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Special Session August 5 : Reclaiming our Lives |
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Mexico City, August 5, 2008—On July 31st and August 1st, nearly 400 HIV-positive people from 88 countries met at the 2008 Positive Leadership Summit to set their strategic agenda for a comprehensive response to the AIDS pandemic.
“We are at the center of the response. Who better than the HIV positive community itself to identify and develop recommendations to direct researchers, doctors, policy makers and world leaders to areas that demand their immediate attention,” said Regan Hofmann, POZ magazine.
This sentiment was echoed by Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, who said at a press conference following the opening ceremony, "People living with HIV can lead and direct effective HIV responses. Their lived experiences are vital to finding lasting and localized solutions for HIV prevention and treatment."
The participants at the summit endorsed four key areas of strategic focus including: positive prevention, access to care treatment and support, criminalization of transmission of HIV and sexual and reproductive health rights.
In addition, the impact of these issues on two critical populations—women and vulnerable groups—was identified. Participants also noted that intersecting oppressions (such as being a drug user, being incarcerated, being a migrant, being an indigenous person, being a minority, being a sex worker, being gay, bisexual or lesbian, being transgendered or being a woman) increase a person’s risk of becoming HIV positive and decrease their ability to access services and care.
“For Mexican people living with HIV, our participation in all aspects of the Summit has been an intense and transforming learning experience,” said Anuar Luna from The Mexican Network of People Living with HIV
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How to report sensitively about PLHIV? |
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Over a quarter century since the first news stories on HIV surfaced, media outlets are still struggling to report news on HIV and AIDS accurately, with depth and sensitivity. Language is an important and powerful weapon that can be used for better and for worse. Often people living with HIV find language used in media reports is unnecessarily discriminating and stigmatizing. Therefore we request media reporting on LIVING 2008 and AIDS2008, to treat HIV and the people living with it with dignity and respect.
To read more about how people living with HIV experience news media reports on HIV and AIDS, please find here the study Voice and Visibility (509.36 Kb) of Internews, ICASO and GNP+.
To assist you and your journalist colleagues to report sensitively about people living with HIV, we include UNAIDS' Editors' Notes for Authors (326.31 Kb), and UNESCO Guidelines on language and content in HIV and AIDS related material (1.06 Mb). A limited number of hard copies of the UNESCO guidelines in Spanish, French and English is available at the GNP+ media booth at AIDS2008.
We thank you for your understanding.
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The Denver Principles: Birth of GIPA and The PLHIV Movement |
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The GIPA principle, the principle of Greater Involvement of People living with AIDS, was first formulated in 1983 at a health conference in Denver, Colorado, United States. Here a group of HIV/AIDS activists publicly articulated for the first time the needs and values of people living with HIV/AIDS. What is now referred to as The Denver Principles called for an end to discrimination against and for respect of the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS. This Conference is often considered to mark the beginning of the PLHIV movement. To read a collection of historic documents, case studies and best practices around GIPA, please go to the GIPA Resource Centre.
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Now Available: Agenda Living 2008 |
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The Agenda of Living2008: the Positive leadership Summit is now available:
Download it here!
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Agenda dela Cumbre 142.63 Kb
Programme du Sommet 157.84 Kb
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