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AIDS on the Agenda is written for policy-makers, managers, and programme staff in development and humanitarian agencies, to promote debate about the challenges that confront them in a world which has been changed forever by the pandemic of AIDS.
The book considers three possible responses to the problem:
- Do nothing
- Try to specialise in direct AIDS work.
- Adapt core programmes and internal systems to respond to the impact of AIDS.
The author argues for the third approach as the essential initial response to the problem. She shows how mainstream work in a wide range of sectors - including food security, livelihoods support, education, health promotion, and emergency provision of water and sanitation - can be modified to reduce susceptibility to HIV infection and vulnerability to the impact of AIDS. She also offers practical advice on modifying personnel and financial systems to protect the interests of staff and the viability of organisations when operating in AIDS-prone contexts. The text is based on case studies drawn from the experiences of three agencies (ActionAid, Oxfam International, and Save the Children UK) and their partners; and on insights contributed by a wide range of other organisations. The project was funded by the UK government's Department for International Development. Sue Holden is an Honorary Research Associate at Lancaster University. She has worked as a consultant on responses to HIV and AIDS for the Department for International Development, the World Health Organisation, and several NGOS, including ActionAid and Oxfam.
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and abbreviations
Glossary
Part I: Mainstreaming AIDS in development and humanitarian programmes: background and rationale
Introduction
AIDS as a development issue
Terms, meanings, and examples
AIDS work: the direct response
Why mainstream AIDS?
Mainstreaming Aids in an idealised world
Part II: Experiences of mainstreaming AIDS
Experiences of mainstreaming AIDS internally
Experiences of mainstreaming AIDS externally in development work
Experiences of mainstreaming AIDS externally in humanitarian work
Learning form the mainstreaming of gender Part III: Ideas for mainstreaming AIDS
Strategy and guiding principles
Ideas for internal mainstreaming
Ideas for external mainstreaming
Issues and challenges
Conclusion Resources
Unit 1: Researching the current internal impacts of AIDS
Unit 2: Predicting the internal impacts of AIDS
Unit 3: Assessing the impacts of AIDS education
Unit 4:Devising or adapting a workplace policy
Unit 5: Monitoring the internal impacts of AIDS and the effects of internal mainstreaming
Unit 6: Training for mainstreaming AIDS in development work
Unit 7: Undertaking community research for mainstreaming AIDS in development work
Unit 8: Adapting organisational systems
Unit 9: Training for mainstreaming AIDS in humanitarian work
Unit 10: Undertaking community research for mainstreaming AIDS in humanitarian work Notes
Bibliography
Index
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