Bibi Rusell, former international fashion model and now world renowned Bengali designer started her own version of (PRODUCT)RED with HIV-infected women in Cambodia.
Russell joined the women of MDSF, an initiative started in 2006 by the UN Development Program that now employs 17 women living with HIV in a Phnom Penh factory reports the Phnom Penh Post.
“If you join hands with women living with HIV with affection and confidence, they can create magic with their fingers. Fashion is very important, and it makes you understand the culture of a country,” …

The 21st century AIDS epidemics in the US is young, Black and gay. This was one of the major outcome of the 2008 AIDS conference. Several reasons have been advanced to explain why this particular population has been and is more at risk of infection. One that has received little attention so far was explored several years ago. In 2005 Laura Bogart and Sheryl Thorburn conducted a telephone survey to assess the relation between the endorsement of HIV/AIDS conspiracy beliefs and condom attitudes amongst African Americans (J Acquir Immune Defic …

Thailand is a deeply conservative society where extra marital sex and sex amongst men is common, known, not as socially accepted as many Western observers would like to think and certainly rarely talked about in public.
Despite a praised and recognized success in fighting a growing heterosexual HIV epidemics in the 90s. Thailand has failed to recognise and address the growing HIV epidemic amongst Men who have Sex with Men (MSM). The most recent survey conducted in MSM venues in Bangkok in 2005 returned a prevalence of more than 28% amongst …