This guide is designed to be a 'support tool' to assist institutions in developing and enhancing their HIV and AIDS workplace programmes. It has been aligned to the Framework for HIV and AIDS Workplace Programmes, which was developed for South Africa's higher education sector. The framework has six key performance areas that make up a comprehensive workplace programme and the guide sets out key standards for each of the performance areas. The areas are: strategic leadership, decision-making and co-ordination; research and analysis; workplace HIV and AIDS policy; workplace HIV and AIDS prevention programmes; workplace HIV and AIDS treatment and care strategies; and monitoring and evaluation.
Useful Resources
A guide to implementing an HIV and AIDS workplace programme
Higher Education HIV/AIDS Programme: 2010
A handbook on best practices regarding HIV and AIDS for people with disabilities
Voluntary Service Overseas: 2010
The goal of this handbook is to highlight some of the best practices around the world in HIV and AIDS services, programmes and policies for people with disabilities. It describes how systematic efforts were made to identify case studies from various countries. However, the numbers of case studies obtained were smaller than expected. This could be an indication that there is little documentation of practice in HIV and AIDS and disability. It could also be that organisations primarily working with disabilities have given minimal attention to HIV and AIDS, and similarly little attention is paid to disability by mainstream HIV and AIDS organisations. This handbook is primarily aimed at organisations involved in or intending to be involved in programming and advocacy to influence or to develop policy and programmes in HIV and AIDS service delivery for persons with disabilities. This handbook is divided into four chapters, each addressing a particular broad topic in reference to best practices for disability and HIV and AIDS. The categories of disabilities covered in the handbook are the deaf, the visually impaired, and the physically and intellectually challenged.
New edition of Facts for Life launched
UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNDP, UNAIDS, WFP and the World Bank: March 2010
Since it was first published in 2002, Facts for Life has sold over 15 million copies in 215 languages. It aims to help save the lives of millions of children by putting lifesaving knowledge about children‘s health into the hands of those who need it most: parents, caregivers, health workers, government officials, journalists and teachers. This new edition has updated information on safe motherhood, early childhood development, nutrition, HIV and AIDS and other major causes of childhood illnesses and death. It aims to use the best current understanding of science, policy and practice. It presents in simple language, practical, effective, low-cost ways of protecting children‘s lives and promoting their development.
Where there are no pharmacists: A guide to managing medicines for all health workers
Andersson S and Snell B: Third World Network and Health Action International Asia Pacific, 2010
Where There Are No Pharmacists is about managing medicines. It explains how to order them, store them, prepare them, dispense them and use them safely and effectively. This book provides advice on all these aspects for people working with medicines as well as information to help communities benefit from the use of medicines. It provides guidance for anyone who is doing the work of a pharmacist; anyone who sells, dispenses, prepares, manages, or explains to others how to use medicines. It is especially intended for use in developing countries.
2010 Mass Immunisation Campaign
Department of Health, South Africa: 2010
This website contains all the documentations relevant to the South African Department of Health’s national mass immunisation campaign of 2010. Documents cover immunisations against polio, measles and influenza, vitamin A supplementation and preventing worm infestation, together with evaluation guidelines. The website also provides emergency procedures to follow in case of anaphylaxis, information on the cold chain for vaccines, vaccine stock control and data, and worker-oriented information on the role of team leaders and supportive supervision. It also details the government’s social mobilisation campaign to promote immunisation and awareness of the procedure.
Free journal access via HINARI Programme for Access to Health Research
World Health Organization: 2010
The Programme for Access to Health Research (HINARI) provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. More than 150 publishers are offering more than 6,200 journals in HINARI and others will soon be joining the programme. HINARI was developed in the framework of the Health InterNetwork, introduced by the United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000. Local, not-for-profit institutions in two groups of countries may register for access to the journals through HINARI. The country lists are based on GNI per capita (World Bank figures). Institutions in countries with GNI per capita below US$1,250 are eligible for free access. Institutions in countries with GNI per capita between $1,250-$3,500 pay a fee of $1,000 per year / institution. Eligible categories of institutions are: national universities, research institutes, professional schools (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry), teaching hospitals, government offices and national medical libraries. All staff members and students are entitled to access to the journals.
Human rights and HIV advocacy tools
United Nations Development Programme: 1 January 2009
This set of advocacy tools was developed by the AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit, a joint programme of the Centre for Human Rights and the Centre for the Study of AIDS at the University of Pretoria, and the United Nations Development Programme. According to the developers, violations of human rights exacerbate the spread of the pandemic and the impact of HIV on individuals, communities, and countries is worsened by the inadequate realisation of human rights. The tools are a series of documents created to respond to an identified need for advocacy and information material on human rights-based responses to HIV. They are based on the premise that ensuring the implementation and respect of human rights norms and standards will contribute to reduce vulnerability to HIV transmission, challenge stigma and discrimination, and ensure access to HIV-related treatment, care and support services. They are designed to assist parliamentarians, government officials, members of the judiciary, lawyers, civil society organisations, people living with HIV, and all interested institutions and individuals in the implementation and advocacy of human rights norms in the context of the HIV pandemic. They are designed to enhance efforts at national, regional, and global levels.
Mental health website
Movement for Global Mental Health: 2008
This website aims to improve services for people with mental disorders worldwide. In so doing, two principles are fundamental: first, the action should be informed by the best available scientific evidence; and, second, it should be in accordance with principles of human rights. The Movement is a global network of individuals and institutions who support this mission. The Movement's goal is to support demands for the scaling up of treatments for mental disorders, for the human rights of those affected to be protected, and for more research in low- and middle-income countries.
New online civil society project
Civil Society Gateway: 2010
If you’re working in civil society and looking to sharpen your skills in communicating effectively with the media about your work against poverty, the environment and other issues – especially if you’re presenting research from the South – then this online resource may be most helpful. The Civil Society Gateway aims to reduce isolation of civil society organisations, experts and other individuals by bringing them together in one place, where they can communicate on a wide range of themes. Easily searchable by geography and theme, this tool helps journalists and the media find the sources they need from civil society to produce their stories. The Civil Society Gateway was made possible through a partnership between CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizen Participation) and the Inter Press Service (IPS), with the support of Oxfam Novib.
A guide to tools for assessments in sexual and reproductive health
United Nations Population Fund: 2010
Fifteen years after the International Conference on Population Development, a large global family of development workers committed to universal access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) continue to work on improving the lives and expanding the choices of individuals and couples. This guide considers reproductive health as a human right, while it notes that reproductive health conditions are the leading cause of death and illness in women of childbearing age worldwide. At least 200 million women who want to plan their families or space their births lack access to safe and effective contraception. Investments in reproductive health save and improve lives, slow the spread of HIV and encourage gender equality. These benefits extend from the individual to the family and from the family to the world. Yet resources allocated for improving SRH are scarce and needs are urgent. The guide aims to help practitioners to use limited resources in the most effective way. Contributors to the guide have developed and used many tools and methodologies to promote SRH – these are streamlined in the guide for the busy programme manager at national or district level.