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Without addressing HIV-related stigma and discrimination, the world will not achieve the goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. The global partnership’s goal is to reach zero HIV-related stigma and discrimination. An opportunity to harness the combined power of governments, civil society and the United Nations, the global partnership will work together, using the unique skills of each constituency, to consign HIV-related stigma and discrimination to history.
The community action toolkit provides tools needed to become knowledgeable about sex education, build support in state or community, work to implement sound policies, and institute or defend effective sex education programs that support and affirm young people’s rights to honest information. The toolkit is designed to serve as a resource for all advocates whether they are students, parents, teachers, school administrators, health professionals, youth-serving professionals, policymakers, or concerned community members.
The strategic information framework presented in this monitoring and evaluation (M&E;) plan guides and allows stakeholders in the national response to provide oversight and routine performance monitoring of the national response, defined in the National Strategic Plan. It constitutes the national monitoring tool for the generation and use of strategic information to support timely, evidence-informed decision-making processes for successful policy development, program planning and implementation. …
Recognizing the continued vulnerability of young persons within the Caribbean region to the threat posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) sought to mobilize resources to aid in mitigating this risk. …
This report presents the results of fieldwork that was conducted for the UNFPA-commissioned project State of the Art Diagnosis on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in Suriname. The Right to Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is inherent in various human rights agreements and political declarations, which establish the right of young people to education and information about sexuality, sexual and reproductive health and HIV. …
In recent years, Latin America and the Caribbean have seen progress in stemming the impact of HIV. Increased access to treatment, rapid testing technologies, coordinated prevention and education efforts, and the virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission have helped reduce the overall HIV prevalence rate. While encouraging, this figure masks serious, localized epidemics. While HIV prevalence is generally low, prevalence among key affected populations—such as men who have sex with men, transgender women, and sex workers—is particularly high. …
Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) encapsulates the required body of knowledge in a comprehensive life-skill educational programme that can be integrated across the curriculum. This is the media through which teachers can impact and reinforce the positive behaviours that young people are expected to adopt and display. Beyond that, through increased awareness, students are given a safe and open environment in which they can address a wide range of issues affecting young people. …
Este documento es el resultado de un esfuerzo conjunto de la sociedad civil para dar seguimiento a la Declaración Ministerial, “Prevenir con Educación” (DM), aprobada por representantes de los Ministerios de Salud y Educación de América Latina y el Caribe en el marco de la XVII Conferencia Internacional sobre el Sida llevada a cabo en la Ciudad de México en agosto de 2008. …
The degree to which evidence-based program outcomes are affected by modifications is a significant concern in the implementation of interventions. The ongoing national implementation of an evidence-based HIV prevention program targeting grade six students in The Bahamas [Focus on Youth in The Caribbean (FOYC)] offers an opportunity to explore factors associated with teachers’ modification of FOYC lessons and to examine the impact of types and degrees of modifications on student outcomes. Data were collected in 2012 from 155 teachers and 3646 students in 77 government elementary schools. …
This paper describes current trends in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It looks at issues and strategies involved in educating women about HIV/AIDS in the context of the global pandemic, focusing particularly on Canada and Vietnam. These strategies are essential steps in preventing the spread of HIV and in caring for those who have already developed AIDS. …
Objective: To assess effects on condom use and other sexual behaviour of an HIV prevention programme at school that promotes the use of condoms with and without emergency contraception. […] Intervention: Schools were randomised to one of three arms: an HIV prevention course that promoted condom use, the same course with emergency contraception as back-up, or the existing sex education course. Self administered anonymous questionnaires were completed at baseline, four months, and 16 months. …
El presente Plan Estratégico Institucional para la Prevención y Atención y Control de ITS, VIH y SIDA, 2010-2015 tiene como principal objetivo que el desarrollar un Plan de trabajo para los próximos cinco años en relación a diez ejes que son fundamentales para el buen desarrollo del Programa de ITS/VIH/SIDA del Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social, siendo los siguientes ejes de trabajo: prevención; atención integral; reducción, contención y mitigación del impacto; garantía de los derechos humanos; pluriculturalidad; comunicación; interacción con sociedad civil; participación trabajadores …
El presente informe consta de 3 partes: La primera parte: presenta la sistematización y análisis del proceso de elaboración y ejecución de las políticas de promoción de los derechos y de la SS y SR. La segunda parte contiene un Mapeo detallado de las principales estrategias implementadas por el Departamento de SS y SR, donde se presenta una descripción de las principales estrategias impulsadas desde el mismo dando cuenta de sus principales productos y la vorágine de trabajo que ha tenido en el período 2010-2014. …
A partir del análisis del escenario nacional en materia de Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual, VIH y sida, sus determinantes y consecuencias; el documento recoge las principales líneas de acción, es decir la estrategia que la Respuesta Nacional se propone realizar durante el quinquenio 2014-2018 y define los principales objetivos y lineamientos específicos orientados a la consecución de los mismos. …
The vision of the National Strategic Plan 2010-2014 is: To substantially reduce the spread and impact of HIV in St. Vincent and the Grenadines through sustainable systems of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, and empowerment of the population to prevent HIV infection. The national goals are: To reduce the estimated number of new HIV infections by 30% by 2014 and to reduce mortality due to HIV by 30% by 2014.
