The Human Rights Matrix lists the international human rights documents that are important to reproductive and maternal health, family planning, and HIV/AIDS. The Matrix permits you to access information about a POLICY country's human rights obligations. You can: Select a POLICY country and see the RH/MH/FP/HIV/AIDS-related human rights documents this country has signed; Select a right and see what RH/MH/FP/HIV/AIDS-related human rights documents have to say about this right; Select a document and see which rights are listed in this document and the document's exact language about this right.
Useful Resources
UN Launches First Comprehensive Web Site on Gender and HIV/AIDS
In an effort to place gender equality at the center of the fight against HIV/AIDS, the UN has launched its first comprehensive Web site that promotes understanding, knowledge and action on the epidemic as a gender and human rights issue. "By bringing knowledge and information to the global community, we are able to empower women," said Noeleen Heyzer, executive director of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Designed to be user-friendly, informative and interactive, the site offers research, training materials, surveys, advocacy tools, current news and opinion pieces by leading experts.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29729
Virtual Campus for Public Health
The Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) is a virtual space for interchange, communication, information, generation of useful knowledge, education and discussions among individuals and institutions on topics and priority issues related to processes of health sector reform, performance of essential public health functions, public health management and the institutional development of public health education.
World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work For Poor People: e-Discussion
During a 7-week period from April 14, 2003 through May 30, 2003, the World Bank and Public World will co-host a moderated electronic discussion on the forthcoming WDR 2004: "Making Services Work for Poor People". The e-discussion is an opportunity for a wide range of stakeholders from government, business, and civil society to exchange views about the content and main ideas of the draft report.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29727
World Health Chart
The World Health Chart is developed in collaboration between WHO and Swedish institutions. The aim is to visualize world health development and thereby enable better use of international health data for learning, advocacy and hypothesis generation. A first beta-version called WHC 2001 Public Beta 0.1 is now free to download for testing. Please comment to whc@ki.se It can be used by: Teachers and students of health, economics and demography; Professionals and policy makers in the health sector; Staff of international organisations; Researchers and journalists. It can be used to: Learn and teach about health development in the world; Illustrate projects, presentations, articles and campaigns; Advocacy and policy analysis; Generate ideas and hypotheses for research; Assessment of international health data.
Eldis Health Systems Resource Guide
A collaboration between Eldis and the Health Systems Resource Centre providing access to the latest and most relevant knowledge on health systems selected from practitioner and research networks on and off the web. Current topic areas include health, poverty and vulnerability, priority diseases, aid policy and financing mechanisms, global initiatives and PPPs, access to medicines, and health service delivery.
HIV and AIDS Treatment In Practice: a new e-mail newsletter
'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors, nurses, other health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource settings. The newsletter is published by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity behind www.aidsmap.com.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29657
HIVAN and KZNCAN Launch HIV/AIDS Directory
In their ongoing effort to support and strengthen community initiatives to combat the HIV/AIDS crisis in KwaZulu-Natal, the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the KwaZulu Natal Churches AIDS Network (KZNCAN), have collaborated to produce the HIVAN/KZNCAN 2003 HIV/AIDS Directory. With over 600 organisations listed, the Directory provides a comprehensive reference resource for HIV/AIDS-related research, intervention and service organisations working in the province.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29670
Intaids eForum structured discussion
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.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29675
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).