From the 8th to the 11th of November 2007, HARPAS, in partnership with UNFPA, the Japanese Fund for Women in Development, the Executive Secretary to Fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria of the Republic of Djibouti and the French Agency for Development organized a workshop in Djibouti that gathered more than 80 participants from all over the Arab Region...
HIV/AIDS impacts are likely to concentrate on young adults in their most productive years. Thus, AIDS is projected as having the potential to become the second major cause of death among adults of working age in the world - including the Arab world - posing a serious economic threat. The epidemic is eroding productivity just at the time when developing countries, including most of the Arab countries, need to become more competitive to cope with rapid globalization...
Living with HIV/AIDS in the Arab region poses particular challenges for those who must face stigma, silence and fear. In other parts of the world, where networks, support groups and structures have been formed to support PLWH, the Arab world is far behind, thus leaving many people living with HIV to deal with their status on their own often in fear of family rejection and social exclusion...
From the 8th to the 11th of September 2007, HARPAS has organized a regional training workshop co-facilitated by UNDP and the Reuters Foundations employing UNDP's transformative leadership and development enhancement methodologies that have generated highly effective responses to the epidemic in the region, in synergy with the Media professional expertise of the Reuters Foundation...
The second event conducted in Algiers, Algeria 29-31 Oct. 2007 is part of a series of sub-regional workshops. Organized by UNDP/HARPAS in partnership with UNDP Algeria, ILO, and UNHCR, it gathered 60 parliamentarians from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. It built up on a previous initiative organized in November 2005, "The Legal Framework for HIV/AIDS ...
Living with HIV/AIDS in the Arab region poses particular challenges for those who must face stigma, silence and fear. In other parts of the world, where networks, support groups and structures have been formed to support PLWH, the Arab world is far behind, thus leaving many people living with HIV to deal with their status on their own often in fear of family rejection and social exclusion...