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The Sonke Gender Justice project tries to address the social aspects of the HIV epidemic, with a particular focus on gender issues. South Africa.
SWAA is a pan-African women's organization dedicated to women and their families in the fight against HIV/AIDS. It has 39 branch offices in Africa.
Gender AIDS Forum (GAF) is a Durban-based South African Non Governmental Organisation committed to enabling a deeper consciousness in women and men about the links between gender and HIV and AIDS.
Zanempilo delivers holistic primary health care services to disadvantaged peri-urban and rural communities in the Western Cape through Community Health workers. South Africa.
AMREF is an Africa’s indigenous health charity, and in partnership with local communities, governments and donors, has worked to research and alleviate Africa’s health problems. Kenya.
NGO sites
Aasra Parivar
An association for scientific research on the addictions. It is a mutual self-help, peer led therapeutic community in Tihar Prison, India.
Action Health Incorporated (AHI)
Organization dedicated to the promotion of adolescent health and development. Nigeria.
Afro-Nets
It was established to facilitate exchange of information between different networks active in health research for development in anglophone Africa.
Agua Buena
Human Rights Association created in response to the crisis surrounding the AIDS epidemic in Central America, with a focus on access to medical treatment for People who Live with AIDS. A parallel focus of the Association involves the situation of sexual minorities in Central America. Costa Rica.
AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA)
The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) is a regional alliance of 14 non-governmental organisations working together to promote and build capacity around a human rights based response to HIV/AIDS in the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
AIDS Consortium
Network of over 300 organisations, many community-based, and over 200 individuals (link to membership database). The Consortium provides access to information on any aspect of HIV/AIDS and lobbies for a human rights-based response to the epidemic. South Africa.
Aids Law Project - ALP
Organisation works to help people with HIV/AIDS to deal with these problems. The ALP researches many of the difficult social, legal and human rights issues around AIDS. South Africa.
Alliance for Youth Development
The organization liaises with other individuals and other institutions to offer scholarships to HIV orphans, street children, and needy students to continue their education. Ghana.
Amanitare
African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls, which evolved from the need for a coordinated Pan-African effort to consolidate the skills, knowledge and institutional resources of groups and individuals active in the field of sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and women's rights.
APAES-Solidaridad
Founded to educate the public about sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, and to provide assistance to persons with HIV/AIDS and their families. Guatemala.
Asia-Pacific Council of AIDS Sevice Organization (APCASO)
APCASO is a network and community-based organisations that provide HIV/AIDS services within the Asia Pacific region.
Association for Health and Environmental Development (AHED)
AHED is an Egyptian Non-Governmental Organization striving to assist in the development and implementation of alternative policies and systems -in the areas of Health, Environment and Disability - which are capable of responding to the needs and rights of Egyptian society as a whole, and the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups in particular.
Awareness group on AIDS prevention - AGAP
AGAP-Awareness Group on AIDS Prevention, is a non-governmental organization based in Kenya, whose primary purpose is to sensitize the people of East African countries especially the rural youth of Kenya, to the threat of HIV/AIDS virus.
Black Sash
They work to ensuring the recognition and protection of citizens´ human rights. Black Sash began as women´s anti-apartheid movement opposed to the gross human rights violations practised under apartheid in South Africa.
Caribbean Regional Network (CRN) of People Living with HIV/AIDS
It is committed to empowering and supporting persons affected and infected with HIV/AIDS through advocacy, research, partnership, capacity building and resource mobilization. Trinidad and Tobago.
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Uganda: law threatening access to medicines gets EU support
Mon Mar 15 2010 - Source: IPS
The European Union is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in Uganda.
East Africa: No laws to fight HIV stigma in schools
Fri Jan 08 2010 - Source: IPS
Children are faced with stigma and discrimination and there are no laws or policies to protect them in the region. There are even reports of head teachers rejecting pupils who are HIV-positive.
World AIDS Day: punitive laws threaten HIV progress
Mon Nov 30 2009 - Source: Human Rights Watch
HIV prevention efforts - and the promise of antiretroviral therapy as prevention - are being undermined by punitive laws targeting those infected with and at risk of HIV, Human Rights Watch said on the eve of World AIDS Day.

 
Sexual and reproductive rights - Fri Jan 22 2010

Fuente: ILGA

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