After a six hours drive West of Jakarta through the beautiful scenery of mountains and deep green rice fields, mixed with the trappings of urban growth, we reach Tasikmalayan, Another 30 minutes and we are in Manonjaya sub-district. We are close to Sumatra Island, and the recent earthquake there has taken its… Continue

In September this year, Constellation AIDS and International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) have entered into a partnership agreement for a one and half year period. The project is to pilot integration of the SALT approach of the Constellation AIDS within the Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) approach of IIRR in to two Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) project sites in Ethiopia: Borena and Dire Dawa. In these locations, among other high prevalent disaster risk threats HIV/A… Continue

Au Secrétariat de RDCCompétence, ce vendredi 23 octobre, les responsables de toutes les concertations de Kinshasa ont organisé, au secrétariat de RDCCompétence, une rencontre de réflexion.

L’objectif de cette rencontre était de faire le point sur l’état d’avancement des activités de leurs concertations et trouver le mécanisme de renforcement de la collaboration entre les concertations et les zones de santé. C’était comme leur propre autoévaluation. Ils ont réfléchis sur ce qui marche, sur ce qu… Continue

Vikram Phukan, Editor of Bombay Dost magazine spoke at the Association of Medical Consultants on Sunday 8th November 2009 in Mumbai.

I am posting his speech for members


*Debate Topic: Are Gay Rights here to Stay ? AMC , Mumbai , Leela Kempinski
, 8th November 2009*
*Proposition Panel: *Dr. Harish Shetty, Dr. Junaid Alam, Mr. Vikram Phukan
*Opposition Panel:* Dr. Kushal Mittal , Dr. S.N Aggarwal , Fr. Fergoz

Vikrams Speech :

Good evening, members of the panel, women and men.

Let me be hones… Continue

For ACP to become a community practice, the community involvement is essential right from the start. Keeping this as an approach, “People in Need foundation” convened a meeting of the leaders of the proposed five ACP villages and had a detailed discussion on the process of ACP and its advantages for the villages.

The meeting held on 14th October 2009 was attended by sixteen leaders from 5 cluster villages around Molvom village of Nagaland and after thorough discussions unanimously resolved:
1.T… Continue