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 HIV, AIDS and sexually transmitted infections - care, support and prevention - AIDS action
 

Practical information for health workers, educators and community carers on HIV, AIDS and sexually transmitted infections covering care, support and prevention.
 
 
 
 
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Section 5: Selected resources

Caring with Confidence - Practical information for health workers who prevent and treat HIV infection in children



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  Section 5: Selected resources

Background material 
  

  • AIDS and children: a lifetime of risk. 
    UNAIDS/PANOS, 1997.

  • Strategies for hope series. TALC. 
    A series of booklets which provide practical strategies on AIDS prevention and care in developing countries through an exploration of specific case studies.
     

    • AIDS orphans: a community perspective from Tanzania. Mukoyogo, MC and Williams, G. 
      ActionAid, 1991.

    • Living positively with AIDS: The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO), Uganda. Hampton, J.
      ActionAid, 1990. 

    • The caring community: coping with AIDS in urban Uganda. Williams, G and Tamale, N. 
      ActionAid, 1991.

    • Meeting AIDS with compassion: AIDS care and prevention in Agomanya, Ghana. Hampton, J. 
      ActionAid, 1991.
       

  • Children's rights and HIV: a framework for action. 
    National Children's Bureau.

  • Clinical tuberculosis, Crofton, J et al. Macmillan, London, 1992. 

  • Nutrition for developing countries. 
    Savage King, F and Burgess, A. 
    ELBS, London, 1993.

Newsletters 
  

  • AIDS action
    Aimed at health workers and educators working at the primary level, it provides practical information on a wide range of care and prevention issues concerning AIDS, HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Published quarterly by Healthlink Worldwide. Free to developing countries.

  • Child Health Dialogue
    Aimed at a broad range of health workers in developing countries, it is a forum for the exchange of information about the prevention and treatment of key childhood diseases, as well as providing practical advice on related health education. Published quarterly by AHRTAG. Free to developing countries.

Practical guidelines and training materials 
  

  • AIDS home care handbook. GPA/WHO 
    (WHO/GPA/IDS/HCS/93.2), Geneva, 1993. 

  • Child-to-child: a resource book. Bonati, G and Hawes, H. 
    Child-to-Child Trust, London, 1992.

  • Food for people living with HIV/AIDS. Network of African People Living with HIV / AIDS, Nairobi.

  • Guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illness
    A series of workbooks forming the basis of a modular training course for health workers.
    WHO/UNICEF, 1996. 

  • HIV testing and informed consent-guidelines for health care workers
    HIV and human rights pamphlet 2, AIDS Law Project, Witwatersrand, January 1995.

  • Practical guidelines for preventing infections transmitted by blood or air in health-care settings. 
    Discusses the risks to carers and patients of infections from hepatitis B, HIV and tuberculosis, and describes strategies to prevent infection. AHRTAG, 1996.

  • Tuberculosis and children: the missing diagnosis. Explains how to diagnose and treat TB in children, and outlines control strategies. AHRTAG, 1996.

Organisations 
 

  • Healthlink Worldwide (AHRTAG)
    Cityside, 40 Adler Street, London E1 1EE, UK
    Tel:        +44 (0)20 7539 1570 
    Fax:        +44 (0)20 7539 1580 
    E-mail:     info@healthlink.org.uk 
    Web site: www.healthlink.org.uk

  • AIDS Law Project 
    University of Witwatersrand, P Bag 3, Witwatersrand 2050, South Africa.

  • Child-To-Child 
    Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK. 
    Tel: +44 171 612 6650; Fax: +44 171 6126645

  • Children and AIDS International NGO Network (CAINN) 
    International Coalition on AIDS and Development,
    100 Argyle Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 1B4, Canada. 
    Tel: +1 6137885107; Fax: +1 613 788 5052 



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  • Defence for Children International 
    PO Box 88, CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland. 

  • European Forum on HIV/AIDS 
    Children and Families, London Lighthouse, 
    111-117 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QT, UK. 
    Tel: +44181 3835697; Fax: +44 181 383 5620

  • Family AIDS Caring Trust 
    PO Box 970, Mutare, Zimbabwe. 
    Tel: +2633963902 

  • Family Health Trust 
    Anti-AIDS Project PO RW 754, Lusaka, Zambia.
    Tel: +260 1 223589; Fax: +260 1 222834 

  • International Catholic Child Bureau (ICCB) 
    63 Rue de Lausanne, CH-1202, Geneva, Switzerland.
    Tel: +41 22731 3248; Fax: +41 22 731 7793 

  • National Children's Bureau 
    8 Wakely Street London EC1 V 7QE, UK.
    Tel: +44 171 278 9441: Fax: +44 171 278 9512

  • Network of African People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAP+) 
    PO Box 30218, Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Panos Institute/Panos Publications 
    9 White Lion Street, London N1 9PD, UK. 
    Tel: +44 171 278 1111; Fax: +44 171 2780345

  • Teaching-aids At Low Cost (TALC) 
    PO Box 49, St Albans, Herts AL1 5TX, UK. 
    Tel: +44 1727853869; Fax: +44 1727 846852

  • United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) 
    3 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA. 
    Tel: +1 2123267166; Fax: +1 2123267336

  • UNAIDS 
    20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. 
    Tel: +41 22 791 3666; Fax: +41 22 791 4187

  • WHO 
    20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. 
    Tel: +41 22 791 4652; Fax: +41 22 791 0317 56

 

 
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