International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - December 16, 2008
Ali Hakimi, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Afghanistan
The Afghan Red Crescent Society has reached nearly 80,000 young people with awareness-raising programmes in high schools in Kabul, Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif. And in northern Afghanistan , more than hundred Afghan Red Crescent youth peer educators and volunteers took part in a march to mark World Aids Day. According
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - December 12, 2008
Teresita Usapdin, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in Lahore
Awareness, understanding and acceptance - this is what characterized the general attitude of the people who celebrated World AIDS Day 2008 in Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi, Pakistan . Hundreds of people - including police officers, anti-narcotics forces, medical personnel, university professors, students and HIV-posit
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - December 4, 2008
Rishani Wijesinghe in Sri Lanka
Religious leaders in Sri Lanka united in a call for compassion and tolerance towards people suffering from HIV on 1 December, World AIDS Day. In line with this years theme of Leadership for HIV Prevention , the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society brought together leaders from the Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim faiths to
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - December 2, 2008
Paula Alvarado
The South Asia region, home to half the world s poor, hosts an estimated 2.67 million people infected with HIV. Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and gender inequality remain the two biggest challenges to AIDS prevention in the region. On 1 December 2008, World AIDS Day, Red Cross and Red Crescen
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - November 28, 2008
HIV is still a major threat to public health throughout the world despite progress made over the years in some countries, warns the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on the occasion of World AIDS Day 2008. If there is something more deadly than HIV, it is complacency about HIV, sa
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - November 28, 2008
Javier is a 13-year-old boy who lives with his mother Gladys, who owns a coffee shop at Acomet, a taxi cooperative in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador . Acomet is involved in the raising awareness on HIV taxi project developed by Red Cross societies in Central America. Gladys heard about the project through taxi dr
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - October 22, 2008
The Red Cross and Red Crescent in Africa aims to intensify cooperation and dialogue with governments and other partners for the benefit of vulnerable communities on the continent. This promise came at the end of the 7th Pan African Conference, a three day meeting designed to set bench marks for Red Cross Red Crescent a
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - October 20, 2008
The International Federation today called on journalists and fellow humanitarians to work harder to publicize African success stories such as the huge drop in measles deaths and progress in the battles against malaria and HIV. As the 7th Pan-African Conference of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies got underway here,
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - October 3, 2008
Jason A. Smith, IFRC communications manager, Asia Pacific zone
Jason Smith recently travelled with the South Asia regional delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to observe HIV programmes run by the Nepal Red Cross Society. The small village of Gajari sits perched on a hillside overlooking a deep valley in western Nepal.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - September 26, 2008
Matthew Cochrane, Communications manager
This is the fourth in a series of six profiles, looking at the people affected by Zimbabwe s food crisis. Otillia, a mother of three young children, lost her husband to AIDS last year. Soon after, she herself began to feel sick and went to get tested. The tests confirmed that she was HIV positive. That is when I joined
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - September 17, 2008
Red Cross Red Crescent trucks will today (Wednesday 17 September) leave warehouses in Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare carrying 383 metric tons of food aid for vulnerable communities across the country. As part of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 27.7 million Swiss franc (26.8 mill
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - September 10, 2008
-- This is the first in a series of six profiles, looking at the people affected by Zimbabwe s food crisis. -- The Red Cross provides supplementary feeding to about 220 kids everyday in Mwenezi, in the rural Masvingo province of Zimbabwe. Each of these kids have either a parent living with HIV, or now live in child hea
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - September 8, 2008
Sitambule Kim, Zimbabwe Red Cross communications manager in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe
When his mother finally succumbed to AIDS and passed away in 2005, six year old Tinashe Magama was taken in by his grandmother. The grieving family were immediately made beneficiaries of the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society s food assistance programme. For Tinashe and his grandmother, their trauma was lessened in a small but
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - August 3, 2008
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched its Global Alliance on HIV in the Americas just prior to the opening of the XVII International AIDS Conference being held in Mexico City from 3 to 8 August 2008. It s estimated more than 7 million people will benefit from this partners
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - August 2, 2008
Speech by Dr Raymond Forde, IFRC Vice President, at the Press Conference to Launch of the Global Alliance, in Mexico City
HIV has been with us for more than a quarter of a century but the statistics never fail to shock. Although progress has been made, AIDS is still the fifth major cause of death in middle countries and the third in middle low income countries. And, as we said in the International Federation s World Disasters Report for 2
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - August 2, 2008
I am proud to represent the worldwide membership of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies at this first International March against Stigma, Discrimination and Homophobia. The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement has been standing up for human dignity for almost 150 years, since our founder Hen
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - August 2, 2008
-- Remarks by Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the IFRC Secretary General and Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the IFRC Global Alliance for HIV, at the Launch of the Global Alliance, in Mexico City I am honoured to be here today and very pleased to bring you the warm personal greetings of our IFRC Secretar
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - July 31, 2008
Francis Markus, IFRC press officer
People living with HIV are fighting back against discrimination and stigma in Mongolia - with the help of the Red Cross. The moment that compounded T s sense of isolation from family and friends was when his favourite uncle started putting T s teacup aside from all the others, and his aunt started asking why. I m
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - July 24, 2008
-- Sign Letter of Cooperation on Reproductive Health, Gender, Population, Development UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have agreed to extend their collaboration in health promotion programmes around the world. A Letter of Cooperat
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - July 22, 2008
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is appealing for 21 million Swiss francs (US$ 20.6 million / (euro) 13 million, 8.5 billion CFA francs) to finance a new three-year programme to boost the HIV work of Red Cross societies in Burkina-Faso, Central African Republic , t
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - June 30, 2008
Marie Louise Belanger
Red Cross societies in Central America have found an innovative way to educate the public about the HIV pandemic and the dangers of stigma - by engaging taxi drivers to get involved and pass on public health messages. Red Cross societies in Central America are promoting HIV awareness and anti-stigma messages to the gen
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - June 27, 2008
Mandisa Kalako-Williams, secretary general, South Africa Red Cross Society
The 2008 World Disasters Report makes a bold statement, one that has been feared and dodged by most. It argues that HIV and AIDS is a disaster - at the household, community and in some instances, the country level. The Report asks us to look at key phrases in the standard definition of a disaster: sudden or slow onset
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - June 27, 2008
Dr. Mukesh Kapila, Special representative of the Secretary General
This year s World Disasters Report is the first to focus on a single condition and for very good reason. HIV and AIDS is evolving not only as an aggravating factor in disasters but also as a disaster in itself. Of the 201 million people affected by natural disasters during 2007, a 40 per cent increase on the previous y
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - June 26, 2008
-- All humanitarian programmes must integrate the complexity and long-term nature of HIV and AIDS to effectively tackle the epidemic To effectively address what this year s World Disasters Report calls a long-term and complex disaster, HIV should be given much higher priority in disaster management programmes, whether
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - June 11, 2008
When the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was agreed to at the United Nations General Assembly on HIV in June 2001, the volunteers of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) were specifically acknowledged in paragraph 34 of the Commitment. I will make this contribution to this important debat
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - June 9, 2008
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is committed to the systematic integration of tuberculosis control in Red Cross and Red Crescent HIV programmes at community level, particularly in countries where co-infection has become a public health emergency. Red Cross and Red Crescent community
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - May 14, 2008
The growing impact of long term health programmes implemented by Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and the necessity to further increase access to primary health care are the main themes discussed during the three-day Global Health and Care Forum 2008. The conference opened today at the Secretariat of the Internati
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - May 14, 2008
Jean-Luc Martinage, International Federation in Geneva
The need to significantly increase access to primary health care is the main theme being discussed during the Global Health and Care Forum 2008, organized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and taking place in Geneva until Friday, May 16. More than 120 health delegates from Red Cros
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - March 28, 2008
Francis Markus, IFRC in Harbin and Beijing
A group of men sit in a community centre housed in an airy apartment overlooking Harbin s drizzly panorama of high rises and office blocks, talking about their daily pressures they face: health problems, social attitudes and financial worries; all part of daily life with HIV. The community centre in Harbin offers them
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - March 20, 2008
Catherine Mears, Senior Health Advisor, British Red Cross and Marie-Francoise Borel, Federation, Geneva
TB/HIV co-infection has become a public health emergency in many countries. According to the World Health Organization , 700,000 people living with HIV developed tuberculosis in 2006. Some 14 million adults are co-infected in the world, and of the 1.6 million who die of tuberculosis each year, some 200,000 are HIV-posi
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - March 14, 2008
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is committed to the systematic integration of tuberculosis control in Red Cross and Red Crescent HIV programmes at community level, particularly in countries where co-infection has become a public health emergency. According to the World
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - February 15, 2008
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies announced today during the Eastern Africa Partnership Meeting in Entebbe, Uganda , that it is launching an appeal for 71.6 million Swiss francs (US$ 65 million, € 45 million) to support Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies in Eastern Africa in fight
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