AIDS communication approaches recommended readings
Recommended readings
- HIV/AIDS and communication for behaviour and social change: Programme experiences, examples, and the way forward
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 2001)
- This UNAIDS report summarises the proceedings of a July 2000 workshop on communication for behaviour and social change. Workshop objectives were to: map out implementation strategies for HIV/AIDS com...
- AIDS education through Imams: a spiritually motivated community effort in Uganda
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 1998)
- Recommended reading
- This report, produced by the Islamic Medical Association of Uganda (IMAU) and published by UNAIDS, documents the experiences of IMAU in providing HIV/AIDS education in Uganda. It describes how over 8...
- Sexual behavioural change for HIV: Where have theories taken us?
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 1999)
- This UNAIDS report presents a review of models and theories of behaviour change through the analysis of case studies in HIV prevention. It presents an overview of theoretical models of behaviour chan...
- Summary booklet of best practices: Issue 2
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 2000)
- Recommended reading
- This UNAIDS publication provides examples of best practice in HIV/AIDS work from throughout Africa. Case studies are organised by a number of key themes, including: community mobilisation, local resp...
- Making prevention work: global lessons learned from the AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP) Project 1991-1997
- ( Family Health International , 1999)
- Recommended reading
- This publication from Family Health International (FHI) documents the experience of the world's largest international HIV/AIDS prevention project the - AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP) Project - ...
- UNESCO and education
- ( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2003)
- Recommended reading
- This document sets out UNESCO’s priorities and key strategies on education. It outlines UNESCO’s three overarching strategic objectives: promoting education as a fundamental right, improving the qual...
- Innovation: education and information, No 110
- ( International Bureau of Education, UNESCO , 2002)
- This edition of the UNESCO Innovation newsletter looks at the role of education in HIV/AIDS prevention. It reviews the development of school-based and other educational responses to HIV/AIDS and discu...
- Lessons learned about life skills-based education for preventing HIV/AIDS related risk and related discrimination.
- ( United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2002)
- This paper from UNICEF summarises lessons learned from research and experience in both developing and more developed nations in relation to HIV/AIDS prevention education. Five key areas of focus are ...
- Communications programming for HIV/AIDS: an annotated bibliography
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 1999)
- Recommended reading
- This annotated bibliography from UNAIDS contains 667 references relating to communications for HIV/AIDS prevention and care. It covers: theoretical concepts and models widely used in HIV/AIDS communi...
- HIV and AIDS-related stigmatisation, discrimination and denial: forms, contexts and determinants
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 2000)
- Recommended reading
- This UNAIDS report explores the issues of HIV and AIDS-related stigmatisation and discrimination with reference to two specific case studies in India and Uganda, and through an extensive literature re...
- Safe and effective introduction of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for HIV/AIDS
- ( Family Health International , 2003)
- This fact sheet from Family Health International outlines key requirements for successful treatment with antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) for HIV/AIDS. It details a number of drug-related issues that affe...
- HIV and AIDS treatment and care policy
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This document from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) sets out the UK government’s support for efforts to provide access to treatment and care to people with HIV and AIDS. It outl...
- Taking action: the UK government's strategy for tackling HIV and AIDS in the developing world
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This strategy document from DfID sets out what the UK will do to achieve stronger political direction, better funding, and better donor coordination of HIV and AIDS programmes. It notes that governmen...
- Antiretroviral therapy in primary health care: experiences of the Khayelitsha programme in South Africa. (Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral Treatment)
- ( World Health Organization , 2003)
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- Open and distance learning: trends, policies and strategy implications
- ( M. Moore; A. Tait / UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents , 2002)
- Recommended reading
- This document examines the current state of open and distance learning, and UNESCO's current activities in this field. It looks at the components of these programmes and considers the variety of uses ...
- HIV/AIDS and education: a strategic approach
- ( Education Sector, UNESCO , 2002)
- Recommended reading
- This paper, published by UNESCO, considers the role education has to play in both preventing and mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS. The strategy outlined in the document identifies key priorities ...
- Education and HIV/AIDS: a window of hope
- ( Education Section, Human Development Department, World Bank , 2002)
- This paper lays out the World Bank's strategies for responding to HIV/AIDS in education systems, and in helping develop an effective preventative response. The paper argues that countries need to redo...
- With an end in sight: strategies from the UNIFEM trust fund to eliminate violence against women
- ( C. Spindel; E. Levy; M. Connor / United Nations Development Fund for Women , 2000)
- Recommended reading
- This UNIFEM report explores the power of collective action in ending violence against women, using case studies from seven countries. Chapter one looks at projects in Kenya, Nigeria and Honduras that...
- Education for survival: better health and HIV/AIDS education for schools in Africa and Asia
- ( Korrie de Koning / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002)
- Recommended reading
- Since the late 1980s, interest has grown in the development of health education in schools. This interest has been spurred on by the AIDS pandemic. Health education, which focuses on trying to influen...
