dreadful > diseases because we did not educate them on this disease. > > When i read a lot of mudslinging articles on the net , it pains to see that > such efforts could be used for such WORLD AIDS DAYS not for mudslinging but > for building our youth for a better tommorrow. > > Lopes Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com
[Goanet] WORLD AIDS DAY
Dear Bonefacio, Please read Lino Dourado's "Aitaracheo Kaskutleo: Mog Khorcho, Punn Samballun Khorcho" of last Sunday, December 2, 2006. http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-December/051213.html Lino: Could you please translate the article in English for the benefit of all? Thank you. Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does WORLD AIDS DAY mean to all of us? I have not seen any interesting article or any contribution of any kind on the Goa net about this day, how it was commemorate? By way of rallies, creating awareness, distributing leaflets by educating the educated and ignorant, but touching the lives of those who have been infected and remembering those near and dear ones whom we have lost. A treat to those infected in any form by vocal groups, social activists, politicians, Govt, NGO's , church and expressing love would be remembered not only by those infected but we would be blessed by the Creator. We are fortunate to witness this World Aids Day, should it be an IFFI,cultural event,elections,etc etc we are preparing for it a year in advance but what about a day like this just comes and goes like a silent wind. We only get up from our sleep when our kids succumb to such dreadful diseases because we did not educate them on this disease. When i read a lot of mudslinging articles on the net , it pains to see that such efforts could be used for such WORLD AIDS DAYS not for mudslinging but for building our youth for a better tommorrow. Lopes _ Headache during sex? Ask Dr. Prakash & Rachna http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/AskExpert/Default03.htm Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com
[Goanet] WORLD AIDS DAY
What does WORLD AIDS DAY mean to all of us? I have not seen any interesting article or any contribution of any kind on the Goa net about this day, how it was commemorate? By way of rallies, creating awareness, distributing leaflets by educating the educated and ignorant, but touching the lives of those who have been infected and remembering those near and dear ones whom we have lost. A treat to those infected in any form by vocal groups, social activists, politicians, Govt, NGO's , church and expressing love would be remembered not only by those infected but we would be blessed by the Creator. We are fortunate to witness this World Aids Day, should it be an IFFI,cultural event,elections,etc etc we are preparing for it a year in advance but what about a day like this just comes and goes like a silent wind. We only get up from our sleep when our kids succumb to such dreadful diseases because we did not educate them on this disease. When i read a lot of mudslinging articles on the net , it pains to see that such efforts could be used for such WORLD AIDS DAYS not for mudslinging but for building our youth for a better tommorrow. Lopes Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com
