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HIV/ AIDS stigma: The Story of Adwoa |
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By Joyce Larko, Christian Council of Ghana
 | | Adwoa Amina (not her real name) is a beautiful young woman who works as a sales person for an organization in the Ga West Municipality, in Ghana. Adwoa’s fiancé suddenly died after a series of health complications. Soon after his demise, Adwoa started losing weight and suffered from one sickness to the other. She was later diagnosed HIV positive.
In her attempt to avoid the stigmatization that is associated with most persons living with HIV/AIDS in her community, she decided not to disclose her status to anyone. Her health deteriorated. Her family took her to a prayer camp to seek spiritual help. But she did not get better despite a series of “spiritual cleansing”. Read more...
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WACC Message to members and partners on World AIDS Day 2010 |
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| | On World AIDS Day 2010 we express gratitude to the members and partners of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) for their efforts to advance communication rights that help prevent the stigmatisation of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Significant progress in achieving universal access to HIV treatment, care, prevention and support in some countries is reported in Towards universal access published in September 2010 by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Many agree that even greater progress is possible if universal access to care and prevention are understood as a fundamental human right. According to the World AIDS Campaign, “linking universal access to human rights helps bring the HIV diagnosis and treatment issues into existing fora and before world leaders who are already committed to pursuing a human rights agenda.” A rights-based approach “gives more credence to the international agreements related to human rights and their precedence in international law.” Read more...
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Danish Media Centre Director visits WACC |
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By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC
| | Simon Kangas Larsen, Director of the Danish Church Media Centre (DKM), visited the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) offices in Toronto, December 2-3, to explore potential initiatives for future collaboration with WACC.
During his visit, Larsen and WACC staff exchanged ideas and information related to operations of the Media centre and WACC’s global communications work. Read more...
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Programme updates |
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Communication Rights and Migrants: what media coverage do migrants get? |
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Compiled by María Teresa Aveggio, Programme Manager 
| | In the late 90s an editorial in WACC’s Media Development identified migrants as the primary victims of the process of globalisation [3/98]. Over a decade later nearly one billion people are on the move both within their own countries and overseas. Of these some 200 million are international migrants (UNDP Human Development Report 2009).
WACC has recognised that people who for one reason or another attempt to flee from various insecurities - be it economic downturns, impoverishment, growing gaps between the rich and poor, conflicts over national and personal identities – are, in the first place, among the most vulnerable sectors of any society. Most of them face multi layered discriminations. Read more...
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Human rights and communication rights: a necessary alliance |
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By María Teresa Aveggio, Programme Manager  | | As part of its work on communication for social change, WACC has supported some 79 projects in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America under its programme Building and Recognising Communication Rights since 2007. The concept of communication rights is a new one and partners and funders frequently ask what are communication rights?
For a long time now many groups and organisations, as well as individuals, have been working on the idea that communication rights are fundamental to the democratisation of society since they “strengthen the capacity of people and communities to use communication and media to pursue their goals in the economic, political, social and cultural spheres. Read more...
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WACC Europe Assembly and Seminar, 2011 |
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Pre-invitation: WACC Europe Assembly 2011
| | Every three years WACC Europe holds an Assembly in which all corporate and personal members may take part. The next Assembly will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, 30 March-2 April 2011.
The assembly shall discuss global and local communication issues and ways of strengthening the communications work of churches and church-related media organisations. For this discussion there will also be a seminar which is open for all. The seminar will be organised together with PONEC (Press officers network of the European Churches). Read more...
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