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Documents
- Looking deeper into the HIV epidemic: A questionnaire for tracing sexual networks
- This new questionnaire is part of an attempt to gain those insights it is recommended for use in countries where managers of AIDS programmes and researchers are primarily interested in gaining additional information on sexual mixing patterns for intervention purposes.
- Guide to the strategic planning process for a national response to HIV/AIDS: Module 3 - Strategic Plan Formulation
- The strategic planning process encompasses the answer to three questions: What is the HIV situation in the country?; What has been done about it so far?; What should be done about it in the future?
- Guide to the stategic planning process for a national response to HIV/AIDS: module 2 - Response Analysis
- This module, like the others in the Guide, is intended for use by country programmes, either at a national or decentralized level. However, other agencies and organizations such as international NGOs and donor agencies may also find it useful to conduct a response analysis when planning their AIDS strategies.
- Guide to the strategic planning process for a national response to HIV/AIDS: module 1 - Situation Analysis
- A situation analysis puts the HIV epidemic in its social, economic, and cultural context in a given country. It looks at who is infected or is vulnerable to infection, and tries to explain why. It looks for explanations not just in people’s behaviour, but in the social, economic, and cultural situations which underlie that behaviour.
- Guide to the strategic planning process for a national response to HIV/AIDS: Introduction
- Strategic planning, as developed in the present guide, defines not only the strategic framework of the national response, i.e. its fundamental principles, broad strategies, and institutional framework, but also the intermediate steps that need to be achieved in order to change the current situation into one that represents the objectives to be reached.
- HIV and Infant Feeding
- A guide for health-care managers and supervisors
- HIV related Opportunistic Diseases
- People with advanced HIV infection are vulnerable to infections or malignancies that are called “opportunistic” because they take advantage of the opportunity offered by a weakened immune system. Various treatments and prophylaxis—some simple and low-cost, others highly complex and expensive—exist to counter the most common opportunistic diseases, but delivery systems and funding are insufficient in many parts of the world to ensure their universal use.
- Access to Drugs
- While people living with HIV infection or AIDS may live many years before their infection leads to secondary diseases and eventually AIDS, survival with advancing HIV infection is complicated with symptoms and medical conditions. Many of these symptoms and conditions, and the advance of HIV itself, are manageable with drugs. However, access to even the most basic of drugs is seriously lacking in many parts of the world.
- Putting HIV/AIDS on the business agenda
- The business sector needs to be convinced that their participation is combating AIDS is essential in making a difference, not only to the larger national Endeavour, but also to their businesses.
- NGO perspectives on access to HIV-related drugs in 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries
- This document is based on reports supplied at the request of UNAIDS from 13 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The countries are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
- Mother to child Transmission
- Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is by far the largest source of HIV infection in children under the age of 15. In countries where blood products are regularly screened and clean syringes and needles are widely available, it is virtually the only source in young children. In 1997, an estimated 600,000 infants worldwide were infected with the virus, bringing the total number of young children living with HIV to over 1 million at the end of the year.
- Gender and HIV/AIDS
- Gender roles and relations have a significant influence on the course and impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in every region of the world. Understanding the influence of gender roles and relations on individuals’ and communities’ ability to protect themselves from HIV and effectively cope with the impact of AIDS is crucial for expanding the response to the epidemic.
- The public health approach to Sexually Transmitted Diseases control. STD
- Around 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to have ocurred throughout the world in 1995 in men and women aged 15-49 years. In developing countries, STDs and their complications rank in the top five disease categories for which adults seek health care. In women of childbearing age, STDs - even excluding HIV - are second only to maternal factors as causes of disease, death and healthy life lost.
- Expanding the global response to HIV/AIDS through focused action Reducing risk and vulnerability: definitions, rationale and pathways
- This paper proposes a conceptual framework for an expanded response to HIV/AIDS and suggests the dimensions along which this response needs to proceed.
- The status and trends of the HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world
- Provisional report Geneva Switzerland 26 June 1998
- AIDS and the Military
- Military personnel are a population group at special risk of exposure to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV. In peace time, STD infection rates among armed forces are generally 2 to 5 times higher than in civilian populations; in time of conflict the difference can be 50 times higher or more.
- A measure of success in Uganda: The value of monitoring both HIV prevalence and sexual behaviour
- This 1998 report from the UNAIDS Best Practice Collection demonstrates the importance of collecting adequate data and undertaking efforts to monitor risk behaviour and HIV prevalence can help make the response to the AIDS epidemic within a country more effective. In Uganda the impact of the epidemic was recognized early and the government and all civil society partners reacted effectively to reduce its impact.
- Reaching regional consensus on improved behavioural and sero-surveillance for HIV Report from a regional conference in East Africa
- This report documents a regional workshop on surveillance systems for HIV held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 10-13 February 1997. The UNAIDS-funded workshop gathered government epidemiologists, AIDS programme managers, and social scientists from Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe as well as specialists from UNAIDS and other partner institutions. The group aimed to present current data and to work together to suggest practical guidelines for improving HIV surveillance systems in a maturing epidemic.
- Microbicides for HIV prevention
- In the absence of a cure for HIV infection, no potentially useful avenue for HIV prevention should be ignored. Microbicides are products intended for vaginal or rectal administration that can decrease the transmission of HIV and other micro-organisms causing STDs. The development of microbicides is a potential option for prevention of HIV and should therefore be pursued energetically.
- Impact of HIV and sexual health education on the sexual behaviour of young people: a review update
- It should be noted that because this review was designed to answer a specific question related to the outcome of HIV/sexual health education, issues around evaluation will be necessarily also be focused on outcome.
- Counselling and HIV/AIDS
- HIV counselling has been proved effective in various ways. An evaluation of The AIDS Service Organisation (TASO) in Uganda has shown that it helps people accept and cope with the knowledge of being HIV-positive, and furthermore encourages acceptance from families and communities. A Rwandan study has proved that HIV counselling can help people make decisions about HIV testing, as well as reduce HIV transmission. Yet there is a reluctance among some policy-makers and service managers to give counselling its proper due as a discipline in which trained practitioners can produce measurable, useful results. For this reason it is under-resourced and not fully appreciated.
- HIV in Pregnancy : a review
- The first section of the review consists of a summary of what is known about HIV in pregnancy, transmission of HIV from mother-to-child, and interventions to prevent transmission. The second part of the review provides some suggestions on the appropriate management of HIV-positive women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum, and the third section lists guidelines for infection control and safe working conditions with regard to HIV in pregnancy.