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 …
Negem Lela Ken New HIV Positive women Support Organization (NLK) is nonprofit and Non-governmental Ethiopian Residents Charity organization based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia since 2005. NLK works to c…
Strategies for Change: Breaking Barriers to HIV Prevention, Treatment, and Care for Women examines innovative empowerment, legal, economic, and health services strategies for a more “woman-friend…
This guide is a part of a complete resource guide on HIV/AIDS, Health and human rights. It's a user-friendly, multi-purpose resource that can be used on a regular basis on the job. The toolkit is a…
The Society for AIDS in Africa was founded in 1989 at the fourth International Symposium on AIDS and Associated Cancers in Africa (now ICASA) held in Marseille France by a group of African scientis…
This comprehensive collection of essays provides a full account of the complexities of sex and gender as they relate to HIV/AIDS, in Ghana specifically and in Africa more generally. They offer pers…
This book contains the presentations and discussions delivered with partners by the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA) Network of the HSRC at the two satellite sessions of the 16…
The impact of gender in fuelling HIV/AIDS has become a fundamental aspect of addressing the pandemic. It is clear that gender plays a pivotal role in how women and men respond to counselling, testi…
Africa’s young people aged 15–24 are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. The impact of the epidemic on young people calls for close attention to the youth dimensions of the epidemic. T…
The situation of millions of children whose lives continue to be blighted by the impacts of HIV/AIDS seems still to be "under the radar" of national and global policymakers (Foster 2005). Sub-Sahar…
AIDS was first recognized in 1981 in the United States of America as a new disease of unknown origin. Subsequent investigation revealed the causative virus which was later identified by a group of …
The population of people infected with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria as of December 1998 is estimated to be 3.1 million (UNAIDS '98). Current situation report shows that more people are being infected daily.…
This publication is part of the Community Development Project by Soul City, located in South Africa. It provides information about what HIV and AIDS are, methods or treatment and prevention, and fa…
This user guide has been created for teams implementing the People Living with HIV Stigma Index in their communities. This user guide contains background information on the index and its intended p…
From starting HIV treatment to maintenance, the treatment process works, but each step is cumbersome and expensive. Up to 80% of the cost of treatment isn’t for the medication but for the syst…
The International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights arose because of various calls for their development in light of the need for guidance for Governments and others on how to best promote, p…
New UNAIDS report shows that young people are leading the prevention revolution, with 15 of the most severely affected countries reporting a 25% drop in HIV prevalence among this key population. Ne…
The global response to the HIV epidemic is at a crossroads. The emergency footing of the response over the past 25 years and the broad social mobilization of stakeholders have spearheaded remarkabl…
The Compendium of key documents relating to human rights and HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa is a collection, in five parts, of global, regional, sub-regional and national human rights instrumen…
Despite the pervasiveness of HIV-related stigma and discrimination in national HIV epidemics and their harmful impact in terms of public health and human rights, they remain seriously neglected iss…