Six new tutorials on HIV and Pregnancy, HIV and Breastfeeding, and HIV and Nutrition. In response to the international HIV/AIDS epidemic, the JHPIEGO Corporation has begun working with the Department of Health and Human Services1(DHHS) and USAID to develop training and education programs in limited-resource settings on the Care of Women with HIV. The first product of this collaboration is a series of tutorials designed to provide physicians, faculty and healthcare trainers with the technical knowledge they need to provide high quality healthcare services to women with HIV/AIDS and to train other healthcare providers. To date, eight tutorials have been developed. A CD-ROM with all eight tutorials is also available and may be obtained by contacting JHPIEGO via email.
Useful Resources
This is an interactive online platform and one-stop resource centre for civil society practitioners who want to work on improving the impact and quality of their development work. Whether you are starting to plan your work, or already have some tools and best practices to share, on this site you can access, share and rate tools, case studies and best practices from CSOs around the world, on implementing each of the eight Istanbul Principles and advocating for an enabling environment.
Visit http://www.datelinehealth-africa.net/betav1.0/infocus/detailinfocus.asp?infocus_id=164 for a fact sheet on the Marburg haemorrhagic fever.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) monitors communicable diseases in South Africa. It is a resource of knowledge and expertise in regionally relevant communicable diseases to the South African Government, to SADC countries and the African continent. The NICD assists in the planning of policies and programmes and supports appropriate responses to communicable disease problems and issues. Every month, NICD publishes its Communiqué for the purpose of providing up-to-date information on communicable diseases in South Africa.
NGO Networks for Health (Networks) is pleased to present the second edition of its Resources series. The Resources series describes useful training manuals, reference materials, and documentation of best practices and emerging lessons through many years of international, national, and community-based health programs. It is hoped that the series will help non governmental and private voluntary organizations (NGOs/PVOs) plan and strengthen health programs for women, children, and families in developing countries. The series also includes references that will help community-based organizations,
health workers, and policy-makers advocate for improved delivery of health information and services. The first edition of the Resources series documented resources for family planning, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS programs. This second edition is broken into two sections. Section I describes resources available on the topic of primary health care. Section II describes newsletters and periodicals on a range of health issues, including family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, child health, primary health care, pharmaceuticals, disabilities, and eye health. We hope you will find this edition of Resources full of valuable information to assist you in your work.
These guidelines offer to equip healthcare providers with evidence-based guidance as to how to respond to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women. They also provide advice for policy makers, encouraging better coordination and funding of services, and greater attention to responding to sexual violence and partner violence within training programmes for health care providers. The guidelines are based on systematic reviews of the evidence, and cover a range of topics: identification and clinical care for intimate partner violence; clinical care for sexual assault; training relating to intimate partner violence and sexual assault against women; policy and programmatic approaches to delivering services; and mandatory reporting of intimate partner violence. They aim to raise awareness of violence against women among health-care providers and policy-makers, so that they better understand the need for an appropriate health-sector response. The standards provided here can form the basis for national guidelines, and for integrating these issues into health-care provider education.
This guide has been produced for health activists who want to improve the response to the HIV-related needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa. It provides a set of activities that may be used when facilitating a meeting with key stakeholders who are responsible for improving local and national responses to HIV among MSM. It includes step-by-step advice about how to run sessions, together with a variety of useful resource material and presentations. It also provides basic information to increase one’s understanding about MSM and, in particular, MSM and the HIV epidemic. The guide is designed to help participants: explore their own attitudes and feelings about working with MSM; identify what is being done already, or has been done elsewhere, that could be usefully adapted to their local setting; and identify and plan a course of action in response to local situations.
Participatory mapping, commonly used in participatory development, plays an important role in helping marginalised groups by making visible the association between land and local communities, highlighting important social, historical and cultural knowledge as well as presenting geographical feature information. This review is intended to provide a broad background in the use of participatory mapping processes and the range of tools available to practitioners. It is not exhaustive but aims to give readers a greater appreciaion of how participatory mapping has involved from a relatively simplistic participatory rural appraisal (PRA) tool into a community of practice spanning a range of sophisticated technologies and processes. It draws on a number of examples from around the world, with special attention given to projects supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), as this organisation commissioned the review. However, it contains useful insights, lessons and pitfalls in both the processes and tools available for participatory mapping.
Since the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health in Rio de Janeiro last 2011, there has been a surge of interest and commitment among different stakeholders, especially WHO Member States, to addressing the social determinants of health to achieve health equity. In order to support this growing global movement, the Secretariat now launches a newly-revitalised website that captures the considerable body of work done since the launch of the report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health in 2008. The website’s contents are more accessible and better organised, and include useful information in three areas. 1. Evidence established by WHO and its partners on the various themes covered by the Commission’s work. 2. Action in terms of WHO programmes and activities that implement the five action areas of the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health. 3. Global commitments, including key documents, resolutions, and declarations that express the political commitment of WHO, its Member States, and the global community to the social determinants of health approach.
This new Right to Food website was launched on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2012. In addition to a new design, improved functionalities and user friendly navigation, it also displays the diverse work of the Right to Food in the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). The Team’s work at global, national, sub-national and regional level is divided into ‘Projects’ and according to activities in the ‘Our Work’ section making it easier for users to find the information needed. There is also a ‘Publications’ section, where you will find information on all aspects related to the human right to food – from principle to practice.