World AIDS Day 2011. Official launch of a photo-book on women who inject drugs in Vietnam: Hanoi and Melbourne
The Nossal Institute, together with its research partners at Hanoi's Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI), recently held two events to launch a photo-book documenting key findings, images and voices of women who have injected drugs and agreed to talk about their challenges and hopes. The book, in both English and Vietnamese, is entitled Women Who Inject Drugs: Beyond the Numbers. It is the first major output of a collaborative study funded by an Australian Development Research Award (supported by AusAID). The research brought together the Nossal Institute and the Institute for Social Development Studies and SCDI (both in Hanoi) and an independent researcher in Ho Chi Minh City. http://www.ni.unimelb.edu.au/inclusive_development/gender_responsive_development/ausaid_adra_grant
The photos were taken by a renowned Hanoi-based photo-journalist, Pham Hoai Thanh, who has previously documented the lives of people living with HIV and injecting drug users, both men and women. The publication aims to create better understanding of the life circumstances of a group that is highly stigmatised. It includes concrete recommendations for policy-makers and programmers, including the effectiveness of self-help groups. The book was launched to mark World AIDS Day 2011 both in Hanoi (on 16 Nov at the Hanoi Press Club) and in Melbourne (at a seminar on Women and Harm Reduction in Asia at the Nossal Institute on 30 Nov 2011.
Further details are available from:
- Dr Martha Morrow (Nossal Institute): martham@unimelb.edu.au;
- Dr Khuat Thi Hai Oanh (SCDI, Hanoi): oanhkhuat@scdi.org.vn; and
- Mr Pham Hoai Thanh (SCDI, Hanoi): thanhdesigner@scdi.org.vn
Photos from Vietnam, Hanoi Launch....
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Thuy, Hong, Minh, Nhat, Khanh- members of The Bullet Point, an IDU self-help group in Hanoi- perform a song they wrote, called 'Friends, please stay away'. It begins: There young friends, so unhappy they dont care about their lives, looking for 'the brown fairy' to foget sorrow... ('the brown fairy' is a local term for opium-derived drugs)
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Dr Pham Chien Khu, Director, Institute for Public Opinion Surveys of the Communist Party of Vietnam, addresses the gatering for the book launch
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Official Hanoi launch of the bi-lingual photo book, Women Who Inject Drug: Beyond the Numbers, by Mr Michael Wilson, Minister Counsellor, Mekong and Regional, AusAID
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Book launch, Hanoi Press Club, 16 Nov 2011. Left-to-right: Dr Khuat Thi Hai Oanh (Vietnam chief investigator, SCDI); Ms Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai (You, Me and Us and IDUself-help group in HCMC); Ms Nguyen Nguyen Nhu Trang (Ho Chi Minh City research partner); Mr Michael Wilson (Minister Counsellor, Mekong and Regional, AusAID); Dr Martha Morrow (principoal investigator, Nossal Institute); Mr Pham Hoai Thanh (book photographer, SCDI) |
Photos from Melbourne launch.....
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Mr Le Duc Hien, Vietnam Ministry for Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, at seminar with interpreter, Ms Huong Nguyen.
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Ms Ngo TM Linh from NGO You, Me & Us, featured in photo-book, at seminar
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Prof Lisa Maher, Kirby Institute, Sydney, introducing Dr Khuat TH Oanh at seminar
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Vietnam team visits community drug control programs in Footscray. L-R Le Duc Hien, Ngo TM Linh, Martha Morrow, Anh Dang (Interpreter), Khuat TH Oanh, Mia Urbano |
