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HIV/AIDS in the transitional countries of eastern Europe and central Asia
Clinical Medicine, 2005This article, from Clinical Medicine, examines how changing economic and social environments have contributed to AIDS epidemics in the transitional countries of eastern Europe and central Asia. The authors outline how AIDS became a major threat to health, economic stability and human development during the 1990s.DocumentNational AIDS Coordinating Authorities: a synthesis of lessons learned and taking learning forward
DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2005This paper, from the DFID Health Resource Centre, outlines some of the key challenges facing National AIDS Coordinating Authorities (NACAs). Their main role is to promote better harmonisation and alignment of national responses to HIV and AIDS.DocumentHIV/AIDS: the health development challenge of our times
Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005This presentation, given at the Institute of Development Studies 2005 Alumni Reunion, gives an overview of how the development sector has been involved in the response to HIV and AIDS. The development community, along with government, has been relatively slow to respond to the crisis.DocumentScaling up access to antiretroviral treatment in southern Africa: who will do the job?
The Lancet, 2005This paper, published in the Lancet, examines plans for scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-positive people in Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa. It reports that a lack of human resources for health, rather than financial resources, is regarded as the main obstacle to implementing national treatment plans in these countries.DocumentThe vulnerability related with AIDS in China
Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005This short note, prepared for a UNAIDS workshop on Vulnerability and AIDS, describes experiences of vulnerability in relation to HIV and AIDS in China. The author describes: experiences of contracting HIV through blood transfusion in China; risk taking behaviour as a means to escape poverty; and how HIV infection can be a result of health systems failure.DocumentAIDS, vulnerability and social protection
Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005This paper, prepared for a UNAIDS workshop on Vulnerability and AIDS, examines the links between HIV, vulnerability and social protection. The paper relates vulnerabilities to and from HIV and AIDS to the emerging social protection agenda and the household, national and global levels.DocumentRethinking rights and responsibilities in a time of AIDS
Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005This article, written for a South African newspaper, explores the debates over rights and responsibilities for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA). Many public health practitioners have called for compulsory AIDS testing, citing the rights and responsibilities of citizens when it comes to health matters.DocumentScaling-up anti-retroviral treatment (ART) and the health system in southern Africa
Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005This note, prepared for a UNAIDS workshop on Vulnerability and AIDS, provides a number of observations and opinions on the feasibility of scaling up anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. The document reviews lessons learned from various hospitals and health centres delivering ART in southern Africa, and highlights considerable human resource constraints.DocumentRights passages from "near death" to "new life": AIDS activism and treatment testimonies in South Africa
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005This IDS working paper explores how the combination of illness experiences and involvement in treatment programmes has dramatically altered the lives, identities and futures of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in South Africa.