Australian Development Gateway

The Australian Development Gateway (ADG) strives to support members of the development community in their efforts to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region. The site has been created with participation from members of government, private, academia and non-government organisations. User feedback mechanisms have been incorporated to guide future directions of the site. The site is optimised for low bandwidth access to enable the widest participation throughout the Asia Pacific region.

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Emerging governance issues on HIV and AIDS in Asia

This report is based on the understanding that AIDS control cannot be carried on in isolation. The spread of HIV and the extent of suffering it causes is influenced by policies affecting all spheres of people's lives; economic, social, cultural and political. The extent of socio-economic development and the models adopted to achieve economic growth are crucial determinants. Colonial and neo-colonial structures of governance have generated conditions in Asian countries that make them vulnerable to HIV.

At the HIV/AIDS regional meet of ActionAid International in 2005, participants set out the mandate for the organisation's second report on HIV/AIDS. Its primary thrust was that AIDS is a political issue. The statement emerging from the meet further outlined its wider linkages as an issue of people's rights, of human and economic development, dignity and well-being. It advocated intensifying the HIV and AIDS control efforts by addressing the political will of all concerned, with the objective of creating conditions that decrease vulnerability to HIV as well as ensuring access to means of prevention and treatment.


 

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