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The publication focuses on the relationship between the HIV/AIDS pandemic, population and development. It shows that the spread of HIV/AIDS is setting back progress towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals or MDGs and, in some settings, increasing poverty.
From the Foreword. Knowledge-based development is one of the strategies of the UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development (UNDP-SEAHIV) project in its technical assistance to countries. The goal is to strengthen countries' capacity to effectively combat the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. The mapping assessments supported by UNDP-SEAHIV are not an end in themselves. In this context, they were specifically designed for use as advocacy tools to inform decision makers in their continuing efforts to improve national HIV prevention strategies, policies, and programmes. …
The study undertaken by the POLICY Project to examine what it means operationally to integrate gender into an ARH policy project. Objectives of the study were to identify how the project has operationalized gender, identify results achieved; recommend ways to strengthen gender sensitive approaches; and share lessons learned and better practices and collaborative practices.
This report documents advocacy efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, identifies major issues that still need to be tackled, and describes what partnerships at various levels can do to improve African responses to HIV/AIDS.
This booklet describes the fourteen countries' responses to address the problems faced by adolescents by showing the various programmes and activities that the countries are carrying out. Each of the programme included describes the target audiences reached, the scope, type of organizations involved, their objectives, strategies used, outputs or results of such programmes and impact. After describing the overall programme details, this bookelt zeroes in on the advocacy and IEC strategies which have been used. …
Six years after the Indian government affirmed its commitment to the principles of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, there is still a limited understanding of the concept of reproductive and sexual health among policymakers, programme managers and the public in India. Despite some progressive changes, there is a continuing focus on stabilising population growth rates and lack of unity of goals among women's rights advocates, service providers and policymakers. …
This booklet describes the adolescent population of the seven countries in terms of their demographic profile such as their population size, age of marriage, educational attainment, employment, and health, among others. This is followed by an overall picture of the reproductive and sexual health characteristics of the adolescents through their fertility practices, teen pregnancy/childbearing abortion, HIV/AIDS and STDs, family planning and contraception. …
