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| SOME FACTS ABOUT TB AND HIV |
Why should we be concerned about TB and HIV co-infection?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 11.4 million people worldwide are infected with both mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV.
HIV, AIDS and TB are so closely connected that the term “co-epidemic” or “dual epidemic” is often used to describe their relationship. HIV and TB form a lethal combination, each speeding the other's progression. |
DISCORDANT COUPLES |
A discordant couple is a pair of long-term sexual partners in which one has a sexually transmitted infection and the other does not .
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OLD PEOPLE AND HIV |
People of different age groups are affected by HIV in diverse ways. The elderly, aged 50 years and above, have not been spared. |
| ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MULTIPLE CONCURRENT PARTNERSHIPS |
The Background
International organisations, such as UNAIDS, and regional bodies, such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and recent research recognise that MCPs are a key contributor to the spread of HIV in southern Africa. The practice is widespread throughout the region and has been cited as one of the reasons why HIV prevalence is higher in southern Africa than in any other region in the world. (UNAIDS 2008) |
| What the Media needs to know about TB and HIV |
| Why should we be concerned about TB and HIV co-infection?
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 11.4 million people worldwide are infected with both mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV.
HIV, AIDS and TB are so closely connected that the term “co-epidemic” or “dual epidemic” is often used to describe their relationship. HIV and TB form a lethal combination, each speeding the other's progression. |
| What the Media needs to know about Male Circumcision (MC) |
Background of MC in Zimbabwe
The National AIDS Council (NAC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MOHCW) convened a large-scale stakeholder consultation in 2007, which recommended considering male circumcision as a public health intervention for HIV prevention. Following this meeting, the MOHCW initiated processes to guide stakeholders in the development and implementation of a Male Circumcision policy, service delivery and communication activities in Zimbabwe. |
| WHAT THE MEDIA NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT Treatment Literacy |
| In light of global efforts to scale up access by people living with HIV (PLHIV) to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), the need for information about when and how to take the drugs is becoming more and more important. Before and after ARVs are introduced into communities, people living with HIV, and all those who form their support systems need to understand new and complex ideas around anti-retroviral therapy (ART), side effects associated with taking ARVs, nutrition, and positive living. |
| PITC |
| Provider Initiated Testing and Counselling is initiated by health care providers as part of the patient’s routine clinical management. Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling presents an opportunity for early diagnosis of HIV in health care facilities and facilitates access to prevention, treatment, care and support services |
Intensifying HIV and AIDS Prevention Efforts in Southern Africa |
Please find fact sheets on several recommended prevention
interventions, which directly respond to the proposals of the Think Tank Meeting.
The following fact sheets are contained on this CD-ROM:
Behaviour Change Communication
Partner Reduction
Male Circumcision
The ABC of Prevention
Post Exposure Prophylaxis
Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission
Dual Protection
HIV testing and Counselling
Positive Prevention
You will also find basic information on policies on prevention, some barriers to
prevention and millennium development goals in relation to prevention.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by an organism called mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria can attack any part of the body such as the brain, kidneys or the spine but they most commonly attack the lungs. |
STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION |
People living with HIV and AIDS are often subjected to stigma and discrimination in all spheres of their lives, at home, at work and in the communities they live. This presents a serious barrier in dealing effectively with the epidemic and it hampers efforts being made to the response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. |
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EACH year the world commemorates 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence (GBV), from the 25th of November to December 10th. Many events and campaigns take place around this time but it is not everyone who understands what the 16 Days of Activism Campaign is about. |
| Partner Reduction |
In a 2003 paper entitled ‘Partner Reduction in HIV Prevention: The Neglected Middle Child of “ABC”, the researchers (Shelton, Halperin et al.) involved stated, “It seems obvious, but were it not for multiple partners, there would be no global AIDS pandemic.” |
| Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals
In 1981, American medical officials began to observe an increase in a rare form of cancer – Kaposi’s sarcoma – among homosexual males. This was to be one of the first known symptoms of what would later be termed Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). For many years in America, the disease was regarded as a ‘gay’ disease and since at that time there was still widespread discrimination against homosexuals, little attention was paid to those who were living with the syndrome. And while the national and international HIV epidemic has developed, ironically primarily through heterosexual sex, attitudes to homosexuals have continued to be stigmatising and discriminatory.(read more)
More factsheets...
Women, Disability and HIV
Women's Treatment Literacy
Drug Patents and their implications on access to Anti-retroviral Therapy
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