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More feature stories on Egypt
- University of Senghor master’s degree programme in International Health includes module on HIV for second year running
- More than 35 students from 22 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Haiti and France have completed a course on HIV as part of their Master’s Degree in International Health at the Senghor University based in Alexandria.
- New handbook to improve design of HIV programmes focusing on men who have sex with men in the Middle East and North Africa region
- A new handbook to help design and implement HIV programmes focusing on men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) was released on 27 September by UNAIDS in Cairo, Egypt.
- Women speak out about HIV in the Middle East and North Africa
- In “Standing Up, Speaking Out”, a new UNAIDS report launched today in Cairo, Egypt, 140 women living with HIV from 10 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) express the realities that shape the hopes and grievances of their lives.
- Photography exhibition in Egypt documents the power of people to create social change and calls for end to HIV-related stigma
- To highlight the power of people to create social change including ending HIV-related stigma, a photography exhibition has opened in Cairo. It displays a combination of portraits from the Egyptian revolution that took place in January 2011 and portraits submitted to a World AIDS Day photo contest in 2010 by young photographers under the theme Positive faces.
- To lift stigma around HIV in Egypt, forthcoming feature film tells one woman’s story of overcoming fear and social rejection
- Over the past several years, UNAIDS in Egypt has advocated with scriptwriters and film producers to create feature films that could bring a human face to HIV by creating characters that people could identify with.
- Students of Master’s degree in International Health begin new module on HIV at the Senghor University of Alexandria
- In 2010 UNAIDS and the Senghor University of Alexandria signed an agreement of cooperation to include a 25 hour module specific to AIDS into the university’s Master’s degree in International Health programme. The opening session of this new module, co-organized by Senghor University and UNAIDS, was held on 17 April 2011.
- Senghor University to include AIDS in its health curriculum in collaboration with UNAIDS
- UNAIDS and the Senghor University of Alexandria signed an agreement of cooperation to include a 25 hour module specific to AIDS in the university’s curriculum of their Master’s degree on Health.
- Hope for street children
- Street children in Cairo, are at a far higher risk of exposure to HIV than children who have a stable homelife. Workers at the Hope Village Society, an organisation looking after Cairo’s street children, have been working with UNICEF and UNAIDS to incorporate AIDS awareness in their educational programmes.
- Gender and AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa
- Empowerment of women and promotion of gender equality were underlined as critical to reducing vulnerability to HIV in the Middle East and North Africa [MENA] at a recent gathering of experts in the region.