United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan commissioned five papers on Water, Energy, Health and Agriculture from the relevant United Nations bodies for consideration at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in August 2002. These papers are intended to describe the current situation in a particular focus area, identify key gaps and challenges and highlight action where further action is needed.
Useful Resources
A Framework for Action on Health and the Environment
UN WEHAB Working Group
Improving access to HIV/AIDS related treatment
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has produced a report to share experiences and lessons learnt from its work in with its partners in a number of countries. As well as describing the experiences, the report looks at the different elements that contribute to good practice in HIV/AIDS-related treatment and concludes with an exploration of the key issues around improving access to treatment.
Information source
Source has been designed to meet the information needs of those working in health, disability and development worldwide. It is a collaboration between two international NGOs, Healthlink Worldwide and Handicap International UK and an academic institution, the Centre for International Child Health. It is aimed at health workers, researchers, rehabilitation workers,non-governmental and governmental organisations and disabled peoples' organisations worldwide and has a unique collection of over 20,000 health and disability related information resources. Source opens in September in London.
Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS across development sector in Africa
UNAIDS and GTZ
At the last ICASA in Ouagadougou, UNAIDS, the Union Economique et Monetaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (UEMOA), and GTZ, co-hosted a Satellite Conference on the theme: "Concrete Experiences with Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS across Development Sectors in Africa". Starting from the material presented at the Conference, we have co-edited a document under the title "Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS: A Conceptual Framework and Implementing Principles" with the assistance of JSAConsultants, Ghana. To obtain a copy of the document please contact us at gtzrap@ghana.com
Contact: gtzrap@ghana.com
WHO: Good Health for All
Vital for reducing poverty and sustaining development
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.
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.