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Loon Gangte, president of the Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+).

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MAKING CONTACT - a weekly international radio program

25 Years of AIDS: Global Voices (encore edition)

November 29, 2006

It's been 25 years since the start of the AIDS epidemic. In that time the number of those infected with HIV has grown to a staggering 40 million worldwide. What was once a fatal disease is now a treatable condition, but advocates say more needs to be done to protect the rights of those infected ­ from universal access to treatment to the elimination of stigma.

This week on Making Contact, a special collaboration with Human Rights Watch, we'll hear stories from positive people and activists in the places worst hit by the epidemic.

Featuring:

Loon Gangte, President, Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+); Father JP Heath, Secretary General of the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with AIDS (ANARELA); Rolake Odetoyinbo, Program Director, Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA ­ NIGERIA); Grace Sediou, Founder, Bomme-Ifago Association, Botswana; Beatrice Were, Ugandan AIDS activist; Andriy Klepikov, Director, International AIDS Alliance, UKRAINE; Alan Clear, Director, Harm Reduction Coalition; Joe Amon, Director, HIV/AIDS program, Human Rights Watch.

Producer/Host: Pauline Bartolone.

For more information:

Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+)
(a project of American Jewish World Service)
www.ajws.org/index.cfm?section_id=3&page_id=566
INDIA

Father JP Heath
African Network of Religious Leaders Living with AIDS (ANARELA)
SOUTH AFRICA

Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA ­ NIGERIA)
20B, Brown Road,
Aguda, Surulere,
Lagos, NIGERIA
www.patanigeria.com

International AIDS Alliance, UKRAINE
www.aidsalliance.org/sw1280.asp

Harm Reduction Coalition
22 West 27th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
212-213-6376; fax: 212-213-6582; hrc@harmreduction.org
www.harmreduction.org

HIV/AIDS program, Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor
New York, NY 10118-3299 USA
212-290-4700; fax: 212-736-1300
www.hrw.org
www.hrw.org/campaigns/aids/2006/toronto/audio.htm

Journalists Against AIDS, NIGERIA.
www.nigeria-aids.org