2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic
2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic

Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9291737119

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"Knowing your epidemic" is essential for everyone involved in the response to HIV. Extensively illustrated with graphs and charts, this biennial report presents concise but comprehensive summaries of major issues in the global AIDS response. Annexes provide HIV estimates and data 2001 and 2007, and also country progress indicators.

From Advocacy to Action
From Advocacy to Action

Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to outpace the global response. Although important progress has been made in expanding access to HIV prevention, treatment and support, such services currently reach only a fraction of those in need. Turning the tide against the epidemic will require significantly stronger and sustained national efforts. To achieve this, a number of key challenges were identified: implementation; co-ordination; capacity; leadership; financing; social barriers and a renewed commitment to the principle of active involvement of people living with HIV & civil society as key pillars in all levels of the response

Prescribing HIV Prevention
Prescribing HIV Prevention

Author: Nicola Bulled

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1315421968

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Critical health communication scholars point out that the acceptance of HIV risk prevention methods are bound inside inequitable structures of power and knowledge. Nicola Bulled’s in-depth ethnographic account of how these messages are selected, transmitted and reacted to by young adults in the AIDS-torn population of Lesotho in southern Africa provides a crucial example of the importance of a culture-centered approach to health communication. She shows the clash between traditional western perceptions of how increased knowledge will increase compliance with western ideas of prevention, and mixed messages offered by local religious, educational, and media institutions. Bulled also demonstrates how structural and geographical forces prevent the delivery and acceptance of health messages, and how local communities shape their own knowledge of health, disease and illness. This volume will be of interest to medical anthropologists and sociologists, to those in health communication, and to researchers working on issues related to HIV.

Progress Report on the Global Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2003
Progress Report on the Global Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2003

Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

Publisher: WHO

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789291732883

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In June 2001, 189 UN member states endorsed the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS at a special session of the UN General Assembly, under which it was agreed to establish specific, time-bound targets to measure progress in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Using this mandate, the UNAIDS Secretariat, together with its co-sponsors, have developed a series of global, regional and national indicators to measure progress towards the Declaration's targets, in line with the Millennium Development Goals. This report provides information on global, regional and national responses to the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS through core indicators grouped into four broad categories: global commitment and action; national commitment and action, including domestic government spending on HIV/AIDS and assessing country-level policy development and implementation against a national composite policy index; national programmes and behaviour, including numbers of people receiving key services and public use of safer practices to reduce the risk of HIV transmission; and national impact indicators including the number of new infections amongst young people and infants born to HIV-infected mothers.

Keeping the Promise?
Keeping the Promise?

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 50

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This report includes studies in seven countries by the Panos Institute in collaboration with a consortium of civil society organizations. Studies assess the progress being made by the country in implementing the UNGASS declaration. The countries include Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, Latvia, Malawi, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.