The good news is that the incidence of HIV in the Kingdom of Swaziland has stabilised over the past 5 years. The bad news is that it is still 31% among adults aged 18–49 years and, alarmingly, 43% among pregnant women. All told, an estimated 201 292 Swazis were HIV-positive in 2012, despite intensive eff orts to mitigate the epidemic. The government provides antiretroviral treatment (ART) and, ...

PROBLEM Until 2005, the quality of rapid diagnostic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing was not monitored and no regular technical support was provided to hospital laboratories in Myanmar. APPROACH The national reference laboratory introduced a national external quality assessment scheme. The scheme involved (i) training laboratory technicians in HIV testing and in the requirements of ...

In Indonesia, an ongoing government "war on drugs" has resulted in numerous arrests and anecdotal reports of abuse in detention, but to date there has been little documentation or analysis of this issue. JANGKAR (also known in English as the Indonesian Harm Reduction Network), a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in Jakarta, surveyed 1106 injecting drug users in 13 cities about their expe...

The challenges facing efforts in Africa to increase access to antiretroviral HIV treatment underscore the urgent need to strengthen national health systems across the continent. However, donor aid to developing countries continues to be disproportionately channeled to international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) rather than to ministries of health. The rapid proliferation of NGOs has prov...

Bu araştırmada, Türkiye’de çocuklara yönelik faaliyet gösteren derneklerin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma nitel modelde olup durum deseni şeklinde tasarlanmıştır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu 108 dernek oluşturmuştur. Araştırmadaki veriler, doküman incelemesi ve yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ile toplanmıştır. Elde edilen veriler ise, analizi içerik yöntemi kullanılarak analiz edilmiş...

formation of non-governmental organizations is in order to realize the citizenship rights and support the legitimate demands of their and in line with the needs of human societies . realization this goal has several conditions that among the most important is to maintain the independence of these organizations. how to establish, supervision and dissolution of the organizations and the degree of...

social incentives that bring them into existence and sustain them in the course of time. non-governmental organizations (ngos), whether based in the global north or south, are not different. unfortunately, numerous ngos start up and then fail, because the passion of the founder is not supported by a sustainable organization volunteers in all sectors are working with ngos. the ngos are citizen...

This article explores male perceptions and attitudes toward violence against women in Indonesia. It analyzes interview data from Indonesian men collected as part of a large multimethod Australian government-funded project on masculinities and violence in two Asian countries. Reluctance to talk about violence against women was evident, and the accounts of those men who did respond referred to th...