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The achievements of modern medicine provide HIV-infected children with a full and healthy life. Like any other children, these children need caring and loving families and sympathetic society that will help them grow and mature. (more…)

” People have become less naive and more rational in their dealings with political parties. The only problem that voters cannot solve is that they have to choose from what is there, if there is not any political party which could be fully trusted in. This election will most likely be held under that unofficial slogan”, said analyst Tamerlan Ibraimov, director of the Center for Political and Legal Studies (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), in an article written exclusively for cabar.asia.

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“Tajikistan is objectively interested in Chinese projects more than any other country in Central Asia, at least, because the difficulties experienced by the Russian economy significantly reduced the volume of remittances sent by Tajik migrant workers in Russia to their homeland. Chinese investment is almost the only major source of compensation for these losses”, said political scientist Rashid Ghani Abdullo in his article written exclusively for cabar.asia (Dushanbe, Tajikistan). (more…)

Violation of women’s gender rights is not always and not in all countries considered as a crime, especially in Asia, and in rural areas. Most often, women and young girls are forced to endure discrimination in the family, which can escalate into a form of violence. For example, the right to “safe sex”, which is one of the reasons for the spread of HIV in Kazakhstan. (more…)

“People with HIV status should not have children” is a common misconception among people. In recent years, scientists and doctors have refuted old facts and claimed that HIV-positive people can have healthy children. Despite this, the closest environment has a strongly negative influence on HIV-positive women’s decision to have children. Moreover, in some hospitals and clinics, healthcare personnel continue to discourage HIV-positive people from having children, stating that the child would be exposed to unnecessary risks. These and many other factors contribute to the problem of childlessness among HIV-infected not only in Kazakhstan but also throughout the world, which is an unacceptable subject to discuss openly in society. (more…)

 

“One thing is obvious: foreign investors do not come to trade, and the activities of local entrepreneurs are limited only to trade during a quarter of a century after gaining independence, – foreign investors, as a rule, have a brutal business, with advanced technologies and business processes. For this reason alone, they deserve respect, in the long term”, said Irina Galkina, chief editor of Portal Millioner.kz (Almaty, Kazakhstan), in an article written for cabar.asia.

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“Surrealism is maintained by the feeling that time seems to have stopped for the inhabitants of these settlements. Any conversation with researchers was about how good it was before and how bad it is right now. The term “ghost town” reflects well the nature of these settlements because they exist as ghosts of the past, as the last living monuments to Soviet ideology, live ruins of the “empire”, said Emil Nasritdinov, teacher of Anthropology, AUCA (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), in an article written for cabar.asia. (more…)

 

“Today, Kazakhstan has more than half of the population living in urban areas, reflecting a new trend of expanding areas around major cities in the country. Over time, the boundaries of cities are expanding, accomodating newly arriving migrants”, said Alexandra Kazakova, country director of the IWPR in Kazakhstan (Almaty, Kazakhstan), in an article written exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

 

“We must start not with the attraction of new investments, but with resolution of the problems of those investors who are already working in Kyrgyzstan. Every year, the number of lawsuits between the companies and public authorities are growing, and, unfortunately, most decisions are not in favor of Kyrgyz government”, said Temirbek Azhykulov, executive director of the International Business Council (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), in an article written exclusively for cabar.asia.

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