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The WHO School Health Technical Meeting was held in Bangkok on 23–25 November 2015 to consolidate what had been learned from regions and countries since the last WHO Technical Meeting on School Health in 2007 and to renew commitments and scale-up of the institutional capacity of the health and education sectors to achieve health and educational outcomes especially low-resource settings. More than 60 experts from a wide variety of geographical and professional backgrounds participated in the meeting. …
Le plan stratégique de lutte contre le SIDA 2007 – 2011 s’exécute à travers des projets diversifiés même si les gaps de financements persistent. …
This updated Operations Guide offers practical examples of how to strengthen HIV/AIDS programs by integrating a gender perspective. Revised sections reflect the latest information about the epidemic, address breakthrough issues, and share new lessons learned. As such, it will be useful to national HIV/ AIDS program management teams, national policy makers, public and non-public service providers, and World Bank staff. As this Operations Guide is a dynamic and evolving tool, the team welcomes additional practical and current examples from its users for inclusion in the future.
A mid-term assessment of the UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS for 2007-2010 was undertaken between 17 November and 12 December 2008. The assessment was to: Assess the status of the two-year work plan, the UNJP framework and functioning of the Joint UN Team on AIDS using the UNAIDS assessment tool among other things. Identify and document elements of the programme that have performed well and should be retained, together with those that should be dropped from the forward programme. …
This report presents a brief overview of the HIV/AIDS situation in the Caribbean and Jamaica, the framework of JICA, CARICOM, and the Government of Jamaica in formulating a response to HIV/AIDS, strategies and lessons learned in the region and in Jamaica in addressing HIV/AIDS through the education sector. The report then briefly summarizes the activities implemented and planned by other multilateral and bilateral donors in HIV/AIDS, with a particular focus on activities related to HIV/AIDS prevention and prevention education. …
This background paper examines costing practices, cost-effectiveness data and prioritization processes in national HIV/AIDS strategic plans. The first section is a literature review on costing and prioritization in the first generation of national strategic plans (NSPs). The second section uses the World Bank AIDS Strategy and Action Plan's Self-Assessment Tool Guidelines for costing and prioritization to provide a detailed assessment of seven current-generation NSP documents. Through a simple scoring scale, patterns across these documents become evident. …
Swaziland is experiencing a generalized epidemic. The world's highest HIV prevalence and the increasing number of deaths due to AIDS is having unprecedented impact on Swaziland. Worryingly, with a generation of orphans and rapidly escalating poverty, this desperate situation is being accepted as "normal". HIV/AIDS in Swaziland has been characterized by a slow onset of impacts that have failed to command an emergency response. With insufficient resource allocation and a lack of capacity, slow onset events can become emergencies. Allocating humanitarian funding according to need is important. …
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E;) is the backbone of public health systems for providing essential information and evidence regarding the best practices and lessons learned in health programmes. The M&E; system to collect data and produce information and evidence for the Jamaica National HIV/AIDS/STI Programme is described in two documents: the M&E; Plan (Document A) and the M&E; Operations Manual (Document B). The M&E; Plan is the fundamental document following the National Strategic Plan (NSP). …
As of 2008, Belize had the highest HIV seroprevalence rate in Central America (2.4%) and the third highest rate in the Caribbean region (National AIDS Commission 2006:11). The Belize epidemic is characterized by heterosexual transmission (71% of cases). The national HIV/AIDS response is multi-sectoral in its approach and is guided by the National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2006-2011. This Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E;) Plan describes the approach and system developed to assess progress and impact of the overall strategic objectives of the National Strategic Plan (NSP) for Belize 2006-2011. …
The National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the Republic of Montenegro has been designed as a five-year framework for the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS focused programming in the national context. The framework guides the design and implementation of the interventions within the overall national programming, governmental and non-governmental sector, and serves as the basis for developing of the sustainable system for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the national response. …
In order to establish an evidence base that would help inform programming and advocacy responses in the education sector, more information was needed in terms of what studies existed, their quality and any gaps in the evidence. In response, ODI was commissioned by UNAIDS to carry out a stocktaking review of research on HIV and AIDS in the education sector and assess the quality of evidence in documents. The first part of this paper summarises key findings and gaps in research identified from the assessment of literature on the impact of education on HIV and AIDS. …
This study is a comparison of approaches as practiced by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the World Bank's Multi-Country AIDS Program for Africa in Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia. To what extent do the major funders of HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries use past performance to guide decisions about future funding? …
This literature review was conducted using the PubMed database, the Center for Communication Programs (CCP)'s Popline service, and the Google search engine. Sources included in this review were limited to those published after 1990 in English or French. …
This study presents evidence linking the spread of HIV with gender inequality in law and in custom in Pacific Island countries and territories. It suggests recommendations based on the findings, proposing policy responses and programme approaches which can and should be fundamental to fighting the spread of HIV in Pacific Island countries and territories. …
This Stocktaking Report, the second since the "Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS" initiative was launched in 2005, examines data on progress, emerging evidence, and current knowledge and practice for children as they relate to four programme areas: preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, providing paediatric HIV care and treatment, preventing infection among adolescents and young people, and protecting and supporting children affected by HIV and AIDS. …
