Edge on the Net, 2 September 2014

A new report from amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research and AVAC outlines the need for a new approach to tracking data to guide the key decisions that shape the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Critical and expensive decisions made with incomplete data are undermining the response-even as the systems for collecting this data continue to improve, the report found.

The report, Data Watch: Closing a Persistent Gap in the AIDS Response, outlines corrective steps to sustain and expand the progress made in the past few years in the AIDS response and lays out key areas where better, more complete data is needed, including what proportion of people with HIV globally who are taking antiretroviral drugs remain connected to a clinical provider and have their virus fully suppressed, enabling them to remain healthy and avoid transmitting HIV to others; what proportions of those communities most impacted by HIV (e.g., young women in Africa, gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, sex workers, people who inject drugs) do not have access to effective HIV prevention tools due to pervasive stigma or discrimination; and the question of whether global AIDS funding is focused on those programs that will have the greatest impact in reducing transmission and disease burden worldwide?

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Surya Online, 2 September 2014

SURYA Online, SURABAYA – Penutupan lokalisasi Dolly belum lama ini tak hanya berimbas pada melubernya pekerja seks sosial (PSK) di wilayah sekitarnya. Kabupaten Sidoarjo yang hanya berjarak beberapa kilometer dari Dolly juga terkena imbasnya.

Sejumlah PSK jebolan Dolly banyak mangkal di wilayah Sidoarjo, terutama di sekitar Pasar Sapi. Hal ini diakui Bupati Sidoarjo Saiful Illah saat mengikuti sidang doktoral terbuka Kepala Dinas Koperasi, UKM, Perindustrian, Perdagangan dan ESDM Sidoarjo Fenny Apridawati di Fakultas Kedokteran, Unair, Selasa (2/8/2014).

"Saya melihatnya sendiri di sekitar sapi ternyata banyak pedagang kaki lima. Paginya mereka jualan kacang seret, tapi malamnya mereka diseret,"seloroh Saiful Illah yang hadir bersama istrinya.

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JPNN, 3 September 2014

PALANGKARAYA – Meningkatnya jumlah penderita reaktif HIV/AIDS di Palangkaraya, disinyalir bukan berasal dari tempat lokalisasi saja. Melainkan terindikasi di tempat-tempat terselubung seperti salon pijat, kecantikan, dan warung remang-remang.

Kendati penderita reaktif HIV/AIDS belum bisa memastikan yang bersangkutan benar-benar positif terserang virus HIV, namun berdasarkan ilmu kedokteran reaktif diyakini menjurus hingga 90 ke arah positif. Sudah barang tentu melalui tes di laboratorium.

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the Jakarta Post, 31 August 2014

The Mimika chapter of the National AIDS Commission (KPA) says that as of the middle of this year, the number of people with HIV/AIDS in the regency has reached 3,900.

This means Mimika regency in Papua has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS cases, following Wamena (5,000) and Nabire (4,000).

"According to data we have received, housewives are now the biggest at-risk group concerning HIV/AIDS, compared to commercial sex workers. People from all professions, starting from farmers and fishermen to civil servants and police and military personnel, are vulnerable to the illness as well. HIV/AIDS do not differentiate between age and social group," said Reynold.

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Morung Express, 31 August 2014

'There is legal provision against discrimination of HIV/AIDS patients'

Mokokchung: In its endeavour to eradicate HIV/AIDS- related stigma and discrimination, the Network of Mokokchung District People Living with HIV/AIDS (NMP+) conducted a programme with the nursing students of Imkongliba Memorial District Hospital (IMDH) here on August 31 at IMDH Chapel Hall.

A press release from NMP+ Media Cell informed that NMP+ president T. Temsu Jamir sensitized the nurses and health workers on the scenario of HIV/AIDS in Mokokchung. Speaking strongly against stigma and discrimination related to HIV/AIDS, Jamir challenged the nurses and IMDH to be the starting point in the fight against the same.

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