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Anne-Christine d'Adesky is an American journalist and activist. Of French and Haitian descent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Awards of Courage: Anne-christine d'Adesky : Honoring with Pride 2000 Honoree )〕 Her father was born in Haiti, where the family's roots go back far; spending her childhood summers and still has extended family living there. D'Adesky earned a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1982 and a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in New York City in 1979. ==Career== As a journalist, d'Adesky has been a foreign correspondent in Haiti working as a stringer for the San Francisco Examiner and the Village Voice. She wrote about HIV/AIDS for various newspapers, including the ''New York Native'' and ''In These Times'', and later, magazines including ''The Advocate''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/amfar/record.html?record=27 )〕 She was Senior Editor at ''Out'' magazine in the mid-1990s in charge of health coverage, and also wrote investigative features and long-form profiles. In 1998, she launched ''HIV Plus'' magazine, where she served as founding editor in chief for two years before the magazine was sold to ''The Advocate''. She then turned to writing a series on global AIDS for the newsletter of the amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. She also wrote about AIDS for magazines such as ''SEED'' and ''The Nation'', newspapers such as ''The San Francisco Examiner'', and health agencies such as the World Health Organization. In 2003 she co-produced ''Pills, Profits, Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement,'' a documentary about global AIDS treatment activism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0194862/ )〕 As an activist, d'Adesky has been active in the peace and women's movements and attended the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, where she protested the presence of nuclear cruise missiles on US soil. She was an early member of ACT UP〔 who participated in the first Wall Street protest, and other famous actions, demanding faster access to life-saving HIV medications, and later, access to HIV drugs for people living in poor countries. She also joined Get Smart, an arts activist group. D'Adesky is one of the six founders of The Lesbian Avengers, which began in New York City in 1992 as "a direct action group focused on issues vital to lesbian survival and visibility."〔 In 2003, d'Adesky began humanitarian work in Africa, focusing on the issue of gender-based violence linked to HIV/AIDS and the use of rape in war in East Africa. She launched and served as co-founder and co-executive director of a global initiative WE-ACTx, based in San Francisco and Kigali, that helps Rwandan women affected by HIV/AIDS who are survivors of genocidal rape, and orphans.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne-Christine d'Adesky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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