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Documents
- Regional consultation on HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programmes in Latin America and the Carribbbean for men who have sex with men
- During the three days of the consultation, the 23 participants addressed the following topics: the epidemiological situation in Latin America and the Caribbean, a regional overview of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programmes, the policies of national programmes, and four NGO projects. Networking and technical cooperation were also addressed.
- Handbook for Legislators on HIV/AIDS, Law and Human Rights
- Action to Combat HIV/AIDS in View of its Devastating Human, Economic and Social Impact
- Force for Change
- World Aids campaign with young people. A report of activities.
- Prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child
- The purpose of this paper is to review the key issues for consideration in policy-making, and to propose ways in which the strategy might be tailored to suit local conditions. The paper is intended for all those with a part to play and a special interest in national policy making with respect to HIV prevention and care.
- WHO guidelines on HIV infection and AIDS in prisons
- These guidelines were prepared on the basis of technical advice provided to WHO prior to and during a consultation of experts convened in Geneva in September 1992. The consultation included representatives of international and nongovernmental organizations and government departments with a wide range of experience and background in the health, management, and human rights aspects of HIV/AIDS in prisons. The guidelines provide standards - from a public health perspective - which prison authorities should strive to achieve in their efforts to prevent HIV transmission in prisons and to provide care to those affected by HIV/AIDS. It is expected that the guidelines will be adapted by prison authorities to meet their local needs.
- The UNAIDS REPORT
- This report shows, the spread of HIV can be curtailed and the impact of AIDS alleviated.Countries everywhere need to base their response on policies known to be effective against AIDS – and setting these policies can take political courage. Countries also need financial resources to confront AIDS. It is now clear that the funding available comes nowhere near the real funding needs of the developing countries, which bear the brunt of over 90% of the epidemic.
- Acting early to prevent AIDS: The case of Senegal
- Information in this document is drawn from several sources. Much of the information about marriage and age of sexual activity comes from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), an international survey programme that asks questions of a nationally representative sample of men and women. In Senegal, the most recent DHS was carried out in 1997.
- Communications programming for HIV/AIDS: An annotated bibliography
- This document contains 667 references and has been organized according recent findings in our review of the application of current communication frameworks to HIV/AIDS communication. In short, there seems to be a consensus among academics, researchers, and practitioners that a new framework in HIV/AIDS communication must not only take into account theoretical and practical frameworks traditionally applied to HIV/AIDS communication (namely theories in social psychology), but also must consider the concept of context, defined as the interrelations of five key domains: government policy, spirituality, gender relation, culture, and socio-economic status. In other words, future HIV/AIDS communication efforts must address individual beliefs and actions within certain contexts that influence HIV/AIDS education and prevention.
- HIV, Health, And Your Community: A Guide For Action
- HIV, Health, And Your Community: A Guide For Action
- Towards the creation of strategic partnerships: Improving access to drugs for HIV/AIDS
- The objective of this consultative meeting was to determine the drug situation for HIV/AIDS as perceived by the various actors at global, regional and country level.
- Developing HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines
- This document introduces the methods used to appraise and develop clinical guidelines, making specific reference to HIV/AIDS. It is recommended for use by policy makers, guideline development committees and other people responsible for ensuring the validity of guidelines. It is intended to support the development of guidelines
- Sexual behavioural change for HIV: Where have theories taken us?
- Finally, this review was organized into four sections, including: • a brief overview of theoretical models of behavioural change • a review of key approaches used to stem sexual transmission of HIV • a summary of successful interventions targeting specific populations at risk • and a discussion of remaining challenges.
- Relationships of HIV and STD declines in Thailand to behavioural change
- A synthesis of existing studies.
- Connecting lower HIV infection rates with changes in sexual behavious in Thailand: Data collection and comparison
- This case study is a UNAIDS Best Practice because it demonstrates an approach to the collection and use of epidemiological and behavioral data that has been fruitful in making a persuasive case for the connection between decreased HIV infection rates and the adoption of safer behaviors’ on the part of individuals.
- Sexually transmitted diseases:policies and principles for prevention and care
- The objective of this document is to outline the policies and principles for the prevention and care of sexually transmitted disease (STD) to assist Ministry of Health officials who have the responsibility of developing and implementing STD programmes. Although the document is not intended to be a detailed description of activities that may be used in implementation, some areas have been amplified in annexes to serve as models that can be adapted to suit local situations.
- Social marketing: An effective tool in the global response to HIV/AIDS
- This document is intended to provide a clear understanding of social marketing, its key components and the role social marketing can and continues to play in preventing and slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
- HIV/AIDS prevention in the context of new therapies
- A meeting was organized jointly by UNAIDS
- Gender and HIV/AIDS: Taking stock of research and programmes
- This review examines research on gender as it relates to women’s and men’s different vulnerabilities to HIV infection, and their different abilities to access resources for care and support in order to cope with the impact of the epidemic. The paper also reviews programmatic responses that have sought to address gender-specific concerns and constraints in an attempt to contain the pandemic and alleviate its impact.
- AIDS and men who have sex with men
- Sex between men occurs virtually in most societies. It is often stigmatized by society, and its public visibility, therefore, varies considerably from one country to another. Sex between men often involves anal intercourse, which carries a high risk of HIV transmission. Good HIV programmes addressing men who have sex with men (MSM) are thus vitally important, though up to now they have often been seriously neglected.
- Emerging Issues for women, young people and infants
- This report will discuss what makes women, babies and young people specially vulnerable to HIV, and describe the strategies that have been developed to meet their needs, the work going on at present, and the future challenges. And drawing lessons from experience and examples from the field, it will identify successful approaches to HIV prevention.
- Partners in prevention: International case studies of effective health promotion practice in HIV/AIDS
- This publication is of the four case studies of Australia, Canada, Thailand and Uganda, which were presented at an official satellite symposium of the XIth International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver in 1996.
- HIV/AIDS and the workplace : forging innovative business responses
- Businesses worldwide are increasingly recognizing that HIV/AIDS can affect productivity and profitability. In fact, South Africa estimates that, if the current trend continues, the epidemic will cost the country 1% of GDP each year by the year 2005. A growing number of companies, in countries such as Brazil and South Africa, have formed business coalitions to help each other deal with the crises in their workplaces and communities. Businesses face enormous challenges in responding to HIV/AIDS. This technical update discusses these challenges, which include obtaining and sustaining management commitment, and supporting staff with HIV/AIDS. It also documents the necessary steps for an effective HIV/AIDS workplace programme, and provides successful examples of such initiatives, such as the Botswana Meat Commission’s HIV/AIDS programme.
- A review of HIV transmission
- This document reviews current scientific knowledge about breast-milk transmission of HIV, and serves as the foundation for two complementary documents:
- HIV testing methods
- Since 1985, HIV testing has been essential in securing the safety of blood supplies, monitoring the progress of the epidemic and diagnosing individuals infected with the virus. Various assays are now available, allowing testing strategies to be tailored to the epidemiological conditions and budgets of national health systems. New techniques including simple tests giving instant results hold great promise, but also raise some serious issues for governments and for individuals.
- Blood Safety and HIV/AIDS
- Millions of lives are saved each year through blood transfusions. Various shortcomings, though, in the way blood is collected, tested (or not tested) for infections such as HIV, and transfused, mean that people in many countries have an increased risk of becoming infected with HIV andother diseases through transfusions. It is estimated that between 5% and 10% of all HIV infections worldwide have been acquired through transfusion of contaminated blood and blood products. If the proper steps are taken, such infections can be easily prevented.
- UNAIDS expert consultation on cognitive and neuropsychological impairment in early HIV infection, 3-4 June 1997, Washington, D.C.
- A principal aim of this expert consultation was to review evidence on the implications of neurocognitive impairment, as assessed by various instruments and methods, for real-life occupational functioning.