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AIDS Action
Issue 1 Promoting dialogue
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
Issue 2 Health education
Back to basics
Reaching schoolchildren - Sex education in the Cameroon
Health education
Guidelines for action
Campaigning on use of condoms
Facing AIDS in Costa Rica
Teaching Materials
World Summit of Ministers of Health on AIDS
Social aspects of AIDS prevention and control
The national planning process
AIDS Surveillance Report
Issue 3 Testing
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
Books/Pamphlets
Sources of Information
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
Issue 4 Brazil
Breaking the silence
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
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
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
Issue 5 Diagnosis
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
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
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:
Issue 6 STDs
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
Syphilis,
Primary syphilis:
Secondary syphilis:
Latent syphilis:
Late syphilis:
Laboratory diagnosis
Non-specific tests:
Specific tests:
Genital herpes
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
Colour slide sets
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
Issue 7 Diarrhoea and AIDS
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
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
Videos
Survivors - for street children:
AIDS: Frankly Speaking and Young People Talking - for health workers and health planners:
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?
Issue 8 Community-based care
AIDS home care team at Chikankata Hospital, Zambia
Taking counselling and care into the community
Setting up a team
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
Thrush
Gum disease
Letters
Quality and proper use of condoms
Education in schools
Manual - A Colour Atlas of AIDS in the Tropics
Video - AIDS-Wise, No Lies
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
Issue 9 Women
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
Organisations
Health education material
The Second International Symposium on Information and Education on AIDS
Reaching the hard to reach
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
Issue 10 Epidemiology and Infections
Discriminating against people infected with HIV
Why some organisations will not be attending the largest international conference on AIDS
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:
Herpes simplex
Herpes zoster (shingles)
Skin tumours
Kaposi's sarcoma
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?
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)
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
Issue 11 Street children
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
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
Cryptococcal meningitis
Toxoplasmosis
Tumours and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
Summary
Are condoms safe?
Routes of transmission of HIV
Resources on street children
Publications
General
Prostitution
Human rights
AIDS education
Sources of information
Educational materials
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
Educating youth
World AIDS Day 1990 - focus on women
Issue 12 Policies in Solidarity
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
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
Issue 13 Safer sex
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
Issue 14 Blood safety
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
Issue 15 Sex industry
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
Issue 16 Evaluation
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
Interview - Educator and activist
New Publication
Issue 17 Human rights
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
Issue 18 AIDS and work
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
Issue 19 Training for health workers
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
Issue 20 Self-help groups
'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
Check your facts
Clinical update
Diagnosing symptomatic HIV infection and AIDS in adults
AIDS clinical definition
Uses of terms
Symptomatic HIV infection criteria
Issue 21 Drugs and HIV
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)
Anti-HIV drugs: no magic bullets
AZT: limited usefulness
Issue 22 Sexual health
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
Sexual health resources
Issue 23 Vaccination and risk reduction
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
Respiratory diseases and HIV
Bacterial pneumonias
Clinical tuberculosis
Kaposi sarcoma (KS)
Management approaches
Prevention measures
Possible steps in second line management
New resources
Issue 24 Counselling
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
Issue 25 Youth
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
Condoms and cucumbers
Supporting ourselves
Media messages for safer sex
Youth to Youth
AIDS prevention
Why does peer education work?
Guiding principles
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
Issue 26 STDs
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
Resources for STD care
Issue 27 Children
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
Issue 28 Home care
Home and hospital
Continuum of care
Care across a continuum
Close links
Prevention and care
Comprehensive care
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
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
Issue 29 HIV-prevention programmes
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
Issue 30 Drugs and nutrition
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
Issue 31 TB
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
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 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?
Issue 32 Projects
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
Resources for planning and monitoring
Issue 33 Human rights
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 or support
Anger into action
Income generation
Making a living
Saving and borrowing
Enterprise
Fighting injustice
Issue 34 Blood safety
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
Issue 35 Disability
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
Resources on HIV and AIDS
Issues 36-37 Sex
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
Issue 38 Health workers
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
Support for home carers
Drugs for dealing with HIV
New publications
Issue 39 Prevention
HIV prevention - keys to success
Principles of prevention
What works best?
Prevention in practice
More than a health issue
Overcoming prejudice
Building solidarity
Building on success
HIV-related diarrhoea
The right psychology
Issue 40 Educating people about HIV
Making clear messages
Principles
What Materials do you need?
Planning and pre-testing
Getting it right
Leaflets
Key facts
Adapting materials
Exchanging ideas
A practical checklist
Writing