Highlighted partners (HIV/AIDS)
Ombetja Yehinga Organisation
AIDS deals harsh blows to societies. Take a look at Namibia: the virus is causing collective mourning and is punching a growing hole in the work force. The hope lies with the new generation of young people. They are the ones who must stem the tide of the disease through safe sex and rebuild their country. Ombetja Yehinga Organisation helps them to achieve this goal.
SIAAP
The year is 1988. Thirty female sex workers from the Southern Indian town of Chennai are thrown in jail because they are hiv positive. When the case comes to court two years later, there are more than 800 hiv positive sex workers in prison in the whole state of Tamil Nadu. The court eventually orders their release. 'The attitude of the authorities was typical of the panic and the lack of information about hiv & aids when aids first reached India,' says SIAAP director Indumathi Ravishankar looking back. In the meantime this attitude has taken a 180 degree turn.
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