Monday, July 30, 2007

Bangladesh


It never would have been one of my top destinationse; my only experience of Bangladesh had been peace keepers in DRC Brick Lane in London.
I went with Helpage International, to collect both photographs and case studies, for the exhibtion in February in New York, to mark the opening of a Conference on Social Development.
RIC, their local partner organisation, run projects with the elderly in some of the poorest regions of Bangladesh.

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SUDAN-UGANDA: Programmes disregard HIV among the elderly


As a follow up to my trips with Helpage International in March to Sudan and Uganda, I worked on a story for IRIN Plus News, looking at how UN AIDS and other HIV related programmes do not take into account people over the age of 50.
A full copy of the story can be seen at http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73453

JUBA/HOIMA, 27 July 2007 (PlusNews) - Agnes Buya*, 66, lies in the infectious diseases ward of Juba Teaching Hospital in southern Sudan. Painfully thin, she has been suffering from tuberculosis for the last year. "I came to the hospital a few days ago; the family who were caring for me couldn't look after me anymore," she told IRIN/PlusNews. "As soon as I got here the doctor tested me for HIV and found me positive."

Worldwide, an estimated 2.8 million people over the age of 50 are living with HIV, but this group is largely ignored by information and awareness campaigns.

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Saturday, July 28, 2007

Men and Guns Exhibition - Goes on tour


It is over a year since the Men and Guns exhibition I did with Heidi first went on show in New York. As planned the exhibition was displayed in October 2006 in the Hague, at the Dutch foreign ministry (they had funded the project for that purpose). After being stored for a while in Geneva, it then travelled to Bali in April this year to be displayed at the 116th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a large gathering of parliamentarians from all over the world.
From there it went to Belgrade, for a conference organised at the end of May by UNDP on gender and small arms, and it is now getting set up in Kosovo, where it will be shown for the whole of July at the Museum of Pristina, to coincide with the launch of a media campaign on small arms.
So the photos of the Mundari and others have gone world wide...

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