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- Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS
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IFRC, 2004. The purpose of the Code is to address these new challenges by: * outlining and building wider commitment to principles and practices, informed by evidence, that underscore successful NGO responses to HIV/AIDS * assisting 'Supporting NGOs' to improve the quality and cohesiveness of our work and our accountability to our partners and beneficiary communities * fostering greater collaboration between the variety of 'Supporting NGOs' now actively engaged in responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and * renewing the 'voice' of NGOs responding to HIV/AIDS by enabling us to commit to a shared vision of good practice in our programming and advocacy.
http://www.ifrc.org/what/health/hivaids/code/
(Added: Mon Nov 08 2004 Modified: Fri Jun 03 2005 Hits: 247)
- Condoms4Life
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Condoms4life is a Global campaign to end Cathlic Bishops' ban on condoms. Provides medIa releases related to this issue, statistics about HIV and a paper with the Pro and Cons about the Church Policy concerning AIDS.
(Added: Fri Apr 19 2002 Modified: Fri Jun 03 2005 Hits: 198)
- Conducting a Participatory Situation Analysis of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV/AIDS: Guidelines and Tools
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APRIL 2005 -- Family Health International has released an important new resource for improving the lives of orphans and vulnerable children. The guide, Conducting a Participatory Situation Analysis of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV/AIDS: Guidelines and Tools, is a powerful tool that builds on experiences from FHI's work in the developing world. Conducting a situation analysis is a complex and delicate process. It gathers and analyzes information to guide planning and action. Done properly, it can help build consensus and among key stakeholders‑‑ essential in a growing epidemic ‑‑ and produce sound recommendations to promote shared understanding among relevant parties. Collecting data that is not directly linked to specific programs helps identify strengths and weaknesses in national and sub-national responses. Because this resource is focused on children, it features a special emphasis on ethical considerations for information-gathering. The six-chapter, 210-page guide offers sample consent forms, baseline surveys and interview guides, which can be adapted for local use. It was funded by the U.S. Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator through the U.S. Agency for International Development. It was written by Renee DeMarco with FHI's OVC Team.
http://www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/pub/guide/ovcguide.htm
(Added: Mon Sep 26 2005 Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006 Hits: 273)
- Conducting a Situation Analysis of Orphans & Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (pdf)
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John Williamson, Adrienne Cox, Beverly Johnston, USAID, Feb 2004. Worldwide, the number of children under age 15 who have lost one or both parents to AIDS stands at more than 14 million, and estimates predict this number will surpass 25 million by 2010. This framework and resource guide is intended to help people involved in programs assisting orphans and vulnerable children conduct a situation analysis. It is hoped that this guide will bring about a better understanding of the essential elements and outcomes of a situation analysis in order to promote realistic, effective, and feasible interventions to protect and improve the well-being of the children and families who bear the greatest impact of the AIDS epidemic. The guide serves as a tool for collecting and synthesizing in-country and sub-national information.
http://www.dec.org/pdf_docs/PNACX649.pdf
(Added: Thu Jun 03 2004 Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006 Hits: 416)
- Consortium of Thai Training Institutes for STDs and AIDS (COTTISA)
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- to hold meetings, lectures, seminars, symposia, conferences for the promotion of knowledge in STDs and AIDS, and related subjects, and for promotion friendly companionship between members of the body and members of the medical profession and other scientists in general; - to conduct either national or international workshops, refresher course with and without examinations, and to grant diplomas, (i.e. Diploma of STDs and AIDS), Certificates (i.e. STDs and AIDS, Sexual Health), indicating of attainment of special knowledge in STDs and AIDS, and related subjects, and to diffuse variety of information and knowledge to ensure the fitness of persons desirous of qualifying for membership of the COTTISA; - to maintain the effectiveness and appropriate standards of clinical practice and continuing education of its members, and to serve as a strong advocate and support for performance improvement in STDs and AIDS, and related subjects; - to promote men and women awareness, concern, knowledge, attitudes and behavioral practices in sexual and reproductive health care.
(Added: Wed Jan 08 2003 Modified: Fri Jun 03 2005 Hits: 133)
- Contraception for Women and Couples with HIV
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Family Health International. Increased access to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy and the resulting improvements in health have given many clients with HIV a renewed optimism about the future. As personal situations improve, these clients may reconsider their reproductive options - some deciding whether to have children, others resuming sexual activity while wanting to avoid pregnancy. As a result, demand for contraception among clients with HIV, especially those on ARV therapy, is expected to increase. The materials below contain guidance for providers who offer contraception to clients with HIV, including those on ARV therapy. The information can be used in a variety of health care settings by providers who regularly offer family planning services and by those who want to begin integrating contraceptive services with HIV treatment and care services. Specific information about contraceptive options for clients with HIV, possible interactions between hormonal contraceptives and ARVs, decisions clients with HIV may have to make, and advice about how to counsel them is included. Recommendations are compiled from a number of sources, including the Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, a summary consensus of expert opinion published by the World Health Organization. These materials can be used for independent, self-paced study or for group presentations. Guidelines for using the materials in both situations are included. Electronic files are provided to facilitate adaptation of the materials for selected audiences.
http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Training/trainmat/ARVmodule.htm
(Added: Fri Nov 11 2005 Hits: 134)
- CUBA: Women Talk to Women about HIV/AIDS Prevention
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Prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, the AIDS virus, has become the centre of the lives of a small group of women in the province of Pinar del Río, in the west of Cuba (Dalia Acosta,IPS,26 March 2008).
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41738
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- Culture and African contexts of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support [pdf]
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Culture plays a vital role in determining the level of health of the individual, the family and the community and is especially relevant in the context of Africa. The behaviour of the individual in relation to family and community is one major cultural factor that has implications for sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS prevention and control efforts. (by C O Airhihenbuwa and J DeWitt Webster, Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, May 2004)
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- Curing AIDS Policy of Greed and Dogma
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Patents that allow drug companies based in the United States and Europe to control the manufacture and sale of AIDS medicines prevent countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America from providing people with cheaper, generic AIDS drugs (even though 95% of AIDS patients are in those countries). Everything we know about combating the AIDS pandemic points to the need for a synthesis of prevention and treatment strategies within a human rights framework. It's not Bono's or Oprah's job to develop and enact those strategies. Safeguarding public health and upholding human rights are the responsibility of government. (Yifat Susskind, FPIF, 1 December 2006)
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3748
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- Dangerous medicines: Unproven AIDS cures and counterfeit antiretroviral drugs
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Increasing access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a critical goal endorsed by the United Nations and all of its member states. At the same time, anecdotal accounts suggest that the promotion of unproven AIDS 'cures' and remedies are widespread, and in the case of The Gambia, Iran and South Africa, have been promoted by governments directly. Although a range of legislative and regulatory measures have been adopted by some governments, and technical assistance has been provided by international agencies to address counterfeit medicines generally, the threat of counterfeit antiretroviral drugs is not being addressed.(Joseph J Amon, 27 February 2008)
http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/pdf/1744-8603-4-5.pdf
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- Deadly Denial : Barriers to HIV/AIDS Treatment for People Who Use Drugs in Thailand
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This report has found that routine police harassment and arrest keeps drug users from receiving lifesaving HIV information and services that Thailand has pledged to provide. The report also documents how drug users face discrimination from health care workers, who continue to deny antiretroviral treatment to people who need it based on their status as drug users. (Human Rights Watch, November 2007)
http://hrw.org/reports/2007/thailand1107/thailand1107web.pdf
(Added: Mon Dec 03 2007 Hits: 25)
- Deadly Quackery
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Lately, a bizarre theory has gained ground - one that claims that H.I.V. is harmless, and that the antiretroviral drugs that curb the growth of the virus cause rather than treat AIDS. According to this article, AIDS deniaism has emerged as a genuine menace to public health in the United States and, particularly, in South Africa. (New York Times, 4 June 2006)
http://www.aidstruth.org/deadly-quackery.php
(Added: Tue Jun 06 2006 Modified: Wed Jun 14 2006 Hits: 51)
- Debt relief and the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa: does the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) go far enough
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Produced by: Oxfam (2002). HIV/AIDS poses a development challenge of unprecedented urgency, especially in Africa. Apart from the terrible personal costs, the pandemic is the single biggest threat to attaining the Millennium Development Goals. Over one-third of HIV/AIDS sufferers live in countries clasified as heavily indebted. Repayments to creditors by these countries are diverting resources needed to break the links between ill-health and poverty. Radical reform of the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative is vital to mobilise the resources needed to protect current and future generations from the threat posed by HIV/AIDS.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/debt_aid/wbimfdebt.htm
(Added: Fri Nov 22 2002 Modified: Fri Aug 05 2005 Hits: 215)
- Dhaka Declaration of Action
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On 26-27 January 2006, parliamentarians from 13 Asian, Pacific and African countries (Cambodia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand and Uganda) attended the "2nd Sub-Regional Parliamentary Seminar on HIV/AIDS in South Asia" held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Around 100 participants, including development specialists from the UN and other international agencies, NGO representatives and members of civil society, joined the parliamentarians to discuss best practices for preventing HIV/AIDS, the need to reduce stigma surrounding the disease and the next steps for improving the treatment and care of people living with HIV. At the conclusion of the meeting, the parliamentarians adopted a Declaration of Action for strengthening both the country and regional level responses to stopping the spread of HIV, available here. (Parliamentarian for Global Action, January 2006)
http://www.unfpa.org/parliamentarians/documents/DhakaDeclarationofAction-Final-06_000.doc
(Added: Wed May 03 2006 Hits: 44)
- Dignitas International
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Dignitas International is a medical humanitarian non-governmental organization. Dignitas International was founded by international health and research experts to respond to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
http://www.dignitasinternational.org
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- Disabled at Greater Risk of HIV Infection
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The fact that disabled people are more likely to have received little or no education and to be out of employment places them among the world's poorest, most stigmatised and most marginalised. While the disabled are at also greater risk of violence or rape, they are less likely to obtain police intervention, legal protection or health care. Poverty and social sanctions against marrying a disabled person mean that disabled women, in particular, are likely to become involved in a series of unstable relationships. They are often targeted by abusers who assume they are non-sexual and therefore safe. (Tafi Murinzi, 2006)
http://www.aidsasiafrica.net/features/zimbabwe3.html
(Added: Tue May 16 2006 Modified: Mon Aug 14 2006 Hits: 230)
- Dramatic drop in HIV rates in southern India
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Researchers say HIV infections have fallen dramatically among young men and women in southern India. They say the findings suggest that HIV infections have peaked globally. (SciDevNet, 30 March 2006)
http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2758&language=1
(Added: Tue Apr 04 2006 Hits: 60)
- Economic Costs of AIDS
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Long term economic impact of HIV/AIDS more damaging than previously thought. July 23, 2003-A new World Bank research report warns that HIV/AIDS causes far greater long-term damage to national economies than previously assumed, for by killing mostly young adults, the disease is robbing the children of AIDS victims of one or both parents to love, raise and educate them, and so undermines the basis of economic growth over the long haul. This suggests that a country like South Africa could face progressive economic collapse within several generations unless it combats its AIDS epidemic more urgently. According to the new report "The Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS: Theory and an Application to South Africa" most studies of the macroeconomic costs of AIDS, as measured by reduced GDP growth rates, do not pay enough attention to the way in which human knowledge and potential are created and can be lost.
(Added: Thu Jul 24 2003 Modified: Fri Jun 03 2005 Hits: 233)
- Education sector responses to HIV and AIDS: Learning from good practices in Africa (pdf)
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This report summarises key issues regarding HIV/AIDS and the education sector and is based on a review of published literature and the findings of a regional workshop organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), and hosted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), held September 12 to 14 2006 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2006)
(Added: Mon Feb 04 2008 Hits: 24)
- Engaging communities in youth reproductive health and HIV projects: a guide to participatory assessments (pdf)
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This toolkit provides an overview of various participatory assessment processes in the area of YRH and HIV/AIDS. Examples of good practice drawn from the work of Family Health International's youth programmes are presented. These give a clear idea of the standards, safeguards and benefits for involving young people. Readers can find information on assessment preparation, team training activities, conducting an assessment, documenting its findings and verifying these results. The tooklit details each stage of the assessment process, with example activities and suggested points of discussion. (YouthNet, Family Health International, 2006)
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- Estimating the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDs on the Countries of the Former Soviet Union
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ESAU WP1, Martin Wall, December 2003. This report assesses the evidence on the extent and prospects of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in the countries of the former Soviet Union and the impact this will have on the economies of those countries. The main focus of the report is the Russian Federation. The economic and demographic context against which the epidemic is developing is first discussed. All of the states of the FSU have suffered unprecedented falls in employment and output and a collapse in many of the state institutions that might determine or implement public health policy. Russia in particular is suffering from falling life expectancy and general declines in health that are untypical for countries with high HIV prevalence. The epidemic is still largely confined to high-risk groups such as Intravenous Drug users (IDUs) in Russia and the Ukraine. Infectivity is high in such groups and concentration of HIV among IDUs is one of the reasons the disease is spreading so rapidly. There is evidence of high recruitment and casual drug use suggesting the lines between IDUs, Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) and the general population are more blurred than in a western country. The epidemics in the other former Soviet republics are less developed than in Russia but they exhibit many of the same risk factors and the trade and migratory links between them and Russia suggest they will suffer epidemics of similar magnitude.
http://ideas.repec.org/p/odi/wpaper/1.html
(Added: Tue Dec 23 2003 Modified: Tue Oct 24 2006 Hits: 419)
- Ethics and HIV/AIDS Care - A Buddhist Approach
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Bojjhanga meditation can help people living with HIV/AIDS overcome any feelings of depression they may have due to their condition. Mindfulness of breathing, observing each in and out breath, is mentally calming, costs nothing and brings many benefits such as reducing stress, anxiety and fear. This Buddhist teaching supports integration and communal living and it is important for people working with HIV/AIDS to apply it to their work. It helps to develop compassion and consideration towards people living with HIV/AIDS. (Buddha Dharma Education Association)
http://www.buddhanet.net/sangha-metta/ethics.html
(Added: Fri Jun 02 2006 Hits: 60)
- EuroMapping
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The Euromapping Project is aimed at strengthening European advocacy and mobilising public funding in the fields of population, sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. More specifically, this will be a general and permanent overview of public funding with regard to financing the ICPD Programme of Action for 17 European countries and the European Commission. Additionally, an overview of the policies of each of these countries and of the European Commission with regard to sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and gender is given, as well as the kind of projects which can be financed.
http://www.eurongos.org/resources/euromapping/index.html
(Added: Mon Nov 11 2002 Modified: Fri Jun 03 2005 Hits: 191)
- Family Health International (FHI)
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AIDS/HIV/STD, family planning, reproductive health and women's studies: FHI provides the highest quality research, education and services in family planning, STDs/HIV and family health to improve the health and well-being of populations worldwide.
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- Federated states of Micronesia: statement by the Hon. Dr Eliuel K. Pretrick minister of health, educ
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Federated states of Micronesia: statement by the Hon. Dr Eliuel K. Pretrick minister of health, education and social services
http://www.un.org/ga/aids/statements/docs/micronesiaE.html
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