AFRO-NETS> UN Chronicle E-mail Alert (Vol. 1, No. 8)

[Janet Feldman <kaippg@earthlink.net>]

UN Chronicle E-mail Alert (Vol. 1, No. 8)
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United Nations in a united world: AIDS articles

Every year, World AIDS Day is commemorated around the globe on the 
first day of December, bringing messages of compassion, solidarity, 
and understanding about HIV/AIDS, and the 40 million people living 
with the disease. On 26 November, in connection with the observance 
of World AIDS Day, the United Nations will host a town hall meeting, 
co-sponsored by UNAIDS and the Department of Public Information. The 
meeting, under the theme "Live and Let Live", will focus on overcom-
ing HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination, and encourage people 
to break the silence and barriers to effective prevention and care.

"Stigma and Discrimination" is also the theme for the World AIDS Cam-
paign 2003-2004. Discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS 
has spread rapidly over the last two decades, intensifying the anxi-
ety and prejudice against individuals and groups most affected by the 
disease. The fear of discrimination often discourages people from 
seeking treatment for AIDS or from acknowledging their HIV status 
publicly. Furthermore, by stigmatizing individuals or groups, society 
tends to excuse itself from the responsibility of caring for and 
looking after such vulnerable populations. This problem is particu-
larly acute in Africa, where over the next ten years AIDS is expected 
to kill more people and orphan more children than all the wars of the 
twentieth century combined.

The UN Chronicle has for years detailed the societal effects of the 
global AIDS epidemic and highlighted the problem of HIV stigma. Here 
are some recent articles published in the Chronicle on HIV/AIDS:

Issue 4, 2002
"Education: The Only Vaccine We Have"
by John Katsigeorgis, for the UN Chronicle.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue4/0103p_the_only_vaccine_we_have.html

Issue 2, 2002
"Breaking The Silence"
by Cathy Shepherd, activist in the women's movement in Trinidad and 
Tobago.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p24_breaking_the_silence.html

Issue 2, 2001
"The Price of Success -- The Cost of Failure: Special Session on 
HIV/AIDS"
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue2/0102p15.htm

Issue 1, 2001
"Facing It Head-on. We Can. We Must"
by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p4.htm

"What the World, and Its UN, Can Do"
by Drew Limsky, journalist and fiction writer. His work has appeared 
in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, 
Genre and many other publications.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p8.htm

"Far More Than a Health Issue"
by Fiona Yung, for the UN Chronicle.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p10.htm

Issue 4, 2000
"The Chronicle Interview"
by Wendy Fitzwilliam, Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint United Na-
tions Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and spokesperson for the Face to 
Face campaign. She was crowned Miss Universe in 1998.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2000/issue4/0400p71.htm

Issue 3, 2000
"Is an AIDS Vaccine Possible?"
by José Esparza, Coordinator of the HIV Vaccine Initiative, jointly 
sponsored by the World Health Organization and the Joint UN Programme 
on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2000/issue3/0300p22.htm

Issue 1, 1999
"Then I Open Up and See The Person Falling Here Is Me"
by Benjamin Weil, freelance writer and editor. He works with agencies 
and programmes of the United Nations system on issues related to 
HIV/AIDS in developing countries. 
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue1/0199p20.htm

Issue 3, 1998
"Addressing HIV: Do Conferences and Papers Help?"
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1998/issue3/398p70.htm
by Benjamin Weil, freelance writer and editor. He works with agencies 
and programmes of the United Nations system on issues related to 
HIV/AIDS in developing countries.

The UN Chronicle is published quarterly in English:
http://www.un.org/chronicle/
and French:
http://www.un.org/french/pubs/chronique/
by the Department of Public Information. Editions in Arabic, Chinese 
Russian and Spanish are co-published externally. It is not an offi-
cial record; the views expressed in individual articles do not neces-
sarily imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Na-
tions.

Copies are on sale in the UN Bookshop. Please note that a discounted 
internet subscription rate is now in effect:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/order.htm

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