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UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Africa Action
"Africa Action is the oldest organization in the U.S. working on African affairs. Our mission is to change U.S. Africa relations to promote political, economic and social justice in Africa. We provide accessible information and analysis and we mobilize popular support for campaigns to achieve this mission."

  • Campaign to End HIV/AIDS in Africa
    "The HIV/AIDS pandemic is the greatest global threat in the world today. Africa is ground zero of the crisis ñ home to nearly two-thirds of those living with HIV/AIDS worldwide."

Africa Policy Information Center

AIDS in Africa - Death Stalks a Continent
Sections include: Photo Essay ; Interactive Map ; Cover Story ; A Fighter in a Land of Orphans ; Not Afraid to Speak Out ; A Lending Tree ; Paying for AIDS Cocktails ; Resource Center.
TIME magazine cover story, 2001

AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses
Highlights of the International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security, Durban, South Africa, April 14-16, 2005.
The book is available for download in PDF format as an entire document or by chapter.
By Stuart Gillespie, ed., 2006.

allAfrica.com - HIV-AIDs and STDs
"AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources..."

BBC News - Aids in Africa
"Aids kills some 6,000 people each day in Africa - more than wars, famines and floods. Millions of children are orphans, many more live with HIV or Aids. This special report, with correspondentsí despatches, key facts, audio, video and interviews, asks why the devastation continues."

Center for Global Development (CGD)
"CGD is an independent think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community."
Topics include: Regions ; Aid Effectiveness ; Capital Flows / Financial Crises ; Debt Relief ; Economic Growth ; Education ; Environment.

Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide
"The HIV and AIDS Resource Guide provides cross-cutting coverage of the social, economic and political aspects of HIV and AIDS in developing countries. It brings together and synthesises research, knowledge and experience from diverse sources in order to inform policy debates. The guide is produced by the IDS Health and Development Information Team, in collaboration with Eldis and the DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC)."
Sections include: Topic Areas ; Key Issues ; Regions & Countries ; Email Lists ; Websites ; Databases ; Journals ; Events.

  • HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa - (dead link)

FXB.org
"Since 1989, FXB has established 87 programs or initiatives in 17 countries to fight poverty and AIDS. All its programs aid to reduce he impact of AIDS on society and more particularly on orphans..."

  • 6 Villages 1 Global Fight Against AIDS - (dead link)
    "On December 1st, 2005, World AIDS Day, FXB launched the 6 Villages 1 Fight Against Aids campaign to launch six self-sustaining FXB villages in Rwanda and Uganda."

Guardian Unlimited - Special Reports - AIDS
Sections include: Latest ; Asia ; AIDS in the UK ; Europe ; AIDS Drugs ; India ; Africa ; Former Soviet Union ; China ; United Nations ; Mozambique ; Anglo American ; Comment and Analysis ; Treatment ; AIDS: The First 20 Years.

id21 - Communicating Development Research
"id21 communicates UK-sourced international development research to policymakers and practitioners worldwide."

International Crisis Group (ICG)

International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) - (dead link)
"...IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in post-socialist transition."

  • With Women Worldwide: A Compact to End HIV/AIDS
    "Outlines priority actions for making global HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care strategies work for women. Developed by a group of women advocates for use in 2006 negotiations on HIV/AIDS and beyond."

kaisernetwork.org - Daily HIV/AIDS Report
- The Henry Kaiser Family Foundation

[Kenya] National AIDS Control Council
"The corporate mission of the National Aids Control Council of Kenya (NACC) is to reduce the spread of HIV, improve the quality of those infected and afected and mitigate the socia-economic impact of the epidemic."

Population Research Institute Working Papers
 Penn State

South Africa Department of Health

Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) - South Africa
Fighting for Affordable Treatment for People with HIV

UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

UNU - WIDER
U.N. University - World Institute for Development Economic Research

USAID HIV/AIDS - Southern Africa Regional Program
"Southern Africa is currently at the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It is estimated that approximately 70 percent of people living with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa. In Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, at least 18 percent of the adult population is infected with HIV."

USAID HIV/AIDS - West Africa Regional Program
"...the program, while continuing to support key initiatives in the four focus countries, will provide select strategic support throughout 17 African countries. This support will be provided through several approaches, including regional meetings, sharing effective tools, and approaches, and providing technical assistance at the country level."

World Health Organization - Regional Office for Africa

  • The African Regional Health Report: The Health of the People
    "...is the first report to focus on the health of the 738 million people living in the African Region of the World Health Organization. While acknowledging that Africa confronts the world's most dramatic public health crisis, the report offers hope that over time the region can address the health challenges it faces, given sufficient international support."


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