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This publication provides a background in the risks faced by populations especially vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. The document outlines strategies effective in prevention of HIV and AIDS among sex workers, men who have sex with other men, and injecting drug users. Programs described include peer education, comprehensive health services and quality of treatment, provider referral networks, and in-service training and sensitization.
Today HIV/AIDS is one of the biggest challenges facing the world. The risk of getting the virus is particularly high for young injecting drug users, who are isolated, marginalized and often lack access to even basic prevention services. This publication focuses on reaching out to young drug users with information, services and structures that are appropriate to their needs and how civil society at large can contribute.
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. …
AIDSTAR-One, in collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) West Africa Regional Health Office in Accra, Ghana, and supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, facilitated a workshop held May 2–3, 2012, in support of regional HIV prevention activities. …
This 57-page report found that routine police harassment and arrest - as well as the lasting effects of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's 2003 drug war - keeps drug users from receiving lifesaving HIV information and services that Thailand has pledged to provide. The report also documents how drug users face discrimination from health care workers, who continue to deny antiretroviral treatment to people who need it based on their status as drug users.
El presente Manual es una propuesta para subsanar esta carencia de personal capacitado que se vincule con ambas problemáticas, y forma parte de la estrategia de intervención educativa que desarrolla el Centro Nacional para la Prevención y Control del VIH/SIDA (CENSIDA) hacia UDI, identificado como grupo vulnerable para contraer el VIH/SIDA, conjuntando la información que se ha generado de la investigación nacional e internacional con metodología cuantitativa y cualitativa, y la experiencia de varios años de trabajo de campo en la rehabilitación de usuarios de drogas inyectadas del Programa Com …
This document provides technical guidance to countries on setting ambitious, but achievable national targets for scaling up towards universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users (IDUs). This technical guide provides countries with: A framework and process to set national targets; a comprehensive package of core interventions for IDUs; a set of indicators and indicative targets to be used to set programmatic objectives, and advice on how to monitor and evaluate HIV interventions for IDUs.
Estudio sobre campañas de prevención del VIH/SIDA. Se describen los cinco elementosáque toda buena campaña debe tener: Pertinencia, Eficacia, Impacto, Sostenibilidad e Idoneidad ética. Se analiza qué funciona en campañas a distintos niveles (nacional, comunitario, de programa/proyecto y de grupos específicos). A continuación se estudian estos elementos en campañas dirigidas a públicos específicos: Jóvenes, varones y mujeres, personas que se inyectan drogas, hombres que tiene sexo con hombres, y profesionales del sexo y sus clientes.
Este folleto está pensado como una herramienta de prevención y contiene una serie de mensajes claves para divulgar en caso de emergencias o conflictos armados, con un diseño gráfico simple, que permite convertir cada grupo de mensajes en una hoja volante, a ser distribuída por voluntarios. …
