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From 27 to 29 October 2009, a working group of expert researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners met to review the current state of evidence and practice in developing and implementing interventions and strategies to address the intersections of violence against women (VAW) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The meeting aimed to make policy and programmatic recommendations for national and international HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) programmes and develop an agenda for future programme development, evaluation and research efforts. …
Cette publication vise à éclairer les dynamiques de maintien, de retour et de non-discrimination dans l'emploi des personnes vivant avec le VIH/SIDA en Belgique, afin d'améliorer les dispositifs existants et de réfléchir à de nouvelles pistes d'action. Elle s'adresse aux personnes vivant avec le VIH/SIDA, aux professionnels des secteurs de la prévention sida et du handicap, aux professionnels de l'emploi, de l'égalité des chances et de la lutte contre les discriminations et aux chercheurs et militants intéressés par ces problématiques. …
In a first of its kind meeting, representatives of government health and mapping agencies from throughout Africa met and committed to working jointly to combat HIV/AIDS as part of the CODIST I pre-conference workshop. The workshop, Enlisting National Mapping Agencies in the Fight against HIV/AIDS: Building Partnerships with Ministries of Health and Social Services, and National AIDS Commissions, which was held April 27, 2009, at the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was organized by MEASURE Evaluation with support from the U.S. …
The meeting report 1) describes the priority health sector interventions recommended to achieve universal access for the prevention, treatment, care and support of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among MSM within the broader male sexual health agenda; 2) summarizes key policy and technical recommendations developed by participants related to each priority health sector intervention; 3) guides the selection and prioritization of interventions for HIV treatment, care and support; and 4) directs readers to key resources containing the best available information on the health sector respon …
USAID convened this technical consultation to determine a course for an increased response to children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS. The specific objectives were to: - Review the most current research on the impact of HIV/AIDS on children; - Share promising models, programs, and approaches to support affected children and their families; - Consider lessons from research and experience to formulate recommendations for an expanded response to the epidemic's impact on children and their families. …
Delegates at the Dar es Salaam conference agreed unanimously that poverty and diseases, specifically HIV/AIDS, were two sides of the same coin and that both have to be tackled simultaneously. They agreed that the role of the public sector was pivotal to both efforts but that the public sector itself was under severe attack from the epidemic. This report presents conclusions and recommendations of participants. National delegates promised to take the message back to their home countries and strongly urge their governments to embark on public sector workplace programmes.
This paper is designed to call more attention to young people within the groups considered "most at risk" for HIV - those who sell sex, those who inject drugs, and young men who have sex with men. Despite the growing attention that has been given to programming for these groups, little explicit focus has emerged on the particular needs of young people in these populations. …
This document summarizes the discussions and most relevant recommendations made during a meeting of experts that immediately followed the Experts Consultation on Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Mexico City on 1-2 September, 2009. …
This document is the report of the consultation meeting "Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS Among drug Using Populations: A Global Perspective" held in Washington, D.C: on January 11-12. The overarching goal of the meeting was to advance understanding of the global HIV and substance abuse epidemics and highlight the importance of including drug abusers - particularly injection drug users (IDUs) - in any comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to HIV prevention and treatment. …
Children have the right to participate in the implementation of national policies for children, and their participation adds value to the policy implementation process. As a result, enabling and enhancing child participation in national policies is an important aim of communication for development. However, a significant challenge to facilitating child participation in policy implementation is how to communicate policy details to children of varying capacities. …
The objective of the seminar was to exchange successful experiences carried out on education for preventing HIVAIDS at the Central American level and; to generate regional strategies for advancing the prevention action with high impact within the framework of the national Education for all plans. …
This report is about community-based HIV programs, i.e. non-facility-based programs, which include those that provide services for children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV, home-based care (HBC) and support services for people living with HIV, and prevention programs for the general population such as youth or high-risk populations such as sex workers. Information systems exist to track program and organizational efficiency. …
This analysis has been carried out in preparation for a conference of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). The purpose of the analysis is to provide a coherent and comprehensive picture of the outcomes of meetings on HIV/AIDS and education in Africa held over the period December 1999 - June 2001. A total of 171 such meetings were identified for analytical purposes and have been analyzed in this document.
Because Pakistan is in a concentrated epidemic driven by injecting drug users and male and hijra (transgender) sex workers, a campaign was launched. In addition, Pakistan has one of the largest cohorts of young people in the world - 60% of the nearly 160,000,000 are under the age of 24 years. These young people need correct information on HIV in order to protect themselves and their peers. …
The HIV/AIDS training workshop for Religious Leaders (RL) was conducted on 31 January 2009. The main objective is to mobilize for HIV/AIDS prevention, to raise awareness and sensitize religious leaders with regards to various aspects of the HIV epidemic, including stigma and discrimination, to become active agents in dealing with PLWH, and to incorporate HIV messages in their work in the UAE and the region. …
