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Pacific Island region needs to boost its HIV/AIDS response
UN Calling Asia - a weekly magazine programme, in English, that keeps you in touch with UN developments covering Asia and the Pacific.
Maire Bopp Dupont
Countries in the Pacific Island region need to scale up their response to HIV and AIDS, the Commission on AIDS in the Pacific revealed in their very first report on Wednesday. The epidemic in the region is being fuelled by violence against women, stigma and unprotected sex, it adds. Maire Bopp Dupont, Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation, PIAF, is a person living with HIV. A former journalist, she speaks to UN Radio's Jocelyne Sambira about using her trade to raise awareness and shares her vision.
Ecstasy and crystal meth use are on the rise in Asia:
2009 Patterns and Trends of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants and Other Drugs in East and South-East Asia
The trade and use of amphetamine-type stimulants, or ATS, is becoming an increasing problem in East and South East Asia, says a United Nations report released last Thursday. Published by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the report highlights the various 'push and pull' factors fueling the spread of ATS in the region. Kit Cockburn spoke with Gary Lewis, UNODC Regional Representative for East Asia and the Pacific, and began by asking what the risks of amphetamine-type stimulants were for individuals that take them.
Greatest victims of climate change in Vietnam are women:
Nguyen Thi Lanh
Vietnam's economy is finally thriving after decades of war, but a new and insidious enemy - global warming - is hitting this Southeast Asian country, with deadly force. And its greatest victims are women. Matthew Graham has the story.
Producer: Jocelyne Sambira
Production Assistant : Matthew Graham
Duration: 14'01"
