Past Programs
AIDS and HIV - 2008
Pacific AIDS
19/08/2008
While political problems in Fiji may top the agenda at the Pacific Islands Forum in Niue this week, another problem affecting the entire Pacific is how to halt the spread of HIV AIDS in the region.
Mukesh Kapila is the Special Representative on HIV to the Secretary General of the International Red Cross. He's been in Canberra this week, asking the Rudd government to do more to tackle HIV AIDS in the Pacific, particularly in Papua New Guinea. He says that 90 per cent of worldwide funding for HIV AIDS goes towards projects that do little to halt the spread of the virus.
Foreign aid and abortion
04/06/2008
The federal government is looking at overturning a ban, put in place by the former government, that prevents Australian foreign aid from being spent on abortions, or abortion education in developing nations.
Liberal backbencher Dr Mal Washer says the ban should go.
