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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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