Monday, December 6, 2010

Nepal's World AIDS Day On Right Track

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Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise “Universal Access and Human Rights”
WORLD AIDS DAY On Right Track
Given a guarantee to basic human rights and regular availability of medicines for people living with HIV, it is possible to stabilize the HIV epidemic. This is what the recently released UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic reveals. The report shows that the total number of people living with HIV is stabilizing worldwide. Despite continuous political instability and frequent changes in the governments, Nepal has also achieved a major progress in stabilizing HIV infections. Interestingly, Nepal has also succeeded in decreasing new HIV infections by more than 25% over the last one decade. As the World’s AIDS Day was celebrated on December 1, fundamental rights of people living with HIV and their access to medicines remain a challenge for Nepal towards meeting UNAIDS’ vision: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths. With the slogan of Stop AIDS: Keep the Promises, Universal Access and Human Rights, the World AIDS day has celebrated in Nepal.
By By KESHAB POUDEL and YOGESH GYAWALI in Kathmandu and Umid Bagchand and Sita Mademba reporting from Dhangadhi and Dharan

http://spotlightnepal.com/sln/Others.aspx?ArticleID=532

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Friday, December 3, 2010

WikiLeaks Discloses Nepal

Opinion Analyst Dipal Gyawali writes, "Everyone is groping in the dark to find the answers: when, how and why did we go so horribly wrong? Some insights might soon be forthcoming in two thousand plus secret US embassy cables from Kathmandu in the WikiLeaks website sent during the tenures of Ambassadors Michael Malinowski, James Moriarty and Nancy Powell. They cover events from early 2002 till February this year and hopefully will cover the Kangressi infighting between the Girijangress and Deupangress factions that led to their dissolving the discredited Third Parliament. That enmity continues till today, has paralysed its collective leadership and, as a consequence, contributed to the ennui of the Constituent Assembly itself.