HIV/
AIDS MUST READS |
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“must reads” for the latest developments and the
most up to date information on HIV and AIDS and other related
health issues. |
| TB/HIV |
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Zambia Creative HEART Contest Brochure |
| Produce a creative work of art through
Debate, Music, Drama or Poetry for a contest that will enable
you to learn more about HIV/AIDS or a key health issue affecting
your community and influence positive change. |
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TASC3 Brochure |
| FHI and several partners have decades
of experience managing multi-year, multimillion dollar projects
for the US government. Our team is well-prepared to efficiently
execute task orders for missions with ambitious strategic objectives. |
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Communication strategy for TB/HIV collaboration in Uganda |
| This communication strategy is focusing
on packaging of IEC/BCC activities that will enhance TB/HIV
collaboration at all levels of planning and service delivery.
It is intended to guide all partners who may wish to undertake
communication activities in the area of TB/HIV collaboration.
It supports harmonization of TB and HIV messages disseminated
to the general public, and highlights feasible
channels for disseminating integrated TB/HIV messages. |
| Advocacy,
communication and social mobilization to fight tb |
| This document sets out a 10-year
strategic framework for ACSM activities and is a key supporting
document to the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Plan to
Stop TB 2006–2015. This plan demonstrates a step change
in both ambition and innovation in tackling TB, and I believe
that the ACSM strategies set out in this framework will play
a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Stop
TB Partnership objectives. |
| Tuberculosis:
The Connection between TB and HIV (the AIDS virus) |
| People infected with HIV (the virus
that causes AIDS) are more likely than uninfected people to
get sick with other infections and diseases. Tuberculosis
(TB) is one of these diseases. |
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The Experts’ Consultation on Communication and Social
Mobilisation |
| The agenda for the experts' consultation
(see Anne x 1) included a series of presentations and discussions
on the global TB control efforts, country casestudies of mass-media
and community-based communication and social mobilisation
interventions, experiences in capacity-building and, the challenges
and opportunities offered by the emerging media environments.
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Stop tbe partnership; annual report 2005 |
The Stop TB Partnership enhanced its
already strong reputation as a model public–private partnership
for health with a number of major achievements in 2005. Chief
among these was the preparation of the new Global Plan to Stop
TB, 2006–2015, coordinated by the Partnership
Secretariat and involving an unprecedented level of collaboration
among partners through the Working Groups. |
| HIV / AIDS |
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New Data on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention: Policy and
Programme Implications |
| At the end of 2006, an estimated 39.5
million people were living with HIV and 4.3 million became newly
infected with the virus that yeari. Prevention must be greatly
prioritized in the response to AIDS and efforts are being made
to find new prevention technologies to bolster the package of
already known effective prevention methods. |
| Don’t
Be Negative About Being Positive |
| Don’t Be Negative About Being Positive
is a campaign that aims to fight discrimination against people
living with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe. Since May 2005, the campaign
has used personalised messages from people living positively
with HIV, disseminated through television, radio and print media,
to raise awareness and discourage stigma. |
| Magnet
Theatre: Involving Audiences and Encouraging Change
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| This document describes the methodology
used by the Magnet Theatre Intervention developed by PATH to
bring about behaviour change in communities. PATH has used Magnet
Theatre to encourage community dialogue around HIV and AIDS,
consequences of early marriage, and TB prevention and treatment.
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| The
Art of Facilitating Participation |
| This book, edited by Shirley White,
discusses the concept of facilitation of participation from
the perspective of global development discourse. |
| The
Participation Guide |
| "The Participation Guide presents a
simple set of guidelines to design and implement participatory
health and development communication programs. ... [It] provides
...tips and tools to involve affected individuals and groups
in the various stages of health and development communication
programs. |
| Theory
and Practice of Participatory Communication |
| "Participatory communication is a
term that denotes the theory and practices of communication
used to involve people in the decision-making of the development
process. It intends to return to the roots of its meaning, which,
similarly to the term community, originate from the Latin word
communis, i.e. common (Mody, 1991). |
| To
Change the Dance You Must Change the Music |
| This article describes communication
for social change (CFSC) in youth programmes in Ethiopia. These
youth dialogue programmes provide young people with forums to
discuss HIV/AIDS and encourage them to take an active role in
preventing the spread of the virus. |
| HIV/AIDS
and Gender-Based Violence (GBV); Program on International Health
and Human Rights |
Harvard School of Public Health
HIV infection as relevant to GBV is primarily acquired
through sexual relations, which themselves are greatly influenced
by socio-cultural factors, underlying which are gender power
imbalances. |
HIV dementia
alarmingly high in Africa |
| An international study led by Johns
Hopkins suggests that the rate of HIV-associated dementia is
so high in sub-Saharan Africa that HIV dementia along with Alzheimer's
disease and dementia from strokes may be among the most common
forms of dementia in the world. |
| ANTI-RETROVIRAL THERAPY |
A comprehensive,
easy-to-understand guide to combating HIV
The Hesperian Foundation (www.hesperian.org)
has recently released a new book entitled HIV, Health and Your
Community: A Guide for Action by Reuben Granich and Jonathan
Mermin, Updated 2006, 248 pages, illustrated. |
| RESEARCH ETHICS |
Research Ethics
Training Curriculum. It is essential that fundamental ethical
principles be included in the design and implementation of research
involving human participants.
Ethical Approaches to Gathering Information from Children and
Adolescents in
International Settings: Guidelines
and Resources |
| PMTCT |
Generic
Communication Strategy for PMTCT - UNICEF July 2000
In July 1998, a draft communication strategy for PMTCT was developed
during a communication workshop, facilitated by Neill McKee,
former Regional Communication Officer for ESARO. During the
drafting of this initial strategic outline, the PMTCT program
was a new initiative within Sub Saharan Africa HIV/AIDS prevention
programs, and as such, was not fully functional at the time
the draft communication strategy was developed.  |
Better
practices in communication for PMTCT
In May 2000, UNICEF began providing intensive technical assistance
in program communication to PMTCT pilot programs in Africa and
Asia. This focused response was initiated when country teams
identified communication as a key component of PMTCT programming
that was not being strategically addressed in the original pilot
program strategies. |
Baseline
assessment tool for pmtct communication planning
This tool was designed to be the first step in developing an
integrated communication strategy for Prevention of Mother To
Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programs. |
Infant
feeding Q&A tool for counselors
This tool was designed at the request of health worker counselors
in Africa and Asia, who asked for a tool to help them explain
the complicated and difficult issues related to infant feeding
and HIV/AIDS to mothers and families. |
Communication
for PMTCT
PMTCT is still seen in most countries as a vertical “special
HIV” program, which is causing stigmatisation of the program,
with low uptake as one of the results.
Marketing of PMTCT at country levels could begin focusing on
the “expanded ANC services” aspects of PMTCT - that
it is a new stream of ANC services - rather than placing all
the focus on the HIV aspects.  |
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