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,” …

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A few days ago Elizabeth Pisani commented on her website on how the Cambodian government caved in to US pressure. US pro-abstinence ideologues were meddling with a recognised efficacious HIV prevention intervention in exchange for economic advantages.
This was an interesting post and it fitted with one of the main theme explored in Elizabeth’s book, i.e. how ideology can take over epidemiology and surveillance data when it comes to designing HIV prevention programme.
Interestingly, in a Washington Post column, Rev. Sam L. Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s …