Useful links
Africa Renewal
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/subjindx/aids_comp.htm
FXB AIDS Orphans Alert
The AIDS Orphans Alerts Mailing List is available in both French and English as well as in HTML and text only versions.
http://www.fxb.org/
AIDS and Africa
AIDS and Africa is dedicated to providing up-to-date, comprehensive, in-depth information on HIV/AIDS in Africa.
http://www.aidsandafrica.com/
AllAfrica.com
Provides daily updated articles on HIV/AIDS from newspapers in Africa.
http://allafrica.com/aids/
AusAID
These pages provide information on the Australian government's work on HIV/AIDS in the context of international development.
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/closeup/hivaids.cfm
Belgian National Committee for UNICEF
The website of the Belgian Committee for UNICEF contains a feature story on the role of schools in preventing HIV/AIDS (in French) – click on "actualite" and scroll down.
http://www.unicef.be/index.cfm?taalkeuzepagina=1
The Body
This site contains information on AIDS basics and prevention, treatment, and quality of life, as well as interactive Q&As, information on HIV/AIDS hotlines, service organizations and conferences.
http://www.thebody.org/
The British HIV Association (BHIVA)
The site includes the BHIVA treatment guidelines, links to publications, including the BHIVA newsletter and news stories.
http://www.bhiva.org/
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
The CIDA webpages on HIV/AIDS contain CIDA’s AIDS action plan, information on CIDA-supported projects, on women and AIDS, on children and AIDS, on the impact of HIV/AIDS on development, and other resources.
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/En/JUD-111810358-LAH
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States e-mail updates
CDC offers HIV/AIDS email lists on a range of topics, including publications, statistics and replicating effective programmes.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/subscribe.htm
Children Affected by AIDS electronic online forum (CABA)
Email listserve on children affected by HIV-AIDS, run by the Synergy Project on behalf of USAID.
http://www.synergyaids.com/
The Communication Initiative
Strategic communication thinking on development issues.
http://www.comminit.com/
Daily HIV/AIDS news
Gives you all the latest developments in HIV/AIDS from newspapers and other media, scientific journals. The site also has its own feature articles.
http://www.aidscience.com/default.asp
Development Gateway
Development Gateway is a portal website on development issues.
http://www.developmentgateway.org/
Family Health International (FHI)
Family Health International works to improve reproductive and family health around the world through biomedical and social science research, innovative health service delivery interventions, training and information programmes.
http://www.fhi.org/en/index.htm
Fondation du Présent Online Forums
FDP hosts several HIV/AIDS related online forums.
http://www.hivnet.ch/fdp/forums.html
Fight AIDS at home
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, estimated that in 2004 there were more than 40 million people around the world living with HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The virus has affected the lives of men, women and children all over the world. Currently, there is no cure in sight, only treatment with a variety of drugs.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/viewFaahResearch.do
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Resources on the relationship between health and human rights, including those dealing with HIV/AIDS.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/
GlobalHealthReporting.org
Updated daily with the latest information on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the new website GlobalHealthReporting.org offers an easy and efficient way to stay on top of breaking news, data and events from around the world.
http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Global Fund's website contains background information as well as the latest news on the fund.
http://www.theglobalfund.org/
Global Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS
The Global Network of people living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) is a network for and by people with HIV/AIDS around the world.
http://www.gnpplus.net/cms/index.php
The Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Institute
The site includes information on the latest research from the Institute, news reports and an online newsletter.
http://aids.harvard.edu/
Health and Development Networks
Contains documents related to the global fund as well as non-governmental perspectives, presented on the "Break the Silence" electronic discussion list.
http://www.hdnet.org/home.asp
Health Canada
Canadian government site on HIV/AIDS in English and French.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/
HIV Positive.com
United States-focused website, providing information on treatment, pain, testing, mother to child transmission, drug advisories and more.
http://www.hivpositive.com/index.html
International Labour Organization (ILO)
The ILO web pages on HIV/AIDS provide information on the impact of the epidemic on employment and labour and includes a draft code of practice on HIV and the world of work.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/
Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) weekly briefing on HIV/AIDS
IRIN is part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. It offers daily and weekly e-mail updates on regions, countries and topics, including HIV/AIDS.
http://www.irinnews.org/
The International AIDS Economic Network (IAEN)
The International AIDS Economic Network (IAEN) provides data, tools and analysis on the economics of HIV/AIDS prevention.
http://www.iaen.org/
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is a global organization working to speed the development and distribution of preventive AIDS vaccines - the world’s best hope for ending the AIDS epidemic.
http://www.iavi.org/
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance relaunched its website in early February 2005. According to the Alliance, the completely redeveloped site aims to become the first stop for information and resources about community action on HIV and AIDS in developing countries.
http://www.aidsalliance.org/sw1280.asp
International Partnership against AIDS in Africa (IPAA)
A coalition that works under the leadership of African countries and is made up of African governments, the United Nations, donors, the private sector, and...
http://www.sahims.net/batchfiles_web/aids/05/UNAIDS%20International
%20Partnership%20against%20AIDS%20in%20Africa%20(IPAA).htm
Johns Hopkins University AIDS Service
Resources on HIV, including guidelines, publications, information on prevention and epidemiology and news items.
http://www.hopkins-aids.edu/
The Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report highlights legislative, political, legal, scientific and business developments in the area of HIV/AIDS.
http://www.kff.org/hivaids/index.cfm
Media/ Materials Clearing House (M/MC) at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs
International resource for health professionals who seek samples of pamphlets, posters, videos, audio tapes, training materials and many other media/materials designed to promote public health.
http://www.m-mc.org/
Médicins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders
An independent humanitarian medical aid agency.
http://www.msf.org/
Medscape
Medscape’s products and services are designed to give health-care professionals and consumers the health-care information and digital data they need, regardless of where or when they need it.
http://www.medscape.com/home Millenium Campaign
At the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, world leaders from rich and poor countries alike committed themselves--at the highest political level--to a set of eight time-bound targets that, when achieved, will end extreme poverty worldwide by 2015.
http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/pp.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=315618
Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL)
OERL's mission is to support the continuous improvement of project evaluations. Sound evaluations are critical to determining project effectiveness.
http://oerl.sri.com/
Online Toolkit for supporting orphans and other vulnerable children
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Family Health International launched a new online toolkit on supporting orphans and other vulnerable children, which shares learning and resources from a wide range of organisations.
http://www.ovcsupport.net/sw505.asp
Policy Project HIV/AIDS Policy Compendium Database
Over 3,400 annotated citations from policy papers (documents describing national policies or international resolutions) from over 50 countries.
http://64.242.197.201/
School Health
School Health is a joint initiative of the World Bank, the World Bank School Health Initiative, USAID, the Partnership for Child Development, the World Health Organisation, the Pan American Health Organization and UNICEF.
http://www.schoolsandhealth.org/
Shaan online
A magazine produced by Inter Press Service (IPS), in cooperation with UNIFEM.
http://www.ipsnews.net/hivaids/index.shtml
Snapshots from the Field (Family Health International, 2004)
The site features brief articles on compelling aspects of IMPACT's work around the globe. The series is a mechanism for rapidly disseminating a wide variety of materials for and by the field. Snapshots is designed to give programme planners, implementers, managers and other practitioners quick access to information they can use to improve their work.
http://www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/pub/story/Snapshots/index.htm
The Stop TB Partnership
Stop TB is a global movement to accelerate social and political action to stop the unnecessary spread of tuberculosis around the world.
http://www.stoptb.org/
Swedish Agency for International Development (SIDA)
The SIDA pages on HIV/AIDS include an electronic copy of a SIDA publication on HIV/AIDS and other information on Sweden’s response to HIV/AIDS.
http://www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=722
The Synergy Project/USAID
The project focuses on increased use of improved, effective and sustainable responses to reduce HIV transmission and mitigate the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
http://www.synergyaids.com/
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
The UNAIDS website provides valuable resource on a variety of topics related to HIV/AIDS, including epidemiological fact sheets for most countries and an extensive collection of best practices.
http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The HIV/AIDS-related activities of UNDP are focused on identifying effective and sustainable policy and programme responses surrounding the epidemic's social and economic implications.
http://www.undp.org/hiv/index.html
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
The UNFPA web page on HIV/AIDS provides information on the organizations' response to HIV/AIDS, reports and publications, facts and relevant links.
http://www.unfpa.org/hiv/index.htm
United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC)
The UNODC web pages on HIV/AIDS contain information on drug abuse and HIV/AIDS.
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/drug_demand_hiv_aids.html
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO's mandate is to foster international cooperation in intellectual activities designed to promote human rights, help establish just and lasting peace, and further the general welfare of mankind.
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29008&
amp;amp;amp;amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&
amp;amp;amp;amp;URL_SECTION=201.html
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
The UNIFEM web pages on HIV/AIDS provide information on the gender-related aspects of the pandemic.
http://www.genderandaids.org/
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
The website provides information on USAID country programmes and technical areas, publications, and large-scale HIV/AIDS activities and projects.
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/index.html
USAID’s Displaced Children and Orphans Fund
Information on country programmes, funding guidelines, implementing partners, reports and publications, fund management and related links.
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/the_funds/
USAID Toolkits on Impact of AIDS
The Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of Natal, South Africa, created a series of toolkits to encompass aspects of AIDS interventions and preventions and would be targeted at specific groups.
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/TechAreas/
monitoreval/
Voices of Youth (UNICEF)
UNICEFonline discussion forum for adolescents on a range of topics, including HIV/AIDS.
http://www.unicef.org/voy/
Women, Children and HIV: Resources for Prevention and Treatment
The goals of this website are to disseminate state-of-the-art clinical information and training resources on mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to communicate the best practices in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and caring for infected children. Additionally, it is meant to disseminate clinical information and training resources on perinatally acquired pediatric HIV infections.
http://www.pmtct.com/
World Bank
The mandate of the World Bank is to alleviate poverty and improve the quality of life.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTH
NUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/EXTHIVAIDS/0,,menuPK:376477~pagePK:
149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:376471,00.html
World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO web pages on HIV/AIDS provide several resources on HIV/AIDS.
http://www.who.int/hiv/en/
YOUANDAIDS, the HIV/AIDS Internet portal for Asia Pacific
An Internet portal coordinated by UNAIDS.
http://www.youandaids.org/
Youth Against AIDS
Youth Against AIDS (YAA) is an international association of young AIDS activists.
http://www.yaids.org/index_lander.php?Domain=yaids.org
