DB Click: HIV/AIDS October 2012

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Ocotber 2012
DB Click: HIV/AIDS

1. Our Lives Aren't Like the Lives of Other Children
	This report describes and evaluates the Safe Environment and Non-discrimination in Schools in Ethiopia (SENSE), a 3-year project initiated in 2009 with an overall development objective of "a school environment in Ethiopia free from HIV-related stigma and discrimination”. "I can't say that the stigma is totally gone everywhere, even now, but in my school we don’t discriminate because of HIV any longer." - Negede, age 14, class 8"...

2.Open Doors Sexual Health Clinic Website
	In preparation for the summer Olympics of 2012, the Open Doors Sexual Health Clinic team of nurses in East London, United Kingdom (UK), sought to find an alternative route to provide healthcare, including HIV prevention and treatment, sexual health advice, check-ups, and free condoms to sex workers of local brothels, particularly where existing networks for sex worker support might have been disrupted by reported attempts to shut down brothels...

3.Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS: Emerging Lessons from the PEPFAR Initiative in Tanzania
From Janet Fleischman: "In April [2012], I traveled to Tanzania to examine how the GBV initiative is being implemented. I found that, although still early in implementation and facing many challenges, the GBV initiative has the potential to yield important lessons about synergies in reducing GBV and HIV, with clear implications for U.S. global health investments."...

4.Managing the Media Monster: The Influence of Media (from Television to Text Messages) on Teen Sexual Behavior and Attitudes
"The media are the air our young people breathe. That air should include accurate information about the risks and responsibilities of sexual behavior." This report is intended to share with practitioners and programmes research about how the media influence the sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour of young people (defined here as ages 12 to 24) - both positively and negatively...

5.The Millennium Development Goals Report 2012
This report presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), highlighting several milestones. "Several recent media campaigns have demonstrated the potential of reaching large numbers of adolescents with HIV prevention messages to increase knowledge and to change behaviour. Such campaigns are especially effective if the messages are complemented with sexuality education and other communication content used with adolescents"...

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6.Guideline on HIV Disclosure Counselling for Children Up to 12 Years of Age
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed this guidance for healthcare workers (HCWs) on how to support children 12 years of age and younger, and their caregivers, on disclosure of HIV status. The guidance is intended as part of a comprehensive approach to the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social well-being of a developing child following the child's own diagnosis of HIV or that of a parent or close caregiver...

7.Red por Belen (the Belen Network)
"As we worked and played this year in Belen it became clear that art, in the form of collaborative creative play improvisational theater), painting of houses and murals, music, dance and art education enables community participation in other spheres, specifically health education and cooperative problem solving to address community problems." from Red por Belen...

8.HIV, Drug Use and the Global Fund: Don’t Stop Now!
As stated in the Executive Summary: "This report examines the impact of the cancellation of Global Fund Round 11 funding and subsequent changes in Global Fund policies and practices relating to HIV and drug use programmes. It focuses on how future HIV and harm reduction programming will be affected by the Global Fund’s current funding crisis given the very low existing levels of funding for such programming...

9.Good Practice Guide: Family-Centred HIV Programming for Children
"This guide is designed to support children and their families who are affected by HIV in different ways. The starting point is our belief that children have the right to be treated with dignity and respect and that children can be an active part of the solution." This Good Practice guide is designed to help HIV programmers implement family-centred HIV programming for children. ..

10.Nuestra Casa Exhibition Project
Nuestra Casa is a communication initiative revolving around a traveling exhibit: a full-size, 3-dimensional house that is designed to make real the life and stories of people in Mexico and the United States (US)-Mexico borderlands who are affected by tuberculosis (TB). Starting in December 2010, it was created as a tool for advocacy, communication, and social mobilisation promoting awareness among decision makers, health care providers, and the public in general to get involved in concrete action to prevent the spread of TB, reducing the number of cases and deaths caused by it...

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11.Essentials of Public Health Communication
Essentials of Public Health Communication is devoted to the competencies in health communication and informatics recommended by the United States (US)-based Association of Schools of Public Health...

12.Through Positive Eyes
"The participants' visual explorations communicate the challenges facing HIV-positive people around the world: stigma, fear, and access to treatment, among others." Through Positive Eyes is designed to give photographic voice to people living with HIV in major cities around the world. It is based on the belief that HIV-positive people should pick up their own cameras and make their own artistic statements...

13.Atlacatl - HIV Programme Design in El Salvador
Asociacion Atlacatl Vivo Positivo (Atlacatl) works to increase access to health care and comprehensive HIV services free from stigma and discrimination for key populations in El Salvador, including gay men and other men who have sex with men, people living with HIV, sex workers and transgender women. It's programme includes communication for HIV and stigma awareness, rights advocacy at the national level, and capacity building for community assessment and project design through the Vida Digna model...

14.Case study: Tackling Stigma and Discrimination in El Salvador: The Vida Digna (Life with Dignity) Programme
The Vida Digna (Life with Dignity) programme in Central America addresses the high levels of stigma, discrimination, and violence faced by key populations affected by HIV and AIDS. The Vida Digna programme has been engaging with service providers: working to reduce stigma and discrimination; strengthening key population organisations; and working to help make the HIV response more sustainable...

15.Integrating HIV Care: Improving Programs, Improving the Lives of People Living with HIV
This case study examines an integrated clinical and social support programme, Aamhich Aamache Drop-In Center (DIC) in India, that used quality improvement, decentralisation, task shifting, and community engagement to identify and address challenges to sustaining HIV treatment programmes in India...

16.Samastha
Keeping people living with HIV (PLHIV) - including children - adherent to antiretroviral (ART) treatment was a key goal of Samastha, a 5-year project that was launched in January 2007. Samastha sought to provide comprehensive HIV services in 12 high-prevalence rural districts and 3 urban centres in Karnataka, India...

17.Bringing HIV, Substance Abuse and Homelessness into the University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Museum through Photo-Ethnography
This article documents the experience and research strategies of two men who, in San Francisco, United States (US), integrated photography into an ethnographic project documenting the lives of a social network of homeless heroin addicts - with the intention to draw attention to the unhealthy effects of indigence and substance abuse and advocate for changes in US public policy related to indigent drug users. What emerged from the 12-year project (funded by a National Institutes of Health HIV prevention grant) was a book, Righteous Dopefiend, and an exhibition...

18.Bike4Care
A project of CooP-Africa: Cycling Out of Poverty, the Bike4Care project enables community health workers to visit more patients at a greater distance. In addition, a bicycle ambulance makes patient transport to health centres possible, and mobile pharmacies on bicycles enable access to medicines. CooP Africa has Bike4Care projects in Uganda, Kenya, and Burkino Faso intending to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health care, and combat HIV, malaria, and other diseases...

DB CLICK: HIV/AIDS updates you on recent HIV/AIDS initiatives recently placed on The Communication Initiative website, including a specific focus on HIV/AIDS and development as well as a specific focus on HIV/AIDS, young people, and research.

DB CLICK: HIV/AIDS complements The Drum Beat through a specific focus on role of communication in the eradication of HIV/AIDS.

Take a look at the HIV/AIDS Theme Site for more on HIV/AIDS and communicatin for development, as well as HIV/AIDS, Young People, Research Theme Site for sharing research on young people and HIV/AIDS.

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