Dear Manizha Haitova, I congratulate you on implementing important and effective interventions to combat HIV/AIDS in Tajekistan. Our organization Integrated Health Services (IHS Pakistan) is one of Pakistan's largest health services & consultancy group. We are also working on various avenues to stop the spread of HIV in our country. I believe both of us can mutually benefit from sharing our experiences as we are both woth working with predominantly Muslim population where religion can play a very positive role in making people specially the youth understand how to protect themselves. I look forward to hear from you in order to make a strategy that is workable and sustainable in line with our peculiar social, religious and cultural aspects. Best regards, Dr. Asim Mahmood Khan, executive Director, IHS Pakistan asim@ihspakistan.com

To,
CCM-FORUM

Received reminder. Regarding various community addressing, country
leadership should be well aware of socio-economical infrastructure
in less GDPcountries.For addressing specific mechanism,correct
assessment of product concept is vital component for community
system strengthening.Below mentioned discussion is based upon
addressing issues for country leadership& empowerment.
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The GF mechanism has international health financing &initiative
framework for less socio-economical infrastructure countries.
In future scenario innovative financing component could expand
formal relationship to partner environment,less GNP& less economy
infrastructure countries by providing capacity development support
including GF specific payment mechanism based on specific country's
international liquidity.
Developing countries with less economical infrastructure could
take an advantage of GF specific payment mechanism under international monetary system with Rolling continuation channel
specification.Above mentioned GF specific payment mechanism could
ease debt conversion initiative ,funding priority,formal funding
arbitration structure for recipient&sub recipient, accessibility
of GF products by countries & evaluation.GF funding arbitration
structure could give canonical support to phase funding ,fund
raised& spent including protection of rights of contributors
countries,voluntary replenishment mechanism,procuring grant agreement
in accessibility of the country's constitution& articles,identification of possible obstacles in exchange arrangement,
providing convertible monetary measures& units,correct maladjustment
in accessibility of GF mechanism & strengthening of community
system component including grant consolidation.
The spectrum of community system strengthening could be expanded
by inclusion of specific robust data analysis for accessibility
of ART for affected population including global equity strategy
addressing gender inequalities, socialization of medicines(GF Health for everyone).
Availability of complete ART drugs,proper assessment of product mix
(GF products)with systematic monitoring & accountability could ensure
effective GF mechanism implementation in less health infrastructure
countries.
GF products formation & pooled procurement of goods according to
country's specific need could be provided by country's commercial
policy variable provision with inclusion of other sectors e.g.
trade,non-engineering ,agricultural,processed products,for country's
indigenous acceptability & originality.

Thanking you

ASHISH SRIVASTAVA
ex-International Marketing
& e-Forum 2008(SEAR-INDIA)

 

 

First of all, I’ll continue update HIV issues and my work with my wife, extended family members and friends. I will also take the privilege to aware and involve Rotarians (As I am a Rotarian member of Rotary International).  

 

I will invest more time to acquire knowledge about the trend of epidemic globally, regionally and in country to enrich my advocacy with policy people as a part of my professional responsibility.

 

 

I wish our efforts will continue for involvement of wider group of Population civil society in particular, Engage the persistently barrier segment, Mainstream HIV/AIDS in public and private sector, Incorporate the private sector involvement and Enhance the approaches for prevention, care and support to limit the spread and impact of HIV. //amdad

 

Kazi Amdadul Hoque

Manager-Advocacy

Save the Children USA
Bangladesh

  YOUTH HIV FORUMS at Colleges & Universities in Islamabad

Involving the Youth - Targeting the Future!

 

Youth are the future. They have fresh & receptive minds full of energy & zeal. Changing their perception can change the perception of the future generations. With this target Integrated Health Services (IHS Pakistan) is implementing a pilot project since June 2008 in Islamabad titled “Youth HIV Forums” with the support of World Bank. It aims to utilize the immense voluntary potential of the youth and channelizing it to reduce the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS.

 

Forum members are educated about the disease by IHS project doctors regarding its spread and why is it stigmatized. Forum members then take up activities to specially highlight that it’s not just a sexually transmitted disease but can be transmitted through other means as well just like Hepatitis B & C and that the HIV patients are not untouchables. To increase the case detection rate (CDR) it is important to reduce stigma associated with AIDS patients for which it is necessary that other modes of transmission of HIV like reuse of syringes, unsterilized surgical and barber instruments, etc. must be highlighted instead of the common perception of linkage of HIV with sex. The student members of the Youth HIV Forums are involved in activities like creating awareness among their peers, friends, family & community, holding theatres and competitions in their colleges like painting with themes like “HIV Patients are not untouchables”, “AIDS is not a Stigma” or “Fight the Disease not the Patient”. Members also visit hospitals to provide counseling to HIV/AIDS patients & their families.

 

HIV Forums can become a part of the traditions & culture of educational institutions just like ‘Science & other Clubs’ in schools and colleges so that they sustain themselves and continuously instill a sense of voluntary activity in the minds of students. They can easily be sustained by the colleges once the tradition is set and can also be replicated at other educational institutions. We just have to introduce the concept and then it will go on. IHS Pakistan on similar lines is successfully implementing a GFTAM Round-6 funded project to make “TB Clubs” in schools and making children the ‘Ambassadors of Health’ in their community. In the last one year across the country in rural areas of 10 districts including Quetta, Tando Allahyar, Tando Muhammad Khan, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Khushab, Sialkot, Narowal, Muzafarabad & Bagh the School TB Project has educated 25,000 school children and from among them 1500 have become Ambassadors of Health who are now actively creating awareness about TB and other communicable diseases in their communities.

 

Sensitizing the youth is a positive step to reduce the spread of HIV as youth have just entered sexually active life and this is the right time to tell them in clear words that how they can and they should protect themselves. A pre-intervention survey was carried out which will be followed by a post-intervention survey in June 2009 to assess the effectiveness of the Youth HIV Forums. This is the first of its kind intervention being carried out in the world where specific forums of youth to fight HIV/AIDS are being made in the educational institutions. It has a potential to be replicated in order to stop the spread of AIDS especially among the youth. It’s important to note that during the last 5 months of this project 11 undetected cases of HIV have been identified in Islamabad by the youth through motivating people to get screened for HIV. The identity of positive cases has been kept secret however they are being followed up by forum members to ensure that they seek treatment and are educated to curtail the further spread of the disease. 

 

Dear Javed S. Ahmad and rest of the world,  

 

I am agree with you and also serious about treatment literacy on HIV and AIDS. May be this is the time to reduce misinformation cost on it around the world.

 

I do believe that communication and proper communication only can help people meaningfully and miscommunication can do reverse doubly.

 

Anyway, I am trying to calculate cost of misinformation and committed to deliver analysis by next year.

 

Regards,

 

Raju

 

 

Dear friends,

 

            Greetings to those who voluntarily participate and organize the 20^th world AIDS Day on 1^st December 2008.

 

            Mother Therasa Trust organized a rally with 200 men, women and children at Genguvarpatty town, where the migrants, contracted construction workers are predominately. The rally imparts about the ‘ABC’ concept, behaviour changes and safer sexual activities. The slogans and hand hoardings are much imparted about the safer sexual, communication on behaviour changes.

 

            Mother Therasa Trust (MTT) serves in gross root level among our target population commercial sex workers, industrial labourers, migrants, drug users, Truck drivers to prevent and control measures of HIV/AIDS/STD.

 

            We planned to generate awareness of HIV/AIDS/STD among the target groups. We have to train the peer educators among the risk behaviour groups. MTT prefers to make referral cases to ICTs and STD clinics.

 

v     MTT would like to undertake care and support programs through supply of ARV drugs, Nevirapine etc.,

 

v     MTT planned to provide skill development to the family members of the PLWHA.

 

v     MTT have to arrange financial assistance to generate income to the family who are infected with HIV/AIDS. 

 

v     MTT have to arrange the social equality within the community of those infected HIV/AIDS.

 

v     MTT planned to propaganda to rural illiterate population about HIV, ways of transmission of HIV and preventing and curing methodologies of the HIV/AIDS/STDs.

 

            This is the MTT’s future plan for the next 12 months.

 

Thanking you,

 

Yours,

 

(C.RAVICHANDRAN)

India.

To,
CCM FORUM

Received above issue.Regarding community addressing,country leadership&empowerment,understanding of social& structural opportunity
are essential for various community participation in developing
Asian& African countries.Country leadership& empowerment could
be answer of discrimination in social conditions& vulnerability
of various diseases in developing world.
Discusion e-Forum 2008(strategies& policies)could include community
system strengthening,country leadership for addressing strategic
intervention,policies,& empowerment evaluation for gender concept.
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Received final discussion. Regarding global equity strategy for
addressing gender inequalities in country program , GF mechanism
has CSS with gender, affected population, sexual minority components
for specific addressing. Socialization of medicine is vital for
social gender equity.Accessibility of ART( 25(ART)drugs) is
essential for health system strengthening in less health infrastructure
countries.In developing & under developed countries gender sensitive
approaches for sexual minority(women & girls) could give additional
capacity building for empowerment,social equity,universal coverage,
gender socio-economic indicators i.e. specific gender labour,
natural resources, calorie availability & social institutions.
GF mechanism should focus on gender behaviour data,universal coverage,
HIV statistical information in affected countries,ready access of treatment in less health system infrastructure countries,
social intervention & accessibility of country's constitution for
prevention of diseases through GF products& services. I would
like to give reference of Gender theme for gender sensitive approach,& effective implementation of GF strategy.
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Received theme 1: gender

Regarding gender sensitive approach & responsiveness all three
mechanisms are important for strong & more effective partnership
for sustained impact.
In gender sensitive program planning new gender aspect can include
improved overall nutrition& bio-availability for lactating
mothers & undernourished,under weight female children's.
Understanding of genetic factors , differential resistance to
diseases,prevention of gender sensitive cultural& traditional
practices.
Business models, TRP,can also help in elimination of mal-practices
of gender sensitive approach.Business models should be related to
improving socio-economic condition of marginalised ,gender condition
vulnerable to climatic condition,socio-legal rights of infrastructure
natural& productive resources,civil society participation with
rural community focussing on gender sensitive approach.
Business models should ensure better access to markets,improved
working& service condition, legal aid in the unorganised business
sector& basic services, literacy level, adult education,universal
primary education.
TRP& Board are technical concepts which are very useful in prevention
strategies& treatment ,awareness, behavioural change ,capacity
building & health care provision in gender sensitive approaches
& responsiveness.
Other mechanism can include humanitarian approaches with administration support, organisation that are gender sensitive may
catalyse& encourage gender responsiveness, country leader-
ship, basic services education,health, financial infrastructure
& universal benefit.

THANKYOU
ASHISH SRIVSTAVA
EX-International marketing
&e-FORUM(SEAR-INDIA)81237

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  I commit myself to begin the fight from within my own family by educating them on the disease itself,mode of transmission,life style changes and behavior that will lead to responsible sexual habits and for those who can not  do without having sex should use condoms properly and fidelity tfor those that are married.I will also encourage them to talk about HIV/AIDS with their friends both at school and back in the  community and to form peer educator's group that will help them know more about the disease and the consequences on the socio-economic and political aspect on the country as a whole.

I intend to conduct rural community outreaches, albeit on a small scale, because sad to say, I think there is still too much HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral ignorance.    I am proud to have encouraged, two female friends who were terrified and averse to testing, to brave their fears and got tested by merely stressing that a negative result meant ‘no more nervous tension’, and a positive meant, ‘medicines for the stamina to enjoy the world and care for the beloved’.   Within a week of our discussion they got tested and live happily ever after. Humanity’s curious psyche is more inclined to react to the beneficial facts. I doubt that 40% of our population knows the meaning of antiretrovirals, perhaps the ordinary, illiterate person need to hear ‘medicines for’. 

 I have led ‘red ribbon’ campaigns where we affixed ribbons to street lamp poles stretching 12 miles up to a community college; we visited the nearby offices including two radio and one TV station, and pinned a miniature red ribbon on the staff; we pinned ribbons on almost every person we encountered.  The college students flooded us for information leaflets.  The educational event culminated in a grand finale with a gathering of co-workers and invitees.     Many students and adults enquired the meaning of the red loop.  Another year, I organized a marvelous event for staff where representative of each island placed a natural red rose in a vase, forming a beautiful bouquet which we surrounded with lit candles, while the CEO of the organisation released a bunch of 90% red, 10% white balloons.   The media was present and reported on the events. 

 My newspaper article ‘AIDS We’re Not Doing Enough’ in 2005, right after World Aids Day, generated much radio discussions, and thus I hope in 2009 to write another such provocative topic.  Writing this blog has enticed me to aim for a bigger community outreach involving nurses and sports club youth members in a house-to-house campaign.

1. I will take part in the competion of the nine RSA provinces making the largest red ribbon with red pieces from the public. The province with the biggest ribbon will host the National World AIDS Day.
2. I will continue to strengthen the Behavour Change activities(campaigns and advocacy) which will lead to a downwad trend in the HIV & AIDS prevalence rate.
3. I will strengthen my efforts not only to prevention but also Ton reatment,Care anupport for PLWHIV to ensure that these people live healthy productive lifestyles so as to manage their own lives.
4. Continue to lobby and advocate for better development policies by governments to reduce poverty levels and situations that lead to vulnerability and susceptibiity to infection...this is a MUST.
5. I am and will coninue building capacities of local CSOs engaged in HIV & AIDS...the grassroots must be reached...
6. I WILL SPREAD HOPE NOT DEATH...WILL LIGHT A CANDLE OF HOPE...NOT CURSE DARKNESS.
7. I will share as much information on Preveention,Treatment,Care,Support and Mitigation of HIV & AIDS.
8. Lead in the Lobby for better policies to reduce the burden of home based care to women and girls.

next 12 months, we would test how our behaviour change communication developed , because we gave the community alot of workshops, and we make different ways of communication

we are sure that 80% increased their awareness of HIV/AIDS our Somali soceity.

 

our slogan of the last years was (SAVE SOMALI COMMUNITY HIV/AIDS.)