Links to information on HIV, Aids, & Education

 

Southern Africa
 


The UNESCO Harare Cluster HIV/AIDS & Education web site
 

In vast areas of Sub-Saharan Africa HIV/Aids threatens to destroy decades of investment in economic and social development. The AIDS epidemic is presenting particular challenges to the education sector, not least by hindering its capacity to deliver quality education for all. The human resource base is rapidly eroding, as are the number of individuals expected to seek and receive its services. 


The UNESCO Office in Harare is increasing its involvement in the fight against HIV/A
ids in the region.  We firmly believe in using education as a vehicle for combating HIV/Aids while at the same time we recognize the damaging impact of HIV/Aids on the education system.


AIDS in Africa, statistics, origin and the three tests  rebirth.co.za

HIV/AIDS  iClinic

HIV Testing  Medical Info, The Life Officers' Association of South Africa (LOA)

Medical Index Directory  Cannon Medical Media

Red Ribbon  Metropolitan Group, South Africa

Secure the Future  Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

South African Business Council on HIV and AIDS (SABCOHA)  Site to be published

Aids Bulletin  Medical Research Council (MRC), South Africa. Quarterly newsletter on HIV/AIDS and related issues
HIV/AIDS 2000  Urban Health Development Bulletin Vol. 3 No. 2 June 2000

Code of Good Practice on Key Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Employment  Department of Labour, South Africa
Presentation on the Draft Code of Good Practice on Key Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Employment

HIV/AIDS and STD Directorate  Department of Health, South Africa
Key organisations 
Beyond Awareness Campaign - Tools for AIDS Action

Ministry Of Health And Social Services  Republic Of Namibia

NGO community

AIDS Action Group  NGO in the Northern Areas of Cape Town

AIDS Link  Bringing hope to people living with HIV/AIDS

A Rapid Appraisal of Community-based HIV/AIDS Care and Support Programs In South Africa  Health Systems Trust (HST), South Africa    Links

COSATU Campaign Against HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Shopstewards  South Africa

Health, HIV/AIDS & Occupational Health  Training and Research Support Centre (TARSA), Zimbabwe

HIV/AIDS  Women'sNet, South Africa

HIV-e  South Africa. Online community to provide support for people infected, affected and concerned with HIV/AIDS

National Conference on HIV/AIDS in Botswana 1997 HealthNet

Southern African AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS)  Zimbabwe    
HIV/AIDS Net
  A directory of websites on HIV/AIDS relevant to Southern Africa
Code on HIV/AIDS and Employment in Southern African Development Community (SADC)


University
 

Aids Information Dissemination Site Southern Africa  UNISA and partners
Important HIV/AIDS Internet Resources

AIDS Law Project (ALP) South Africa  University of the Witwatersrand
Centre for Health Policy (CHP)

Centre for the study of AIDS (CSA)  University of Pretoria    Links

Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD)  University of Natal
Publications

HIV/AIDS Resources on the Internet  University of Zambia Medical Library

Postgraduate Diploma in HIV/AIDS Management in the Workplace  MEDUNSA & University of Stellenbosch

The Department of Medical Microbiology  University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital


Africa

 

African Networks for Health Research & Development (AFRO NETS)  Zimbabwe

Health  Africa.com. HIV/AIDS information on the countries of Africa

HIV/ AIDS  WHO/AFRO
Coping with Common Diseases: HIV/AIDS  

Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN)  Kenya. Network of training institutions in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region

West Africa AIDS Project /AIDS 3 (2001-2006)  Centre for International Cooperation in Health and Development Inc. (CCISD) 

 

African Studies: Southern Africa

Library Catalogs of Southern Africa (Namibia and South Africa only (research, planning and programme development around HIV/AIDS in the workplace). http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Southern.html

 

African Studies: Malawi

A summary of assistance activities in HIV/AIDS policies and education in the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) (Harare, Zimbabwe): www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Malawi.html

 

African Libraries and Archives

Virtual Memory of University of Zambia Medical Library Large site (in Lozi and English), a section on HIV/AIDS in Zambia

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/libaf.html

 

HIV/AIDS
Institutions in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region providing HIV and Aids information: http://asosh.sheafrica.info/WorldLinks/TopicSpecific/hivaids.htm

 

UNIFEM Gender and HIV/AIDS Web Portal

Impact of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: www.genderandaids.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op

 

MCPL: Readers' Café

The causes of the AIDS epidemic in culture, and the aftermath of the great southern black migrations: www.montgomerycountymd.gov/apps/libraries/readerscafe/articledetails.asp?id=96&content=libchoice

 

African Digital Library - InfoAfrica References

Directory of University Libraries in Africa with information on initiatives in combating HIV and Aids -e.g. UNAIDS Joint UN Programme on HIV/Aids: www.africandl.org.za/infoafrica.htm

 

International

Aids Briefs, Mining Sector  USAID

HIV/AIDS  World Bank    Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS and Mining    

EU HIV/AIDS programme in developing countries  EU

HIV/AIDS  UNDP    HIV and Development Regional Project for Sub-Saharan Africa 
HIV/AIDS and Human Development South Africa 1998  UNDP South Africa

HIV/AIDS  WHO
WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HSI)    Links

HIV/AIDS and the World of Work  ILO
Action against HIV/AIDS in Africa: An initiative in the context of the world of work  
HIV/AIDS: A threat to decent work, productivity and development 
ILO Initiatives on HIV/AIDS

The International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN)

The International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)  Canada

UN AIDS  The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS

XIII International Aids Conference 2000  Durban, South Africa


Selected Resources
 

AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean

by George C. Bond, John Kreniske, Ida Susser. 234 pgs.

AIDs and STDs in Africa: Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine

by Edward C. Green. 280 pgs.

The Microeconomics of the AIDS Epidemic in Africa, in Population and Development Review

by Tomas Philipson, Richard A. Posner. 14 pgs.

The Cost of AIDS to Three Manufacturing Firms in Cote D'Ivoire, in Journal of African Economies

by Laurent Aventin, Pierre Huard. 28 pgs.

AIDS: Losing "The New Struggle"?, in Daedalus (AIDS in South Africa)

by Virginia Van Der Vliet. 33 pgs.

Confronting the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Post-Military Nigeria, in The Western Journal of Black Studies

by William Ebomoyi, Osita G. Afoaku. 10 pgs.

The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Adult Mortality in Zimbabwe, in Population and Development Review

by Griffith Feeney. 9 pgs.

Family Planning and Sexual Behavior in the Era of HIV/AIDS: The Case of Nakuru District, Kenya, in Studies in Family Planning

by Evasius K. Bauni, Ben Obonyo Jarabi. 11 pgs.

Cosmologies in Turmoil: Witchfinding and AIDS in Chiawa, Zambia, in Africa

by C. Bawa Yamba. 24 pgs.

The AIDS Epidemic: Social Dimensions of an Infectious Disease (Chap. 3 "AIDS in Africa")

by William A. Rushing. 288 pgs.


AIDS: the Agony of Africa

Pulitzer Prize-winning series by Mark Schoofs from The Village Voice: " As the death toll from AIDS recedes in America, Africa is reeling from an epidemic of Biblical proportions. South of the Sahara, AIDS is worse than anywhere else in the world, and this catastrophe is transforming the continent forever. This series explores AIDS in Africa. Based on hundreds of interviews conducted in nine countries over six months, the series covers the social, biological, and human ramifications of HIV:"

UNAIDS: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS

World Health Organization: gloabl epidemic statistics and guidelines

World Health Organization - Sex Work Toolkit

"The toolkit is intended for use by anyone involved in HIV prevention and care initiatives in sex work settings. "


Databases
 

HIVdb: Drug Resistance Algorithm (Beta Test)

Infer drug resistance to 16 available drugs using rules hyperlinked to data within the database subset of the Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database

Database for Anti-HIV Compounds

The Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (DAIDS), National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease: monitor developments in the chemotherapy of HIV and opportunistic infections (OI's)

geno2pheno

"Submit an HIV-1 pol-gene DNA sequence and obtain a sequence alignment to the reference strain HXB2, a list of mutations and different predictions of phenotypic resistance of the respective virus to 17 antiretroviral drugs"

HIV Databases

"data on HIV genetic sequences, immunological epitopes, drug resistance-associated mutations, and vaccine trials": Los Alamos National Labortaory, University of California, United Syaes Department of Energy, funded by the Division of AIDS of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

HIV Protease Structural Database

"an archive of experimentally determined 3-D structures of Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV-1), Human Immunodeficiency Virus 2 (HIV-2) and Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) Proteases and their complexes with inhibitors or products of substrate cleavage. It serves a global community of researches, educators and students"

Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database

"A curated database containing nearly all published HIV RT and protease sequence: a resources for researchers studying evolutionary and drug-releted variation in the molecular targets of anti-HIV therapy."

TrialScope
Is a comprehensive database of organizations conducting HIV-related clinical research in the United States sponsored by HIV InSite