The World Summit on Sustainable Development will set the agenda for the coming decade on improving people's lives, conserving our natural resources and safeguarding our common future. In its presentation on the Summit's first day, WHO presented a road map for how health can be used as a powerful and undervalued tool for sustainable development.
Useful Resources
WHO: Good Health for All
Vital for reducing poverty and sustaining development
Child-to-child: children as partners for health
Child-to-Child (CTC) is an innovative approach to health education practised in more than 80 countries worldwide. Relying, as it does, on the promotion of children as agents for change, the book asks how successful CTC can be in developing country contexts where children are often the least powerful members of their communities. A new book from the Institute of Education reviews the CTC approach in which children are seen as active promoters and not just passive receivers of health information. Comparing theory with practice, it examines how far CTC can work in cultures where people do not necessarily share current Western assumptions about the role of the child in society. Demonstrating the rich diversity of practice that characterises CTC, the book concludes with lessons to strengthen the approach.
Delivering HIV treatment to the poor
Report from an id21 email discussion
What are the best strategies for HIV treatment delivery in developing countries? What barriers prevent poor people from accessing care? What role should the international community play in treatment programmes? In the run-up to the 14th International AIDS Conference, id21 asked participants to consider these and related questions.
More than 120 individuals from many countries and diverse backgrounds joined the discussion list. The debate covered a broad range of topics, focusing particularly on:
HIV treatment as a priority relative to other health and development issues
strategies for delivering treatment in resource-poor settings
the role and operation of the new Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
stigma as a barrier to access.
The discussion provided a unique opportunity for a variety of stakeholders to share their views and contribute to this important and topical debate.
International Aids Economics Network
Newsletter
As part of its effort to encourage research on the economics of HIV/AIDS, IAEN prepares a newsletter featuring updates to this site and news of interest on the topic. The information is gathered from a variety of sources, including online electronic databases. The newsletter is sent approximately once per month, and helps us carry out one of our missions: To provide data, tools, and analysis on the economics of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment for compassionate, cost-effective responses to a global epidemic.
New website from Marie Stopes International
The re-designed and up-graded website is designed to keep concerned members of the public, international organisations and policy makers up to date on MSI's sexual and reproductive health programmes in 38 countries worldwide, as well as its advocacy and policy activities.
UN/WHO: Updated list of HIV/AIDS-related products
UNICEF, UNAIDS, WHO and Medicins Sans Frontieres have produced an updated list of HIV medications, HIV testing kits and suppliers of HIV/AIDS-related products designed to help procurement agencies and national governments obtain such products for the best value.
AIDS.Edumela
AIDS.Edumela is a new website aimed at providing information on the HIV/AIDS situation in Botswana and other parts of Southern Africa. Their page "About Condoms" contains user contributions about the use of condoms and other issues related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana.
Barcelona: XIV International AIDS conference
Follow the developments
Kaisernetwork.org will feature daily coverage of the XIV International AIDS conference, all of which is available for you not only to view at www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2002, but also to link to and/or post on your website, free of charge, including:
* Webcasts and transcripts of plenary sessions, satellite meetings, press conferences, and other sessions, along with in-depth related resources
* Daily updates and highlights of the day's events
* Interviews with newsmakers and perspectives from those who have been fighting or covering AIDS.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29229
CD-ROM: Media/Materials for Health Communication
The Media/Materials Clearinghouse at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs is pleased to make available a new CD-ROM: "Media/Materials for Health Communication" which is a CD-ROM of the M/MC's website. The CD-ROM is a "carry-along" resource center with many databases of health communication materials, photographs, videos, etc., as well as several of the M/MC's newsletters. Also included is a checklist that walks the user through the planning and establishment of a multi-media resource center.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29222
Choosing a Birth Control Method:
An Interactive Program to Help You Choose the Birth Control Method That\'s Right for You (web-based questionnaire)
This site offers recommendations on which methods may be best suited for an individual answering 20 questions about lifestyle choices and medical history. Once the questions are anonymously submitted, a list of contraceptive options that best suit these needs is generated. The program also offers a general descriptions, effectiveness rates, side effects and approximate cost for each contraceptive method.