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This year's Progress Report on the Societal Aspects of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Cambodia sets a framework that outlines the fact that HIV/AIDS deepens the poverty of households and nation, while poverty favours the spread of the disease by increasing the vulnerability of individuals to infection. …
The Botswana Human Development Report (BHDR) 2000 is the second in a planned series that started in 1997. BHDR 1997 was on the theme "Challenges for Sustainable Human Development - A Longer Term Perspective". The report recommended nine issues for consideration as themes for future BHDRs, amongst them is HIV and AIDS. This report picks up the challenge on HIV and AIDS precisely because HIV and AIDS and the related problem of poverty are potentially the top development challenges facing Botswana. …
In 2005, an estimated 48 million children aged 0-18 years, that is to say 12 percent of all children in sub-Saharan Africa, were orphans, and that number is expected to rise to 53 million by 2010. One quarter of all orphans are orphaned because of AIDS, and about 2.6 million children are currently infected with HIV. In response to the general awareness of the increasing number of these children, a global initiative to develop national plans of action (NPAs) for these orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), or children affected by HIV and AIDS, has been launched. …
The World Bank developed its initial Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP) in 1999, their program to reduce the impact and future path of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Since that time, the landscape surrounding the epidemic has changed dramatically. Given this new information, the World Bank has decided to update its approach regarding the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and write a new strategy plan, Agenda for Action 2007-2011. …
It is now well accepted that HIV/AIDS is a challenge for the world community as it transcends boundaries of nation, class, ethnicity and sexual preference. Over the years, research has shown that HIV is not random in its spread or its impact. An intersection of several variables - poverty, urbanisation, gender inequality and stereotypical gender roles - impacts upon vulnerabilities. …
Social protection, including social transfers and social services for the most vulnerable and marginalized, is gaining momentum as a development priority. This paper aims to explore two specific issues: What efforts are underway to strengthen institutions to deliver child sensitive social protection and what are the practical lessons from prior and ongoing efforts? What is the best way to build institutions to expand comprehensive social protection that benefits children, including social transfers and services? …
Informe nacional sobre la aplicación de la Declaración de compromiso de la lucha contra el VIH/SIDA. Indicadores UNGASS-SIDA de Chile
El documento pdf contiene una presentacións obre los informes UNGASS
En 2007, los avances en la metodología de estimación de la epidemia del VIH aplicados a un espectro más amplio de datos por países han dado por resultado cambios sustanciales en las estimaciones de los números de personas que viven con el VIH en todo el mundo. Sin embargo, la interpretación cualitativa de la gravedad y de las consecuencias de la pandemia no ha cambiado mucho. El número estimado de personas que vivían con el VIH en todo el mundo en 2007 alcanzó los 33,2 millones [30,6-36,1 millones], un 16
Informe nacional sobre la aplicación de la Declaración de compromiso de la lucha contra el VIH/SIDA. Indicadores UNGASS-SIDA de México
Este informe presenta los resultados del seguimiento del desempeño del gobierno de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela para cumplir con los compromisos adquiridos en la Declaración de Compromiso sobre el VIH-SIDA (la DdC, en adelante), firmada en la Sesión Especial sobre el VIH/SIDA de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en el 2001 (UNGASS, 2001). …
El informe presenta el acopio de información y evaluación del Cumplimiento de Compromisos de la UNGASS 2001, que desde la Sociedad Civil Peruana se ha realizado entre octubre y diciembre del año 2005. Proceso facilitado por la Organización No gubernamental Vía Libre como parte del proyecto del Consejo Internacional de Organizaciones con Servicio en SIDA (ICASO). El enfoque metodológico del informe fue constructivista y de participación amplia. …
The focus of this report is on:the findings that informed the development of indicators for internal and external stigmathe findings that informed the development of guidelines to assist those who wish to develop interventions to reduce HIV/AIDS stigmathe qualitative exploration of stigma experiences and perceptions in focus groups.The collection of HIV/AIDS stigma experiences and perceptions involved a group of 182 participants who participated in 23 focus groups (conducted across all nine provinces of South Africa) and 11 in-depth interviews. …
L'étude présente certaines différences par sexe observées chez les enfants dans les enquêtes par sondage de type EDS (DHS) ou EMF (WFS) en Afrique subsaharienne. Quatre indicateurs de résultats sont analysés : les indicateurs de mortalité des jeunes enfants (néonatale, post-natale et juvénile) et la prévalence de la malnutrition. Trois indicateurs de comportements sont analysés : la vaccination, l'utilisation de la réhydratation orale et la durée d'allaitement. Enfin, les rapports de masculinités à la naissance sont étudiés séparément.
This toolkit would enable country specialists and their partners to prepare and negotiate effectively the inclusion of scaled up HIV/AIDS programmes in their Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and in debt relief instruments.
