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African Heads of State and Government are confronted with the challenge of developing feasible policies, strategies and processes to ensure adequate prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, tubercolosis and other related infectious diseases. This framework for action articulates the commitments made in the Abuja declaration on HIV/AIDS, tubercolosis and other related infectious diseases into strategies followed by subsequent activities. Member States will implement the activities in close collaboration with all stakeholders.
Convention on the rights of the child: HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child
This is the year that the world will miss the first, and most critical of all the Millennium Development Goals - gender parity in education by 2005. Over the next decade, unless world leaders take drastic action now, unacceptably slow progress on girls' education will account for over 10 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths, will cost poor countries as much as 3 percentage points in lost economic growth, and lead to at least 3.5 million avoidable cases of HIV/AIDS. …
For several months in 2003, the Secretary General's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa engaged in intensive on-the-ground consultations in the nine countries in the sub-region with the highest HIV prevalence rates - Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. …
El VIH/SIDA y la Educación en América Latina: DECLARACIÓN DE CONSENSO
The intent of the document is to provide a fundamental outline of the major issues relating to HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the school environment, including educational efforts and policy principles.
The scope of this protocol encompasses the legal definition of discrimination as well as the identification and elimination of arbitrary discrimination -as defined by a range of important international instruments. Designed to assist National AIDS Programmes and others in detecting arbitrary discrimination, the protocol also serves as an effective human rights tool and a means of enforcing measures against such discrimination. Sources of arbitrary discrimination, and the criteria for assessing their existence, are outlined together with a detailed inductive methodology. The protocol also includes questionnaires for the assessment of arbitrary discrimination and for direct witness/key informant interviews, as well as checklists and orientation programmes for investigators.
The Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS is the culmination of a yearlong process of awareness, engagement and mobilization. It has been adopted by the Special Session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS of the United Nations Organization. …
Ce document présente le résumé des données d'expérience échangées lors de la 2ème Conférence régionale sur le SIDA en Afrique en 1989. Les questions abordées ont trait à l'exécution et à la surveillance continue des programmes nationaux de lutte contre le SIDA, à la définition des groupes cibles, au counselling, à l'implication des médias, au préservatif.
This Declaration deals with HIV/AIDS control in prisons and examines general principles concerning the provision of care health in prisons and screening for HIV infection among prisoners. It examines issues of confidentiality, and the needs for effective IEC to promote safer sexual practices.
This document presents the Declaration adopted by consensus at the end of the first international meeting of organizations for the provision of funding for HIV/AIDS control. The objectives of the consultation were to identify and define problems of organization supporting HIV/AIDS control especially in areas relating to planning of strategies, organizational structures, communications and the creation of networks. It also fostered exchange of experiences to provide technical information in these fields and to find the means to improve coordination between WHO and AIDS organizations.
This document is the Declaration adopted by consensus at the end of a consultation on HIV, epidemiology and prostitution. The consultation was aimed at evaluating the potential role of prostitution in the transmission of HIV and at determining possible interventions based on the prevention of HIV infection among prostitutes and their clients.
This paper discusses the Tunis Declaration on AIDS and the Child in Africa made by the OAU Heads of State. In spite of previous concerted actions by the OAU Heads of State with regards to HIV/AIDS, the magnitude of the problem of the HIV infection and AIDS in most African countries is on the increase especially among African children who are the most vulnerable group. This fact and accompanying considerations are discussed.