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Stop Aids Campaign
STOPAIDS is a UK-based HIV, health and rights network. Drawing on its 35-year experience working on the HIV response, it supports UK and global movements to challenge systemic barriers and inequalities to end AIDS and support people around the world to realise their right to good health and wellbeing. History It is a coalition of more than eighty of the leading international NGOs and HIV/AIDS groups in the United Kingdom. The Stop AIDS Campaign is the previous name of a campaign run by the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development. The Stop AIDS Campaign and the AIDS Consortium relaunched as STOPAIDS, in September 2013.http://stopaids.org.uk/launch-of-stopaids-uniting-uk-voices-on-the-global-response/ Members of the network include Christian Aid, CAFOD, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, OXFAM, UNICEF UK, Restless Development (hosts of the Youth STOPAIDS Campaign) and Oxfam Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxfam
Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. History Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics in 1942 and registered in accordance with UK law in 1943, the original committee was a group of concerned citizens, including Henry Gillett (a prominent local Quaker), Theodore Richard Milford, Gilbert Murray and his wife Mary, Cecil Jackson-Cole, and Alan Pim. The committee met in the Old Library of University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, for the first time in 1942, and its aim was to help starving citizens of occupied Greece, a famine caused by the Axis occupation of Greece and Allied naval blockades and to persuade the British government to allow food relief through the blockade. The Oxford committee was one of several local committees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HIV/AIDS Prevention Organizations
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual may not notice any symptoms, or may experience a brief period of influenza-like illness. Typically, this is followed by a prolonged incubation period with no symptoms. If the infection progresses, it interferes more with the immune system, increasing the risk of developing common infections such as tuberculosis, as well as other opportunistic infections, and tumors which are rare in people who have normal immune function. These late symptoms of infection are referred to as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This stage is often also associated with unintended weight loss. HIV is spread primarily by unprotected sex (including anal and vaginal sex), contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from mother to child dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
