Le sida est peut-être l'exemple le plus probant d'investissement réussi dans le domaine de la santé: à la suite d'investissements importants, la mortalité due au sida et le nombre de nouvelles infections ont diminué de 25% à travers le monde au cours des cinq dernières années. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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By Michel Kazatchkine, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

We live in a world of extraordinary inequities. Poverty and inequity are the world's greatest killers. In the 20 years after the Cold War, 360 million people have died from hunger and treatable diseases - much more than from all 20th-century conflicts.

When AIDS was first identified in fewer than 20 patients in the US who presented with unusual symptoms in the early 1980s, millions of Africans were already infected, but there was no system in place to detect this.

The global effort to defeat AIDS over the past three decades has demonstrated a long-suspected truth: health should no more be seen as a consequence of economic growth. In 2000, the world set itself the ambitious Millennium Development Goals, endorsing that change in paradigm about how health relates to development. Experience has validated the concept.

AIDS is perhaps the pre-eminent example of successful investment in health. Eight million people have gained access to antiretroviral treatment, compared to just a few tens of thousands 10 years ago. As a result of investments in HIV prevention and treatment, mortality from AIDS and the number of new infections have decreased worldwide by 25 per cent in just the past five years.

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Comment le sida a pour toujours changé la santé mondiale 

Signez cette pétition, appelant les dirigeants de l'Union Européenne à réaffirmer leur engagement dans la lutte contre le sida en Europe. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

The European Commission will convene in a high-level meeting with key HIV/AIDS stakeholders May 27-28 in Brussels, Belgium for the “Right to Health, Right to Life” conference.

The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the way forward in the European region after the current action plan on combating HIV/AIDS expires at the end of 2013.

A coalition of European AIDS organizations is calling on the European Commission to use this meeting as an opportunity to recommit itself to the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB, Hepatitis and other sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs).

We invite you to sign on to the petition urging the European Commission (EC) - including EC President Barroso - to recommit itself to the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB, Hepatitis and other STDs in Europe.

The petition will be sent directly to the EC President and his Cabinet. The petition is for people living in Europe, EU and neighbouring countries, Ukraine and Russia included as the EU strategy affects these countries ! We are aiming at 1,000 sign-ons!

Please read the petition and if you agree with it, sign-on:

The petition is also available in Russian to make it easier for Russian speakers to sign on.

AHF Europe are planning a direct action at the EC on Monday 27th May.

digital media coverage: European Voice and EU Observer (1 week before and after the conference)

ads in the metro shelters in Schuman metro station close to EC (1 week before and after the conference)

palm cards to be distributed to civil servants on 27th May and during the conferences

iPad based petition to be signed by passers at the activities

video with messages to MEPs which will be filmed on 27th May and sent directly on 28th May

In Europe and Central Asia in 2010: 100,000 people lost their lives due to AIDS

more than twice the # of the European Commission staff

10 times the Brussels University student base

more than the whole population of Avignon

the combined population of Monaco, San Marino and Liechtenstein

develop a strategy and action plan on HIV/AIDS for 2014-2020 for Europe!

Please sign this petition here! WE COUNT ON THE VOICES FROM YOUR COMMUNITIES.

On a besoin de vous! L’UE doit réaffirmer son engagement dans la lutte contre le sida en Europe 

La Chambre des Députés a approuvé le projet de loi 7663/10 qui prévoit le traitement forcé des usagers de drogues. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

By Luciana Boiteux

The Brazilian House of Representatives just approved the Bill 7663/10 proposed by Representative Osmar Terra and reported by Representative Givaldo Carimbão. We foresee with alarm a risk of imminent setback in the Brazilian Drug Policy because of the Bill 7663/10.

Among several misconceptions, the project determines the compulsory drug treatment of people who use drug. As noted by the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatments, the compulsory detention of drug users for treatment constitutes torture. Twelve UN Agencies signed a collective statement against forced drug treatment and this was ignored by the house of representatives in Brasil.

The bill also attempt to re-criminalize users and increase penalties related to drug trafficking is a disaster in the opposite direction of what occurs in several countries of America and Europe, contributing to further increase the super-incarceration and the criminalization of poverty. This occurred in the same month in which the OAS (Organization of American States) did its first clear statement that it is time to change the policy of “war on drugs” due to its failure.

The bill also approved the use of public financial resources to support non evidence based drug treatment in the so-called therapeutic communities. This is a important step back in a country that has one the few well succeeded public, evidence based and free of charge widely available drug treatment structures in the world, so called CAPS AD (Center for Psycho-Social Support on Alcohol and Drugs).

Approved in the end of May of 2013, this bill now goes to the Senate (Up Chamber) and finally to the agreement and approval of President Dilma.

Given the political trajectory, commitment to human rights and personal experience in relation to torture of President Dilma Rousseff, it is unacceptable that the Federal Government should support compulsory treatment. We believe that the application of this measure in Brazil today signals a return to segregation policies based on class and ethnicity. Besides makes Brazil one of the most retrograde countries in Latin America on Drug Policy, loosing its historical position of leadership of humanitarian drug policies in the region during the previous 12 years (Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva Governments).

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Comment le sida a pour toujours changé la santé mondiale

On a besoin de vous! L’UE doit réaffirmer son engagement dans la lutte contre le sida en Europe

Échec imminent de la politique brésilienne en matière de drogue