This December 1st is World AIDS Day. While most are aware of the need for education, prevention and access to treatment, Noemi Reiner of ARCHIVE highlights the need for stable and adequate housing for people living with HIV/AIDS, to lower transmission rates, and to reduce the physical and emotional risks associated with infectious diseases and stress.
Despite claims of lack of accountability and transparency on both sides, NGOs and governments need to learn to trust each other lest basic services for the urban poor continue to go undeveloped.
Sheila Ochugboju sees much to admire in Mumbai's Dial 1298 for Ambulance but fears the middle class is too small in her own Accra for the model to be replicable there.
Abandoned by owners in the post-Apartheid years, 1,500 buildings in Johannesburg have turned into overcrowded tenements.
Aware that an earthquake like Haiti's could strike Dhaka, a city seven times more populous, engineers and government leaders in the Bangladeshi capital are discussing how to reinforce buildings and prepare emergency services, to prevent tragedy on an unimaginable scale.
While thousands struggle with HIV in Nairobi's slums, a growing national food crisis and the closure of food aid programmes due to lack of funding are a greater concern for afflicted residents.
In the United States, it has been estimated that almost half of the 1.1 million people living with HIV will need some form of housing assistance during the course of their illness.
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Its readers are drawn from the urban policy and international development sectors, and include urban planners, officers in local, national or international government agencies, civil society leaders, and researchers.
