It may be hard to believe, but the next International AIDS Conference (IAC) is only a little over a year away. The 15th IAC will be held in Bangkok in July 2004. Over the coming weeks, the Intaids eForum is hosting a series of structured discussions on the design, value and impact of the IACs. The discussion will coincide with upcoming planning meetings that will determine the priorities and organisation of the Bangkok conference in 2004. It will hopefully feed into decisions about the IAC2004 format, structure and content, and decisions about prioritisation and resource allocations among the various parts of the conference.
Useful Resources
Intaids eForum structured discussion
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Second edition of teaching-aids at low cost (TALC) health development CD-ROM launched
This CD-ROM is a free resource of material on subjects related to health and development. The CD-ROMs allow users to select, adapt and tailor materials to meet local needs and develop their own library of materials at very low or zero cost. Information on the CD-ROM can be downloaded, e-mailed or printed and freely reproduced and shared. The project is supported by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).
The HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse
The HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse collects recent research and documentation and is working to build interactive information sharing. In addition to finding the latest studies and research for HIV/AIDS and education, you can access related websites, participate in discussion forums and even contact members.
The People's Health Charter in 27 languages
Looking for a copy of the People's Health Charter? What language do you want? It's now available on the People's Health Movement website http://www.phmovement.org in 27 language versions - everything from Arabic to Urdu.
Gender and Health Equity Network
The Gender and Health Equity Network is a partnership of national and international institutions concerned with developing and implementing policies to improve gender and health equity, particularly in resource constrained environments.
Health Policy and Planning
Volume 18, Issue 1: March 2003
Included in this issue:
* Jonathan D Quick
Essential medicines twenty-five years on: closing the access gap, Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 1-3.
* Damian Walker
Cost and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in developing countries: is there an evidence base? Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 4-17.
* David Ayuku, Wilson Odero, Charles Kaplan, Rene De Bruyn, and Marten De Vries
Social network analysis for health and social interventions among Kenyan scavenging street children, Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 109-118.
PAHO Publications Available Online
PAHO has just launched a quick way for its readers to go straight to the source of what they are looking for in electronic format. They can now access one or more chapters of the organisation's most popular publications, such as Health in the Americas and Control of Communicable Diseases (Spanish version), among others, in a minimum of keystrokes. With this new service, readers can select only those chapters on the diseases that most interest them or select the chapter on a country for which they need the latest mortality or morbidity data.
Population and Related Information Online
POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE) provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues. The world's largest bibliographic population database, POPLINE® brings together 300,000 records representing published and unpublished literature in the field.
SHARED - Useful information on health research
SHARED started in 1996 as an EC concerted action. SHARED's objective is to share essential information on health research and development for developing countries. Everyone can contribute information to the database. A network of Focal Points has a proactive role in information dissemination on a local level. Visit their web site for more information.
We Miss You All
Noerine Kaleeba
Veteran Ugandan AIDS activist Noerine Kaleeba is an angry woman. Anger propelled her into the frontline of HIV/AIDS activism in her country after her husband's death from HIV/AIDS. Sixteen years later Kaleeba is still angry, but her anger is now directed at the stigma and discrimination surrounding the disease. Kaleeba was speaking during the launch of the second edition of her acclaimed book 'We Miss You All' in Johannesburg. The book tells the story of her husband's death from AIDS, and how this led her to form The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO). It also relates how her family coped with the pain and stigma that the disease brought into their lives.
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