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• The first issue of AIDS action

• Education: a powerful weapon

• Promoting dialogue

• AIDS and the developing world

• An integrated approach

• Questions and answers

• AIDS and primary health care

  • Immunisation

  • Breastfeeding

• AIDS: a global problem

  • Control strategies

• Country report

  • Uganda: an AIDS control programme

• Resources

  • Information Sources

  • Equipment

  • Books/Manuals

  • Newsletters/Leaflets

  • Video

  • Other Resource Material

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • Preventing transmission through blood and blood products: recommendations for health workers

  • Considerations for health care settings in developing countries

  • Basic prevention: universal blood and body fluid precautions

  • Basic prevention: reducing parenteral and other invasive procedures

  • Special issues

• Provisional WHO Clinical Case Definition for Adult AIDS

• Other SPA publications of interest

• Back to basics

• Reaching schoolchildren - Sex education in the Cameroon

• Health education

  • Guidelines for action

  • Campaigning on use of condoms

• Country report

  • Facing AIDS in Costa Rica

• Resources

  • Teaching Materials

  • Information Sources

  • Books/Manuals

  • Equipment

  • Newsletters/Leaflets

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • World Summit of Ministers of Health on AIDS

  • Social aspects of AIDS prevention and control

  • The national planning process

  • AIDS Surveillance Report

• Tests: discrimination or discovery?

• The human immunodeficiency virus

  • Explaining the nature of the virus that causes AIDS

• Blood screening

  • HIV testing in rural hospitals

  • Tests: Terminology and Types

• Clinical diagnosis of AIDS

  • Clinical case definition in developing countries

• Increasing awareness

  • Running AIDS workshops

• Resources

  • Equipment

  • Books/Pamphlets

  • Teaching Materials

  • Sources of Information

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • The clinical symptoms

  • Guidelines on sterilisation and high-level disinfection methods

    • Methods of sterilisation and disinfection

    • High-level disinfectants

    • Field guide to sterilisation and high-level disinfection: techniques effective against HIV

• Breaking the silence

• Health education

  • Ze Cabra-Macho does it safely ...

  • Life on the building sites

  • Convincing the companies

  • Creating a visual impression

  • Avoiding panic

  • Health and safety at work

• Country report

  • The face of AIDS in Brazil

    • Mythical face of AIDS

    • Looking at the reality

    • Finding a response

• Counselling

  • What to tell someone who has AIDS ...

    • What every patient needs to know

    • Help, but don't over-help

    • Be reliable and consistent

    • Try to maintain regular contact with the patient's physician

    • Let patients discuss their feelings

    • Be sensitive to the patient's social unit

    • Encourage group support

    • Remember you, too, have feelings

• A basic guide to safer sex

• Questions and answers

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • World AIDS Day

  • World Health Organisation adopts anti-discrimination resolution on AIDS

  • Counselling in HIV infection and disease

    • AIDS can be prevented

    • The role of counselling

    • Counselling for whom?

    • Who provides counselling?

    • Risk reduction

    • Risk reduction needs to emphasise that:

    • What needs to be done now

• Cases Reported by Continent as of 31/07/1988

• Diagnosis: a clinical dilemma

• Children, HIV infection and AIDS

  • How are children infected with AIDS?

  • What is the risk of an HIV infected mother passing the disease on to her baby?

  • How can I tell if a child is

  • Clinical case definition of paediatric AIDS

  • Can children catch AIDS from immunisations?'

  • Can health workers catch AIDS from mothers and children?

  • How can we stop more children being infected?

  • Update: HIV tests

    • The 'Bar of Soap' test

• Country report

  • Uganda: paediatric AIDS

    • Common signs and symptoms

• Opportunistic infections

  • Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)

    • Symptoms

    • Diagnosis

    • Treatment

    • Side effects

    • Prevention

• Tuberculosis

  • Diagnosis is obviously complicated. How should medical practitioners deal with this?

  • A word of warning:

• Counselling Hints

  • Using condoms

• Health Precautions

  • Disposal of placenta

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • Breastfeeding, breast milk and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

  • Statement from the Consultation held in Geneva, 23-25 June, 1987

  • Breast still best!

  • Recommendations

• Consultation on AIDS and the Workplace

  • I. General statement

  • 2. Introduction

  • 3. Policy principles

  • 4. Policy development and implementation

  • 5. Policy components

    • A. Persons applying for employment:

    • B. Persons in employment:

      • 1. HIV/AIDS screening:

      • 2. Confidentiality:

      • 3. Informing the employer:

      • 4. Protection of the employee:

      • 5. Access to service for employees:

      • 6. Benefits:

      • 7. Reasonable changes in working arrangements:

      • 8. Continuation of employment relationship

      • 9. First aid:

• Manuals

• What have you heard about sexually transmitted diseases?

  • Preventing STDs - and AIDS

  • How common are STDs ?

  • Time to act

• Treating HIV infection like a Sexually Transmitted Disease

  • What are the main aims of STD control programmes?

  • Why are STD programmes important for AIDS prevention and control?

  • Do STDs facilitate transmission of HIV?

  • Does HIV infection affect the clinical symptoms of other STDs?

• Treatment guidelines

  • General guidelines on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of genital ulcer disease

    • Chancroid

      • Signs and symptoms

      • Treatment

    • Syphilis,

      • Signs and symptoms

        • Primary syphilis:

        • Secondary syphilis:

        • Latent syphilis:

        • Late syphilis:

      • Laboratory diagnosis

        • Non-specific tests:

        • Specific tests:

      • Treatment

    • Genital herpes

      • Signs and symptoms

      • Treatment

    • Treatment protocol for genital ulcers

• Health promotion

  • A day in the life of Gente Joven

    • Sexuality in school

    • Five themes

    • San Bernabe and the puppet show

    • Meeting the promoters

    • Street talks

• Readers' Comments

• Resources

  • Colour slide sets

  • Manuals

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • World AIDS Day - a special embrace

    • Putting the pieces together

  • Consultation on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) as a Risk-factor for HIV Transmission

    • Introduction

    • STDs as a risk-factor for HIV transmission

    • Research Priorities

    • Strategic and programmatic implications

  • WHO Publications

  • International Conference

• Cooperation and coordination

• Diarrhoea and AIDS

  • What is diarrhoea?

  • What causes diarrhoea?

  • Is diarrhoea dangerous?

  • Why do people with AIDS often suffer from diarrhoea?

  • What are the common causes of AIDS-related diarrhoea?

  • What is the treatment for AIDS-related diarrhoea?

    • For dehydration:

    • For the infection:

  • Can better nutrition help treat the effects of diarrhoea?

  • Why is diarrhoea more of a problem in developing countries?

  • How can diarrhoea be prevented?

  • Home care

• Counselling.

  • A family commitment

    • Home care

    • A lot to say and a little time to say it

  • Understanding symptomless infection

  • Giving advice

• Community care

• The Northwest AIDS Foundation, Seattle, USA

• The UK NGO AIDS Consortium

  • What the consortium does

  • United but still independent

• International NGO meeting

• Resources

  • Videos

    • Survivors - for street children:

    • AIDS: Frankly Speaking and Young People Talking - for health workers and health planners:

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • For our mutual benefit

    • What role can NGOs play in AIDS control programmes?

    • What is the relevance of Who's Global AIDS Strategy to the work of local NGOs?

    • What are the main elements of cooperation between WHO and NGOs?

    • What sort of NGOs does the GPA work with?

    • What kind of activities is WHO/GPA planning with NGOs?

  • Youth and AIDS

    • Why focus on youth?

    • What are the consequences of HIV infection?

    • Young people can prevent the spread of the virus that causes AIDS

    • Why don't more young people protect themselves against HIV infection?

    • What is being done to prevent HIV infection among young people?

• AIDS home care team at Chikankata Hospital, Zambia

• Taking counselling and care into the community

  • Setting up a team

  • Counselling

  • Gilbert's story

• Opinion

  • Not just a Rabbi's responsibility

• African women against AIDS

• Working in schools

  • Join the Club!

    • What do the clubs do?

    • How are the Zambian clubs organised and funded?

    • How successful are the clubs?

• Oral signs of AIDS

  • Fungal infections

  • Bacterial infections

  • Viral infections

• Oral manifestations: prevention and treatment guidelines

  • Prevention

  • Treatment

    • Thrush

    • Gum disease

• Letters

  • Quality and proper use of condoms

• Resources

  • Education in schools

  • Manual - A Colour Atlas of AIDS in the Tropics

  • Video - AIDS-Wise, No Lies

  • Colour slide sets

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • The role of non-government organisations (NGOs) in National AIDS Programmes

    • What are the major areas for government and NGO co-operation in the ACP?

    • How does NGO/government co-operation really work?

    • What is the financial relationship between NGOs and the national programme?

    • What do you see as the main direction for ACP/NGO co-operation in the future?

  • Biomedical update

    • HIV infection and drug research

      • HIV-I and HIV-2

      • Drugs which slow down or block the multiplication of HIV

    • Explanation of scientific terms

    • 'Our lives, our world ...'

    • Funding opportunity for NGO projects

• Women, HIV and AIDS

• A few facts

  • What is AIDS?

  • What is safer sex?

  • Is AIDS a 'woman's disease'?

• Talking safer sex

  • How to start

  • Solving problems

  • Keeping up the romance

  • Condoms are not the only answer...

  • Avoiding insult

  • Sex outside the relationship

• Thailand - Deadly serious humour for the 'Go-Go Girls'

• Zimbabwe - Identifying our strengths

  • Sexual loyalty

  • Sexual attitudes and stigma

  • Traditional healers

• General guidelines on cross-infection control in the dental surgery

  • Personal hygiene

  • Cleaning and sterilising instruments

• Interview

• Readers' Letters

  • AIDS and skin problems

  • Transmission of HIV

• Resources

  • Organisations

  • Health education material

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • The Second International Symposium on Information and Education on AIDS

    • Reaching the hard to reach

    • Counselling

    • Reaching young people

• Women and AIDS: current knowledge

  • Transmission of HIV infection from mother to child

    • Transmission before birth (prepartum)

    • Transmission during birth (intrapartum)

    • Transmission after birth (postnatal)

• Paediatric HIV infection/AIDS

  • Testing for HIV infection

  • Definitions and clinical manifestations

• HIV and pregnancy

  • What every mother-to-be should know

  • Testing pregnant women

  • Reproduction and HIV infection

• Biomedical Update

  • Developing an AIDS vaccine

  • Guide to Planning Health Promotion for AIDS Prevention and Control

• Discriminating against people infected with HIV

  • Why some organisations will not be attending the largest international conference on AIDS

• Opportunistic infections

  • Skin conditions common to people with HIV infection or AIDS

    • A: Generalised dermatitis (inflammation)

    • B: Infections/infestations

    • C: Skin tumours

    • Pruritic maculopapular rash (prurigo)

      • Treatment:

  • Bacterial infections

  • Fungal infections

    • Treatment:

  • Viral infections

    • Herpes simplex

      • Treatment:

    • Herpes zoster (shingles)

      • Treatment:

  • Skin tumours

    • Kaposi's sarcoma

      • Treatment:

• Community education

  • Haiti

    • Beauty parlours and health promoters

  • Educating factory workers

  • Mexico

    • Pressure points

    • Legal pursuits

• News

  • Director of Global Programme on AIDS resigns

  • Wonderwomen and Superman take on AIDS

• Epidemiology

  • HIV/AIDS in Mexico

    • Sexual transmission

    • Blood transmission

    • Campaigning and resources

  • Caribbean

    • Mode of transmission

    • Trends

    • What is CAREC?

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • Reported AIDS Cases, as at 31 March,1990

    • Africa

    • Americas

    • Asia

    • Europe

    • Oceania

    • World Grand Total

• Clinical signs of AIDS

• What does adult AIDS look like?

  • Earlier signs of HIV infection

  • Later signs of HIV infection (AIDS)

  • Opportunistic infections

    • Clinical signs

• Certain tumours

  • (a) Kaposi's sarcoma

  • (b) Lymphomas

• What is the course of the disease in AIDS patients?

• WHO clinical case definition for AIDS in adults when diagnostic resources are limited

• Surviving the streets

• Practical guidelines

  • Knowing where to start

    • Start with yourself

    • Use local resources

    • Discussing health and sex

• News-First International Conference on AIDS and Homeless Youth: an agenda for the future

• Brazil - Developing materials

• Education in schools

  • Action magazine on AIDS

    • Where did we start?

    • Planning the message

    • Making the message fun

    • Pull out teachers' pages

• Street projects

  • Home from home - Helping children on the streets of Bogotá

    • Drug use

    • STDs and child-size condoms

    • Leaving the streets

• HIV and the nervous system

  • Current knowledge on common HIV-related neurological disorders

    • Direct effect of HIV

      • AIDS Dementia Complex

      • Vacuolar myelopathy

  • Opportunistic infections

    • Cryptococcal meningitis

    • Toxoplasmosis

    • Tumours and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)

  • Summary

  • Explanation of scientific terms

• Letters

  • Are condoms safe?

  • Routes of transmission of HIV

• Resources on street children

  • Publications

    • General

    • Prostitution

    • Human rights

    • AIDS education

  • Sources of information

  • Educational materials

• WHO Report - AIDS: a worldwide effort will stop it

  • Using audio-visuals in health education

    • Are you showing the right film?

    • Do you have the right equipment?

    • Presenting the film

    • Presenting information

    • As a teaching aid

    • Training teachers

  • Evaluating AIDS health promotion

    • What is health promotion?

    • What is evaluation?

    • Approaching evaluation

    • Avoiding suspicion

    • Information gathering

    • Assessing outreach

    • Assessing knowledge, attitudes and practice

    • Assessing comprehension of the message

    • Carrying out the evaluation

  • News

    • Educating youth

    • World AIDS Day 1990 - focus on women

• Policies in Solidarity

  • What does 'solidarity' mean?

  • What is this in practice?

• Training

  • How to plan a project and apply for funds

  • Doing it our way

• Treatment

• Common fungal infections in HIV disease

• Superficial fungal infections

  • I. Candidiasis

  • 2. Tinea versicolor

  • 3. Dermatophyte (ringworm) infections

• Subcutaneous mycoses

• Systemic mycoses

  • I. Cryptococcosis

  • 2. Histoplasmosis

• Management of vaginal thrush

• Communicating sexual health

  • What is sexual health?

    • Practising safer sex

• Caring talk saves lives

• Ethiopia - Bekele and the bar women

• Views from Africa

  • Faith, Hope and Chastity

  • Preparing for that 'big day'

• Sexually transmitted diseases - Guidelines for management

  • Explanation of medical terms

  • Management of STD associated syndromes

  • Signs and symptoms of specific STDs

• Letters

• Life-saver or blood sucker?

• National programming - The Zimbabwe experience

• International co-operation - Blood Programme of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

• The blood trade - At life's expense

  • Breaking the blood mafia

  • India - The art of buying

  • HIV antibody testing - Commonsense and sensitivity

• Letters

• The sex industry

• Practical guidelines - How to sell safer sex

  • Planning a campaign

  • Providing services

  • Ideas for action

• Male sex workers - Reaching out

  • India - Beyond the Monsoon

  • Brazil - Sex and self-worth

  • Philippines - 'Only for the money'

• Education and training - Lessons for life

  • Back to School: Peru

  • Health Workers: Romania

  • Training Trainers: South Africa

• Letter

• News

• What have we all been doing - and have we been doing it right?

  • What we have learnt

• Practical guidelines - Approaching evaluation

  • 1. Comparative studies

  • 2. Interviews, questionnaires

  • 3. Ethnographic investigation

  • Mix and Match

• Urban primary health care - Building a house of health

  • Medical services

  • Quality, not just quantity

  • Action speaks louder than words

  • Building an AIDS campaign

  • Community educators

  • Conclusion

• Community counselling - Behaviour change - measured by the community, for the community

  • What exactly is community counselling?

  • How does this process start?

  • Monitoring change

  • Conclusion

• Interview - Educator and activist

• New Publication

• Letter

• Human rights are everyone's rights

• Human rights and HIV/AIDS

  • Strategies for action

    • What are human rights?

    • The law, courts and tribunals

    • International organisations

    • Governments

    • Community groups

    • Individuals

  • Challenging discrimination in India

  • Second class citizens

• Access to health care - 'We have a right to live and die with dignity'

  • Care In the community

  • Coming to terms with AIDS

• Human rights and homosexuality - On the frontline

  • Driving AIDS underground

  • From intolerance to respect

  • Radical response

• Rights of young people and children

  • Talking health promotion on to the streets!

    • Changing discriminatory laws

    • Poverty and violence

    • Supportive health workers

• News

• Work against AIDS

  • Education, not discrimination

  • Beyond the work place

• AIDS and work

  • The high cost of the epidemic

    • Lost productivity and skills

    • Impact on families

    • Pressure on health care

  • 'Solidarity is a big enterprise!'

  • Steaming ahead

• Action in the workplace

  • AIDS is everybody's business

    • Educators at work

    • Caring companies?

    • Prevention: who pays?

      • It's all in the rubber!

• Clinical update - Coping with dual infection: HIV and tuberculosis

  • How are TB and HIV related?

  • How is TB diagnosed in people with HIV?

  • What are the principles of TB treatment?

  • Does HIV infection affect how TB should be treated?

  • Spread the word, not TB!

  • Preventive chemotherapy

  • Some possible treatment regimens

• News

• Resources

• Training makes a big difference

• Training for health workers

  • Learning through experience

  • Training exercise: who will be treated?

  • Towards healthy working

• Working with community leaders

  • 'AIDS is not a problem for us'

• Home care training guidelines

  • Courage, compassion and care

    • Training and support

    • Facts about HIV and AIDS

    • Care for common symptoms

    • The health worker's key role

    • Preventing infection

    • Emotional support

    • Confidentiality

    • Nutrition

  • Building on tradition

• Infection prevention for carers

  • Skin protection

• Readers' survey

• News and resources

• Steps to success in teaching and training

  • Before starting

  • Approaches to education and training

  • Steps to participatory learning

    • 1: Assess what people know already

    • 2: Build on what is known

    • 3: Check people's understanding

    • 4: Problem solving and decision making

    • 5: Evaluating education or training

• 'Going public plays a crucial role in the fight against AIDS... but coming out as HIV-positive should never be forced.'

• Self-help groups

  • Skilled educators, not 'teaching-aids'!

  • Taking control of my life

  • Self-help groups can ....

  • Women meet with women

  • Responding to local needs

  • Steps ahead

• Questions and answers

  • Check your facts

• Clinical update

  • Diagnosing symptomatic HIV infection and AIDS in adults

    • AIDS clinical definition

    • Uses of terms

  • Symptomatic HIV infection criteria

• Sex, drugs and HIV control

• Outreach guidelines

  • Take prevention to the people

  • Face-to-face outreach work increases impact

• HIV and injecting drug use

  • Clean needles save lives

  • Sterile equipment reduces risk of HIV

  • Strategies for safer drug use (from most to least safe)

• Clinical update

  • Anti-HIV drugs: no magic bullets

  • AZT: limited usefulness

• Letter

• Resources

• Promoting sexual health

• HIV/STDs and family planning

  • Making good connections

    • Infection prevention

    • Approaches to integration

    • Women at risk

    • More than sexual health

    • Assessing risk

• Safer sex and condoms

  • Giving people more choices

    • Safer sex activities include

    • Emphasise the benefits

    • Practice makes perfect

    • Group Exercise: Why don't people use condoms?

    • Condoms are contraceptives too

• Tips for training

  • Talking about sexuality

  • Participation is the key

  • True-to-life characters

  • Practical fieldwork

  • Letters

  • Sexual health resources

• Rights and risk reduction

• Vaccine update

  • HIV vaccines on trial?

    • Challenging HIV

    • Slow steps forward?

    • No quick fixes for prevention

    • Strategies for development

  • Ethics are essential

• Preventing HIV in prisons

  • Reaching people behind bars

    • Educate for protection

    • Concerns for care

  • Rope of hope

• Clinical update

  • Respiratory diseases and HIV

    • Bacterial pneumonias

    • Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)

    • Clinical tuberculosis

    • Kaposi sarcoma (KS)

    • Fungal infections

    • Management approaches

    • Prevention measures

    • Possible steps in second line management

• Letters

• New resources

• Keys to counselling

• Counselling and HIV

  • What leads to good counselling?

  • Support for safer behaviour

  • Dealing with difficult issues

  • Confidentiality versus secrecy

  • Working with couples

• Practical Guidelines

  • Care for the dying

    • Practical issues

    • Patient care

    • Emotional stress

    • Caring for the carers

    • When death is near

• News

• Resources

• Young people first!

  • Why focus on young people?

  • What do young people need?

• Sex education

  • Lessons for life

  • Need for national action

  • Songs and drama

  • Talk not chalk

• Living with HIV

  • Young people take action

  • Hope, not fear

  • Face-to-face

  • Positive networking

• Reaching young people

  • Condoms and cucumbers

  • Supporting ourselves

  • Media messages for safer sex

• Letter

• Resources

• Youth to Youth

  • AIDS prevention

    • Why does peer education work?

    • Guiding principles

    • Before starting

    • Peer approaches

    • Education is fun

    • Defining the project's objectives

    • Recruiting peer educators

    • Planning education activities

    • Involving people with HIV

    • Training for peer educators

    • Training ideas

    • Supporting the peer educators' work

• All about STDs

  • Prevention and care at the primary level

• Update: sexually transmitted diseases

  • What are STDs?

• Syndromic management for STDs

  • STD diagnosis and treatment

    • Syndrome approach

    • Common STD syndromes

• STD management at primary level

  • Guidelines for STD care

  • One-to-one advice for every patient includes

  • Key messages for the person are

  • Genital ulcer

  • Urethral discharge

  • Lower abdominal pain (PID)

  • Vaginal discharge

  • Treatment strategies

• Integrating STD services

  • Reaching women and men

    • Options for prevention

  • 'All part of the service'

    • Integrating care

    • Signs of success

• Letter

• Resources for STD care

• Caring for children

• Infant feeding and HIV

  • Risks versus benefits

    • Breastfeeding benefits

    • Weighing up pros and cons

  • Healthy choices

  • Alternatives to breastfeeding

• Children and HIV

  • Diagnosis dilemmas

  • Common symptoms

  • Key points for care

  • Recognition of symptomatic HIV infection in children

  • STD infection in infants

• Epidemiology update

  • HIV and AIDS: fact not myth

  • Estimated number of HIV-infected adults alive in late 1994

• Training exercise for health workers

  • Understanding HIV

• Letter

• Resources

• Home and hospital

• Continuum of care

  • Care across a continuum

  • Close links

  • Prevention and care

  • Comprehensive care

  • Confidentiality

  • Involving people with HIV

  • Community involvement

  • Quality and access

  • Does hospice care have a role?

• Programme planning

  • Steps in setting up home care

    • Before starting...

    • Responding to needs

    • Referrals for home care

    • Staff and training

    • Wider involvement

    • Counselling

    • Care at home

    • Care costs

    • Programme monitoring

• Treatment, care and medicines

  • Caring at home

    • Guidelines for carers

      • Infection control

      • Skin problems

      • Sore mouth and throat

      • Fevers and pain

      • Cough, difficulty in breathing

      • Diarrhoea

    • Medicine and supplies

    • Basic medicines and supplies

    • Key role for volunteers

• Letter

• Resources

• Much more than information

  • Participation is key

  • Fulfilling individual needs

  • Making environments supportive

  • Training activity: education strategies

• Policy and practice

• Possible barriers to HIV prevention

• Ways to reduce risk

• 'Dirty water kills us, not AIDS!'

  • Listening to the women

  • Challenging attitudes

• Community-based planning

  • Talking about tradition

    • Discussing sexuality

    • Continuing discussion

• Family warmth heals

• Resources

• HIV, drugs and diets

• Research update

  • Slow progress against HIV

    • Anti-HIV treatments

    • How HIV works

    • Pregnancy and AZT

    • Problems

    • Immune system boosting

    • Affordable and effective?

    • Developing new drugs

• Nutrition guidelines

  • Eat healthily, stay healthy

    • Nutritious and easy to eat

    • What is a balanced diet?

    • Helping with difficulties

    • For women and children

    • Community coping

    • Safe food preparation

• Learning through games

  • AIDS: everyone's task

    • Sample "Everyone's task" cards

    • Sample "Community' cards

  • Learning about AIDS

• Letter

• Resources

• Tackling TB and HIV

  • What is TB?

  • A growing crisis

  • How do TB and HIV interact?

  • Numbers of people developing active TB 1990-1993*

• Principles of TB control

  • Proper detection and treatment

  • BCG vaccination

  • Women and TB

  • Preventive chemotherapy

• TB programmes

  • Ways to work together: HIV and TB programmes

    • TB programme activities

    • Collaboration between TB and HIV/AIDS programmes

    • What can NGOs do?

    • What can health workers do?

    • Keeping records

• TB diagnosis

  • Detection and diagnosis

    • Definitions

    • Sputum smear microscopy

    • Culturing

    • Tuberculin skin testing

    • Chest radiography

    • Detection and diagnosis of TB in people with HIV

• Treatment

  • Treatment for TB

    • Pregnant women and young infants

    • How to assess cure?

    • Failure to respond

    • TB SCC treatment for new cases, adults >50kg

    • TB re-treatment for adults >50kg

    • Side effects of drug treatment

• Treatment issues for people with HIV

• Caring for people with HIV and TB

  • Skin reactions and care

• Supervising treatment

  • What is DOTS?

  • Encouraging treatment

  • Community support

• Education and training

  • Working with communities

    • TB treatment game

    • TB education

• Preventing TB in health facilities

• Preventative

  • Who should get IPT?

  • Limitations of IPT

  • WHO recommendations

• Drug resistance

  • Why does drug resistance develop?

  • Is MDR TB a major problem?

  • What are the dangers of MDR TB?

• Resources

• Making progress

  • Monitoring and evaluation

• Project planning

  • Involving people

    • Asking the right questions

    • All of us!

  • Project plans

    • Planning steps

    • Project staff

    • Community links

• Monitoring tools

  • Collecting information

    • What to collect

    • Finding out about feelings

  • Focus group discussions

  • Questionnaires

• Practical monitoring

  • All in a day's work

    • Starting with the community

    • Measuring progress

• Collecting views

• Learning all together

  • Planning in groups

  • Involving others

• Letter

• Resources for planning and monitoring

• Rights and respect

• Human rights approach

  • Prevent HIV, promote health and human rights

    • Small actions, big changes

    • Practical activities

    • Internationally accepted human rights

• Going public

  • Being open, educating others

• Achieving change

  • A positive response

  • Right to know

• Self-help groups

  • Self-help or support

  • Anger into action

• Income generation

  • Making a living

    • Responding to needs

    • Saving and borrowing

    • Enterprise

• Fighting injustice

• Resources

• Blood safety

  • Success stories

• Reducing HIV transmission

  • Strategies for safe blood

    • Donating safe blood

    • Key points

    • Avoiding unsafe donations

    • Screening blood

    • Reducing blood transfusions

    • What is hepatitis B?

• Education and counselling

  • Safe blood and safer sex

    • Fears about giving blood

    • Public education

    • Before donating blood

    • One-to-one counselling

    • Information for blood donors

    • After donating blood

  • Keeping up commitment

    • Staying safer

• Counselling blood donors

  • Testing positive

    • Young donors

    • Other HIV testing options

• Training activities

  • Towards better counselling

  • Keeping confidences

  • Assessing personal risk

• News

• Resources

• Disability and HIV

  • Disability and impairment

  • Learning from each other

  • Signs in a time of AIDS

• Communication and counselling needs

  • Talking about sex and disability

  • HIV fact sheet

• Life skills education

  • Keeping safe, feeling healthy

• Training activity

  • Check your attitudes

• Resources on Disability

• Organisations

• Resources on HIV and AIDS

• New Publication

• HIV and safe, healthy sex

• Sex: a sensitive issue

• Talking about our bodies

• Female reproductive organs

• Male reproductive organs

• The menstrual cycle

• Sex and getting pregnant

• Common infections

• Preventing unwanted pregnancy and infection

• Contraceptives

• Condoms

• Putting it into practice

• Resources

• HIV and its impact on health workers

• Health worker stress

  • Coping with the burden

  • Getting together to talk about stress

• Reducing risk at work

  • Steps to making the workplace safer

  • Our fears about HIV

• Health workers with HIV

  • Health workers need support

• District management

  • Allocating resources

  • Community treatment for patients with TB

  • Caring for children

  • Support for home carers

  • Drugs for dealing with HIV

• News

• Letter

• New publications

• Resources

• HIV prevention - keys to success

• Principles of prevention

  • What works best?

• Prevention in practice

  • More than a health issue

  • Community support

  • Overcoming prejudice

  • Building solidarity

• Health worker stress

  • Building on success

• Clinical update

  • HIV-related diarrhoea

• The right psychology

• Resources

• Making clear messages

• Principles

  • What works best?

  • What Materials do you need?

• Planning and pre-testing

  • Getting it right

• Leaflets

  • Key facts

• Adapting materials

  • Exchanging ideas

  • A practical checklist

• Writing

  • How to write clearly

• Visual Aids

  • Pictures for learning

  • What pictures can do

• Posters

  • Attracting attention

  • Discussions with a dentist

• Drawing

  • Producing pictures

• Comic strips

  • Picture stories

• Games and models

  • Learning through games

• Puppets

  • Bringing it to life

  • Puppet power

• Video and Film

  • Involving the audience

  • Moving pictures

• Using the media

  • Reaching millions

• Resources

• Caring for people who are very sick

• Patient's needs

  • A better life and death

  • Types of care

  • Making a will

• Carers' needs

  • Helping carers to cope

  • Simple techniques for nursing at home

  • What carers need to know

• Pain relief

  • Controlling pain

  • Making drugs available

• Support groups take action

• Resources

• HIV and children

• Letters

• Facts about HIV and children

• Children affected by HIV

• Management and treatment

  • Managing illness

• Infant feeding and HIV

• Training exercise

  • Ilinanga's story

• Talking to children

  • Living positively

  • Memories help

  • Helping children talk

• Resources

• Improving access to care

  • Activity Action for care

• Making care affordable

• Making drugs accessible

• Introducing antiretroviral therapy

  • What is antiretroviral therapy?

  • Starting therapy

• Using antiretroviral therapy

  • Changing therapy

  • Checklist for Health Workers

  • Antiretroviral drugs

  • Definitions

• Resources

• People on the move

• Vulnerability

  • Mobility and HIV

• Peer educators

  • Educating the community

  • Tracking the trucks

• Home communities

  • Seeking the whole picture

• Refugees

• HIV and refugees

• Returning home

• Letter

• Resources

• Talking about safer sex

• Steps to safer sex

  • Having safer sex

• Young people

  • Let's talk about sex!

• Practical activity

  • Communities working together

• Female condoms

• Technical update

  • Microbicides

• News

• Resources

• Letter

• Working with traditional health practitioners

• Overview

  • Valuing healers

• Training

  • Involving healers

  • Promoting collaboration

• Complementary care

  • Using herbs

• Herbal medicines

  • Marketing herbal medicines

• Traditional practices

  • Adapting traditional healing practices

• News

• Letter

• Resources

• Challenging stigma and discrimination

• Standing up to stigma

• Activity

  • Exploring attitudes and feelings

• Action in institutions

  • Working with businesses

  • Health workers take a lead in the community

• Involving HIV-positive people

  • Positive involvement

• Advocacy

  • Bringing about change

• Letters

• Resources

• Working with men

• Overview

  • Making a difference

• Informing men

  • Men in the military

    • Cambodia - Resisting peer pressure

• Peer education

  • Peer networks

    • Ghana - Police as peer educators

    • Kenya - Education and advocacy

• Organising self help groups

  • India - Providing services for ourselves

  • Philippines - Self-help in the community

  • Namibia - Opposing violence

• Working with young men

  • Brazil - Working guy to guy

• Health services

  • Improving sexual health services

  • Bangladesh - Safer rest and recreation

  • India - What men worry about

  • Men as partners

• Letter

• Resources

• Faith based approaches

• Overview

  • Responding to HIV

• Religious Health Organisations

  • How health organisations can respond

• Entry points

  • Where to start?

  • Respecting beliefs

• Difficult issues

  • Talking about sex

  • Working with young people

• Letter

• Resources

• Supporting community carers

• Overview

  • Home-based care

• Family carers

  • Support for family carers

    • Safe disposal of waste

• Volunteers

  • Valuing volunteers

  • Recruiting male volunteers

  • Volunteer profile

• Practical support

  • Home-based care kits

• Emotional support

  • Avoiding burnout

  • Spiritual care

  • Making a will

• Letter

• Resources