The Synergy APDIME Toolkit is a resource to support programme designers and managers in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programming in the developing world. It is a window through which you can learn about programme outcomes, training guides and research findings. Tools include worksheets, budget templates, survey instruments, data and software produced by HIV/AIDS organisations from around the world. It was developed in collaboration with the University of Washington and contains five modules covering Assessment, Planning, Design, Implementation Monitoring, and Evaluation. Each module outlines a comprehensive step-by-step method and weblinks to hundreds of resources for programming.
Useful Resources
Synergy Project: HIV/AIDS Programming Toolkit Website and CD-ROM
The Supply Challenge
Throughout the world, reproductive health programmes are facing a growing crisis as a result of a lack of supplies which are essential for HIV/AIDS prevention, family planning, contraception and other vital sexual and reproductive health care services. This threatens the lives and rights of millions of men, women and children. The Supply Initiative has been set up to call attention to this crisis as well as to increase the availability and efficient use of human, institutional and financial resources for reproductive health supplies. The Supply Initiative web site is online under http://www.rhsupplies.org. Here you will find more details on reproductive health supply shortage and the activities of the Supply Initiative.
Violence against Women: The Health Sector Responds
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is one of the most widespread human rights abuses and public health problems in the world today, affecting as many as one out of every three women. It is also an extreme manifestation of gender inequity, targeting women and girls because of their subordinate social status in society. The consequences of GBV are often devastating and long-term, affecting women's and girls' physical health and mental well-being. At the same time, its ripple effects compromise the social development of other children in the household, the family as a unit, the communities where the individuals live, and society as a whole. Violence against Women: The Health Sector Responds provides a strategy for addressing this complex problem and concrete approaches for carrying it out, not only for those on the front lines attending to the women who live with violence, but also for the decision-makers who may incorporate the lessons in the development of policies and resources.
WHO Macroeconomics and Health web site launched in May 2003
The new WHO Macroeconomics and Health website was launched in May 2003. The website will provide detailed information on WHO macro-economics and health work, the latest action in countries, news and links with related sites, and links to the CMH Report and its Working Group Reports. Published documents and reports can be downloaded from the site. To ensure that the website becomes a forum for sharing ideas, information and news, readers are encouraged to submit their views and work on macroeconomic and health issues.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
launch of international HIV/AIDS Internet resource
The Centre for HIV Information (CHI) at the University of California, San Francisco has launched an internationally oriented, HIV/AIDS Internet resource. The pages feature detailed global and regional overviews of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as well as 194 individual country profiles containing key documents and links. This information is complemented by the Database of Country and Regional Indicators, which allows users to create customized, comparative tables of epidemiological and socio-economic data. Through this continuously updated, "one-stop" resource, visitors can access the best online information on the international AIDS pandemic.
Open access medical journals
For an overview of what ejournals are accessible in developing and transitional countries, go to the Fulltext Journals page of INASP Health. The page contains numerous annotated links. Of particular interest are: BMJ Journals: Countries with Free Access; FreeMedicalJournals.com; Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI); Highwire: Free Access to Developing Countries sites; and INASP: Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI).
world bank website on health equity analysis
The World Bank has launched a website containing technical notes on quantitative techniques for health equity analysis. The site will eventually contain 20 notes covering: The measurement of key variables in health equity analysis; Generic tools in health equity analysis; and Applications to the health sector.
HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice
'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors, nurses, health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource settings. It is published twice every month by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity behind www.aidsmap.com. The newsletter is edited by Julian Meldrum, NAM's international editor.
information for aids professionals
The International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN /
http://www.iaen.org) recently polled its members in 130 countries about the best information resources available to AIDS professionals worldwide. The polling returned 85 completed surveys from 32 countries listing over 700 information resources. Approximately half of the returned surveys were from developed countries, half from developing countries.