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Adolescents (10–19 years) and young people (20–24 years) continue to be vulnerable, both socially and economically, to HIV infection despite efforts to date. This is particularly true for adolescents — especially girls — who live in settings with a generalized HIV epidemic or who are members of key populations at higher risk for HIV acquisition or transmission through sexual transmission and injecting drug use. In 2012, there were approximately 2.1 million adolescents living with HIV. About one-seventh of all new HIV infections occur during adolescence. …
Como las ediciones originales, no es un manual ni intenta ser un documento académico sino que está orientada, en primer término, a las personas con VIH, a sus familiares, amigos y parejas. Los capítulos tratan de ser amplios en sus contenidos, con un lenguaje despojado de academicismo, claro y accesible. …
Life skills and sexuality education programmes usually only focus on HIV negative young people. And HIV prevention seems to be the main target of many of such programmes. However, HIV positive youth also need our attention and care. Fact is that worldwide 40% of all new HIV infections are among young boys and girls, while every day 2,500 other young people are infected. To address the specific needs of young people living with HIV (YPLHIV), this practical guide has been developed. …
NCB has produced six Your Life leaflets for young people who have HIV and are aged between about 13 and 25. Most of the leaflets include stories from young people living with HIV, and all contain links to other sources of information and support. - Life Looking Forward. The leaflet covers: feeling safe and well, looking after yourself and being a normal young person, getting on with family members, becoming a parent, transition from children's to adults' HIV health services; - Sharing in Life. …
This course has been developed to provide guidance around youth-specific HIV programming and support staff working across the Asia Pacific region to meet the specific needs and rights of young people from key affected populations. …
Com tiragem inicial de 10 mil exemplares, o Manual de Adesão ao Tratamento para pessoas vivendo com HIV e Aids material será distribuído para as os serviços e ONG que prestam assistência a pessoas vivendo com HIV/aids. A proposta é que esta publicação seja usada por profissionais que trabalham com este tema, com o objetivo de que as atividades em adesão extrapolem a compreensão focada apenas nos medicamentos e ampliem suas ações - de forma compartilhada com os usuários - para fora dos espaços tradicionalmente utilizados. …
Tendo-se em vista a importância da assistência integral às pessoas vivendo com HIV/aids, o respeito aos seus direitos e a sua dignidade, bem como das ações de prevenção e do amplo acesso ao tratamento para o prolongamento da expectativa e da qualidade de vida das pessoas vivendo com o HIV/Aids, o presente Guia pretende esclarecer, de modo simples e ilustrativo, as situações mais comuns com as quais se deparam os cuidadores domiciliares de pessoas que necessitam de atenção especial. …
This report aims to guide governments, NGOs and others working to improve data collection and analysis on households affected by AIDS. It identifies the limits of existing data and suggests how this may be further analysed to produce better information and what future surveys might include.
The objective of this handbook is to enhance awareness and familiarise health care providers with different clinical presentations of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related disease so that they can recognise the possibility of HIV infection and recommend testing where appropriate.
This protocol has been developed to meet a need for guidance on counseling of children and their parents/guardians about HIV/AIDS in 30 USAID/FHI projects with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) under the IMPACT project in India. The document is a product of national and international experience on counseling with expert advice gathered through a two-day national meeting of child psychologists, child psychiatrists and social workers, as well as regional meetings with 30 NGOs working with children on HIV/AIDS issues. …
This book is intended to help young people affected by HIV and AIDS to care for others while protecting and caring for themselves at the same time. It is also intended to promote understanding of the issues around caring for those with HIV and AIDS. It can be used across the curriculum: in literacy, social studies, life skills and science classes as well as in after-school or community clubs.
WHO revised the first version of a Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation for Collaborative TB/HIV Activities which was published in 2004 to reflect further field experience in monitoring TB/HIV activities and to harmonize the indicators with revisions of the Organization's recommended TB and HIV recording and reporting formats, which now capture data on TB/HIV activities. This book has been developed to assist the management of TB and HIV control programmes to implement collaborative TB/HIV activities. …
This guide on positive prevention was developed to assist people living with HIV, service providers and policy makers to understand, promote and implement appropriate rights-based strategies for addressing the prevention needs of people living with HIV. The guide includes sections which focus on action points and provides useful information on key issues to consider when developing prevention programmes for people living with HIV. …
Legal Education and Will Writing. For the Support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Persons Living with HIV and other Persons Affected by HIV. Facilitator's Guide, is a manual developed by the project Global HIV/AIDS Initiative Nigeria funded by USAID and coordinated by Family Health International in Nigeria. The manual presents the basic facts contained in the Nigerian Constitution, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Child's Right Act 2003, and provides practical tips on will writing. …
This document is part of a toolkit written for and by HIV trainers. The toolkit has been designed to help trainers plan and organise educational sessions with community leaders or organised groups. It consists in a collection of participatory training exercices to help people at all levels understand stigma - what it means, why it is an important issue, what its root causes are - and develop strategies to challenge stigma and discrimination.The present document contains the introduction to the toolkit and the Module A, "Naming the problem". …
