Energy is the dominant contributor to climate change One of the goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development to transform our world is to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. Facts: One in five people still lacks access to modern electricity 3 billion people rely on wood, coal, charcoal [...]
Excerpts from: Living Positively: Narratives of Forgiveness and Imagination among Women with HIV. Copyright © 2010 Hamaseh Kianfar, Ed. D. Part Nine: Mimesis When reading or hearing a story about a woman with HIV, it always takes place in the context of our pre-understanding and as we interact with the text, we create the [...]
08 MARCH 2017 from UNAIDS; and for more information please visit: http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2017/when-women-lead-change-happens Today, we are at the cusp of eliminating new HIV infections among children—a movement led by women. More women are accessing antiretroviral therapy than men, transferring the benefits of their good health to their families and economies. When young women are empowered [...]
Part Eight: Social StigmaExcerpts from: Living Positively: Narratives of Forgiveness and Imagination among Women with HIV. Copyright © 2010 Hamaseh Kianfar, Ed. DIt is the time to address the stereotypes and prejudices that blind us from seeing and understanding that HIV is an issue that collectively and universally affects us all.We need to get rid [...]
Part seven Excerpts from: Living Positively: Narratives of Forgiveness and Imagination among Women with HIV. Copyright © 2010 Hamaseh Kianfar, Ed. D African American Women and HIV February 7, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, was created in partnership with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order to plan and raise awareness [...]
Part six Excerpts from: Living Positively: Narratives of Forgiveness and Imagination among Women with HIV. Copyright © 2010 Hamaseh Kianfar, Ed. D. Social and Medical Considerations of HIV in Women In the summer of 1981, HIV infection and AIDS were diagnosed for relatively few women. Today however, women account for more than 25% of [...]
The history of any community is continuous, it is not duplicated in every event of understanding, but rather it is applied to a present situation and defines the context in which we understand the past (Gadamer 1977). If we were to imagine that we just found out we had HIV, the way in which [...]
UNAIDS ANNOUNCES 18.2 MILLION PEOPLE ON ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, BUT WARNS THAT 15–24 YEARS OF AGE IS A HIGHLY DANGEROUS TIME FOR YOUNG WOMEN New UNAIDS report shows that people are particularly vulnerable to HIV at certain points in their lives and calls for a life-cycle approach to find solutions for everyone at every stage [...]
Our Truth Is Defined by Our CommunityPart 4: Living PositivelyCritical HermeneuticsOur tradition and history are essential components that influence and determine the way we understand. "[Tradition] is always something that is apart of us."(Bernstein 1983: 152).We cannot escape our tradition and history. It is difficult to imagine ourselves separate from our history, background, culture and [...]
For more information, please visit: http://www.who.int/immunization/research/forums_and_initiatives/HIV_vaccine_initiative/en/ Mission The mission of the WHO-UNAIDS HIV Vaccine Initiative (HVI) is to promote the development, facilitate evaluation, and address future availability of preventive HIV vaccines, with a focus on the need of developing countries. Since the start of the epidemic, HIV has infected more than 60 million [...]