Sindo News, 17 Juli 2014

BANDUNG - Rumah Cemara kembali membuat gebrakan. Organisasi yang anggotanya pecandu narkoba, mantan pecandu narkoba, orang dengan HIV/AIDS (ODHA), dan kelompok marjinal itu kini memiliki Rumah Cemara Boxing Camp (RCBC).

Peresmian RCBC dilakukan dengan cara sederhana yaitu menggelar acara syukuran sekaligus buka bersama di Sekretariat Rumah Cemara, Jalan Gegerkalong Girang, Kota Bandung, Rabu (16/7).

Secara resmi RCBC dibuka setelah diawali dengan menyanyikan lagu Bagimu Negeri dan prosesi potong tumpeng. Dengan ritual sederhana itu, RCBC diharapkan akan jadi tempat untuk lahirnya segudang prestasi di dunia tinju, baik nasional maupun internasional.

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Sindo News, 17 Juli 2014

BANDUNG - Rumah Cemara Boxing Camp (RCBC) diresmikan di Kota Bandung pada Rabu (16/7). Sasana tinju itu jadi tempat bagi pecandu narkoba, mantan pecandu narkoba, orang dengan HIV/AIDs (ODHA), dan kelompok marjinal untuk berlatih tinju.

RCBC bahkan jadi sasana pertama di Indonesia dimana anggotanya sebagian berasal dari kelompok yang selama ini dipandang sebelah mata.

Hadirnya RCBC di Kota Bandung pun diharapkan dapat memberi warna tersendiri bagi dunia olahraga, terutama tinju di Kota Bandung.

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Vatican Radio, 16 July 2014

(Vatican Radio) 'Stepping up in faith' is the theme of a conference which opens in Melbourne, Australia on Friday bringing together Catholic experts from around the world in the fields of prevention, diagnosis and care of those living with HIV and AIDS.

The meeting comes just ahead of the 20th International AIDS Conference which will be taking place in Melbourne from July 20th to 25th. It's the first time such a major gathering on the pandemic is being held in the Pacific region, with over 25.000 participants exploring the latest data from scientific, political, financial and civil society perspectives.

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ECNS, 17 July 2014

Youngsters at a school for HIV/AIDS patients share a common mom they know as "mother Peng".

"Dear children, we haven't seen one another for a while but you are always in my mind," China's first lady Peng Liyuan wrote in a letter to the 25 students at the Red Ribbon middle school in Linfen, Shanxi province.

The school caters to children with the disease who have lost at least one parent to the virus.

The letter, inscribed "your loving mother Peng", was delivered by officials from the National Health and Family Planning Commission on her behalf on June 26 to mark the school's 10th anniversary.

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IPP Media, 17 July 2014

As HIV/Aids infection rates lowers in Dar es Salaam, the Regional Commissioner Said Meck Sadick has directed authorities in the three city municipals to include the war against the disease in their list of priorities warning of its negative direct effects on the city's human resource size and capacity.

Sadick issued the order early this week when receiving a survey report carried out by the Tanzania Commission for Aids (Tacaids) in Dar es Salaam.

According to the report, despite the decrease in new infections from 10.9 per cent in 2004, 8.9 in 2008 to 6.9 in 2012 there must be concerted efforts to ensure that they drop further.

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