Let?s have a look on chronology of key political events on Nepal. Please share your Fears or hope for year 2005.
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1990 Panchayat system is dissolved; interim government made up of various parties and king's representatives formed; new constitution promulgated.

1991 Elections to Parliament held; Nepali Congress wins a narrow majority; G.P. Koirala becomes prime minister. President of Nepali Congress and interim prime minister
1992 ?.

1993 Madan Bhandari killed in a mysterious car crash. Violent demonstrations by communists to overthrow Koirala's government; devastating floods kill hundreds.

1994 Prime Minister Koirala resigns and calls for new elections after losing a parliamentary vote due to the abstention of 36 members of his own party. New elections in November results in a hung parliament; CPN-UML, which emerged as the single largest party, formes a minority government.

1995 The minority goverment of CPN-UML loses power in a parliamentary vote of no-confidence. A coalition government of Nepali Congress, RPP and Sadhvabana is formed.

1996 The leaders of the Maoist United People's Front began a violent insurgency, waged through killings, torture, bombings, kidnappings, extortion, and intimidation against civilians, police, and public officials.

1997 The NC-RPP coalition government loses power resulting in a UML-RPP coalition. This government itself loses power six months later to another NC-RPP coalition.

1998 The third general elections after restoration of democracy results in Nepali Congress coming back to power with an absolute majority in the House. Visit Nepal 1998.

1999 8th SAF99 held in Kathmandu. Seven Nepali Gurkhas killed in Kargil conflict. Lufthansa plane crashes in Kathmandu
2000 ?.

2001 Crown Prince Dipendra is officially reported to have shot and killed his father, King Birendra; his mother, Queen Aishwarya; his brother; his sister, his father's younger brother, Prince Dhirendra; and several aunts, before turning the gun on himself. Prime Minister Deuba announced a cease-fire, which the Maoists pledged to observe, as part of a government effort to seek a negotiated solution to the conflict. State of emergency declared after more than 100 people are killed in four days of violence. King Gyanendra orders army to crush the Maoist rebels.

2002 The Nepal Rastra Bank, the central bank of Nepal, freezes accounts of suspected Maoists. Supreme Court upholds Prime Minister Deuba's decision to suspend parliament, legitimizing his rule by decree until new parliamentary elections are held. king Gyanendra sacked Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, accusing the cabinet of incompetence

2003 Ceasefire between government and Maoist forces. two rounds of talks between the two sides. Political parties campaign for a return to parliamentarism (?democracy?).The king sacks the Chand government (which he himself had installed) and appoints a new government headed by Thapa. The cease fire and negotiations break down, and hostilities are resumed with renewed vigour.

2004 Nepal joins the World Trade Organisation. King Gyanendra reappoints Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister. Twelve Nepalese hostages in Iraq are murdered by their captors, sparking violent protests in Kathmandu. Maoist rebels stage week-long blockade of capital.

2005 Opposition strike closes Kathmandu over fuel price hike. The number of killings is soaring up. So far; almost 12,000 people have lost their lives in bloody civil war.

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O netaa ji, pheri ek patak jadau hai,
tapailai maile kun adhar ma ministry ma halne ? Pheri maile zoo ko lagi chunab ladna laako ho ra yaar tapailai uthaune. teso ta gp buda pani khasai kam hoina tara pani tapailai kolle uthaune bhanyo ra yaar ? Duisai sapana dekhne bhanya bhayena ni ho testo ta. Tesari sapana dekhera kasari huncha ho sathi. Baru hernus, kati padnu bhako cha kunni ? Padai pugeko recha bhane paale piun ma rakhula. Hernus bidesh basera padnu bhako recha chadai nai head piun banihalnu huncha. teti samma chai ma bata huna sakcha. Tyo bhanda badi chai khai, garai parla jasto po cha ho prabhu.

Jai Nepal

Harkeedai

Tapai kai party matraa chaa raa ? Hagaii (poop) bhanda paaadhaii (gasing) thuloo.

Jaaboo tapai jasto antaksharii saamet khelaa nasaknee laee, chunnab utnee kuraa garnee....?

.....Guff dine ani ale patyaanee banunaa pani ale reseach and analysis garnaa parchaa kee...dude

Harkedai..
Nepal Government laee chai US government lai 370 million $ foreign Aid dinaa lagee ko jasto kuraa nagaruunaa..dude

the politics in nepal sucks the money minded politician can suck my .........you know what i mean .....you know but you have no idea can be something else too/.....haaaaa
peace out......

Nepal?s Prime Minister may announce plans this week to push ahead with a general election in 2005 despite a threat by powerful Maoist rebels to ?shatter? any vote in the embattled Himalayan kingdom.
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With the commitment of Muktiram Dahal, father of CPN-Maoist supremo Prachanda, alias Puspa Kamal Dahal, to restore peace in the nation by joining the peace campaign, human rights activists here have expressed hopes for heralding peace any time soon.

Muktiram Dahal, 76, told human rights activists and journalists today that he would join the fora for peace to fight conflict which was started by his son and his comrades nearly nine years ago in 1996.
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A Public Notice ? Offer of Monetary Aid

To: Immediate surviving family members of our innocent brothers who were slain brutally in Iraq on 31 August 2004.

List as follows:

1. From Jhapa: the late Mr. Prakash Adhikari

2. From Lalitpur: the late Mr. Ramesh Khadka

3. From Dhanusha: the late Mr. Lalan Singh Koivi

4. From Dhankuta: the late Mr. Mangal Bahadur Limbu

5. From Gorkha: the late Mr. Jit Bahadur Thapa Nagar

6. From Khotang: the late Mr. Gyanendra Shrestha

7. From Khotang: the late Mr. Rjendra Kumar Shrestha

8. From Danusha: the late Mr. Boham Kumar Sah Sudi

9. From Danusha: the late Mr. Manoj Kumar Thakur

10. From Danusha: the late Mr. Sanjay Kumar Thakur

11. From Rolpa: the late Mr. Bhekh Bahadur Thapa

12. From Lamjung: the late Mr. Bishnu Hari Thapa.

Please come and identify your relationship to receive the money in this order:

1. Firstly, if you are the widow and the sons and daughters;

2. Secondly, if you are the sole surviving parents, brothers and sisters if and only if there are no spouse and children of the deceased.

The Association of Nepalis in the Americas, non-resident Nepali Association and international friends of Nepal have collected several lakhs of rupees and are now ready to distribute the money to you as survivors of the above-named victims.

The Association of Nepalis in the Americas, known as ANA, as founded in 1983 by Nepalis living in the US and Canada as a non-profit non-governmental organization dedicated to promote and preserve Nepali heritage and culture and to help and promote the welfare of Nepalis.

This notice is being published all over Nepal as a public service announcement to locate the survivors of the victims so that they can receive the money.

To contact us, please call or write to:

Laxman Basnet
c/o ANA
Tel: 5527443, 9851021878
Email: laxmanbasnet@hotmail.com
Krishna Nirola
President - Association of Nepalis in the Americas (ANA)

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विराटनगर, माघ ६ - मेची राजमार्गको इलाम-फिदिम खण्ड, पुवाखोलानजिक बुधबार भिडन्त हु?दा ६ माओवादी मारिएका छन् । करिब ५० सुरक्षाकर्मी सर्म्पर्क बाहिर छन् ।
माओवादीले कम्तीमा २० सुरक्षाकर्मी मारेको दाबी गरे पनि यसको स्वतन्त्र पुष्टि भएको छैन । इलामस्थित उच्च सुरक्षास्रोतअनुसार हराइरहेका सुरक्षाकर्मी राति अबेरसम्म सर्म्पर्कमा आएका छैनन् । हराएकामा सैनिकहरू बढी छन् । ठूलै भिडन्त भएको पुष्टि गर्दै सुरक्षास्रोतले माओवादीतर्फपनि निकै क्षति भएको अनुमान गरेको छ ।

इलाम सदरमुकामबाट करिब १२ किमिउत्तर पुवाखोला पुलको मुखैमा तीन दिनदेखिको अवरोध पन्छाउन गएका सुरक्षाफौजमाथि माओवादीले आक्रमण गरेका थिए ।
स्रोतअनुसार अवरोध पन्छाउन सुरुमा ४९ सुरक्षाकर्मीको टोली त्यसतर्फगएको थियो । भिडन्तको जानकारीपछि दर्ुइ ट्रकमा थप फौज गएका थिए । उनीहरूको संख्या यकिन छैन ।
माओवादी अवरोध हटाउन सुरुमा सुरक्षाफौजको डिस्पोजल टोली अपराह्न त्यसतर्फगएको थियो । अवरोध पन्छाएर फिर्दै गर्दा सदरमुकामबाट करिब १० किलोमिटर उत्तर मेची राजमार्गको मलाते खण्डमा माओवादीले एक्कासि आक्रमण गरेका थिए । त्यसपछि सुरक्षाफौजले कारबाही गर्दा अपराह्न साढे तीन बजेदेखि भिडन्त भएको हो ।

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Dear sajha readers,
I will be updating the latest important developments on Nepal politics every day on this thread.

India, Nepal sign treaty to curb Maoist rebels

India and Nepal have signed an extradition treaty to check growing links between Maoist rebels in both countries, a home ministry official said Thursday.
The agreement was signed after talks between India?s home secretary Dhirendra Singh and his Nepalese counterpart Chandi Prasad Shreshtha, the official said.
The treaty and an accord for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters would help contain ?terrorism and illegal activities including the smuggling of arms and ammunition? across the 1,800 kilometre (1,100 mile) open border between the neighbours, he said.
Earlier this week, India put its soldiers on ?full alert? along the border with Nepal after intelligence reports that Maoist guerrillas were seeking to set up bases in its revolt-hit northeast. The alert was sounded after the rebels kidnapped and later released 14 Nepalese Gurkha soldiers serving with the Indian army.
The Nepalese Maoists have been waging an increasingly deadly insurgency since 1996 to topple the monarchy. India and Nepal have been closely cooperating to contain the Maoists. New Delhi is battling its own leftist rebels in many southern and eastern states.
India, worried over the mounting instability in the Himalayan kingdom where more than 11,000 people have died in the conflict, has been training and equipping Nepal?s over-stretched army. afp

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Top UN human rights official to visit Nepal

The top United Nations human rights official will visit Nepal next week for a first-hand assessment of the situation in the Himalayan kingdom, a month after a UN working group asked the government to stop "forced disappearances" of suspects in its fight against Maoist rebels.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, will meet with senior officials of the Nepalese government, judiciary, military as well as NGOs, human rights defenders and journalists, the United Nations announced yesterday.

In December, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances of the UN Commission on Human Rights asked the Nepal government to institute measures including a total ban on incommunicado detention and full protection for human rights workers.

Although the group's mandate is restricted to the obligations of state authorities, it also called on the Maoists to respect human rights. The restriction in no way reduces the urgent need for the Maoists to respect international humanitarian law obligations and the physical integrity of their fellow citizens to reduce their suffering, the Group said after a nine-day visit to the country.

Nepal gay group launches journal

Nepal's only gay rights organisation has launched a weekly newspaper, the first publication here of its kind.

The Blue Diamond Society (BDS) says that it wants to give a voice to a range of oppressed communities, not just sexual minorities.

The publication is being funded by the British government.

A British diplomat told the BBC the funding of the project was part of London's campaign to reduce the impact of HIV and Aids.

Budget

The parallel English and Nepali language Blue Diamond Weekly papers are being brought out by BDS, which describes itself as an organisation for sexual minorities, including homosexual, bisexual and trans-gendered people.

BDS has already raised the profile of these communities in this conservative society and its founder, Sunil Pant, says the new paper will focus on all marginalised groups in Nepal whose voices, he says, are never heard.

It will look at the human rights of women and children, dalits - or so-called untouchables - and sex workers, as well as sexual minorities, and will focus on HIV and Aids prevention.

It is being funded by Britain's Department for International Development, which has a budget for small projects like this.

The British Embassy will administer the grant, which must be spent in line with departmental objectives.

The British diplomat said the aim was to help people living with Aids, or at risk of it, to lead fulfilled lives and have greater Aids-related risk awareness. Aids, he pointed out, contributed to poverty.

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SCHIFFER HIRES NEPALESE FIGHTERS

Supermodel CLAUDIA SCHIFFER and husband MATTHEW VAUGHN have hired five Nepalese fighters to help protect their $9 million English mansion

Bridegroom, 39 others killed in Nepal accident:
: Kathmandu, Jan 22 : At least 40 members of a marriage party, including the bridegroom, were killed when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a river in mid-western Nepal.

The accident occurred when the bus with 60 passengers on board swerved off the road and fell into the Mari river at Gairali in Pyuthan district Friday evening.

Thirtyfive people died at the accident site, while five succumbed in hospital Saturday. Of the 15 people in hospital, the condition of two is stated to be serious.

The bus, travelling north from Solapur in Dang district near the Indian border, fell into the river nearly 100 metres below.


The dead included the groom, Lok Raj Rizal, and his father Bhum Rizal.

The bride, who was not named immediately, was admitted to hospital with serious injuries, including a fractured leg.

This is the second time in less than a week that Nepal reported a road smash with a large number of people killed.

Early this week, five members of a family died in Kathmandu valley while returning home from hospital with a mother and her newly delivered baby.

The accident occurred when the taxi the family was travelling in was hit by a night bus in the Kusunti area of Lalitpur district.

Though the newborn infant survived the accident, it later died in hospital.
Concerned at the rising incidence of road accidents, Nepal's government last year established a committee to study the causes and recommend measures to control them.
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Very sad news.

Frequent Maoist strikes crippling Nepalese town's economy:
[World News]: Siddharthnagar (Nepal), Jan.23 : Frequent shutdowns called by Maoists in Nepal have crippled the economy of small towns, which share their borders with India.

The string of general strikes and blockades by the rebels has shaken confidence in the government's ability to provide security and devastated an already fragile economy.

Nepal has come to a near halt five times since December as businesses, schools and public transport shut down after calls by the rebels and their supporters.

In Siddharthnagar region, bordering India, residents complained of steep hike in prices of general commodities.

"Because of the shutdown, the goods that were earlier coming freely from India are not there and we are facing problem as consumers. We are very much affected by the shutdowns. The Maoists should opt for some other means than shutdown to put forth their demands," said Kulanand Giwali, a resident.

Prices of most essential commodities, particularly milk and petrol, have soared as continuing blockades lead to shortage.

"We face a lot of problems. The prices of fruit and vegetables have risen. It has almost become double," said Sunita, another resident.

The Maoists have been fighting since 1996 to set up a communist republic in the Hindu nation wedged between India and China.

Analysts say rebel strikes are observed more out of fear of reprisals than support for their cause.

snow blocks key highways Nepal
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Heavy snow has blocked three key highways in Nepal, including the only route into the Himalayan kingdom for trucks carrying supplies from China, police said Monday.

The routes are blocked by up to 30 centimeters (one foot) of snow, and storms are expected to continue for at least two more days, the Meteorology Department said.

Two of the three highways leading out of the capital, Katmandu, are blocked, including the Arniko, which is the only route between Nepal and China.

Hundreds of trucks heading into Nepal with Chinese goods are stranded in towns along that highway.

Another key highway that connects towns and villages in the mountainous areas of eastern Nepal also has been blocked. - AP

Civil WAR in Nepal
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Rajmati's husband set off to buy vegetables from the market more than a year ago. Three hours later, an anonymous caller phoned to say Arjun had been arrested by security forces and bundled into a car.

She has not seen him since.

"My children are asking where is our papa," she said, giving way to tears at a public forum last month.

Nepal is best known as home to the world's highest mountain, but the Himalayan kingdom now has a darker claim to fame.

More people "disappear" every year here than anywhere else in the world, according to the United Nations, the country even eclipsing notorious trouble spots like Colombia.

One of the world's most beautiful countries is locked in one of its ugliest civil wars. More than 11,000 people have died since Maoist rebels launched an insurgency in 1996 to topple the monarchy and set up a communist republic.

The Maoists, who control much of the countryside, are accused of executing and torturing critics and opponents, and abducting and recruiting children to work for their cause.

But Nepal's ill-trained army and security forces are playing almost as dirty, international and local human rights group say.

"The human rights situation is deteriorating day-by-day," said Nayan Bahadur Khatri, chairman of Nepal's National Human Rights Commission. "Every day we get reports of violations from both sides, mass abductions, kidnappings, murders, rape."

NHRC says it is still trying to trace more than 1,300 people who have "disappeared" in the past two years, most at the hands of security forces. New York-based Human Rights Watch says extrajudicial killings and disappearances have risen sharply as the state tries to "break the backbone" of the rebellion.

"Most of the persons 'disappeared' by Nepal's security forces have likely been killed after interrogations," it said in a report last October. "Torture in custody is common."

A BRIEF CONVERSATION, THEN SILENCE

Rajmati called her husband that night on his mobile phone.

"He said he had been detained by security forces, and I shouldn't worry," she told Reuters in the privacy of a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Kathmandu.

She phoned him again a few more times in the next few days, only to hear silence at the other end of the line. Since then the phone has been dead.

Rajmati and Arjun have two daughters, aged five and eight.

"I tell them he has gone to the office," she said. "The youngest one still does not know what has happened to him. She asks when he is coming home, whether she can go to his office."

Rajmati said her husband never talked about politics, but might have been a member of an organisation in their ethnic Newar community thought to have links with the Maoists.

That in itself, rights groups say, does not justify detention without trial, nor without informing relatives. Anti-terror legislation renewed last year has only fuelled a sense of impunity among the army and security forces, they say.

"No circumstances whatever, whether a threat of war, a state of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked to justify enforced disappearances," the U.N. working group on enforced disappearances said on a visit to Nepal in December.

NHRC says the army has published lists of a few hundred detainees, but is not cooperating with their inquiries or their requests to visit detention centres.

Army spokesman Brigadier-General Deepak Gurung admits there have been problems, but the army was determined to stamp out abuses.

The military is investigating a list of 217 "disappeared" supplied by the U.N., he said. Some are already being accounted for, while other cases may turn out to have different explanations,

"A lot of people are going south to India for work and that is a disappearance. Maoists are responsible for abducting and forcefully recruiting people, and using them on the battlefield."

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Surendra says he was detained by the army for 13 months before being freed last month. His account gives some idea about what may be happening behind closed doors, NHRC says.

"Most of time I was blindfolded and my hands were tied with rope," he said. "They beat me with a big stick on my soles, legs and back. They submerged my head in water. They asked for information about the Maoists."

On the outside, the torture is just as real for the families of the disappeared. Elderly couple Tika and Sabitri tell of their endless and fruitless quest for their daughter Tara, arrested while studying in Kathmandu 15 months ago.

"We promised never to return to our village until we found her," said 58-year-old grey-haired Tika, his wife in tears at his side. "We have not spared a single police post or army station in Kathmandu. Wherever we go they say she is not there."

Shanta Bhandari leads an informal group of families of the disappeared. Her 22-year-old son was abducted two and half years ago, apparently because he belonged to a student group linked to the Maoists.

"Our demand is not that they should be released," she said. "If they have done something wrong, then punish them. But don't disappear them -- give us information."

For Rajmati, finally, a ray of hope. In the last few weeks, an article in a newspaper listed two men with her husband's name among dozens in a notorious detention centre. The address given was slightly wrong, but similar enough to fuel her hopes.

"Maye it was a misprint," she said. "I still have hope that he is alive."

NEPAL: Focus on the plight of rural people living with HIV/AIDS
24 Jan 2005 15:51:11 GMT
Source: IRIN
MAKWANPUR, 24 January (IRIN) - With deep sunk eyes and parched lips, 30-year old Maya Rumba stares feebly from her broken bed. "Help me," is all she has the strength to utter. Her skeletal body weakened by severe malnourishment, Rumba is living all alone with full blown AIDS in her small hut at Sai Foot, a remote village in Makwanpur district in eastern Nepal, 128 km south of the capital city Kathmandu.

She is so weak that she has to drag herself around with her hands. She has not eaten for days and is suffering from hepatitis C and tuberculosis. There are dozens of NGOs based in Hetauda town, 30 minutes from her village, but no health workers have come to offer her care or medicine.

EXTENT OF HIV/AIDS

Rumba is just another Nepali living with HIV/AIDS. Looking at her current condition, it's clear that without care it is only a matter of time before she dies. There are an estimated 60,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in the country of 23 million people, the majority living in abject poverty. UNAIDS estimates that between 10,000-15,000 Nepalis are expected to die of AIDS every year in the absence of treatment and care.

A large number of people living with HIV/AIDS are unable to buy food or basic medicine. Their situation is becoming more desperate as many NGOs based in the capital, Kathmandu, are withdrawing their HIV/AIDS support programmes from villages due to fear of the Maoist insurgents who have been waging an increasingly vicious armed rebellion for the last nine years.

World Bank figures indicate that one-third of HIV infections nationwide are among injecting drug users (IDUs). In the Kathmandu Valley, the HIV prevalence rate among IDUs in the early 1990s was about 2 percent. In 1999 it exceeded 50 percent. The prevalence among female sex workers also increased from less than 2 percent in 1990 to the current rate of 20 percent.

IMPACT OF THE INSURGENCY

As the insurgency drags on, seasonal and long-term labour migration to neighbouring countries, such as India, is becoming critical to the economic survival of many households. UNAIDS estimates at least 10 percent of the two to three million Nepalese migrant workers in India are HIV positive. These men are now infecting spouses and others in many parts of the country, boosted by women's inability to negotiate safe sex.

Without effective interventions, it is predicted that there may well be a generalised epidemic by the end of this decade.

People living with HIV/AIDS in rural Nepal are desperate for care and support. There are already cases of people committing suicide and children dying from malnutrition and lack of medicine. "People are not asking for ARV [anti-retroviral] drugs. All they need is a minimum form of support to buy ordinary medicines and food so that they can live longer," explained gender activist Kanchi Bhandari.

The only hope for people like Rumba rests with under funded community-based organisations. "Small organisations are doing their best with the minimum funding to supply food and low cost medicines but for how long can they support people sick as a consequence of HIV/AIDS?" asked Chandani Rana, chief of one such organisation, the Hetauda-based General Welfare Pratisthan (GWP).

LOCAL SOLUTIONS

Village based health activists are committed to the fight against the disease. "We are ready to work in any village," explained Bhandari, who runs the Women's Pressure Group (WPG) in Sindupalchok, barely 80 km northeast of Kathmandu. WPG works in villages like Talamarang, Kiul, Mahankal, Ichok, Helambu, Duwachaur and Palchok that have one of the highest prevalence rates of HIV/AIDS in the country. These are the villages where most of the girls were trafficked to Indian red light districts - most of them returned home infected with the deadly virus.

Despite an atmosphere of mistrust, prejudice and ignorance overlaid with poor security in many parts of rural Nepal, village based organisations like WPG are doing their best to reach out to those living with the disease, but money is drying up as they have to depend on Kathmandu-based NGOs for funding. "The NGOs want to get directly involved in our activities and don't trust us with their funds," said Bhandari.

Many rural HIV/AIDS activists told IRIN that they do not have direct contact with donor agencies. "We have language problems. We cannot speak English and the donor representatives do not speak our language," explained Biswanath Bhandari, the health supervisor at a state-run Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC) that does not receive any government funding for the care of HIV AIDS patients. "The donor representatives do not really know the ground realities as they have not made any effort to visit our villages. They depend on the NGOs in the capital to give them all the information," added Bhandari.

PHCC has to depend on donations and what charity it can get from the impoverished local community to help HIV/AIDS patients with food and medicines. It also provides travel expenses to poor villagers suspected of HIV infection to visit the National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC) in Kathmandu for HIV testing, the only facility of its kind in the country.

SITUATION IN MAOIST AREAS

There is no official data on HIV/AIDS situation in Sindupalchok, a district just 60 km northeast of the capital but controlled by the Maoists. Local activists estimate about 300 people are living with HIV/AIDS and the number is growing as most of the remote villages have no awareness about the disease. Local activists fear that the situation will significantly deteriorate if NGOs in Kathmandu do not provide funding for care, prevention and awareness raising. Most NGOs have withdrawn all their programmes from the region for security reasons.

"The Maoist conflict has severely affected HIV/AIDS programmes on a national level. There has been a double impact. On one hand HIVAIDS prevalence is increasing and the response is reducing," said Bina Pokhrel, a local HIV/AIDS advisor with the UK-based charity Save the Children.