Building Compassionate and Caring Communities: HIV and AIDS : YMCAs Strengthening the Response to HIV and AIDS.- Geneva: World Alliance of YMCAs, 2007 . - 45 pages
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HIV and AIDS: the initiative and response of the World YMCAs
Geneva: World Alliance of YMCAs, 2006 .- 22 pages
Some key document to be downloaded below:
> A Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV and AIDS has been developed by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), for NGOs. The World Alliance of YMCAs was one of the first organisations to sign on to the Code.
(mainstreaming.pdf)
The Code also provides self assessment checklists for NGOs to evaluate their programmes in several areas:
> Self assessment: voluntary counselling and testing (voluntary_counselling.pdf)
> Self assessment: meaningful involvement of people living with HIV and affected communities
(meaningfull_involvment.pdf)
> Self assessment: stigma and discrimination
(stigma.pdf)
As part of the YMCA movement's ongoing work on HIV and AIDS, a strategic planning meeting was held in Geneva from 14 to 18 March, 2006. The meeting was coordinated by the World Alliance of the YMCAs with support and participation from a wide range of YMCA bodies and external resource persons. This selection of noteworthy guidelines, reports, toolkits and good practice collections in the field of HIV/AIDS has been put together by Y Care International as part of the follow-up to the meeting. It is shared with the World Alliance and interested YMCAs, which may find it useful as part of their HIV/AIDS research and programming. All resources listed below can be downloaded by following the indicated web links. Many are available in several languages.
International Commitments and Frameworks
UN General Assembly Declaration of Commitment on HIV and AIDS
In 2001, Heads of State and government representatives of 189 nations gathered at the first ever Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on HIV/AIDS. They unanimously adopted the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, acknowledging that the AIDS epidemic constitutes a "global emergency and one of the most formidable challenges to human life and dignity." The Declaration of Commitment covers ten priorities, from prevention to treatment to funding. It was designed as a blueprint to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halting and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015.
http://www.un.org/ga/aids/coverage/FinalDeclarationHIVAIDS.html
Campaigns
UNICEF HIV and AIDS Campaign
Since it was launched in New York on October 25th, 2005, the Unite for Children Unite against AIDS campaign has been kicked off in countries all over the world, with new events taking place every week. All the relevant information about the campaign and ways to take part can be found at:
http://www.unicef.org/uniteforchildren/
EAA HIV and AIDS Campaign
"Keep the Promise" is the theme of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance's HIV and AIDS campaign (2005-2008), in keeping with a broader civil society campaign "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise" (2005-2010) coordinated by the World AIDS Campaign. The campaign aims to ensure that governments and organisations keep the promises they have made to effectively respond to AIDS. The Alliance's campaign also highlights the promises made by faith communities and religious leaders to care for and support people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. EAA also advocates for further efforts and resources to fight the pandemic. Details about the campaign and resources on advocacy and campaigning can be found at:
http://www.e-alliance.ch/hiv_resources.jsp
Standards and Guidelines
ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work
The Code of Practice is the framework for action related to the workplace. It contains key principles for policy development and practical guidelines for programmes at enterprise, community and national levels. It covers the following main areas: prevention of HIV; management and mitigation of the impact of AIDS on the world of work; care and support of workers infected and affected by HIV/AIDS; and elimination of stigma and discrimination on the basis of real or perceived HIV status. The ILO developed the Code in response to many requests for guidance, on the basis of a widespread consultation with its constituents in all regions and a range of other stakeholders. The Code, available in close to thirty languages, can be downloaded at:
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/publ/codelanguage.htm
In addition, an educational and training manual for implementing the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work is available at: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/publ/manual.htm
Joint ILO/WHO Guidelines on Health Services and HIV/AIDS
The purpose of these guidelines is to promote the sound management of HIV/AIDS in health services, including the prevention of occupational exposure. They take a rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS, as promoted by the Declaration of Commitment and the international community at large, expanding on ILO and WHO HIV/AIDS and occupational safety and health instruments. They are designed as a basis for practical policy and as a technical reference that can be used by - or adapted to the needs and capacities of - large, medium-sized or small health service structures. The guidelines cover legislation, policy development, labour relations, occupational safety and health, and other technical subjects. They discuss the basis for action, identify roles and responsibilities, set out the key policies and actions needed for sound management of HIV/AIDS in health services, and include core references in each section. In addition, practical information on the most relevant technical aspects of occupational safety and health is provided in the form of concise fact sheets adapted from a range of reliable international and national sources.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/publ/hsgl.pdf
WHO Guidelines for Integrating Gender into HIV/AIDS Programmes
This is a forthcoming tool to be made available by the end of the year. It will be a practical handbook for programme planners to help them include appropriate attention to gender in voluntary counselling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child-transmission, care/treatment/support, and youth and HIV interventions. The guidelines will be made available on WHO's gender and HIV website at:
http://www.who.int/gender/hiv_aids/en
Operational Guide on Gender and HIV/AIDS: a Rights Based Approach
Prepared for the UNAIDS Interagency Task Team on Gender and HIV/AIDS (2005), this Operational Guide tries to make the relationship between gender, human rights and HIV/AIDS obvious to those working in the development sector. It seeks to give guidance to development programmers and practitioners on how to keep these complex linkages in mind when going about their daily business. The guide gives this support by providing a coherent conceptual framework and a set of guidelines, checklists and tools. The checklists aim to provide HIV/AIDS programmers and other development practitioners with a tool to assess the extent to which their work contributes to gender equality. The tools are meant to help the development programmers deepen their understanding of the linkages between gender, human rights and HIV/AIDS and respond strategically to these challenges. Of course, tools and techniques are hardly ever universally applicable. When applied in practice, the techniques and approaches presented in this operational guide have to be adapted to local circumstances.
http://www.genderandaids.org/downloads/events/Operational%20Guide.pdf
Good Practices, Case Studies, Toolkits
Case Studies of Successful Programmes on HIV-related Stigma, Discrimination and Human Rights Violations
UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, UNAIDS, 2005
This publication documents case studies of successful action addressing HIV related human rights violations, stigma and discrimination. Although more effort is required, programmes in a range of countries are innovatively and successfully challenging HIV related stigma, discrimination and human rights violations. Actions have been of three broad types: stigma reduction approaches, specific anti-discrimination measures, legal and human rights mechanisms.
http://data.unaids.org/publications/irc-pub06/jc999-humrightsviol_en.pdf
Scaling-up HIV Testing and Counselling Services: A Toolkit for Programme Managers
WHO, 2005
This regularly updated toolkit provides references and offers practical guidance on the processes of planning and implementing HIV testing and counselling services in resource-limited settings.
http://who.arvkit.net/tc/en/index.jsp
AIDS Related Stigma: Thinking Outside the Box - the Theological Challenge
Gillian Paterson, Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, World Council of Churches, 2005
In November 2001, the World Council of Churches convened a meeting of African church leaders, in Nairobi, to draw up an ecumenical plan of action for responding to the AIDS epidemic. It was unanimously agreed that, for churches, the eradication of HIV and AIDS related stigma must be a priority: a resolution that has since been endorsed, regionally and internationally, by individual denominations. The plan of action itself gave birth to a range of international initiatives, including the Council's Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa; the UNAIDS sponsored theologians' workshop on AIDS related stigma in Namibia in 2003; the EAA's ecumenical and interfaith programme for the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, 2004; and the thematic focus on HIV and AIDS at the WCC Assembly in Brazil, 2006. This article is a reflection on the challenges encountered, in relation to HIV and AIDS, by churches and individual Christians who are grappling with the theological implications of their concern to eradicate stigma.
http://www.e-alliance.ch/media/media-6250.pdf
Global HIV/AIDS Online Database
UNAIDS/WHO
The UNAIDS/WHO global HIV/AIDS online database collates the most recent country-specific data on the spread and impact of the virus, together with information on risk behaviours (e.g. casual sex and condom use). Health sector response information (eg. data on people receiving treatment and coverage of HIV counselling and testing) is also an essential part of this database.
The Epidemiological Fact Sheets on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections formed the base from which this site was developed. They are still accessible and can now be selected by topic. The database contains a wealth of information, which allows identification of strengths in currently existing programmes and comparisons between countries and regions.
http://www.who.int/globalatlas/default.asp
UNAIDS Publications and Good Practice Collections
By following the link below you will gain access to hundreds of downloadable publications and good practice collections on HIV and AIDS, including prevention, care and support, stigma, and gender. There are also a number of resources on working with different groups, such as children and young people, refugees, and others. Most publications are available to be downloaded not only in English but also French, Spanish and Russian.
http://www.unaids.org/DocOrder/OrderForm.aspx
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, helps developing countries find solutions to their population problems. UNFPA began operations in 1969. It is the largest international source of population assistance.
http://www.unfpa.org/
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
The Alliance is designed to strengthen the prophetic voice and impact of ecumenical witness on the crucial social, political and economic issues of the day. It will do this by pooling the resources and experience of its partner bodies.
http://www.e-alliance.ch/
UNAIDS
From 1986, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had the lead responsibility on AIDS in the United Nations, helping countries to set up much needed national AIDS programmes.
http://www.unaids.org/ Links pages from their website to activist group on AIDS, National or Regional NGOs projects, education and training, care and treatment etc...
http://www.unaids.org/links/index.asp
World Health Organisation (WHO)
The World Health Organisation is one of the specialised agencies of the United Nations. It came into being in 1948. WHO's objective is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health.
http://www.who.int
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YMCA HIV/AIDS Program Directory, all data are classified by country.
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