ASIA: Take Action!

Tools for effective advocacy efforts.

Only a year ago, the Purple Sky Network held its first formal meeting in Bangkok … Not long ago, none of the six countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region included MSM in their national strategic plans for tackling HIV/AIDS; today, all of them do but one. ¹

Useful Statistics and Policy Papers

• The Value of Investing in MSM Programs in the Asia Pacific Region (pdf)
• Male-to-male sex, and sexuality minorities in South Asia: An analysis of the politico-legal framework (pdf)

Local Voices

• Indonesia: Hartoyo coming out for his rights
• Nepal: Interview with Sunil Pant, Openly Gay MP from Nepal

Advocacy Organizations

• Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health
• Naz Foundation International
• Purple Sky Network
  
• APCASO

eForums and Email Groups

• Asia-Pacific Rainbow: Asia-Pacific Rainbow is a network committed to promoting the rights and health of LGBTIQ in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Asia Pacific Network of PLWHA: “Our main area of work is promoting the empowerment of PLWHA with focuses on areas of advocacy, human rights, greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS, access to treatment, and care and support for PLWHA and their loved ones.”

1. Mekong Region Beginning to Act on HIV and MSM, September 2007