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1. Strengthening national responses to HIV and adolescents in emergency situations: lessons learned from Côte d'Ivoire and Haiti

   many years, and a growing number of organizations are including a focus on young people, HIV/ASRH and humanitarian settings into their work. Despite this, however, there is on‐going concern that young people in general, and adolescents in particular (10-19 years) do not receive sufficient ttention in humanitarian settings, and that this has both important immediate implications for their health during the emergencies, and also much longer-term implications for them, their families and their communities. This report aims to respond to these concerns. …

2. Pasa la Voz (Spread the Word): Using Women's Social Networks for HIV Education and Testing

   Pasa la Voz (spread the word) is a methodology used to prevent HIV using respondent-driven sampling to reach hard to access women. An organization in Ciudad Juarez (Programa Companeros) initiated a one-to-one approach to reaching at-risk and hard to reach women in the area using promotoras (outreach workers) from September 2005 to January 2006. The implementation of Pasa la Voz came on its heels and had success in increasing the number of women agreeing to get tested for HIV (11.9% to 49.9%) and decreasing testing time from 22.70 hours to 3.68 hours per test.

3. Derechos Humanos y SIDA: Guía para promotores comunitarios

   Esta Guía es el producto de la construcción colectiva impulsada por Fundación Huésped, a través del trabajo en taller realizado con especialistas y promotores de cuatro Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil que desarrollan experiencias de promoción comunitaria con diversos grupos de población considerados vulnerables: niñas, niños y adolescentes, población migrante, personas en situación de encierro, personas que viven con VIH/SIDA. Se explican los derechos humanos y derechos de las personas que viven con VIH, y se proponen estrategias específicas para cada uno deálos grupos enunciados.

4. HIV and conflict: a double emergency. "Without war, we could fight AIDS"

   In the decade ahead, HIV/AIDS is expected to kill ten times more people than conflict. In conflict situations, children and young people are most at risk from both HIV/AIDS infection and violence. In this report, Save the Children calls on governments, donors and humanitarian agencies to uphold children's rights and to channel resources into preventing what for many young people is already a double emergency.