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- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
- Reducing sexual transmission
- Preventing HIV among drug users
- Eliminating new HIV infections among children
- 15 million accessing treatment
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- Eliminating gender inequalities
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination
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- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
Documents
- The 100% condom programme in Thailand
- Evaluation of the 100% Condom Programme in Thailand.
- Summary booklet of best practices, issue 2 : the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa
- AIDS is now the leading killer in sub-Saharan Africa—a region where the infection levels are the highest, access to care is the lowest, and social and economic safety nets, which might help families cope with the epidemic’s impact, are badly frayed. African leaders are demonstrating unprecedented leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS with the creation of the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa (IPAA)—an organization that believes that within the next 10 years, African nations, with the support of the international community, will be implementing larger-scale, sustained, and more effective multisectoral national responses to HIV/AIDS. This booklet attempts to capture details of a range of Best Practices in order to provide useful lessons and offer references for all actors of the IPAA.
- Female sex worker projects in the Asia-Pacific region: three case studies
- The set of case studies in this collection emerged from a session entitled Best Practices in Female Sex Worker Projects held at the Fourth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Manila, October 1997. Preparation for the session began in May 1997 when UNAIDS sponsored an effort to learn about sex worker projects.
- Opening up the HIV epidemic: Guidance on encouraging beneficial disclosure, ethical partner counselling, and appropriate use of HIV case reporting
- Guidance on encouraging beneficial disclosure, ethical partner counselling & appropriate use of HIV case-reporting.
- AIDS: Palliative Care
- Palliative care aims to achieve the best quality of life for the patients (and their families) suffering from life-threatening and incurable illness, including HIV/AIDS. Crucial elements are the relief of all pain-physical, psychological, spiritual, and social and enabling and supporting caregivers to work through their own emotions and grief.
- Enhancing the Greater Involvement of People Living or affected by HIV/AIDS (GIPA) in sub-Saharan Africa
- A report on the GIPA initiative.
- AIDS in Africa country by country : Africa development forum 2000, HIV/AIDS epidemiology, economic impact, national response to the epidemic, selected socioeconomic indicators
- As a resource for the delegates at this African Development Forum 2000 devoted to the topic of HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS is pleased to provide the following country profiles. Together, the profiles help to paint a picture of the current state of the HIV epidemic in Africa, its impact on the social and economic fabric, and the response thus far of the African nations to the unprecedented crisis caused by HIV/AIDS. For the selected indicators used, they are as complete a compilation as possible, given the available data from the African countries and from UNAIDS and WHO sources. Additional information on AIDS in Africa is available from the UNAIDS Web site (www.unaids.org) and other sources, including the bibliographical references contained in this document.
- A review of household and community responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa
- The report is based on the work of Gladys Mutangadura, Duduzile Mukurazita and Helen Jackson who compiled and analysed the review on rural household and community responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
- Costing Guidelines for HIV Prevention Strategies
- The specific aim of these Guidelines is to encourage and enable managers of HIV prevention projects and programmes to conduct cost analysis. These Guidelines relate the costing methodology presented in the PHC Manual and adapted to HIV prevention activities.
- Guidelines for studies of the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS
- The present Guidelines are intended to place socioeconomic impact studies in the planning process in a systematic way.
- Funding priorities for the HIV/AIDS crisis in Thailand
- This paper introduces the conceptual framework of interrelated consequences of the economic crisis on HIV/AIDS prevention and control. On the basis of document research and in-depth interviews with officials at national and provincial levels, we explain how the Government of Thailand has dealt with the AIDS epidemic during the period of economic hardship.
- WEEKLY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RECORD
- Preventive therapy against tuberculosis.
- From crisis to opportunity HIV and health-care reform in Phayao
- Experiences of HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Phayao province are good examples of the rethinking of health-care management. Progress in battling with HIV/AIDS in Phayao had provided a good lesson: people, not institutions, are the ultimate contributing factor to the progress attained. Government and non-governmental organizations will be important, when they can facilitate and not constrain people in responding to HIV and AIDS.
- Launching and promoting the female condom in Eastern and Southern Africa
- This report offers a summary of the issues and challenges that emerged from the discussions during the meeting.
- THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK Radio and HIV/AIDS: Making a Difference
- A guide for radio practitioners, health workers and donors.
- Innovative Approaches to HIV Prevention Selected Case Studies
- Selected Case studies
- The Role of Name-Based Notification in Public Health and HIV Surveillance
- Debates over whether AIDS and HIV should be made reportable to public health officials, and whether such reports should contain the names of those diagnosed, have regularly recurred during the epidemic, and remain ongoing. In this report a broad context for the discussion of the issues involved have been sought after.
- Consultation on STD interventions for preventing HIV: what is the evidence
- Analysis of data from a large number of biological and epidemiological studies.
- Peer education and HIV/AIDS: Concepts, uses and challenges
- This paper provided background information to planners and participants involved in the International Consultation on Peer Education and HIV/AIDS which took place in Kingston, Jamaica, 18-21 April 1999.
- The female condom and AIDS
- The female condom is a soft but strong sheath made of clear polyurethane plastic. The sheath has two plastic rings at either end. The one at the closed end is used to help with insertion and to keep the condom in place against the cervix. The ring at the open end is slightly larger and remains outside the vagina, covering both the woman's genitalia and the base of the man's penis.
- Sponsored Regional Workshops
- Ethical Issues in preventive HIV Vaccine Trials
- The Nairobi Declaration
- An African Appeal for an AIDS vaccine.
- Social marketing : expanding access to essential products and services to prevent HIV/AIDS and to limit the impact of the epidemic
- Social marketing has become an increasingly popular way of addressing serious health issues in developing countries. By using traditional commercial marketing techniques, social marketing makes much-needed products available and affordable to low-income people. In the mid-80s, condom social marketing emerged as an effective tool against the spread of HIV/AIDS. This document defines social marketing, as well as highlighting the three key lessons learned in promoting condom social marketing. These include the fact that seed money can effectively be used to leverage additional resources for major public health impact; social marketing can be applied to new products and services; and social marketing can help create an enabling and supportive environment for behavioural change. The document also discusses UNAIDS’ role in social marketing.
- The Male Condom
- The transmission of HIV and other STDs during sexual intercourse can be effectively prevented when quality condoms are used correctly and consistently. Studies on serodiscordant couples (only one of whom is HIV-positive) have shown that, with regular sexual intercourse over a period of two years, partners who consistently used condoms had a near zero risk of HIV infection.
- Guide to the strategic planning process for a national response to HIV/AIDS
- Resource mobilisation.
- Migrant Populations and HIV/AIDS
- This report is on the development and implementation of programmes: theory, methodology and practice.
- HIV and AIDS-related stigmatization, discrimination and denial: forms, contexts and determinants
- Research studies from Uganda and India
- STI guidelines
- UNAIDS/WHO Working Group on Global HIV/AIDS/STI
- The Business Response to HIV/AIDS: Impact and lessons learned
- As this publication highlights, no business is immune from AIDS. But the private sector is also in a unique position to respond to the epidemic, because of its contacts with employees and the wider business community, and the wealth of experience and skills it has accumulated. As the publication also illustrates, there is much that businesses can do, and the benefits of action go well beyond the workplace.
- Caring for carers : managing stress in those who care for people with HIV and AIDS : UNAIDS case study
- The strain on those who care for people living with HIV/AIDS is enormous and wide-ranging. As the epidemic spreads and matures, these people—front-line workers in the efforts to stop HIV/AIDS and contain the damage it does to society—become an even more precious resource. The quality of care they provide and their ability to do so over a sustained period depend on their own well-being and morale. This report draws attention to the needs of home- and community-based carers, and what can be done to support them more effectively. It highlights the symptoms and causes of stress and burnout, and the options available for managing these conditions. It draws on the first-hand experience of individuals and AIDS organizations in Uganda and South Africa. The report is intended for all those with an interest in the care of people with HIV/AIDS, but especially for those with direct responsibility for providing care or managing carers, for policy-making in this field, or for supporting HIV/AIDS programmes.
- Tools for evaluating HIV voluntary counselling and testing
- This document provides guidance on monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of planning and implementing VCT. It provides tools for the evaluation of VCT as part of a national programme, as well as VCT services at specific institutions, independent sites and services for special groups, including community-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It includes monitoring and evaluation of VCT services associated with the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) and tuberculosis preventive therapy (TBPT). This document revises and adapts previous draft guidelines and incorporates relevant operational research findings.
- 2000 Report on the global AIDS epidemic
- 2000 Report on the global AIDS epidemic
- A human rights approach to AIDS prevention at work
- The Southern African Development Community’s Code on HIV/AIDS and Employment
- Protocol for the identification of discrimination against people living with HIV
- The Protocol is aimed at National AIDS Programmes, but it is not just for them. It may also be used by others – interested organizations, groups or persons, including those living with or affected by HIV/AIDS – in order to detect arbitrary discrimination. Indeed, a broader range of users will help in making the Protocol a more effective human rights tool.
- AIDS and Men who have sex with men
- Sex between men exists in most societies. It frequently involves anal sex. Unprotected penetrative anal sex carries a high risk of HIV transmission, especially for the receptive partner.
- Voluntary couselling and testing (VCT)
- HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) has been shown to have a role in both HIV prevention and, for people with HIV infection, as an entry point to care. VCT provides people with an opportunity to learn and accept their HIV serostatus in a confidential environment with counselling and referral for ongoing emotional support and medical care.
- Guidelines for second generation HIV Surveillance
- This document suggests classifying the epidemic into different states—lowlevel, concentrated and generalized—depending on the prevalence of the virus in various population sub-groups. The most efficient mix of data collection for surveillance will depend on the epidemic state in a country. The recommended choice of populations among whom data are collected will vary from epidemic to epidemic; so will the mix of behavioural and bio-medical surveillance.
- Aids and HIV infection
- Information for United Nations Employees and their families.