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AIDS and HIV - 2010
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Foreign aid spending
26/05/2010
According to reports this week half of our foreign aid to Papua New Guinea is spent on consultancies and training.
Critics say more of this money needs to go to providing goods and services. But others claim consultants provide critical capacity building assistance to the Pacific nation. Almost everyone agrees we need to know more about what they do and how effective they are.
Humanitarian aid to manage sexual violence against women
07/04/2010
When society breaks down, like it has to an extent after the earthquake in Haiti, women and children can be very vulnerable.
There is a much higher risk that they will be victims of sexual violence.
We meet the Women's Health Adviser with Medecins sans frontieres to talk about the challenges of providing medical support to rape victims in humanitarian disaster zones.
Intravenous drug use and HIV
18/03/2010
There are an estimated 16 million injecting drug users worldwide, and of these three million are thought to be HIV positive. That means around 10 per cent of all people living with the virus are likely to have contracted it via a dirty needle.
These are some of the findings of a recent Australian review of clean needle and methadone programs around the globe conducted by the University of NSW's National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC).
It's found that many countries are not doing enough to stop the spread of HIV.
Wayson Choy: Not yet
20/01/2010
A Canadian writer, single and childless at 62, is sustained through a near death experience in hospital by a loving, and very extended, 'family' of friends.
Wayson Choy is an award-winning novelist who has written Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying.
This interview was first broadcast on the 31/8/2009.
