"In order for AIDS programs and interventions
to be effective, they need the support and involvement of leaders
from all levels and sectors of society. The creation of a supportive
environment for HIV/AIDS programs involves not only the formulation
of appropriate policies and the allocation of resources but also
the mobilization of a broad political consensus that such programs
are necessary for the well being of society. Political support is
defined broadly to include much more than just senior government
leaders and civil servants. Political commitment implies the support
of a broad range of civil and community leaders, at all levels of
society. This includes the public sector, the private sector, nongovernmental
organization leaders, religious leaders, and other influential citizens
at national and local levels. Leaders are the role models in society:
it is not only their votes but also their personal actions and behavior
that send strong signals about what is important." AIDS Impact
Model (AIM) Approach
"Perhaps the cruelest irony of all concerning the global AIDS
epidemic is that the human impact is decimating countries' ability
to act at the very time that increased services to respond to the
crisis are required. Extraordinary pressures are being place on
government management capabilities, budgets and already fragile
social safety nets. Civil society organizations and individual citizens
are organizing and taking on additional responsibilities even though,
for most, resources and capabilities were limited before this additional
challenge emerged. Responding to the epidemic demands the best we
have to offer-from all sectors.
USAID's democracy and governance sector has a perspective and associated
tools to offer to those working on HIV/AIDS. Over the past decade,
USAID has increased its attention to the political aspects of programming
and to the dynamics of the process of change. It has recognized
that political dynamics and participation are integral to achieving
and sustain development results and has created and accumulated
approaches and tools to respond. Those participatory democratic
practices in the public/political realm can have both short- and
long-term effects for HIV/AIDS, health, education or other sector
objectives."
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A conceptual framework and basis for
action.
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The World AIDS Campaign for the years 2002-03 will focus on
stigma, discrimination and human rights.
The main objective of the campaign is to prevent,
reduce and ultimately eliminate HIV/AIDS-related stigma and
discrimination, wherever it occurs and in all it forms
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Pdf 348 kb
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A Cultural Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care
(Large report-increase download time) |
The major
issues and recommendations were:
·
Taking a
cultural approach to strategy building and project design
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Designing
and delivering culturally appropriate IEC messages and
materials
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Capacity
building and developing subsequent data collection and
research within the framework of the cultural approach to
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care
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Bridging
the gap between western and indigenous models of development
to achieve sustained development
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Building
viable partnerships and functional networks among
stakeholders at all levels
·
And many other issues |
Pdf 5024
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A
guidebook for resettlement agencies serving refugees with
HIV/AIDS
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The
purpose of this publication is to assist resettlement agencies
in preparing for and providing care to refugees who are living
with HIV/AIDS
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69
kb pdf
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A
multi-sectoral approach to managing and mitigating HIV/AIDS
impact: the management challenge
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The
sectoral impact of the most vicious and widely acknowledge
pandemic in human history is widely underestimated and even
ignored in many pasts of SSA
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682
kb pdf
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ABC Model
(Allocation by Cost-Effectiveness)
(Very large file-increase download time) |
Excel model—a resource allocation Model for HIV/AIDS in
Honduras, very good information. This model serves as a
didactic instrument and as a tool for the elaboration of
policies and budgets, and the analysis of HIV prevention
program design. |
4,393 kb |
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Abstinence Failure |
Menstuff®
has compiled the following information on abstinence
failure. There is potential failure with all forms of
prevention, which often comes from not having the knowledge
of how to use the protection. That's why it is so important
to know as much about "safer sex" before ever experiencing
even petting. Without that knowledge, the chances of
acquiring an STD or having an unplanned pregnancy, increases
dramatically. Nonpartisan researchers have been unable to
document measurable benefits of the abstinence-only model.
Columbia University researchers found that although
teenagers who take "virginity pledges" may wait longer to
initiate sexual activity, 88 percent eventually have
premarital sex |
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Abstinence-Only Education Policies and Programs: A Position
Paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine |
The
Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) supports abstinence
from sexual intercourse as “a healthy choice for teenagers”
but critiques government policies and programs that promote
abstinence-only or abstinence until marriage as the only
prevention message for teenagers. SAM recommends that “
‘Abstinence-only’ as a basis for health policy and programs
should be abandoned.”
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Access to Condoms and HIV/AIDS information |
HIV/AIDS
is a preventable disease, yet approximately 5 million people
were newly infected with HIV in 2003, the majority of them
through sex. Many of these cases could have been avoided,
but for state-imposed restrictions on proven and effective
HIV prevention strategies, such as latex condoms…scientific
data “overwhelmingly confirm that male latex condoms are
highly effective in preventing sexual HIV transmission.
Many governments around the world either fail to guarantee
access to condoms or impose needless restrictions on access
to condoms and related HIV/AIDS information |
Pdf 293 kb |
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According to
Need? Needs assessment and decision-making in the humanitarian
sector.
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The focus of the study has been on the international
humanitarian system, understood here to comprise governmental
and multilateral donors, and international NGOs.
The relative lack of attention to the role of national
or local authorities in the countries concerned does not imply
that this is considered of secondary importance, but reflects
the nature of the Humanitarian Financing initiative, of which
this study forms on part
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480 kb
Pdf
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Action Planning Handbook for States and
Communities-Comprehensive and Integrated Chronic Disease
Prevention |
The
Handbook is intended to provide tools for health departments
to use in assessing and identifying improvement strategies for
their chronic disease prevention efforts. Specifically, it is
aimed at helping you to find distinct opportunities for
greater comprehensiveness and integration within a health
department’s existing chronic disease prevention efforts. |
388 kb pdf
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ADDRESSING
HIV TESTING, INFORMED CONSENT AND COUNSELING |
In an
effort to reduce the number of people unaware of their
positive status, and in hope of preventing future
transmissions by this population, the CDC has developed a
number of new recommendations to encourage and increase HIV
testing around the country. |
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Addressing
Stigma in Implementing HIV/AIDS |
Unless
stigma is addressed, effective implementation of an HIV/AIDS
policy is impossible. This paper describes the experience of
ACORD Uganda in their efforts to implement an effective
workplace policy. It focuses in particular on the importance
of addressing stigma within the organisation - both as an
objective of the policy itself and as a prerequisite of its
effective implementation. |
Pdf 257 kb |
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Adolescence education newsletter. |
22
learning and earning opportunities for adolescents in slum
areas—23 upgrading standards of health care services. |
697 kb pdf |
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Adolescent Health |
Adolescents comprise 20% of the total world population, 85%
of whom live in developing countries. Low education and high
unemployment often compound the problems of developing world
adolescents. Furthermore, the adolescent population in
developing countries is burgeoning, with the number of urban
youth growing a projected 600% between 1970 and 2025 (WHO
Fact Sheet #186, 12/97). For the most part, young
people’s problems have been ignored, with little
understanding of the potential impact of a generation at
risk on the future. If today’s young people are to realize
their adult potential, new solutions must be found. These
solutions will be based on understanding the complexities of
adolescent cultures, how they experience risk and what
factors contribute to their vulnerabilities. |
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Adolescents and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: The
Role of the Pediatrician in Prevention and Intervention |
Half
of
all new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections in the
United States occur among young people between the ages
of
13 and 24. Sexual
transmission accounts for most cases
of HIV during adolescence.
Pediatricians can play an important role in
educating
adolescents about HIV prevention,
transmission, and testing, with
an emphasis on risk reduction, and in advocating
for the special needs
of
adolescents for access to information
about HIV.
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Advocacy for
Action on Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Africa
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We are all living with or affected by the epidemic.
We also recognize that stigma—characterized by
silence, fear, discrimination and denial—fuels the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
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Pdf 516 kb
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African Media Women Professional, HIV/AIDS and the Cultural
Factor |
This
report is of a presentation and recommendations. The main
objective of this seminar was to examine the cultural,
professional and social constraints media women professionals
encounter in Africa within their traditional environment…the
seminar aimed to determine the impact of reporting on HIV/AIDS
in specific contexts in Africa and to in order to determine
whether the way HIV/AIDS treated in the media contributes to
intensifying or reducing the stigmatization of people living
with AIDS |
1342 kb
pdf |
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AIDS and
Development: The Role of Government |
Power
Point Presentation |
1477 kb
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AIDS
and Democracy: What do we Know?
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The
vast majority of sources discussed in this paper are
theoretical or conceptual pieces which speculate with varying
degrees of expertise
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94
kb pdf
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AIDS and Stiigma-1999 Survey
Items.
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Basic concept behind Gregory Hereks’ research studies
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Pdf 104 kb
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AIDS
battle reaches new climax in Asia with aggressive condom
policy
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In an aggressive policy to stem the growing HIV/AIDS
problem, the World Health Organisation (WHO) wants sex workers
in Asia to adopt this uncompromising stand when facing
clients.
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AIDS
Communication-an international view
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What
appears to be different/particular about communication for
development when the issue is HIV/AIDS?
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AIDS
Impact Model (AIM) Approach
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Building
political commitment for effective HIV/AIDS policies and
Programs
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774
kb pdf
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AIDS Prevention
(Large file-allow increase download
time) |
At the
World Summit held at the United Nations in September 2005,
leaders pledged to fully implement the Declaration of
Commitment of HIV/AIDS adopted in 2001, by scaling up
efforts for prevention, treatment, care and support so that
every person, without exception, has access to these
life-saving programmes. In Kofi Annan’s address on World
Aids Day on 1 December 2005 he said that “It is a time to
recognize that although our response so far has succeeded in
some of the particulars, it has yet to match the epidemic in
scale. It is a time to admit that if we are to reach the
Millennium Development Goal of halting and beginning to
reverse the spread of AIDS by 2015, then we must do far, far
more. That mission concerns every one of us.” |
Pdf 2335
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AIDS, Stigma and the Media |
There is
an emerging global consensus among governments, international
organizations and the private sector to focus more attention
and resources on HIV/AIDS…Perhaps the most underutilized force
for scaling up is the media, especially when it comes to
reaching young people. Media can also play a critical role in
breaking the silence about HIV in countries with emerging
epidemics and reluctant leaders. |
414 kb pdf |
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Applying social franchising techniques to youth reproductive
health,/HIV services |
This Youth
Issues Paper examines what role social franchising might have
in expanding reproductive health and HIV services for youth. |
335 kb pdf |
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BASIC CONCEPTS OF
SOCIAL WELFARE |
“Social welfare generally denotes the full range of organized
activities of voluntary and governmental agencies that seek to
prevent, alleviate, or contribute to the solution of
recognized social problems, or to improve the well-being of
individuals, groups, or communities.” |
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Balbir case study-approach to reducing AIDS |
An
innovative approach to reducing HIV/AIDS prevalence through
targeted mass media communications in Mumbai, India-2003 |
1,085 kb
pdf |
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Bioterrorism-Coordination
& Preparedness Report
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Report
before subcommittee on government efficiency
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1,229
kb pdf
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Building
African AIDS Care from the Ground Up
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The
mystifying disease appeared at higher rates there than any
place else in the United States, and Sande and his staff
helped pioneer its clinical treatment. Within the
next decade, physicians in the United States
learned how to treat HIV infection and AIDS as
pharmaceutical companies launched drugs that controlled the
infection without curing it.
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Can we reverse the HIV/AIDS pandemic with an expanded
response? |
HIV/AIDS
has reached pandemic proportions, and is one of the leading
causes of death worldwide. In 2001, the Declaration of
Commitment of HIV /AIDS set out several aims with respect to
reducing the effect and spread of HIV/AIDS, and an expanded
response in low-income and middle-income countries was
initiated. |
Pdf 83 kb |
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CBO/FBO Capacity Analysis: A Tool for Assessing and Building
Capacities for High Quality Responses to HIV/AIDS |
This tool
can be used with community organizations to identify
capacity-building needs, plan any technical support needed
by the organization, and monitor and evaluate the impact of
capacity-building support. |
Pdf 180 kb |
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Celebrating Youth: Uncovering those things which help prepare
youth for life and its challenges |
Power
Point Presentation |
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Challenging HIV Related Stigma &
Discrimination in Southeast Asia.
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Literature Review
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Pdf 146 kb
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Change.
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The central element in the CHANGE project’s original
mandate was to identify, develop, test and apply tools and
approaches to improve behaviors relevant to maternal health,
child health and nutrition
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Pdf 516 kb
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Changing
the Burden of Disease in Southern Africa
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Discussion around President Mbeki’s recent AIDS panel has
focused on his decision to include the views of “HIV
dissidents” including Peter Duesberg and others, who
maintain that HIV is benign.
“African AIDS,” according to Duesberg, “is caused
by malnutrition, parasitic infection and poor sanitation. . .
[T]here is no scientific evidence for the correlation between
HIV and African AIDS, only guesses.” (“Peter Duesberg on
AIDS” website, http://www.duesberg.org).
Implicit in this claim, of course, is the contention
that the AIDS epidemic has not had a qualitative impact on the
burden of disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Charter
for Social Justice
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Deeply concerned with the lack of respect for human
rights and social justice due to the high levels of
HIV/AIDS related stigma, discrimination, and human rights
violations and abuse directed against MSM, particularly those
of us who are feminised;
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Churches
gather to coordinate action plan against HIV/AIDS
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A coalition of Finnish and African churches has been
meeting in Dar es Salaam over the past week to try and pool
resources and create a strategy in the battle against
HIV/AIDS.
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Competencies
report for communications. |
Mapping
competencies for communication for development and social
change: Turning knowledge, skill, and attitudes into action |
840 kb pdf |
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Components of Successful HIV/AIDS Case Management in Alaska
Native Villages |
HIV and
AIDS may have a potentially devastating impact in Alaska
Native villages and it is critical that effective social
service and medical responses be developed that are both
culturally and geographically responsive to this vulnerable
populations |
407 kb pdf |
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Concern over spread of HIV/AIDS |
A symposium here on Wednesday has expressed concern over
therising incidence of HIV/AIDS in Asian countries. It called for
implementing preventive measures and creating awareness
about the modes of transmission of the disease.
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Condom
is mainstay of fight
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The
condom has been the mainstay of the fight against HIV/AIDS and
widespread distribution of free condoms by local family
planning clinics has succeeded in a massive reduction in the
spread of the virus.
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Concept of Health & Disease. |
In the
last 19 years the controversy over the concept of health and
disease has been revived in some Latin American circles. |
910 kb pdf |
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Contributions of non formal education to HIV preventive
education in Nigeria: Case study and inventory of NGO
practices |
This paper
is concerned with the need to address the fact that with
over 5% of the population of Nigeria infected with HIV, and
the adult mortality rate continuing to rise, Nigeria is now
at a potentially explosive stage of the epidemic. In
particular it is concerned with the role of Non- Formal
Education (NFE) in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS. |
Pdf 667 kb |
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Consumer/Survivor
Information
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This section is intended to give you the information you
need to guide your message to its destination.
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Cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa: a
systematic review of the evidence |
Cost-effectiveness is, however, highly relevant. African
governments fact difficult choices in striking the right
balance between prevention, treatment, and care, all of
which are necessary to deal comprehensively with the
epidemic. Reductions in drug prices have raised the
priority of treatment, though treatment access is
restricted. |
Pdf 115 kb |
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Cultural Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care |
The world
faces many threats today. One of the most significant threats
to the future of mankind is the human immunodeficiency virus.
HIV/AIDS is not merely a public health problem of staggering
magnitude but a condition that has already seriously impinged
on the overall development and economic stability of many
nations. |
481 kb pdf |
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Cultural Approach to HIV/AIDS-Prevention and Care, India |
A cultural approach to HIV/AIDS care and prevention has to
deal with a set of complex issues. It has to take into
account the diversity in religion, language, values and social
laws that are part of people’s lives in India. This
handbook takes up some of the issues that are comprised in the
cultural matrix and are relevant to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. |
278 kb pdf |
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Cultural Change in the Face of a Pandemic Flu Virus - Can We
Do It? |
New
technologies like vaccines and drugs are all plausible
responses to the serious threat of a flu pandemic. However,
what these high-tech measures all have in common is high
costs with no guarantee of 100% success. Therefore, in the
face of a potentially lethal threat to our lives, and even
to our society, should we not consider supplementing high
tech innovations with small cultural adaptations? For
example, the elimination of our "hand-shaking culture" would
be relatively painless and would reduce the risk of getting
and spreading a lethal flu virus. The cost of this
"cultural" change would be zero dollars! |
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Culturally Competent HIV/AIDS Prevention for American Indians
and Alaska Natives |
The
purpose of this review is to summarize the published
literature on culturally competent HIV/AIDS prevention for
AIAN. Because there was so little found on this subject,
publications regarding cultural competence and related public
health issues were also included |
107 kb pdf |
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Defeating HIV/AIDS through Education |
For too
long we have been standing by—timid, confused, uncertain,
feeling that we were powerless, wanting to do something
constructive but not quite sure what. And all the time, men,
women and children continued to be infected in their millions,
to fall sick in their millions, to die in their millions. We
work in the middle of the AIDS killing fields. We have daily
experience of the passive genocide of our most productive
people. We live through a silent holocaust that makes the
Jewish Holocaust in Nazi Germany pale by comparison. We have
let two decades slip through our hands when our response to
HIV/AIDS was little more than a scrappy rearguard action
against what we saw as an almost insuperable enemy. |
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Description of Indicators. |
Accuracy
of logistics data for inventory management
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725 kb pdf |
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Determinants of HAART discontinuation among infection drug
users |
The
objective of this study was to identify psychosocial
determinants of, and self-reported reasons for, HAART
discontinuation among HIV-positive injection drug users. |
92 kb pdf |
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Directions in HIV Service Deliver & Care |
Reducing
Barriers to Care. This report offers several different and
yet similar research reports about the barriers to care for
people with prolong or chronic illnesses |
217 kb pdf |
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Donor participation in Education
Sector |
After
almost thirty years of independence and a fast population
growth rate, the quality of education in terms of learning
outcomes has not kept pace with the level of public investment
in Ghana. The critical challenges to the education sector
relate to increasing access, improving teaching and learning
outcomes, the supervision and management of schools, financial
decentralisation and the sustainability of the reforms. |
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Early
Effects of a School-Based Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
and Sexual Risk Prevention Intervention |
To determine
the short-term effect of a middle and high school-based human
immunodeficiency virus and sexuality intervention (Rochester
AIDS Prevention Project for Youth [RAPP]) on knowledge,
self-efficacy, and behavior intention |
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Educational Tip Sheet-HIV/AIDS and Older Adults |
Between 1991
and 1996, AIDS cases in the over-50 population rose more than
twice as fast as those among younger adults. |
16 kb pdf |
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Effectiveness of Various IEC in Improving Awareness and
Reducing Stigma Related to HIV/AIDS Among School going
Teenagers |
Stigma is
defined as a ‘significantly discrediting attribute’
possessed by a person with an ‘undesired difference’.
Stigma is a common human reaction to disease. Throughout
history many diseases have carried considerable stigma,
including leprosy, tuberculosis, cancer, mental illness and
many STDs. Now HIV/AIDS is the topmost in the list of
diseases to be stigmatized. |
Pdf 259 kb |
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Empowering Communities to Reduce the Impact of Infectious
Diseases |
Infectious diseases continue to cause ill health and deaths to
millions worldwide, despite advances in public health over the
last 100 years — advances that include the development of
vaccines and antibiotics and improvements in sanitation. In
many developing countries, women face particular difficulties
in warding off infection because of social and economic
obstacles to accessing health information and services. To
reduce the impact of disease on women, some infectious-disease
prevention programs are employing community-based approaches
conducted by women |
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Evaluating
HIV and Development
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Evaluating HIV and development: guidelines and suggestions
Evaluating HIV and AIDS: Why capacity development is central
to assessing performance
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Evaluating Programs for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in
Developing Countries
(Large report-increase download time) |
Evaluation
is too often an afterthought in the process of program
implementation. This Handbook is dedicated to the premise
that evaluation must be a critical part of the initial
phases of planning effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care
programs |
Pdf 1242
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Evolution of Thailand’s strategy to cope with the HIV/AIDS
epidemic
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HIV/AIDS
is the highest-ranking cause of death among working-age
adults in Thailand. The disease has led to incalculable
human suffering and social disruption, as well as huge
economic costs. Yet, through an innovative, comprehensive
strategy, Thailand has become the first country in the
developing world where declines in HIV prevalence are seen
nationally and the HIV epidemic has been successfully
controlled through a prevention strategy. |
Pdf 165 kb |
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Fear-based appeals in HIV prevention |
Fear appeals that are designed to change behaviors in
‘unconverted’ populations result in a process of motivated
reasoning that discounts the source information, message
information and message relevance, making them ineffective
and potentially dangerous.
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428 kb pdf |
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Federal HIV
Testing Initiatives Can Only Succeed with |
Expanding
the offer of voluntary HIV counseling and testing services
in healthcare settings is good public health policy.
Routinely offered HIV testing will help reachmore
individuals who may be unaware of their HIV-positive status
as well as those who are HIV-negative but engaging in
high-risk behaviors. Encouraging individualsto learn their
status will help slow the spread of HIV and assist those who
are HIV positive live healthier, longer lives. |
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Fifty years of development communication: What works |
Power Point
Presentation |
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Fighting HIV/AIDS: is success possible? |
The fight
against HIV/AIDS poses enormous challenges worldwide,
generating fears that success may be too difficult or even
impossible to attain. Uganda has demonstrated that an
early, consistent and multisectoral control strategy can
reduce both the prevalence and the incidence of HIV
infection. |
Pdf 154 kb |
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First nationally representative
survey results of HIV prevalence.
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The survey ‘provides the most systematic and
comprehensive view yet available of how HIV/AIDS is affecting
South Africans.
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Pdf 17 kb
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From Awareness, to action plan, to program implementation. |
In spite
of developments in drug therapy for people living with
HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and vaccine against HIV, prevention of HIV
infection still remains the priority objective for HIV/AIDS
control globally, more so in developing and underdeveloped
regions, like West Africa. It will be quite some time before
currently in use HIV anti-retroviral drugs become readily
available, accessible and affordable generally, in the
countries of West Africa. And within the interval, HIV/AIDS
will have caused so much devastation of the socio-economic
systems of the countries that little may be redeemable. The
cost of managing an AIDS epidemic is enormous and so it
makes every economic sense to apply the scarce resources of
the West African countries to prevention of HIV infection in
the populations against the option of paying more attention
to drug management of AIDS cases. Past and present
experiences with syphilis and gonorrhea teach us that not
all epidemics can be controlled effectively through and
emphasized strategy of chemotherapy. |
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GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE Private Sector Intervention Case
Example Rapidly assess needs, establish a programme with an
experienced partner, then analyse and refine the programme |
• What
level of prevalence and business impact analysis is required
to fiscally justify offering comprehensive treatment
including Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment (HAART)?
• What
level of internal project management and technical expertise
is necessary to ensure that the programme is sustainable
after the initial public-private partnership ends?
• How
can the impact and effectiveness of community interventions
be assessed? |
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Global Task Team on
Improving AIDS Coordination Among Multilateral Institutions
and International Donors |
The
analytical work of the Global Task Team takes a broader
perspective, encompassing a wide range of stakeholders in
the fight against AIDS. The full set of “multilateral
institutions and international partners” (i.e., multilateral
organizations, the bilateral agencies of governments,
foundations, and international nongovernmental
organizations, private sector companies and academic
institutions) is included, out of a recognition that it is
not possible to understand the challenges that must be
addressed without taking a holistic view of the situation.
Moreover, the recommendations are framed in such a way that
international partners beyond the multilateral system can
participate in implementation. |
Pdf 760 kb |
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Guidelines
for preparation and execution of studies of the social and
economic impact of HIV/AIDS
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HIV/AIDS
results in exceptional levels of illness and death in the
mature adult population if has many social and economic
implications
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193
kb pdf
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Guidelines for repeated Behavioral Surveys in Populations at
Risk of HIV |
Successful HIV prevention depends on changing risk
behaviors. This includes increasing condom use and
reducing the numbers of sex partners among sexually
active people, reducing needle-sharing behavior
among injecting drug users, and delaying the onset of first
intercourseamong young people—to name only a few.
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1739 kb pdf |
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Harm Reduction, HIV/AIDS, and the Human Rights Challenge to
Global Drug Control Policy |
The global
HIV/AIDS pandemic has added to the list of harms associated
with unsafe drug use and provided yet further evidence that
the dominant, prohibitionist approach to illicit drugs is
not only ineffective but also counter-productive. |
Pdf 141 kb |
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HIV Prevention is Achievable |
One reason
why these countries have been successful is that they have
formulated prevention policies on the basis of sound science.
This has enabled them to combat the many myths that have
characterized this pandemic. This includes the myth of
complacency ("we won't / don't have the problem), the myth
that condoms are not effective, that sex education in schools
leads to youth having more sex, that syringe exchange programs
increase drug use, that sexual behavior cannot be changed and
that we need to wait for a vaccine before I-HV will be
prevented (a vaccine will help, but all experts agree that it
is at least a decade away). |
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HIV prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005 |
CDC estimates that approximately 40,000 people per year in
the United States continue to become infected with HIV, a
number that has remained relatively stable—but unacceptably
high—for much of the past decade. And although the
number of new infections has been static, the epidemic itself
has not. In addition to the groups that have been at
highest risk since the beginning of the epidemic—men who have
sex with men and injection drug users—new populations are
increasingly at risk for HIV infection, particularly racial
and ethnic minorities, women, and adolescents. |
493 kb pdf |
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HIV/AIDS:
Epidemic Update 1991-2005 |
The
development of new knowledge from HIV-related research also
has helped to clarify aspects of the human immune response,
behavioral interventions, public health strategies, and social
and ethical approaches that contribute to the understanding
and management of other diseases and health conditions.
Healthcare professionals will continue to play a major and
significant role in preventing the spread of HIV infection and
in caring for those who are infected or affected by HIV |
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HIV/AIDS: Implications for Poverty Reduction |
How do countries reduce the proportion of people living in
poverty when up to a quarter of households are decimated by
AIDS? How do countries deliver on policies aimed at
equity in access to economic opportunities and social services
when AIDS widens economic differentials and undermines service
delivery? How do countries deliver on promises to improve
quality of life for coming generations when 40 million
children will grow up orphaned by AIDS? |
485 kb pdf |
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HIV/AIDS
and Education |
Presentation by Alan Whiteside, Director, Health Economics and
HIV/AIDS Research Division
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425 kb pdf |
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HIV/AIDS and Municipalities |
Although
AIDS has become very common it is still surrounded by silence.
People are ashamed to speak about being infected and many see
it as a scandal when it happens in their families. People
living with AIDS are exposed to daily prejudice born out of
ignorance and fear. |
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HIV/AIDS and work: global estimates, impact and response
(Large Document-increased download time) |
HIV/AIDS
is a human crisis but it is also a threat to sustainable
social and economic development. The loss of life and the
debilitating effects of the illness lead to a reduced capacity
to sustain production and employment which, in turn,
undermines efforts to reduce poverty and promote development |
2260 kb
pdf |
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HIV/AIDS
in Africa: South Africa's Leadership is Crucial
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The recent announcement that South Africa's government will
roll out a comprehensive anti-retroviral treatment program by
the end of September 2003 is a major step in the right
direction for the estimated 5 million South Africans living
with HIV/AIDS
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HIV/AIDS
in India
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India has had a sharp increase in the estimated number of
HIV infections, from a few thousand in the early 1990s to a
working estimate of about 3.8 million children and adults
living with HIV/AIDS in 2001. With a population of one
billion, the HIV epidemics in India will have a major impact
on the overall spread of HIV in Asia and the Pacific and
indeed worldwide.
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HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming: A Definition, Some Experiences and
Strategies |
A
resource developed by HIV/AIDS focal points from
government sectors and those that have been working on
HIV/AIDS mainstreaming |
Pdf
1044 kb |
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HIV/AIDS Technical Assistance Guidelines |
The impact of HIV/AIDS in the workplace is felt in many
areas, for example the loss of productivity, increased cost of
employee benefits, high production costs and lower workplace
morale due to prolonged staff illness, increased absenteeism
and mortality rates. This, in turn, impacts negatively
on the economy of the country as it slows down economic growth
with less economically active persons able to contribute to
the economy. |
274 kb pdf |
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HIV/STD Prevalence and Risk Factors among Migrant &
non-migrant Males-Nepal |
International evidence indicates that since migration brings
about immediate changes in the occupation, social condition
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