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It's 7am, 30 degrees Celsius. For several hours now, motorbikes have been buzzing along

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the main roads into the capital of Burkina Faso. This is a place you need to be mobile

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and show that you're able to get around. Something the European Union well understood when it

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chose to finance the NGO Médecins du Monde. The funding is part of a vast programme of

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AIDS prevention which includes European AIDS innovation projects. Here in Burkina Faso,

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Médecins du Monde has made mobility the central theme of its AIDS prevention fieldwork. The

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European Commission, which manages projects financed by the Union, works throughout the

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world. It keeps an active presence on the ground in collaboration with national governments

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and local organisations to implement its various health programmes. This is one of

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the health care centres where mothers-to-be receive information on the virus and on ways

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to protect their future child.

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The carer talking to these women works for the health care system in Burkina Faso and

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was especially trained for this project.

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The carer talking to these women works for the health care system in Burkina Faso and

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was especially trained for this project.

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The Commission programmes are all about raising awareness and prevention, then testing. If

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this woman tests positive, she'll be directed towards a higher level of health care to receive

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antiretroviral treatment. If she doesn't want that, the woman will be able to continue her

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pregnancy naturally in a centre like this. During the birth, she'll be given drugs free

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of charge, which reduce the risk of transmission to the child. Usually that would be Nevirapine

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or AZT.

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Wagadougou, it's 11 a.m. and 40 degrees Celsius. An HIV-positive woman comes with her baby

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daughter to the headquarters of Médecins du Monde. In this particular case, it's vital

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to guarantee the anonymity of the patient for her own safety within her family. It's

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been explained to this woman that to reduce the risk of infecting her baby, she shouldn't

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breastfeed her daughter.

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This mother will receive special feeding kits until her baby is 18 months old, and at 18

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months, the child could also be tested. An important part of this project is that even

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the carer should remain anonymous to ensure the patient is not rejected by relatives.

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On the move again, the mobile units weave through the Wagadougou traffic to go out

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to meet people at risk, and that includes bar girls, women who have several regular

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partners who support them.

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The day after the information session and distribution of condoms, the mobile unit returns

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to the same place. This time, it's discreetly parked in a small road behind the bar. Just

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as discreetly, women are given advice sessions, and men who want to be tested go to the vehicle

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one by one.

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Similar sessions with sex workers have already shown very encouraging results. The rate

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of infection in Burkina Faso has gone down from 6% in 2001 to 2% today, a good reason

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for the EU to continue its work.

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Wagadougou, it's 3pm and 42 degrees Celsius. The European Commission has been supporting

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the NGO Mets Saint-Dumont for a year now. The result is that two new mobile units have

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been kitted out. But more importantly, the prevention, testing and follow-up campaigns

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in Wagadougou have now been extended to two other towns, Banfoura and Pau.

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Delhi, it's 7am and 30 degrees Celsius. The sixth largest metropolis in the world is waking

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up, and some of its 15 million people are out in the streets. For this country with

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a population of more than a billion, this is the AIDS situation.

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In India, an estimated 0.9% of adults are infected with HIV, but the distribution is

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uneven and the rate is higher in six states in the south and the northeast.

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Yellow marks the areas moderately affected, and the green in the northwest and north shows

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the regions only slightly affected. Even though development and health indicators are lowest

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in this area, and people also migrate south from here for work and then return, but a

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project co-financed by the European Union has helped to prevent the much greater spread

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of infection here. To see what's being done, we went to Bharatpur, 200 kilometres south

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of Delhi, one hour by road from the Taj Mahal. We've come to see the fieldwork supported

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by the European Union and carried out on the ground by Oxfam. There's no logo or flag the

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NGO has had to remain discreet to be able to integrate.

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We are heading towards one of the places within the district which has a large Islamic community.

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The indicators of health are extremely low over here because of a very conservative attitude.

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Women do not tend to access health services, and women would normally go and seek the help

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of the maulvis and imams, so they would not even access modern health systems.

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Satwar's village, Rajasthan, it's 10 o'clock and 38 degrees. Education is the programme's

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central plank, but to be able to talk about sex and AIDS prevention in a village like

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this, Oxfam must use slightly roundabout tactics.

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There are many such slogans in the village. You will find them at every point. And, for

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example, this one says that Sat and Oxfam have decided to fight HIV AIDS in this region.

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As well as the slogans, there's also a youth resource centre, a kind of school where practical

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everyday life skills are taught and where young people can simply meet up and talk.

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Some young people, aged between 13 and 25, are trained in AIDS prevention and to become

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peer educators.

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This is a peer education meeting. Two young men encourage other people of their own age

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to take a look at the Oxfam information kit.

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The strategy is similar for the girls, but in more difficult conditions than for the

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young men. Teachers like Najima are trained by the local partners of the EU programme.

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Their work is not limited to information sessions, because the teachers become a kind of permanent

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point of contact for all the questions on sex and AIDS the young women in the community

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may have.

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It's a long haul, because first it's necessary to convince their parents before being able

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to talk to the young women. Today that's been done, and the message is getting through.

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The European Union, as I've been always saying and repeating, has a lot of emphasis on rights-based

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approach, and that's exactly what you see as a result of a rights-based approach, is

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that young women are talking and accessing health services. They are talking about that.