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Renewing Our Voice: Code of good practice for NGO’s responding to HIV and AIDS

01/12/2004

4 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish

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Over the last twenty years, there has been a considerable increase in the number and range of NGOs involved in responding to the multiple challenges presented by HIV and AIDS: NGOs undertaking HIV and AIDS work; NGOs integrating HIV and AIDS-specific interventions within other health programming; and NGOs mainstreaming HIV and AIDS within development, human […]

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Journal article

Decentralised transformative leadership approaches to HIV/AIDS in Nepal, 2002-2004

01/11/2004

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This article analyses a decentralised transformative leadership pilot project launched by the UNDP to combat the growing HIV/AIDS crisis in Nepal. The project aims to strengthen district leadership and participatory multi-sector planning, clarify the district government response, and create regional, nationwide, and international networks to effectively respond to HIV/AIDS. The goal is to create leaders […]

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Journal article

Reconstructing fragile lives: girls’ social reintegration in northern Uganda and Sierra Leone

01/11/2004

12 pages long

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Reconstructing fragile lives: girls’ social reintegration in northern Uganda and Sierra Leone

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In many contemporary African wars, girls and women participate in fighting forces. Their involvement is sometimes voluntary, but often they are coerced or abducted. In these forces, their roles range from porters, domestics, and ‘wives’ of male fighters, to spies and commanders. Few girls go through official UN processes of disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR). […]

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Briefing note

Free Trade Agreement Between the USA and Thailand Threatens Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment

12/07/2004

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Access to HIV/AIDS medicines makes a huge difference to the lives of infected people and their families. Not only do these medicines help people live longer, they also greatly improve the quality of their lives, reduce the stigma and discrimination that they might experience, and enable them to contribute to the economic and social welfare […]

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Book

Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Development and Humanitarian Programmes

01/07/2004

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

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AIDS has radically changed the contexts in which development and humanitarian organisations operate, and now they need to adapt their policies and practice accordingly. Sue Holden explains the concept of ‘mainstreaming’ HIV/AIDS in simple language, with practical guidelines for applying the approach in a wide range of sectors. Sue Holden’s previous book, AIDS on the […]

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Journal article

Supporting NGO partners affected by HIV/AIDS

01/06/2004

12 pages long

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Mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS is not just about adapting NGO programmes, but involves adapting partnerships. Working in a context of high HIV/AIDS prevalence has a considerable organisational impact on implementing NGOs. As staff, or relatives of staff, fall sick there is more time off work, declining work performance, increased medical costs, and extra training and recruitment […]

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Journal article

Combining worker and user interests in the health sector: trade unions and NGOs

01/02/2004

14 pages long

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This paper examines the relationship between workers in the health sector and users of health services as seen through two case studies of trade unions and NGOs working together, one in Malaysia and the other in South Africa. Despite a history of tensions between these two types of organisation, when they work together effectively the […]

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Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

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HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

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Book

AIDS on the Agenda: Adapting development and humanitarian programmes to meet the challenge of HIV/AIDS

01/12/2003

1 documents

341 pages long

Languages: English

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AIDS on the Agenda is written for policy-makers, managers, and programme staff in development and humanitarian agencies, to promote debate about the challenges that confront them in a world which has been changed forever by the pandemic of AIDS. The book considers three possible responses to the problem:Do nothing, Try to specialise in direct AIDS […]

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Discussion paper

Equity and the Expansion of Access to Treatment and Care for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Report of a workshop at ICASA

21/11/2003

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) and Oxfam GB with government and civil society partners have since early 2003 initiated a programme of research and analysis in support of policy and advocacy focusing on HIV/AIDS and equity in health sector responses. The programme has held and reported on an expert […]

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