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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks - September 8, 2001
They called upon the government to put in place AIDS counselling and testing centres near taxi parks, stressing that these were the key places where people gathered. Participants stressed the need to increase public awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. They suggested the government provide them with leaflets, brochures and audio cassettes that contain messages about HIV/AIDS. Drivers, especially long distance drivers, are considered as part of the population group most at risk from AIDS. More than 400,000 Rwandans are living with HIV/AIDS.
LINKS:
1. "I care... Do you?" is the slogan for the second year of the two-year World AIDS Campaign intended to create a sustained focus on the role of men in the AIDS epidemic: http://www.unaids.org/wac/2001/index.html
2. The AIDS Memorial Quilt's goals are to illustrate the enormity of the AIDS epidemic and increase public awareness of AIDS. It also seek to raise funds for community-based AIDS service organisations: http://www.aidsquilt.org/Newsite/
CONFERENCES/RESEARCH
1. Antiretroviral therapy in Africa: what is needed? Read the article at: http://www.aidsmap.com/news/newsdisplay2.asp?newsId=1243
2. The Johns Hopkins POPLINE Database, the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, HIV/AIDS and related issues, is now available free of charge on the Internet. All 280,000 citations, representing published and unpublished literature, can be accessed for no charge at http://www.popline.org.
3. Missing Mutation Helps HIV Spread in Africa. For the full article: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010905/hl/hiv_15.html
4. NGOs on the Link between AIDS Race and Discrimination: For the full article: http://ww2.aegis.org/news/ips/2001/IP010901.html
5. A Media Handbook for HIV Vaccine Trials for Africa http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-2961.html http://www.unaids.org/publications/index.html
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