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A Magazine for People Living with Hiv/Aids November 2008 Positivea magazine for people living with hiv/aidsLiving november 2008 However you wear them Remember World AIDS Day t is the 20th was an impromptu march anniversary of by a group of gay men in World AIDS Day San Francisco on May 2 commemorations as 1983. It took a route from the HIV community Castro down Market Streets I gets ready for a to the Town Hall that gay range of activities and rights activists had used to gatherings in the week World AIDS Day protest the death of Harvey leading up to December 1 Milk several years prior. Its (now called World AIDS impetus, according to Awareness Week) to website accounts by remember those we have survivors, was to try to lost to the virus and to twenty years on change the inaction of the recognise the impact it is government, the still having on millions Australian Hall, and had indifference of the media around the world, including community, the women abseiling and a hostile and in Australia. message I think HIV- from its balcony. homophobic public. The The concept of a World positive people can Another WAD I was men carried candles in AIDS Day began in 1988 take from this is how in Papua New memory of those who had when a meeting of health important it is to take Guinea and was already died and along the ministers from around the control of your health asked to address a way hundreds joined in as a world agreed it presented an and wellbeing.’ rally at the show of support. opportunity for everyone to Katherine Leane university. I Before the end of 1983 come together to has been involved consciously chose memorial marches and demonstrate the with the Reference WAD as the day I ceremonies were held across importance of HIV/AIDS Group here for many handed in my PhD the US and a 25-year and show solidarity for the years and laments the thesis in 2000, and tradition began. Colin cause. difficult task the as the day I Krycer, who has organised This year’s world theme committee has graduated the Candlelight Vigil and AIDS is “Leadership: Stop AIDS. running a national following year.’ Quilt ceremonies in Keep the Promise” but awareness campaign President of Melbourne for many years NAPWA representative on with a total budget of LANE iSTOCKPHOTO.COM/CATHERINE PHOTO: NAPWA, Robert said that the date for the Australian World AIDS $150 000. ‘An effective last two decades. It is a time Mitchell has been HIV- Candlelight Vigils in Day Reference Group, campaign needs to clearly to remind the world about positive for fifteen years Australia changed from the Katherine Leane said it was define target groups as part HIV, and a time to and involved with HIV international day in May to decided that this theme was of a strategic planning remember. I am so grateful community organisations coincide with World AIDS particularly related to the process. This year’s target that many of us have access for much of that time. ‘For Day ceremonies on promises around global group is supposed to be 18- to ARVs now and can look me it is a time for December 1. ‘In Melbourne access to treatments (less of 35 year-olds and it was forward to long and healthy reflection, a time when I we made the change to an issue here) and that hoped to build an lives, but it doesn’t change remember the many friends summer in 1996 because of Australia’s message would interactive website to the fact that many people that have died, but also bad weather often in May be “Enjoy Life. Take involve this age group in do not get easy access to those who are still fighting and we didn’t want people Control. Stop HIV/AIDS”. particular but unfortunately these drugs. It doesn’t make the virus. It reminds me to catch nasty colds walking This will feature on T-shirts that hasn’t come to it any easier remembering how fortunate I am to have in the rain. Around the and posters that the fruition. I am also the many friends I have lost my good health. It is the country the Vigil and AIDS committee is distributing disappointed that once to AIDS in Australia, Asia time of the year when I Quilt presentations all seem nationally for the week. The again the committee is not and Africa before the drugs think about the to have coalesced into one, traditional metal red ribbon allowed to distribute male were available. achievements we have made partly through convenience.’ is also available. and female condoms as a ‘There are several World for the positive community It is also 20 years since part of the resources we AIDS Days that I remember and also what more we the Australian AIDS MESSAGE FOR HIV- give out. This has always vividly – in the mid-90s I could do to help others Memorial Quilt Project was POSITIVE PEOPLE seemed incongruous to me.’ organised WAD events for affected by the virus. I wish launched on World AIDS ‘It’s a message that is trying the Victorian AIDS Council I didn’t have HIV, but I do, Day in 1988 by Ita Buttrose. to strike a balance about TIME FOR REFLECTION – with Carmen Lawrence so I have to make the most Australia has the second people not being overly Long time HIV-positive (then Federal Health of my life as an HIV- largest collection of panels, fearful of HIV and those national and international Minister) and Winnie positive person.’ tributes to lost friends, with it but that “prevention activist, Susan Paxton Chikafumbwa from Malawi lovers and family members, is everyone’s business” reflected on the significance speaking in the City Square; CANDLELIGHT VIGIL: outside of the US. (following on with last of the Day for her over the another year I got red 25 YEARS year’s message) and this years. ‘World AIDS Day ribbons on many of the This year also sees the 25th FURTHER READING involves responsible (WAD) is always a special buildings in Melbourne, Anniversary of AIDS www.worldaidsday.org.au behaviour by all. While this day for me though it has including St Paul’s Candlelight Vigil www.candlelightmemorial.org is aimed at the mainstream changed enormously in the Cathedral and the Town ceremonies. The first vigil www.aidsquilt.org.au red ribbons Red ribbons became the international symbol of AIDS awareness during 1991. The organisation, Visual AIDS in New York, together with Broadway Cares and Equity Fights AIDS, established the wearing of the red ribbon as a sign of support for people living with HIV. The idea of wearing red ribbons and the fundraising campaign that goes with it (particularly held during World AIDS Awareness Week) was brought to Australia by Brent Lacey from Melbourne who was awarded an Order of Australia medal for his efforts. COVER First row (l-r): Bejewelled ribbon from Oscar Wilde Bookshop, San Francisco Toronto Bears South African ribbon supporting positive women With angel pin, from San Francisco Second row (l-r): Malaysian double red ribbon symbolises a partnership between the local AIDS Council and the AIDS Foundation; heart symbolises love care and support for plwhiv Wooden red ribbon from the Philippines Supporting glbti with HIV unknown Third row (l-r): Barcelona, Spain 2002 Supporting glbti with HIV Hollywood, California classic ribbon Fourth row (l-r): early World AIDS Day South African ribbon, including national flag African, specifics unknown Supporting glbti with HIV Photos by Andrew Henshaw Ribbons provided by DP Tex McKenzie PositiveLiving l 2 ASHM2008 t the Opening Plenary of the 20th Australasian Antiretrovirals Society of HIV Medicine Unity against and crystal meth A (ASHM) Conference in Perth on July sociate Professor 17-20, the Presidents of Jeffrey Klausner, ASHM, AFAO and NAPWA ADirector of Sexually all condemned recent Transmitted Disease trends by governments criminalisation Prevention and Control around the world to Services in San Francisco criminalise the by David Menadue and Adrian Ogier gave some disturbing news transmission of HIV. of the effects of regular Speaking in the same week use of methamphetamine that Hector Scott was jailed (ice) by men who have sex in the ACT on the basis of with men. Somewhere that he was HIV+ and a sex between 50 and 70% of worker, Dr Graham Brown, regular users are President of AFAO said that dependent on the drug. “turning to legislative and (We know this because punitive responses have other surveys have shown never been shown to have that an impressive 90% of any impact on HIV gay men are prepared to transmissions” and that a discuss their recreational public health approach drug use with their should be taken whenever doctors.) possible. Dr Jonathan The implications of the Anderson, President of use of antiretrovirals and ASHM said that, whatever ice have been sketchy to the legal issues in the Scott date but it has been long case, the ACT government known that using the drug appeared to have bypassed while on protease protocols to consult with inhibitors, particularly community and apply public health interventions ritonavir, can boosts the and had rushed down a level of the crystal meth to legal path instead. harmful levels. It is now At the conference the known that three presidents joined with methamphetamine use can Executive Directors of AIDS cause nerve damage and PHOTO: DAVID BROADWAY lead to early onset of HIV Councils, Scarlet Alliance, (left-right) President of ASHM, Jonathan Anderson, President of AFAO, Dr Graham AIVL and HIV research dementia.
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