Sex Trafficking Survivor Risks Life To Fight Slavery, Spread Of HIV/AIDS

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Sex Trafficking Survivor Risks Life To Fight Slavery, Spread Of HIV/AIDS This story is part of a series celebrating HIV/AIDS activists in honor of Thursday's World AIDS Day. Her house has been burned down. She's had her car jacked. Her daughter was kidnapped, drugged and raped. But still, sex trafficking survivor Somaly Mam says she would rather risk death than give up her work saving slaves in Cambodia. Shifting Our Thinking From Aid To Investment Global Fund to Fight AIDS: Don't Abandon Millions Of Patients In Need 'I Can Tell That We Are Gonna Be Friends': Deaf Children Perform White Stripes Cover Has The U.S. Contributed To The Crisis In The Horn Of Africa? 'Twitter For Nonprofits' Manager Talks Fundraising, Awareness And More BLOG POSTS Hillary Clinton: From Aid to Investment -- Successes, Challenges and the Way Forward With official development assistance representing a much smaller share of the resources flowing into developing countries, we have to think differently about how we use it. We need to shift our approach and our thinking from aid to investment. Petra Nemcova: What Makes My Heart Happy This Holiday Season I'm happy to announce that in 2012, Happy Hearts Fund will build at least 10 schools and help thousands of children affected by natural disasters. Sheryl Lee Ralph: World AIDS Day: Remembering Thirty Years Thirty years ago on Broadway, AIDS was killing my friends in silence and shame. Thirty years later AIDS is still killing people around the world in silence and shame with stigma still holding them hostage. David Ernesto Munar: Time to Bring the AIDS Fight Home It's time to retire another worn-out dichotomy: the global v. domestic response to AIDS. We need a unified commitment and a detailed plan for fighting the epidemic at home and abroad. Princess Haya Al Hussein: Does Your Aid Count? If in the last few years you got out your checkbook or credit card and donated to help rebuild Haiti, rescue Pakistanis from floods or fund a school in Tanzania, your contribution did not make its way into global aid figures.

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