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Updated September 23, 2004
Listed below are useful web resources on many aspects of HIV/AIDS. For links to resources related to topics not covered within the Key Issues section, see the Special Focus pages. For general reproductive health links, visit the RH Resources page.
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Organizations
The
Body
www.thebody.com
The Body is a comprehensive HIV/AIDS information resource. Its website features
information on AIDS basics and prevention, "just diagnosed," treatment,
conferences, quality of life, and policy and activism. An "Ask the
Experts" section allows viewers to find answers to HIV-related questions.
Critical Path AIDS Project
www.critpath.org
This project was founded by people living with HIV/AIDS to provide treatment,
resources, and prevention information in a variety of settings. The Critical
Path AIDS Project website provides easy access to a full range of potentially
life-extending or life-saving AIDS prevention, treatment, and referral information,
including research and clinical trials, among other relevant issues. It
is intended for use by researchers, service providers, treatment activists,
and people living with HIV/AIDS in general.
EngenderHealth
www.engenderhealth.org/
The website of EngenderHealth, a U.S.-based organization that works to improve
reproductive health in developing countries, offers a wide range of information
and resources on family planning, maternal/child health, mens health, HIV
and other sexually transmitted infections, and sexuality and gender. Special
"in-action" sections discuss topics such as "ensuring womens
health" and "working with men." EngenderHealth also provides
web-based and CD-ROM self-instructional courses for health care providers,
supervisors, students, and trainers all over the world. The courses are
designed particularly for those in low-resource settings, and cover such
topics as sexuality and sexual health, sexually transmitted infections,
HIV/AIDS, and infection prevention. Also available are a number of professional
materials, including a training package on mens reproductive health.
Family Health International
(FHI) HIV/AIDS page
www.fhi.org/en/aids/naids.html
FHI works to improve reproductive health around the world, with an emphasis
on developing countries. Since 1986, FHI has worked with local partners
in more than 60 countries to mitigate the spread of HIV. The FHI website
supplies information on many of the organization’s groundbreaking
programs, as well as providing access to over 3,000 online documents on
HIV/AIDS
prevention (www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/Publications/index.htm). One of FHI's
main current efforts to respond to HIV/AIDS is the IMPACT Project (Implementing
AIDS Prevention and Care), which "builds the capacity of local governments
and nongovernmental organizations to design, manage and evaluate HIV/AIDS
prevention and care projects in more than 30 countries." The website
and its contents are available in English, Arabic, French, Russian, and
Spanish.
Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Center
www.fxbcenter.org
The Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center is an internationally recognized program
for the care of pediatric HIV disease. The program's mission is to deliver
direct medical and social services that are community-based, child-centered,
family-focused, comprehensive, and coordinated, while keeping HIV-infected
children out of the hospital and with their families as long as possible.
The centers website features information that is easy to read and use on
"Caring for Your Child," "Coping with HIV," "Treating
HIV," "Kitchen," and "Finding New Treatments,"
as well as links to other resources and an interactive "Discussion
Forum" and "Frequently Asked Questions" section. The website
also includes a link to the Harvard-based Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/).
Global AIDS
Program - Global Health Council
www.globalhealth.org/view_top.php3?id=53
The Global AIDS Program, operated by the Global
Health Council (www.globalhealth.org/), educates and advocates on issues
concerning those most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The program's mission
is to facilitate communication and collaboration between AIDS service organizations
working in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment in Africa,
Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Global Campaign for Microbicides
www.global-campaign.org
The Global Campaign for Microbicides is a broad-based, international effort
to build support among policy makers, opinion leaders, and the general public
for increased investment into microbicides and other user-controlled prevention
methods. The Campaign works via its secretariat (PATH)
and member groups to cultivate awareness and demand for microbicides and
to translate that demand into concrete political action. Through advocacy,
policy analysis, and social science research, the Campaign works to accelerate
product development, facilitate widespread access and use, and protect the
needs and interests of users, especially women.
Horizons
www.popcouncil.org/horizons/horizons.html
Funded by USAID, Horizons is a ten-year (1997-2007) operations research
program designed to identify components of effective HIV/AIDS programs and
policies; test potential solutions to problems in prevention, care, support,
and service delivery; and disseminate and utilize findings with a view toward
replication and scaling-up of successful interventions. The
Population Council (www. popcouncil.org) assembled a team of U.S.-based
and international organizations to implement the project, including the
International Center for Research on Women
(ICRW), Program for Appropriate Technology
in Health (PATH), The International
HIV/AIDS Alliance, University of Alabama
at Birmingham, and Tulane University.
Funded by USAID, the ten-year (1997-2007) operations research program is
designed to identify components of effective HIV/AIDS programs and policies;
test potential solutions to problems in prevention, care, support, and service
delivery; and disseminate and utilize findings with a view toward replication
and scaling-up of successful interventions. The Horizons AIDSQuest
project is described below.
International
Community of Women (ICW) Living with HIV and AIDS
www.icw.org
ICW is an international network operated in over 80 countries by and for
HIV-positive women. Its goal is to improve the situation of women living
with HIV/AIDS worldwide. The site contains information about ICW's mission,
areas of activities, information on women and HIV/AIDS, and related links.
International
HIV/AIDS Alliance
www.aidsalliance.org
A London-based organization, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance supports
communities in developing countries to respond to the spread and impact
of HIV/AIDS. The Alliance has provided technical and financial support to
countries all over the world for HIV prevention, AIDS care, and orphan projects.
Publications are available in several languages on all aspects of HIV prevention
and care.
International
HIV/AIDS Service Organizations and Resources
www.thebody.com/hotlines/internat.html
The Body offers a link to organizations working on
HIV/AIDS in several of the worlds regions, including Africa, Asia, Australia
and Latin America. Links to organizations that operate in several languages
(including French, Portuguese, and Spanish) are also available. In addition,
viewers can connect to global programs such as the International AIDS Society
and the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS.
The Panos AIDS Programme
www.panos.org.uk/
Panos is an international non-profit institute providing information on
global issues from a developing-country perspective. The HIV/AIDS page of
the Panos website provides important analyses of HIV/AIDS issues, including
men and HIV, stigma and discrimination, development of regional AIDS activities,
access to treatment, and a link to Panos media resources on HIV/AIDS. The
site also features AIDS Information Sheets and AIDS Media Briefing Documents
on issues such as home-based care, children with HIV, STIs and HIV, and
breastfeeding and HIV/AIDS.
Project Inform
www.projinf.org
Project Inform is a national, non-profit, community-based organization working
to end the AIDS epidemic. The project's main area of activity is to provide
free, confidential, and empowering information to all. The website contains
information on outreach and education, treatment advocacy and public policy,
and an HIV/AIDS treatment hotline. A special link provides an introductory
packet for people who have just learned that they are HIV positive (www.projinf.org/intro.html).
The publications page of the website
(www.projinf.org/pub/) offers materials related to such topics as opportunistic
infections and antiretroviral medication. Newsletters published by the project
include PI Perspective, an HIV treatment journal, and What's New?,
the project's monthly summary of recent HIV treatment information and program
activities. Selected materials are available in Spanish.
SEA-AIDS
http://unaidsapict.inet.co.th
SEA-AIDS provides information support services for people living or working
with HIV/AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region. Their website has links to electronic
forums (www.hivnet.ch:8000/asia/sea-aids/) that help people and communities
worldwide exchange information and experiences in response to HIV/AIDS.
The file archives page contains documents and other materials on HIV/AIDS
in the region.
The
Terrence Higgins Trust
www.tht.org.uk/index.htm
This UK-based organization provides a variety of services for people living
with and affected by HIV/AIDS. The organizations well-designed, user-friendly
website refers viewers to an interactive advice column as well as specialized
information for African people, gay men, and women. The treatment page offers
straightforward information on several issues, including blood tests, drug-resistant
HIV, mother-to-child transmission, and starting therapy, as well as a series
of further links and resources.
UNAIDS
www.unaids.org
UNAIDS is the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. As the leading advocate
for worldwide action against HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS strives to lead, strengthen,
and support an expanded response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The UNAIDS website
provides access to information on global HIV prevention, care and support
for those infected and affected by the disease, vulnerable populations,
and the socioeconomic and human impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The site
also features information on HIV/AIDS by country and subject, as well as
an exhaustive collection of publications (including a Best
Practices collection, reports, fact sheets, press releases, and conference
listings. UNAIDS regularly publishes a Report
on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic (www.unaids.org/barcelona/presskit/report.html),
as well as periodic AIDS Epidemic Updates.
World Health
Organization: HIV Infections
www.who.int/health_topics/hiv_infections/en
The WHO website offers a list of health topics, including HIV, and access
to other related sites, links, and fact sheets on issues such as antiretroviral
treatments, new and emerging infectious diseases and HIV co-infections.
Resources
Access
to HIV Prevention: Closing the Gap
www.unaids.org/publications/Prevention130503_en.pdf
This document, available in English as a PDF file, is a product of the Global
HIV Prevention Working Group, “a panel of nearly 40 leading public
health experts, clinicians, biomedical and behavioral researchers, and people
affected by HIV/AIDS.” The document maintains that two-thirds of the
45 million new HIV infections projected to occur between now and 2010 are
avoidable through the dramatic expansion of proven prevention strategies.
The new report examines the prevention needs and successes of five regions:
sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
the Caribbean and Latin America, and North Africa and the Middle East. The
report concludes with a series of recommendations, including increasing
global spending on HIV prevention; making prevention scale-up a priority
in every region; focusing on cost-effective, high-impact interventions;
transforming prevention and treatment programs into a continuum of services;
building long-term capacity and infrastructure; addressing social and economic
factors related to the spread of HIV/AIDS; strengthening research into new
prevention strategies and technologies; and focusing on improved data collection
on HIV/AIDS spending in low- and middle-income countries.
Acción en SIDA
www.accionensida.org.pe
Acción en SIDA is a Spanish-language website intended for viewers
in the Latin American and Caribbean region. It offers viewers opportunities
to participate in regional discussions about HIV/AIDS, access up-to-date
practical information, learn from successful programs, and get to know innovative
communications strategies and resources. The site also includes a news bulletin,
resource bank, region forum, and links to related sites. Viewers can review
the Acción en SIDA module free-of-charge by sending a message to
accionensida@caland.org.pe.
The Act
http://afa.org.sg/atheact.htm
The Act, published by Action for AIDS Singapore, highlights articles covering
the scientific, medical, socio-cultural, ethical, legal, and economic dimension
of HIV/AIDS. It also features past, current, and future activities of Action
for AIDS.
AfroAIDSInfo
www.afroaidsinfo.org
This site, a component of SAHealthInfo, South Africa’s health knowledge
network, functions as an “HIV/AIDS information portal for southern
Africa.” It provides specialized information on research, the health
profession, personal aspects of HIV/AIDS (“HIV and You”), policy,
and education. The information portal also contains links to current HIV-related
news stories, conference coverage (at various times), recent HIV-related
news, and forthcoming events.
AIDS Education & Research
Trust (AVERT)
www.avert.org/index.html
This easy-to-use website provides extensive resources and information on
HIV/AIDS prevention and care, the latest news, and HIV/AIDS statistics.
Focus topics include information for young people, personal stories, global
HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS in Africa, frequently asked questions and answers, and
HIV prevention. The site offers numerous
publications (www.avert.org/resource.htm#booklets) in PDF format, including
HIV & AIDS: Information for Young People, AIDS and Children:
What Its Got to Do With Them, AIDS & HIV Infection: A General
Guide, and HIV, AIDS & Pregnancy, as well as other books,
posters, and quizzes. A "Treatment and Health Care" section provides useful
information about medical treatment, nutrition, and specialty care for children
and people co-infected with tuberculosis. Another section presents information
on coping with HIV infection.
AIDSchannel.org
www.aidschannel.org
Produced by the OneWorld Africa center in Zambia, this multimedia web portal
on HIV/AIDS went live for World AIDS Day 2001, with a partnership of more
than 100 leading aid agencies, human-rights groups, and campaign partners
worldwide. The site aims to promote understanding, knowledge sharing, and
action on AIDS as a development, social, economic, and human rights issue.
It features news, campaign actions, opinion pieces, in-depth analysis, events
listings, educational information on HIV/AIDS, and stories from around the
world.
The AIDS Library
www.aidslibrary.org
Cosponsored by Critical Path AIDS Project and Philadelphia Fight (a community-based
research initiative on AIDS), the AIDS Library offers a wide array of online
informational resources about HIV/AIDS prevention and care, including links
to a comprehensive Library
Catalog (http://dbtext.aidslibrary.org/dbtw-wpd/search.html) and Other
Virtual Libraries (www.aidslibrary.org/resources/virtual.html).
AIDSLink
www.globalhealth.org/publications/contents.php3?id=1&issue=58
Published by the Global Health Council, AIDSLink is a bimonthly newsletter
highlighting global AIDS activities and issues related to the work of non-governmental
organizations.
AIDSmap
www.aidsmap.com/default.asp
AIDSmap is a partnership project involving the British HIV Association,
the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, St. Stephens AIDS Trust, and the UK
National AIDS Manual publication (NAM). The AIDSmap website includes daily
news updates, the latest treatment information, access to confidential testing
facilities in the UK, links to research databases, HIV/AIDS conferences,
and publications on a wide variety of topics.
APDIME Toolkit
www.synergyaids.com/apdime/index.htm
The Synergy Project website offers an online toolkit of resources to HIV/AIDS
program managers for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and support programming
in developing countries. The toolkit outlines modules for program assessment,
design, planning, implementation and monitoring, and evaluation. Clicking
on each module brings up a methodical, comprehensive explanation, including
an overview and the stages required to complete each programming step.
Behavior
Change through Mass Communication: Using Mass Media for AIDS Prevention
www.fhi.org/en/aids/impact/impactpdfs/behchangmasscomm.pdf
Family Health Internationals AIDSCAP project produced this handbook, available
online as a PDF file. The document discusses, among other things, how to
choose a target group for a mass media project, which media to choose (radio,
television or print) and how to work with each one, how to use publicity
for the project, using alternative media (such as drama, songs, music and
contests), and drawing up project budgets.
Body Positive
Magazine
www.thebody.com/bp/bpix.html#magazine
Body Positive is a non-profit community-service organization dedicated to
providing a self-help model of HIV/AIDS education, information and support.
Its lively, up-to-date, bimonthly publication Body Positive provides
cutting-edge information on a full range of issues related to living with
HIV/AIDS. Body Positive features provocative profiles of people living
with HIV, reports on AIDS in entertainment, sports, politics, and the arts,
and investigative treatment stories.
Care
of Women with HIV/AIDS Living in Limited Resource Settings
www.reproline.jhu.edu/video/hiv/tutorials/index.htm
The JHPIEGO Reproline website offers a significant resource in the form
of 11 tutorials on the care of women with HIV/AIDS living in limited-resource
settings. With RealPlayer software (available for downloading through a
provided link), physicians, faculty, health-care trainers and others can
acquire the technical knowledge necessary to provide high-quality services
on the following topics: prevention, voluntary counseling and testing, reproductive
health, HIV and pregnancy, HIV and breastfeeding, HIV and nutrition, antiretroviral
therapy for both pregnant and non-pregnant women, and HIV and tuberculosis.
For more information, contact Natalie Maier at nmaier@jhpiego.org.
Developing
Materials on HIV/AIDS/STIs for Low-Literate Audiences: A Guide
www.path.org/materials-details.php?id=688
The Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), together with Family
Health International and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
produced this guide to creating materials on HIV/AIDS and other STIs for
people with low levels of literacy. The guide, which can be downloaded from
the PATH website in the form of five PDF files, focuses particularly on
the development of pictorial print materials for low-literate audiences.
Ethical
Considerations in HIV Preventive Vaccine Research
www.unaids.org/publications/documents/vaccines/vaccines/JC765-EthicalCons-Repr-E.pdf
This UNAIDS document offers HIV vaccine-research guidance on the following
topics: vaccine development, vaccine availability, capacity building, research
protocols and study populations, community participation, scientific and
ethical review, vulnerable populations, clinical trial phases, potential
harms, benefits, control group, informed consent, special measures for informed
consent, risk-reduction interventions, monitoring informed consent and interventions,
care and treatment, women, and children. The document is intended for use
by potential research participants, investigators, community members, government
representatives, pharmaceutical companies, and ethical and scientific review
committees involved in HIV preventive vaccine development. This document
is available in English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Gender and HIV/AIDS
www.eldis.org/gender/dossiers
This website takes the form of a "dossier” containing a complete
guide to the gender-HIV nexus. The site supplies background information
on gender and HIV/AIDS, explains the need for a gender-focused approach,
describes impacts and consequences, provides a conceptual model for designing
programs, offers links to the latest research and case studies, and provides
toolkits on working with gender and HIV/AIDS. The site also offers links
to a gender and HIV/AIDS library, other websites, discussion groups, a gender
guide, and an HIV/AIDS guide.
Global Campaign
for Microbicides News
www.global-campaign.org/gcnews.htm
Global Campaign News, a website and biweekly update administered by the
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, provides a forum for international
exchange on microbicide activities and information. The site aims to build
a more informed and integrated movement for microbicide development and
other options for preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
Updates cover such issues as international meetings on microbicides, the
latest research findings, and relevant news on HIV/AIDS.
Guidelines for the
Management of Gynecologic Infections
www.projinf.org/fs/gyn_chrt.html
These fact sheets, available in English and Spanish, serve as guidelines
for the management of bacterial vaginosis, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia,
cervicitis, chancroid, chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes simplex virus, human
papillomavirus, menstrual disorders, molluscum, pelvic inflammatory disease,
syphilis, trichomonas, and vaginal candidiasis. Important information related
to symptoms of active infection, diagnostic tools, treatment options, side
effects, and drug interactions are discussed in each fact sheet.
Handbook
on Access to HIV/AIDS-related Treatment
www.unaids.org/publications/documents/health/access/ngotoolkit/a2tread_en.doc
Produced by the International HIV/AIDS
Alliance, UNAIDS, and the WHO Department of Essential
Medicines, this handbook assembles information, tools, and resources on
treatment for HIV/AIDS for community-based and nongovernmental organizations
as well as for groups of people living with HIV/AIDS. The handbook, which
may be useful for training workshops or technical support visits, covers
such topics as important preliminary questions, foundations of treatment,
putting treatment into practice, assessing needs and resources, and learning
from and improving HIV/AIDS-related treatment work.
Harvard AIDS Institute
www.hsph.harvard.edu/hai/index.html
The Harvard AIDS Institute is dedicated to conducting and catalyzing research
to end the worldwide AIDS epidemic. The institutes website offers several
key resources, including information about scientific research, training
programs, and conferences and events. The site also features a long list
of the institutes collaborators and a short description of what each one
does, as well as access to key publications, including The
Harvard AIDS Review (www.aids.harvard.edu/news_publications/har/index.html).
The Review provides a channel for communicating important HIV/AIDS-related
issues to researchers, clinicians, educators, and others interested in working
to control the disease.
HIV & AIDS Treatment
in Practice
www.aidsmap.com/main/hatip.asp
This site links users to “an email newsletter for doctors, nurses,
other health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource
settings.” You can go to the above web address to subscribe, or send
an email with your name, email address, and the country in which you work
to: hatip@nam.org.uk with the words
“add HATIP list” in the subject line.
HIV/AIDS NGO/CBO Support
Toolkit
www.aidsalliance.org/ngosupport
Created by the International HIV/AIDS
Alliance, this toolkit is an electronic library of resources about support
for community-based and non-governmental organizations working in HIV/AIDS
prevention and care. The toolkit's modules, available to download or on
CD-ROM, cover such topics as strategic planning, project design, selecting
partners, technical support, monitoring and evaluation, and administration
and finance.
HIV/AIDS
Prevention, Care and Support Across Faith-based Communities
www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/Publications/Archive/resources/abofaithbased.htm
Family Health International’s IMPACT project has published an annotated
bibliography of resources that faith-based organizations have used to successfully
respond to HIV/AIDS in Africa. The bibliography includes information to
help readers locate appropriate resources for their communities and to procure
materials from appropriate organizations. FHI selected materials for the
bibliography that promote dignity and respect for people living with HIV/AIDS
and that provide correct information on HIV/AIDS. The bibliography is available
as a PDF.
HIV/AIDS Prevention
and Care in Resource-Constrained Settings: A Handbook for the Design and
Management of Programs
www.fhi.org/en/aids/naids.html
Produced by Family Health International,
this 28-chapter handbook offers state-of-the-art knowledge on designing
and managing HIV/AIDS programs; reducing risk and vulnerability to HIV infection;
strengthening sexually transmitted infection management and services; reducing
the risk of transmitting HIV to infants; management and support of people
infected and affected by HIV/AIDS; and prospects for the future. It is designed
for use by program managers, technical and programmatic field staff, donor
and international partner agencies, health-care providers, and field researchers.
The handbook can be downloaded from FHIs website as a PDF.
HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators
Database
www.measuredhs.com/hivdata
This comprehensive, web-based tool allows users to create tables and charts
for single or multiple countries based on HIV/AIDS indicators compiled from
a variety of sample surveys. Indicators, which cover a wide range of program
areas, are derived from the UNAIDS National AIDS Programmes Guide to
Monitoring and Evaluation.
HIV InSite
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu
Based at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), HIV InSite is
a project of UCSF's AIDS Research Institute, the Center for AIDS Prevention
Studies, and the Positive Health Program. HIV InSite provides "comprehensive,
up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and policy."
The site also provides access to other HIV/AIDS-related websites around
the world, as well as features such as Ask
HIV InSite (http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=Ask) and multidisciplinary
country profiles of HIV/AIDS (http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=Country).
HIV Medicine 2003
http://hivmedicine.com/textbook/cr.htm
Edited by Christian Hoffmann and Bernd Sebastian Kamps, “HIV Medicine
is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview
of the treatment of HIV infection.” The 800-page book can be accessed
or downloaded (as a PDF file) free of charge, and covers such topics as
acute HIV infection, HIV therapy, side effects, lipodystrophy, resistance
testing, malignancies, and drugs.
HIVpositive
www.hivpositive.com
This website, managed by a large group of reputable national and international
organizations (www.hivpositive.com/indexWhoB.html), offers straightforward,
up-to-date information on the following issues: HIV and You; HIV and Nutrition;
Pain and HIV; Opportunistic Infections; Testing for HIV; Women and Children
with HIV; Those Wonderful Caregivers; Drug Advisories; Occupational Exposure;
and others. The Caregivers page contains practical information and suggestions
on how to care for people living with AIDS at home.
HIV Prevention Fact
Sheets
www.caps.ucsf.edu/FSindex.html
The University of California at San Franciscos Center for AIDS Studies
has produced a series of 50 fact sheets available as PDF files in both English
and Spanish and covering a very wide range of HIV/AIDS related issues.
HIV Prevention in Maternal Health Services
www.engenderhealth.org/res/offc/hiv/prevention
EngenderHealth and UNFPA collaborated on the production of a programming
guide and training guide on preventing HIV infection in the context of
maternal health services. The programming guide “is intended to provide
managers with solid assistance in planning integration of HIV and STI prevention
interventions into maternal health services, determining the most appropriate
and feasible interventions, training staff in appropriate technical areas,
and monitoring and evaluating prevention interventions geared toward pregnant
and postpartum women.” The training guide’s objectives are
to “ensure that trainees develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills
needed to help clients assess their own needs for a range of HIV and STI
services, information, and emotional support, to provide clear and correct
information appropriate to clients' identified concerns and needs, to assist
clients in making their own voluntary and informed decisions about HIV
and STI risk reduction, and to help clients develop the skills they will
need to carry out those decisions.” Both guides can be downloaded
as PDF files.
Horizons
AIDSQuest: The HIV/AIDS Survey Library
www.popcouncil.org/horizons/AIDSquest/index.html
"AIDSQuest is a resource for researchers and others developing HIV/AIDS-related
data collection tools. Horizons has collected surveys
from a number of international and local organizations, and from the published
literature. Information on how each survey was developed and used is provided.
Also featured in AIDSQuest are methodological tips on designing AIDS-related
questions." A CD-ROM version also is available. To obtain a copy, contact
Rachel Kaufman at rkaufman@pcdc.org.
How
to Create an Effective Communication Project
www.fhi.org/en/aids/aidscap/aidspubs/handbooks/effcom.html
The Family Health International website offers an online handbook that outlines
a basic, comprehensive framework for successful behavior change communication,
as well as step-by-step guidance for creating an effective project. The
handbook posits a "communications pyramid" with eight levels corresponding
to sections of the document: risk factors, target audience, desired behavior
and attitude changes, initial planning, messages, communication channels
and media, pre-testing, interventions, and measures of success.
ICW Survival Kit
www.icw.org/SKIndex.htm
Available in English, French and Spanish, the ICW Survival Kit is produced
by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, and features
practical information and advice on a wide range of topics for women who
test positive for HIV infection.
It’s
My Life: A Guide for Women with HIV
www.tht.org.uk/publications/pubs_liv.htm
The Terrence Higgins Trust has produced a
20-page booklet covering a range of issues for women living with HIV. The
booklet looks specifically at how to get support; the side effects of treatments;
sex and relationships; families and children; and pregnancy and contraception.
Users can view this publication as a PDF file or order it from the Terrence
Higgins Trust.
Johns Hopkins AIDS Service
www.hopkins-aids.edu
The Johns Hopkins AIDS Service website is a comprehensive, regularly updated
resource for information on HIV/AIDS. Key topic areas include: epidemiology,
treatment, prevention, managed care and medical education. The website's
Expert Consult page (www.hopkins-aids.edu/ask.html)
features both a "Patient Forum" and a "Clinician Forum."
These are interactive question-and-answer pages that allow both lay readers
and clinicians to post questions for HIV specialists at the Johns Hopkins
AIDS Service. The site also offers The
Hopkins HIV Report (www.hopkins-aids.edu/publications/report/report_toc.html),
a bimonthly HIV/AIDS care newsletter for health-care professionals.
Kaiser
Daily HIV/AIDS Report
www.kaisernetwork.org/email_alert/email.cfm
The website of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation offers one of the most
up-to-date resources on all aspects of HIV/AIDS to anyone with an e-mail
address. In addition to the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, the Foundation
offers a Daily Health Report and a Daily Reproductive Health Report. By
filling out the required subscription information, interested organizations
and individuals can receive the report via e-mail every weekday.
Living Well
with HIV/AIDS
www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y4168E/Y4168E00.HTM
The Food and Agriculture Organization has produced a new manual on nutritional
care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. The manual is available
online in HTML format. Intended for home care agents and local service providers,
it covers such topics as the benefits of good nutrition for people and families
living with HIV/AIDS; the importance of healthy and balanced nutrition for
everyone; special eating needs for people living with HIV/AIDS; protecting
the quality and safety of food; caring for people living with HIV/AIDS;
and herbal treatments and remedies. Annexes supply recipes and food for
a healthy diet; forms to help monitor food intake and weight changes over
time; information on important vitamins and minerals for people living with
HIV/AIDS; and a list of institutions and organizations providing support
to people living with HIV/AIDS.
Medscape
HIV/AIDS Resources
www.medscape.com/hiv-aidshome?pagename=hiv
This website is an important medical resource for health-care professionals
working in HIV/AIDS. The site provides the latest HIV/AIDS news and conference
summaries, as well as treatment updates and practice guidelines.
Mini-courses on HIV/AIDS
and Sexually
Transmitted Infections
www.engenderhealth.com/res/onc/hiv/index.html and www.engenderhealth.com/res/onc/sti/index.html
Through this site, EngenderHealth has made available two well-designed,
online mini-courses for sexual and reproductive health care providers to
its web-based series, Topics
in Reproductive Health (www.engenderhealth.com/minicourses/). The courses,
which include relaistic case studies, are designed to impart self-instructional
education and training for health care providers in developing countries
on strategies for HIV/AIDS and STI prevention, management, and counseling.
The mini-courses are available on the website and CD-ROM.
Positive Women: Voices
and Choices
www.icw.org/VoicesChoicesZW02.pdf
Produced by the International Community of Women Living with
HIV/AIDS, this 96-page report details the findings of a Zimbabwe-based
project "led by positive women to explore the impact of HIV on their
sexual behaviour, well-being and reproductive rights, and to promote improvements
in policy and practice." The report explains how the women first dealt
with their HIV diagnosis, how their relationships and livelihoods changed.
It explores sexual and reproductive health and choices made in childbearing,
in addition to listing conclusions and recommendations for similar projects.
Positive Women includes many case studies and direct quotes from women involved
in the project.
Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic
www.unaids.org/bangkok2004/report.html
The latest UNAIDS global report updates 2003 end-of-year HIV/AIDS statistics
for the world and each of its regions. The report also examines such specific
topics as the impact of AIDS on people and societies; bringing comprehensive
HIV prevention to scale; treatment, care, and support for people living
with HIV; financing the response to AIDS, and national responses to AIDS.
Special sections focus on AIDS and orphans; HIV and young people; AIDS
and human rights; AIDS and conflict; and the essential role of people living
with AIDS. Tables at the end of the document provide data on country-specific
HIV/AIDS estimates as of the end of 2003, as well as a description of how
UNAIDS attains its statistics. The report is available in English, French,
Russian, and Spanish.
Sources
and Prices of Selected Drugs and Diagnostics for People Living With HIV/AIDS
www.unaids.org/publications/documents/health/access/Sources2002_en.pdf
Given the need to improve access to drugs for people with HIV/AIDS, particularly
in developing countries, this report aims to assist procurement agencies
in making informed decisions about the sources of drugs and negotiating
affordable prices through the provision of essential market information.
Lists of sources and prices take the form of extensive tables linking drugs,
including antiretrovirals, to the number of manufacturers and indicative
prices. The report also includes a list of drugs by therapeutic group and
manufacturers, an index of manufacturers, information on the country location
of participating manufacturers, and the geographical distribution of participating
manufacturers. Produced by UNICEF, UNAIDS, WHO, and Médecins sans
Frontières, this document is available in English, French, and Spanish.
Synergy APDIME
Toolkit
www.synergyaids.com/apdime/index.htm
This toolkit was designed as a resource to assist program designers and
managers to carry out HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and support programming
in the developing world. Available from the Synergy Project as a CD-ROM,
it leads users through the process of assessment, planning, design, implementation,
monitoring, and evaluation (APDIME). The toolkit links users with relevant
worksheets, budget templates, survey instruments, data, and software.
Treat
Yourself Right: Information for Women With HIV and AIDS
www.whs.sa.gov.au/files/communities/docman/15/tyr.pdf
This booklet was produced with the assistance and support of HIV-positive
women from Australia. It is a resource for newly diagnosed women, women
who have been living with the virus for some time, and those working in
the area of care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Treat Yourself
Right provides a range of health and lifestyle information covering
issues such as choosing and working with health care providers, HIV treatments,
complementary therapies, opportunistic infections, pregnancy, gynecological
conditions, sex, disclosure to family and friends, and co-infection with
hepatitis C.
UNAIDS
AIDS Epidemic Update (December 2003)
www.unaids.org/Unaids/EN/Resources/Publications/Corporate+publications/aids+epidemic+update+-+december+2003.asp
The latest UNAIDS Epidemic Update offers a summary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
as of December 2003. In addition to global and regional statistics on the
number of people living with HIV/AIDS, the number of people newly infected
in 2003, and the number of AIDS deaths in 2003, the update describes HIV/AIDS
trends and progress in responding to the virus in each of the world’s
regions.
UNAIDS
Best Practice Collection
www.unaids.org/bestpractice/index.html
This collection, produced by UNAIDS, contains "best practice"
materials on a wide range of topics related to HIV/AIDS. The Technical Update
section, aimed primarily at managers of HIV/AIDS projects and programs,
provides a technical overview of selected topics and summarizes the main
problems and challenges involved as well as the actual "best practice"
responses, with short examples. The Case Studies section presents detailed
real-life examples of policies, strategies and projects in a specific region,
country or community that offer important lessons learned in responding
to the pandemic.
UNICEF
Fact Sheets on HIV/AIDS
www.unicef.org/publications/index_pubs_hivaids.html
Among UNICEF’s publications are a series of fact sheets on HIV/AIDS.
The fact sheets, available in English, French and Spanish as print documents
or PDFs, cover the following topics: Mother-to-Child
Transmission of HIV (www.unicef.org/publications/index_4414.html); HIV
and Infant Feeding (www.unicef.org/publications/index_5387.html); HIV
and Children Affected by Armed Conflict (www.unicef.org/publications/index_4399.html);
Young People
and HIV/AIDS (www.unicef.org/publications/index_4446.html); and Orphans
and Other Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (www.unicef.org/publications/index_4421.html).
What Parliamentarians
Can Do about HIV/AIDS
www.unicef.org/publications/index_19021.html
This 36-page information kit, the product of a collaboration between UNICEF,
UNAIDS, European Parliamentarians for Africa, and The Parliamentary Network
of the World Bank, is available in both English and French, and as a print
document or PDF. The kit, which focuses particularly on HIV/AIDS as it relates
to children and young people, “calls on parliamentarians to use their
influence and resources in halting the spread of HIV/AIDS.”
What Religious
Leaders Can Do About HIV/AIDS
www.unicef.org/publications/index_19024.html
UNICEF, along with the World Conference of Religions for Peace and UNAIDS,
has produced a 56-page information kit on how religious organizations can
help respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The kit, available in English or
French and as a print document or PDF, “appeals to leaders of various
faith communities to use their influence, moral leadership and resources
to alter the course of the epidemic,” particularly in relation to
children and young people.
Women, Children, and HIV
www.womenchildrenhiv.org
Jointly sponsored by the François-Xavier Bagnoud
Center and the Center for HIV Information of the University of California
at San Francisco, this site covers the topics of preventing mother-to-child
HIV transmission, infant feeding, clinical care of women and children living
with HIV infection, and the support of orphans. The site aims to contribute
to improving the scale and quality of international HIV/AIDS prevention,
care, and treatment programs for women and children by increasing access
to authoritative HIV/AIDS information. It offers access to a library of
materials, country programs, and resources on women, children, and HIV.
The site also features an up-to-date news section.
Working
with Men, Responding to AIDS
www.aidsalliance.org/eng/publications/workingwithmen.htm
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is offering viewers a collection of
case studies designed to assist projects in working with men on issues linked
to HIV/AIDS. In the context of gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS, the collection
assembles experiences and lessons learned from a wide range of projects
that work with men. “By showcasing experiences and lessons from the
field in the form of case studies,” the collection “offers inspiration,
ideas and models for working with different kinds of men in a range of contexts.”
The publication is available as a print document or as a PDF.
Youth
InfoNet
www.fhi.org/en/Youth/YouthNet/Publications/YouthInfoNet/index.htm
YouthNet is a five-year global program (2001–2006) coordinated by
Family Health International and sponsored by USAID. The program's goal is
to improve reproductive health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among
young people aged 10 to 24. Youth InfoNet is an important component of the
program, and takes the form of a monthly electronic source for new publications
and information on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention. These publications
include both program resources and research articles. To subscribe to Youth
InfoNet or to propose submissions to this newsletter, users can send an
email to youthnetpubs@fhi.org.
YouthNet
Publications
www.fhi.org/en/youth/youthnet/pubs/youthpubs.html
YouthNet is a five-year global program (2001–2006) coordinated by
Family Health International and sponsored by USAID. The program's goal is
to improve reproductive health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among
young people aged 10 to 24. Two new publications are available from the
YouthNet program in English, French and Spanish. The first, YouthLens2
(www.fhi.org/en/youth/youthnet/pubs/pubspdf/sexed.no2.8.02.pdf), discusses
how "Sexuality and Family Life Education Help Prepare Young People."
The document helps provide answers to such questions as "Do school-based
sexuality education programs lead teenagers to have sex?", "What
makes a school-based sexuality education program successful?", "At
what age should school-based programs about sexuality begin?", and
"Can curricula developed in one culture be adapted to another setting?"
The second document, YouthLens
3 (www.fhi.org/en/youth/youthnet/pubs/pubspdf/vct.no3.8.02.pdf),
examines HIV/AIDS voluntary counseling and testing for young people, including
such issues as demand for services, impact on behavior, and programmatic
challenges.
