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.

Analysis of data from a large number of biological and epidemiological studies.

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.

Selected Case studies

A guide for radio practitioners, health workers and donors.

This report offers a summary of the issues and challenges that emerged from the discussions during the meeting.

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.

Preventive therapy against tuberculosis.

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.

The present Guidelines are intended to place socioeconomic impact studies in the planning process in a systematic way.