aidsfocus.ch Conferences

Conference 2004: Living with AIDS. Treatment and care for all
A second chance at life! This is the way people infected with HIV/AIDS experience the blessings of antiretroviral treatment. However, this is only true for those living in Northern countries, while the 6 million infected ...

Conference 2005: "... and one can dare to hope and dare to remember"
Schweiz | Memory Work: Coping Strategies in the Face of AIDS. Memory books, memory boxes or body maps help people living with HIV/AIDS to put words and images to feelings, thoughts, and experiences. Memory books help parents to ...

Conference 2006: The Right to Know and the Will to Act
Schweiz | Youth and HIV/AIDS Prevention: The present and future of HIV/AIDS is shaped by the action of young people, women and men, girls and boys. Young people between the ages of 15 to 24 are at the same time the most threatened ...

Conference 2007: Positive Motherhood
The aidsfocus.ch 2007 conference focuses on "Positive motherhood - Opportunities and challenges of HIV prevention, treatment and care". Worldwide, around 1 per cent of pregnant women are HIV-positive; 95 per cent live in ...

"Die Zukunft ist grau". Alte Menschen in der HIV/Aids-Krise: Opfer und HoffnungsträgerInnen
Afrika | Forum von aidsfocus.ch und Kwa Wazee im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Afrikas Grossmütter im Kampf gegen HIV/Aids", Kornhausforum Bern. „Die Grossmütter sind die nicht anerkannten Heldinnen des Kontinents: Sie sind arm, sie ...

Conference 2008: AIDS and Livelihoods – Securing property and inheritance rights
Children who lose their parents, widows and grandmothers left to take care of children and grandchildren often face serious challenges in securing their livelihoods. The reasons for this have socio-economic and cultural dimensions, ...

Forum: HIV treatment for all - a realistic project
“When we first started the programme, there was little hope that people will recover…. But now, most of our clients have gone back to work”, says Thikane Mkabhela, Head Nurse at the Sigonbemi Red Cross Clinic in Swaziland ...

Conference 2009: Culture and condoms - Integrating approaches to HIV and AIDS
“Sometimes I get the feeling that I talk past people”, says a disillusioned development officer involved in the international response to HIV and AIDS. He is not alone in the feeling expressed in this statement. Many actors ...

Conference 2010: The future of the global AIDS response: Implications for NGOs
The global economic crisis has induced cutbacks in the spending of Government and international donors. This also threatens efforts for an effective response to HIV and AIDS. In addition, a ‘backlash’ against disease-specific ...