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HIV and AIDS

Failing women, withholding protection: 15 lost years in making female condoms accessible - joint agency paper - August 2008 (link to paper in health section)

HIV and AIDS: Meeting the challenges - A selection of scholarly articles on HIV and AIDS to mark World AIDS Day on 1 December. They are taken from Development in Practice, a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxfam. (December 2006)

Free Trade Agreement Between the USA and Thailand Threatens Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment - July 2004 (link to paper in Health section)

Shire Highlands Sustainable Livelihoods Programme, Malawi (398K pdf file)
A case study examining how the Shire Highlands Livelihoods programme ensured that its work was relevant and effective for a community affected by HIV and AIDS.

Learning to survive: How education for all would save millions of young people from HIV/AIDS - a new report from the Global Campaign for Education reveals that seven million cases of HIV could be prevented in a decade if all children in the world received a complete primary education. (link to paper in Education section)

HIV/AIDS drugs online discussion
Oxfam health policy adviser Dr Mohga Kamal-Smith in an online discussion on access to HIV/AIDS drugs. Read the transcript on the BBC news website. (November 2003)

Expansion of access to treatment for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa - report on Oxfam/EQUINET workshop in Nairobi (September 2003)

HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in Southern Africa
Southern Africa is facing a serious humanitarian crisis with severe long-term consequences affecting the entire region. Erratic rainfall, poor governance, poverty, unsustainable debt, failing agricultural policies, unfair international trade regimes, and collapsing public services have all contributed to the current situation, but without HIV/AIDS the crisis would not be of the same dimensions.

Debt relief and the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa: Does the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative go far enough? (225K pdf file) briefing paper

Gender, poverty and intergenerational vulnerability to HIV/AIDS (65K pdf file)
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been fuelled by gender inequality and poverty. This article looks at how young girls and older women are particularly vulnerable to infection and are affected by HIV/AIDS.

Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into Development: What it can look like (157K pdf file)
This paper offers pragmatic guidance on three aspects of mainstreaming: HIV/AIDS in the workplace, mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into strategy and planning, and making links with focused interventions in HIV/AIDS. It is useful to all organisations that work in areas of high or increasing rates of HIV/AIDS.

TRIPS, the disease burden in developing countries and the need for new drugs (176K pdf file)

Access to antiretroviral therapy in Uganda (691K pdf file)
Recent (2002) research estimates place the number of HIV-infected Ugandans at between 1.5 and 2 million. While access to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) has increased, the great majority of HIV-infected Ugandans still cannot afford to pay for therapy.

Global HIV/AIDS and the Health Fund: Foundation for Action or Fig Leaf? (325K pdf file)
If properly funded and managed, the Global Fund could act as a vitally needed catalyst to spearhead renewed efforts to tackle the devastating global health crisis and to spur governments - at national and international level - to do much more to prioritise and deliver on the internationally agreed health targets. Without proper funding and international commitment, the Fund could serve merely as another exercise in window-dressing while the health crisis deepens.

Lessons learned on mainstreaming:
Flyer 1: Overview of mainstreaming (175K pdf file)
Flyer 2: Practical outcomes of mainstreaming (220K pdf file)
Flyer 3: Awareness raising (276K pdf file)
Flyer 4: Workplace policy workshop (181K pdf file)
Flyer 5: Research process (179K pdf file)
Flyer 6: Local research findings (386K pdf file)
Flyer 7: Modifying existing programmes (266K pdf file)