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.

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.

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.

Военнослужащие относятся к группе населения, подвергающейся особому риску заражения сексуально передаваемыми болезнями (СПБ), включая ВИЧ. В мирное время уровень распространения СПБ среди военнослужащих обычно в 2-5 раз выше, чем среди гражданского населения; в периоды военных конфликтов эта разница может возрастать до 50 раз и более.

Provisional report Geneva Switzerland 26 June 1998

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for an expanded response to HIV/AIDS and suggests the dimensions along which this response needs to proceed.

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.

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.

Передача ВИЧ от матери ребенку (ПМР) – основной источник ВИЧ-инфекции для детей в возрасте до 15 лет. В странах, где проводится регулярный скрининг продуктов крови, и где в достаточном количестве имеются стерильные шприцы и иглы, указанный источник является, по сути, единственным источником инфицирования детей младшего возраста. Согласно оценкам, в1997 году во всем мире вирусом было инфицировано около 600 000 младенцев, а к концу того же года общее число ВИЧ-инфицированных детей младшего возраста составило свыше миллиона человек.

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.