25 years of AIDS: global voices

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 the stigma, which so often accompanies the disease.



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

Greener News Room

For more information:

Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+)
(a project of American Jewish World Service)
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

International AIDS Alliance, UKRAINE

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

Journalists Against AIDS, NIGERIA.