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- Special study on aid to HIV/AIDS control
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Development Co-operation Directorate (DAC), 17-Jun-2004. This report presents the results of a review of statistical data on aid to HIV/AIDS control, carried out by the DAC Secretariat in collaboration with members of the DAC Working Party on Statistics (WP-STAT) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) between February and May 2004.
http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0,2340,en_2649_33721_32124066_1_1_1_1,00.html
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- Handbook: Developing and Applying National Guidelines on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS (pdf)
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(USAID DEC) March 2003. This handbook, Developing and Applying National Guidelines on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, is a publication of the Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care (RCQHC), and the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project. This handbook provides guidance for the process of developing and applying national guidelines on nutrition and HIV/AIDS.
http://www.dec.org/pdf_docs/PNACX665.pdf
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- 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
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- Children on the Brink 2002 (pdf)
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(UNAIDS) USAID, UNICEF and UNAIDS. One of the most telling and troubling consequences of the epidemic's growing reach is the number of children it has orphaned or seriously impacted. Today more than 13 million children currently under age 15 have lost one or both parents to AIDS, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. "Children on the Brink 2002" contains statistics on children orphaned by HIV/AIDS from 88 countries, analysis of the trends found in those statistics, and strategies and principles for helping the children.
http://www.unaids.org/EN/resources/epidemiology/epi_recent_publications/childrenonthebrink.asp
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- HIV infections 'equal' in Papua New Guinea
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Post Courier, Wednesday 10th March, 2004. PAPUA New Guinea is the only country in the Asia Pacific region where men and women are equally affected by the HIV virus which leads to AIDS. And the number of HIV infections among PNG women between 15 and 29 years of age outnumbered those among men, UNAIDS revealed on Monday.
http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20040310/news03.htm
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- World AIDS Campaign 2004 (pdf)
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UNAIDS. The theme for the World AIDS Campaign 2004 is Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS. The year-long campaign, culminating in World AIDS Day on 1 December, seeks to accelerate the global response to HIV and AIDS through a focus on women and girls preventing new infections, promoting equal access to treatment and mitigating the impact of AIDS.
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- Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS Using a Community-Led Rights-Based Approach: A Case Study of ACORD Tanzania
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A HASAP Publication, August, 2003. With over 28 million people estimated to be living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, the impact of HIV and AIDS on communities has been devastating. Over the last decade, ACORD, an Africa agenda-led organisation working in 18 countries in the region, has supported the efforts of people living in poor and marginalized communities to understand the roots of the problem and to find ways of preventing the further spread of the virus and mitigating its impact. ACORD recognises that the men, women and children living the day to day reality of HIV and AIDS have a lot to teach us and seeks to contribute to the global response to the HIV crisis by ensuring that their voices are heard and listened to by decision-makers at all levels. This publication is a HASAP initiative aimed at documenting and disseminating the work of ACORD in Tanzania. We hope that others, both within and outside ACORD, will benefit from the sharing of this experience and the lessons learnt.
http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/MainstreamAids.pdf
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- Global Media AIDS Initiative
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Roundtable meeting: 15 January 2004, New York A roundtable meeting with over 20 world media leaders, hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and co-chaired by UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot and Kaiser Family Foundation President and CEO Drew Altman is being held on Thursday, 15 January at UN headquarters in New York. Invited media leaders are discussing ways in which the media can use their resources to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and also leverage broader support for the global fight against AIDS.
http://www.unaids.org/en/events/global_media_aids_initiative.asp
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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
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- HIV/AIDS Quick Guide
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SciDev.Net. Preventing infection and caring for the sick remain key to the fight against HIV - a crisis fuelled by a combination of poverty, behaviour and biology. Attention therefore continues to focus on science for solutions. This quick guide can build your knowledge base about the scientific issues involved.
http://www.scidev.net/quickguides/index.cfm?qguideid=1&CFID=161995&CFTOKEN=39298724
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- UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme
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The UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme website contains publications, activies and latest news.
http://www.hiv-development.org/
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- Green Vehicle Guide
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Use this guide to choose the cleanest and most fuel-efficient vehicle that meets your needs. Low emissions and good fuel economy are both important for the environment.
http://www.epa.gov/autoemissions/
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- Journ-AIDS
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Journ-AIDS is a research-based intervention being undertaken by the Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) aimed at stimulating more in-depth and analytical reporting on HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The programme follows a participatory approach involving media representatives in all aspects of the programme design, development of material and activities.
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- HIV/AIDS: What are the implications for humanitarian action? (PDF)
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(SARPN) July 2003, Paul Harvey, Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute. The impact of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is already devastating and will continue to be so for decades to come, as demonstrated by the fact that 2.4 million Africans are estimated to have died of HIV/AIDS in 2002 alone. The scale of the epidemic, and the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on livelihoods, poses a series of challenges to the international aid system. Conventional definitions of emergency and development assistance and the architecture of aid delivery may need to be re-examined. There will clearly be a need for both humanitarian aid and development assistance in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS and therefore a need for clarity in understanding where emergency relief should be situated within the wider response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. There is a growing literature on the impact of HIV/AIDS on food security. An understanding of the complex and diverse ways in which the epidemic affects livelihoods is necessary to begin to map the ways in which the epidemic is increasing underlying vulnerability and potentially contributing to emergencies such as the recent crisis in southern Africa. This report reviews this literature in Section 2 and draws on existing work to demonstrate how the impact of HIV/AIDS can be conceptualised using the sustainable livelihoods framework.
http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0000421/index.php
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- 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.
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- HIV/Aids and Development in South Asia 2003
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UNDP, (2003). This Report is the first Regional HDR on HIV/AIDS and examines the connection between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the larger challenge of human deprivation in South Asia. The central argument of the Report is that it is imperative that the eradication of HIV goes hand in hand with the eradication of human poverty in the region, particularly given the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) campaign. The Report explores the conceptual and empirical links between HIV and human development and proposes integrated approaches to policy makers in the region. Further, the Report also argues that, although current rates of HIV are relatively low, the region could face potentially catastrophic consequences unless there is a political will to galvanize resources and catalyze reform for placing high priority on health and human development. The creation of an "enabling environment" that guarantees human rights and eliminates stigma and discrimination against PLWHA is imperative. Further recommendations include increased regional cooperation and greater emphasis on prevention.
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/detail_reports.cfm?view=101
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- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria
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The purpose of the Fund is to attract, manage and disburse additional resources through a new public-private partnership that will make a sustainable and significant contribution to the reduction of infections, illness and death, thereby mitigating the impact caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in countries in need, and contributing to poverty reduction as part of the Millennium Development goals.
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- Programming in the Era of AIDS: WFP'S Response to HIV/AIDS (PDF)
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United Nations World Food Program, 5-7 February 2003. This paper reviews the relationship between food security and HIV/AIDS and identifies specific vulnerable groups. It also identifies specific programme areas where WFP has a significant role to play in supporting the food security of families and communities affected by AIDS. It is important to note that all activities will be designed following existing policies. This paper highlights some key programming areas where a different emphasis and modified approach are necessary to meet the emerging needs of food-insecure families and individuals deeply affected by the AIDS pandemic.
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- Refugees and AIDS: What Should the Humanitarian Community Do? (PDF)
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Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, (2002). This document was produced by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children under the auspices of the Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations to provide user-friendly guidance and mobilize humanitarian actors working in refugee settings to address HIV/AIDS. The aim of the document is to stimulate policy makers, managers and implementers to strengthen their response to HIV/AIDS. It is not a comprehensive guide to HIV/AIDS programming in refugee settings. Readers are encouraged to utilize the key resource materials, among others, referenced at the end of this document.
http://www.rhrc.org/pdf/aids_refugees.pdf
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- Health Global Access Program
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an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts, fair trade advocates and concerned individuals who campaign against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions and fuel the spread of HIV. We are dedicated to eliminating barriers to global access to affordable life-sustaining medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS as key to a comprehensive strategy to confront and ultimately stop the AIDS pandemic. We believe that the human right to life and to health must prevail over the pharmaceutical industry's excessive profits and expanding patent rights.
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- Treatment Action Campaign
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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched on 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day. Its main objective is to campaign for greater access to treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments. TAC campaigns against the view that AIDS is a 'death sentence'.
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- 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.
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- Living with AIDS: the experience of Botswana
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World Aids Day, 1 December, finds around 42 million people infected with the HIV virus that leads to AIDS. Nowhere is its spread greater than Botswana. Amidst the suffering, does the country's experience of this devastating illness offer slender hope?
http://www.opendemocracy.net/people-africa_democracy/article_798.jsp
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- Model-Based Estimates Of Risks Of Disease Transmission And Economic Costs Of Seven Injection Devices
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Author(s): Ekwueme, D.; Weniger, B.; Chen, R. Produced by: WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HSI) (2002). The objective of this study was to investigate and compare seven types of injection devices for their risks of iatrogenic transmission of bloodborne pathogens and their economic costs in sub-Saharan Africa. Risk assumptions for each device and cost models were constructed to estimate the number of new hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections resulting from patient-to-patient, patient-to-health care worker, and patient-to community transmission. The study concludes that despite their nominal purchase and usage costs, conventional needles and syringes carry a hidden but huge burden of iatrogenic disease. Alternative injection devices for the millions of injections administered annually in sub-Saharan Africa would be of value and should be considered by policy-makers in procurement decisions.
http://www.who.int/bulletin/pdf/2002/bul-11-E-2002/80(11)859-870.pdf
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- What Happened in Uganda? Declining HIV Prevalence, Behaviour Change, and the National Response (PDF)
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Now considered to beone of the world's earliest and best success stories in overcoming HIV, Uganda has experienced substantial declines in prevalence, and evidently incidence, during at least the past decade, especially among younger age cohorts.This document is not intended to provide a definitive explanation for Uganda's AIDS prevention successes during the 1980s and 1990s. Rather, it is a synthesis of presentations made in February 2002 at USAID by four individuals with long-term experience in HIV prevention in Africa. USAID's Office of HIV/AIDS decided to commission a summary document synthesizing the ideas presented by these researchers. (PDF - 1400KB)
http://www.usaid.gov/pop_health/aids/Countries/africa/uganda_report.pdf
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