Useful Resources

The International AIDS Alliance has produced a resource to help service providers working across the spectrum of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to take steps towards integrating HIV prevention for, by and with people living with HIV (PLWHA). The guide does not discuss or review all HIV prevention strategies and focuses largely on the sexual transmission of HIV. It consists of 15 strategies arranged into four themes including individually focused health education and support; ensuring access, scaling up and improving service delivery; community mobilisation and advocacy and policy change. For each section the guide details issues to consider including the most sensitive ways of dealing with HIV status disclosure; how best to provide information about testing, counselling and treatmentand how to facilitate post test clubs and support groups.

The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) is based at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. PULP endeavours to publish and make available innovative, high-quality scholarly texts on law in Africa. PULP also publishes a series of collections of legal documents related to public law in Africa, as well as text books from African countries other than South Africa. On their website, they have interesting information on human rights and HIV and give case studies from southern African countries.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has launched a website making its publications available. MSF research has frequently demonstrated pioneering approaches for tackling a broad range of diseases in many countries and, often, has influenced clinical practice. Well-known examples are MSFs pioneering work in treating populations with HIV using antiretroviral medications and malaria with artemisinin-containing treatment. The site has over 350 articles on HIV care, malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis and other diseases, as well as more general topics such as medical care in emergencies, refugee health and health politics.

This Training Companion is a result of interregional collaboration, based on concepts and illustrative examples from African cities that recently initiated participatory budgeting. The Companion provides visibility and resonance to the efforts that have been made by many anonymous women and men of Latin America to improve democracy and construct participatory governance in their own cities. The interregional collaboration in the preparation of this Companion has also generated a process of mutual learning across language groups and regions in Africa as well as in Latin America. The inputs of the various institutions, including sensitisation events and pilot workshops, underscore the multiple ownership of the publication.