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Handbook of Indicators for Monitoring
This handbook describes a set of indicators and the methods of measuring them for use at National, State and individual Project level. The indicators measure a broad range of issues related to the status of the HIV epidemic and the response at the National and State level to the trend of the epidemic.
INFECTION CONTROL AND WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR NATIONAL AIDS CONTROL PROGRAM
Provision of preventative and treatment services under the NACP-III is expected to generate infectious bio-medical wastes such as sharps (infected needles and syringes, surgical equipment, IV sets) infected blood, HIV test kits used in VCT centers, blood banks and laboratories and pharmaceutical wastes.
Patient Retention in Antiretroviral Therapy Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review
Long-term retention of patients in Africa's rapidly expanding antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs for HIV/AIDS is essential for these programs' success but has received relatively little attention. In this paper we present a systematic review of patient retention in ART programs in sub-Saharan Africa.
HIV/AIDS: Social and Ethical Issues
Highlights NACO’s policy ruling out mandatory testing and suggests social, behavioural and legal research will improve understanding dynamics and impact of the pandemic.
HIV Prevention: Should There Be Compulsory Screening?
Presents arguments for and against mandatory testing and whether testing will help or would the infringement of civil liberties be too great.
Preventing the Further Spread of HIV/AIDS: The Essential Role of Human Rights
Suggests when accompanied by effective counselling and accessible post-test services expanded HIV testing can encourage people to protect themselves and their spouses.
Unfinished Business-Expanding HIV Testing in Developing Countries
Specific to Africa, the article suggests equitable expansion of HIV testing requires innovative approaches for reaching people in remote settings.
HIV testing - Routinely Offered or Routinely Imposed?
Emphasises that right of a person to decide if and/or when they will be tested for, HIV must be protected and the principle of voluntary and informed consent is paramount.
HIV/AIDS Reporting Manual: Issues in Pre-Marital Testing
Arguing that pre-marital testing for HIV is not a valuable tool, the chapter demonstrates that it does not check the spread of HIV.
UNGASS India Report - Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
India, along with other Member States adopted the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, in the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS in June 2001. The Declaration of Commitment reflects global consensus on a comprehensive framework to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halting and beginning to reverse the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2015.
A Baseline Survey Report from the BBC World Service Trust
This survey was conducted in 17 Indian states and assessed current perceptions, attitudes and behavior regarding HIV/AIDS among the general population and among Doordarshan (DD) audiences in non-metro urban and rural India.
Socio-Economic impact of HIV/AIDS on people living with HIV/AIDS and their families
Reveals that HIV has made a deeper impact on women who have faced more discrimination, hardships and had to assume more responsibilities to run the households
The HIV-TB Co-infection Program Coordination Guidelines for Clinicians & Standard Operating Procedures
Outlines program coordination guidelines for clinicians and standard operating procedures for care of patients with TB/HIV.
The Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care - The Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care - Patients' Rights and Responsibilities
Outlines the ways patients, the community, health providers and governments can work as partners in a positive, open relationship to improve TB care.
HIV prevention, treatment, care and support
The UNAIDS summary report - 'Towards universal access: assessment by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS on scaling up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support'
Care for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS: the Urgent Need for International Standards - UNICEF, New York, November 2004
Reporting highlighting the growing impact of HIV on children contributes to the urgency for care standards to be developed and applied.
Children out of Parental Care: Sites and Situations of Denial
Report examines the role of adoption agencies in poor countries as facilitators of child trafficking and focuses on the need for modifying current welfare policies and legislation.
Child Trafficking in India
Report highlights the risks involved for children who not monitored after being sent to a foreign nation and calling for stricter inter-country adoption procedures.
Children without Parental Care- A Socio-Legal Analysis from Indian Perspective
Document focuses on the role of Indian state as ‘parens-patriae’ in securing the rights of children without parental care to protect of the best interest of the children.
UNGASS: Monitoring Civil Society Perspectives - Panos Global AIDS Programme
The Panos Global AIDS Programme is working with partners to monitor progress on the Declaration of Commitment targets from a civil society perspective. The project aims to compliment the official review and will produce reports on Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Desperately Seeking Targets: The Ethics of Routine HIV Testing in Low-Income Countries
This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), considers the ethical challenges of massive scale-up of HIV testing required in order to achieve ART (antiretroviral therapy) targets. WHO and UNAIDS have recommended an "opt-out" testing policy, where routine HIV testing is justified and ethical if certain conditions are met.
Economic Security for Women Fight AIDS, Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
Economic Security for Women Fight AIDS, Global Coalition on Women and AIDS: This paper argues that economic security is a major factor enabling women to protect themselves from HIV-infection. And programmes need to increase women’s access to and control over economic assets
HIV, Health and Your Community - A Guide for Action - by Reuben Granich, M.D., M.P.H. and Jonathan Mermin M.D., M.P.H.
Designed for confronting HIV in places with few medical resources, this comprehensive manual is accessible to people without technical knowledge or prior training in HIV prevention or in the care of people with HIV/AIDS. Topics include: biology of HIV, prevention strategies, counseling and testing, low-cost care for people with HIV and their families, and guidelines for using ART and treating opportunistic infections.
Desperately Seeking Targets: The Ethics of Routine HIV Testing in Low-Income Countries
This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), considers the ethical challenges of massive scale-up of HIV testing required in order to achieve ART (antiretroviral therapy) targets. WHO and UNAIDS have recommended an "opt-out" testing policy, where routine HIV testing is justified and ethical if certain conditions are met.
