One of the most striking phenomena of the world today is the ever-increasing mobility of people. People in an alien environment are influenced in their attitudes and behaviours by the fact that they lack certain aspects of their usual social and cultural settings. It is the behaviour of mobile people and their ability to cope in unfamiliar surroundings which determine the likelihood that they run risks to their health. Efforts to stop the further spread of HIV must therefore take the mobility factor into account // // Aids & Mobility, CEC, oct 1993 (en haut à droite), verso
Transmission from an HIV positive man to an HIV negative woman has been found to be 2-4 times more likely than from an HIV positive woman to an HIV negative man // // From UK WAD 93 Resource Pack (en bas au milieu), verso
(*W.H.O. estimates that worldwide, 5,000 new HIV infections occur every day (1993)), en bas
FACTS & Figures // 13 million persons habe been infected worldwide, 75% through unprotected sexual intercourse // // everyday, 5.000 more become HIV positive, next to half of them women // // A total of 2.5 million people have developed AIDS. This figure is set to increase dramatically over the coming years // // In Europe one third of recent AIDS cases occurred through needle-sharing // // from IXth International Conference on AIDS, Berlin 1993, verso
... Aids has also highlighted medical and health inadequacy and demonstrates the injustice and poverty as well as inequality of access to services. Therefore, il is closely linked with Human rights in such areas as access to information, gender sensitivity and accesse to care. It also involves many of our fundamental principles, i.e. Humanity, Impartiality and Voluntary Service // // - from letter by Georges Weber, secretary general, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, to all national societies (9 nov 93) (En haut à gauche), verso
BY THE TIME // YOU READ // THESE WORDS // AND STOP TO // THINK ABOUT // THEM*, // SOMEONE, // SOMEWHERE // IN THE WORLD // HAS BECOME // HIV POSITIVE // ...please don't be the next one, sur la couverture
HANDS ACROSS // ISSUE 4 // // editorial // // AIDS & the dental Surgeon // // AIDS TELEPHONE SURVEY // // AIS TELEPHONE SURVEY (Liste des titres à l'intérieur), à l'intérieur
Drug users are in major risk of infecton from HIV through the sharing of needles, suringhes and other injecting equipment and through unsafe sex // // Working with drug users works. There is now considerable evidence that prevention strategies such as targeted HIV education campaigns and needle and syringe exchange schemes have had some success : when compared to estimates in the 1980's, there is now a marked reduction in projected infections among injecting drug users. Drug users can and many have changed their drug use and injecting practices ans adopted safer using techniques... // // From UK WAD 93 Resource Pack (en bas à gauche), verso