Washington, D.C. Posts
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Darby Hickey: It’s Not Just the US or IAS – We All Need to be Accountable
03 August 2012
Watch: Sex Worker Activists Disrupt Special Session on the US Congress’ response to HIV As we look back on the International AIDS Conference, there are plenty of lessons and conversations to carry with us. As a transgender woman and a sex worker, I want to make sure that the theme of exclusion, which people who [...]
Posted by Darby Hickey, 2012-08-03 | Categories: Blog, Washington, D.C. | Comments (0)
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Jonathan Cohen: Why We Marched
27 July 2012
Optimism is the order of the day at AIDS 2012, with “treatment as prevention” now a reality, a blueprint for an AIDS-Free Generation just released by the US government, and non-US residents with HIV now allowed to enter the country. But there is another conversation going on — in the Global Village, the blogosphere, and [...]
Posted by Jonathan Cohen, 2012-07-27 | Categories: Blog, Washington, D.C. | Comments (0)
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July 26, 2012: AIDS 2012 Daily Summary
27 July 2012
A high point of the International AIDS Conference (IAC) for sex workers and allies occurred at the July 26 plenary featuring presentations by Cheryl Overs, a sex workers rights advocate and founder of the global Network of Sex Work Projects, and Debbie McMillan, an African-American former sex worker. Cheryl opened with the image of waves [...]
Posted by Alissa Sadler, 2012-07-27 | Categories: Blog, Washington, D.C. | Comments (0)
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Debbie McMillan’s Plenary: Making Waves: The Changing Tide of HIV and Drug Use
26 July 2012
The following speech was delivered by Debbie McMillan of Transgender Health Empowerment as a plenary address at AIDS 2012 on Thursday, July 26. Posted with permission. Good morning and thank you all for being here. Before I give my presentation, I’d like to invite you to watch messages from my peers around the world. Welcome [...]
Posted by Alissa Sadler, 2012-07-26 | Categories: Blog, Washington, D.C. | Comments (1)
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Michel Kazatchkine: Why are human rights so central to the AIDS response, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as everywhere else?
26 July 2012
I am thrilled to have been appointed, last Friday, as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Eastern Europe is the region of the world that has witnessed the largest increase in HIV prevalence in the last ten years and where the epidemic continues to expand. While the [...]
Posted by Michel Kazatchkine, 2012-07-26 | Categories: Blog, Washington, D.C. | Comments (2)
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July 25, 2012: AIDS 2012 Daily Summary
26 July 2012
On the third full day of the International AIDS conference (IAC) in Washington DC, stickers started showing up on the water coolers asking “Where are all the sex workers? Not at IAC 2012!” The overall level of awareness among conference participants about the travel restrictions preventing sex worker and drug user attendance appeared to be [...]
Posted by Alissa Sadler, 2012-07-26 | Categories: Blog, Washington, D.C. | Comments (0)
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HCLU: We Can End AIDS – March in Washington DC
25 July 2012
Video by: Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (Posted with permission)
Thousands of activists marched for human rights & economic justice on Tuesday from St. Vernon square, the venue of the International AIDS Conference, to the White House. The organizers of the march identified 5 demands: to tax Wall Street and stop cuts to AIDS services, to aid housing and lift the ban on syringe exchange, to provide full access to services for women and LGBT people, to make Big Pharma accountable and to stop the criminalization of PLWHA, drug users and sex workers. We asked the demonstrators how do they see these issues – please watch the video and find out yourself!
Posted by Alissa Sadler, 2012-07-25 | Categories: Video, Washington, D.C. | Comments (0)
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Michel Sidibé: Why human rights must occupy the centre of the global AIDS response
25 July 2012
It is outrageous that, in 2012, when we have everything we need to beat AIDS, we are still fighting prejudice, stigma, and exclusion—not just in homes and in the streets, but also in police stations and in courtrooms. It is my daily reminder that the AIDS response is not just about an epidemic; the AIDS response [...]
Posted by Michel Sidibe, 2012-07-25 | Categories: Blog, Washington, D.C. | Comments (4)
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HCLU: Stephen Lewis: How to Fights AIDS by Ending the Drug War
25 July 2012
Video by: Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (Posted with permission)
Stephen Lewis, a well-known progressive Canadian diplomat, the former special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, held a very powerful speech at the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington DC, so we decided to upload it for you uncut. He brings forward some very practical suggestions how to integrate the drug policy reform agenda into the blueprint for an AIDS-free world proposed by the US government. He points out that an AIDS-free world is an illusion without ending the failed war on drugs – and drug policy reform is not possible without mainstreaming our messages.
Posted by Alissa Sadler, 2012-07-25 | Categories: Video, Washington, D.C. | Comments (0)
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Panel: ARVs for Treatment as Prevention: Human Rights Issues
25 July 2012
With antiretroviral treatment of people with HIV showing 96% efficacy as an HIV prevention tool, the question of “treatment as prevention” is not whether but how. Implementation of this gamechanging intervention will require lifting structural human rights barriers to HIV testing, diagnosis, linkage to care, treatment, and treatment adherence. In this session, hosted by the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights, conference delegates share their perspectives on the human rights dimensions of “treatment as prevention” in the company of experts from Canada, Namibia, and the UNAIDS Secretariat.
Watch these interviews with our panelists at our panel on Treatment as Prevention: Human Rights Issues.
Video produced by Nicholas Feustel | georgetownmedia.de
Posted by Alissa Sadler, 2012-07-25 | Categories: Video, Washington, D.C. | Comments (0)
