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Western Samoa's Chief Health Educator is using the Manu Samoa football team to promote AIDS prevention and anti-smoking among Samoans. Not only are young athletes at risk of contracting and transmitting HIV, they also tend to be highly regarded by other members of society. The Educator conducted a workshop for the team when they were ready to go to Hong Kong to stress the need for safer sex and demonstrate how to use the condoms. The event as reported in Samoa Sports is included in the paper.
Pac AIDS Alert Bull 1994
PMID:Sports against AIDS. 1234 56

The author discusses illegal prostitution in Fiji. She is a physician specializing in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) who has cared for more than 50% of Fiji's HIV-positive people. Although individual sex workers may be fined by the authorities and chastised in the press, there is no shortage of prostitutes who work night shifts, day shifts, and part time. Transvestites also work as commercial sex workers. Rates vary according to clientele with local men paying $5-10 for intercourse and tourists paying $20. Rates also vary according to type of sexual activity. No organized solidarity group or union exist for sex workers and most work individually guided by their needs and convenience often with regular clients. A few support groups are, however, developing. Workers have a tough time negotiating condom use. Many think taking a penicillin tablet daily will prevent STD, very few use the free government STD clinics, and very few have regular medical check-ups. The author notes in closing that social barriers prohibit effective outreach programs to prostitutes in Fiji.
Pac AIDS Alert Bull 1994
PMID:From one woman's window. A "glimpse" into the Fiji sex trade. 1234 57

In July 1993, the US and Japan formed the "Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective," an economic alliance to promote health and human development, respond to challenges to global stability, protect the global environment, advance science and technology, and foster exchanges for mutual understanding. A Global Issues Initiative (GII) has been created within this framework to support family planning, HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention and control efforts, maternal and child health, primary health care, and women's empowerment. Participation in the GII has led Japan to more than double the technical assistance it provides and to broaden its geographic focus from Asia to the entire developing world. The US continues to fund population and health programs in more than 50 countries. The Common Agenda grew out of a US-Japan development assistance policy consultation dialogue known as the "Honolulu process," which sought ways to promote mutual understanding among US and Japanese development assistance personnel (through international internships) and nongovernmental organizations and to identify specific areas for joint or parallel development projects. Cooperative activities are underway in the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Ghana, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, and Jamaica. Joint project evaluations have also taken place in Zambia and Ghana. The Common Agenda's Children's Health Initiative has supported such initiatives as achieving child immunization in the Newly Independent States and joint efforts to eradicate polio and micronutrient disorders. The Women in Development initiative enhances girls' education and assists women engaged in small-scale enterprises. After initial difficulties in agreeing on joint strategies, the Common Agenda has been an "overwhelmingly positive" experience with the potential to meet critical challenges, because Japan and the US account for 40% of all development assistance worldwide.
Asia Pac Pop Policy 1996 Oct
PMID:The United States and Japan pursue a common agenda. 1234 97

This editorial features prevention and control of AIDS in the Pacific. The advent of AIDS "forced people to talk more honestly with each other". With this, beliefs and values that pose an obstacle to the fight against AIDS are questioned and modified. Moreover, "loving with care" is important in the success of this struggle. Parents therefore, should discuss issues such as sex, AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases openly with their children. On the other hand, the increasing number of faithful wives getting HIV infection from their husbands, uncovers the hypocrisy of having a single set of moral values for women and men. The global widespread of AIDS has demonstrated the ill effects of social discrimination and harmful practices due to the dictates of culture and tradition. Loving and caring attitudes should be developed in all aspects of sexual behavior rather than subscribing to the traditional belief than manhood is determined by the number of sexual partners.
Pac AIDS Alert Bull 1992
PMID:Editorial. 1234 57

In response to the need for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease (STD) information and support among seafarers, a regional project involving train-the-trainer workshops are being implemented in Vanuatu, Fiji Islands, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Kiribati, Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and in Kavieng, Papua New Guinea. The project aims to build the capacity of the maritime training schools and partner agencies to provide high quality HIV/AIDS and STD training through the regional maritime training schools and colleges. In addition, the workshops aim to provide comprehensive information about HIV/AIDS and STDs and to further develop the training and education skills of participants. Condom is the main topic of the lectures, discussions, group works, brainstorms, role plays, questions and answers, games, participant presentations, and film showings. Informal feedback and formal evaluation on the workshops delivered have been excellent.
Pac AIDS Alert Bull 1999
PMID:HIV / AIDS and STD among seafarers. Project update. 1234 90

This article presents a project update on the joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The UNAIDS program is a coordination of national efforts to strengthen responses to HIV/AIDS as a support to the ministries of health. Member agencies have provided assistance and continue to assist HIV/AIDS related activities in the Pacific Island countries. These agencies consist of the WHO, UN Population Fund, UN International Children's Emergency Fund, UN Education, Science and Culture Organisation, UN Development Programme, and the UN Drug Control Programme. Highlighted HIV/AIDS-related activities being undertaken include the following: the implementation of a program to strengthen sexually transmitted infections services; launching of a pilot peer education training program in Australia; the establishment of a behavioral research working group; commitment of financial supports; and development of national youth policies which include issues related to HIV/AIDS.
Pac AIDS Alert Bull 1999
PMID:The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS). Project update. 1234 91

This article highlights the three main reasons why the number of HIV infections in women is growing in the Pacific. Firstly, cultural and gender inequalities lessen a woman's ability to deal effectively with the risks and needs created by the epidemic. The cultural determinants of HIV infection among women in the Pacific are very different from those in men since they relate to the role of women within relationships, families, and communities, which, in turn, determine the nature and patterns of sexual activity and other factors that place women at risk of HIV infection. The majority of these women believe that HIV/AIDS issues are not worth learning about because cultural and traditional beliefs are stronger than the desire to learn. Secondly, women in the Pacific are socially vulnerable to HIV, which means that married women have little or no power at all to negotiate the basis upon which her sexual relationship would take place. Thirdly, women in the Pacific are economically vulnerable. Women's economic dependency increases their risk of exposure to HIV infection because 1) men expect sex with any woman receiving their economic support and 2) there is lack of access to affordable health care.
Pac AIDS Alert Bull 1999
PMID:Pacific women and AIDS: dilemmas, options, choices and vulnerability. 1234 92

This article narrates the story of Peati, an HIV-positive mother who had already lost her husband and 1-year-old son to AIDS. Peati's ordeal began when her rugby-star husband Malaki tested positive 4 years after they were married in June 27, 1992. She had to endure many things, including the people's judgmental reactions towards them and the pressure from her own family who wanted her to leave her husband. Following her husband and child's deaths, she, too, tested positive for HIV. Consequently, she lost not only her job but also her family and friends, leaving her all alone to take care of her other son, Natal. Luckily, a Samoan businesswoman named Fatima Strickland offered to help her both financially and emotionally. She then decided to share her story so that others may learn from her experience. The first time she spoke was at the First Pacific Regional HIV/AIDS and STDs Conference in Fiji, where she described her personal trauma as an HIV-positive person now taking care of a 6-year-old son. Peati now works for the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Apia with a commitment to help other Samoan women understand the disease and how to protect themselves against it.
Pac AIDS Alert Bull 1999
PMID:Living with AIDS: an HIV-positive mother's story. 1234 93

This article presents an update of the Pacific Islands AIDS/sexually transmitted disease (STD) Strategic Planning Project. It also provides specific stories on the strategic planning experiences and achievements of four countries namely New Caledonia, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Nauru. The project began in 1998 when 17 Pacific Island countries participated in a workshop where each country developed an action plan which contained the following common elements: 1) a plan on how to integrate the strategic planning process into existing structures for HIV/AIDS activities; 2) strategies to gain political and other organizational support into HIV/AIDS and STD planning; 3) a summary of the factors contributing to HIV and STD risk; and 4) a review of what has been done to address these problems. In 1999, these plans were put into action. Each country was challenged at the planning and execution of situational analysis and response review. A project review conducted in June 1999 resulted in a decision to hold individual country workshops in the future which will allow more participants and facilitators to concentrate their efforts on developing an individual strategic plan for each country.
Pac AIDS Alert Bull 1999
PMID:MBC / UNAIDS / SPC Pacific Islands AIDS / STD strategic planning. Project update. 1234 94

Over the past 30 years, Asia and the Pacific region has stood out to the rest of the world as a model of development. Stunning economic growth accompanied by huge investments in health education significantly contributed to reduced infant, child and maternal deaths, smaller family size, higher living standards, and significant improvement in the status of women. However, financial and economic crisis which spread throughout Asia beginning in mid-1997, has given a grim warning that financial turbulence can wipe out developmental gains owing to reduced social sector investment. The crisis increased poverty and unemployment, decreased educational involvement, and budgetary constraints for social programs, including those concerning population and reproductive health. At the dawn of the new millennium the challenge for Asia and the Pacific will be to respond to the key issues that came out at the International Conference on Population and Development review, and to maintain the momentum of progress which it accomplished in the past 3 decades. Priority should be given on areas of reproductive health, reduction of maternal mortality, reproductive health needs of adolescents, reducing abortion, addressing the health consequences of unsafe abortion, prevention of HIV/AIDS, gender issues, and education.
Asia Pac Popul J 1999 Dec
PMID:The "Asian miracle". 1234 85


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