TOP Websites

CADRE
www.cadre.org.za
A South African AIDS media research organisation - which has a range of interesting research papers and media guidelines reviewing what works and what doesn't in terms of getting the message across. Particular emphasis is given to ?action media? - i.e. participatory development of local relevant materials.

ABT Associates Inc. South Africa and the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division of the University of Natal

http://www.und.ac.za/und/heard

As part of the current USAID project "Operationalising HIV/AIDS Issues For Development", HEARD has prepared sector-specific briefs on HIV/AIDS. There are twenty-eight AIDS briefs in all, each written by an expert in the field, which offer sector-specific guide-lines and responses for those involved in various professional, commercial and industrial endeavours. Check-lists are a standard feature, enabling operatives to plot their progress against requirements unique to their sphere of activity, and suggesting innovative approaches.

International AIDS Economic Network (IAEN)
http://www.iaen.org/
Informal group of researchers, policymakers, consultants, NGOs, development agencies, multilateral, universities and others. The site focuses on the economics of AIDS in developing countries and includes data, news about conferences, and discussion platforms. International Labour Organisation (ILO), HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, information on labour related issues, conference proceedings and publications. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/ . Code of practice on HIV/AIDS and the workplace

IDS Participation Group Page
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/particip/index.html#pghome
Group of people at the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, UK, working in support of participatory approaches to development.

Participation Learning Center
http://www.pwci.org
Set of sample SARAR materials as applied by the Peopleworks Collaborative Inc. in a variety of sectoral field programmes.

Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands
http://www.kit.nl/health/html/aids_.asp
HIV/AIDS site with documentation on gender, HIV/AIDS in multi-sectoral perspective, local responses. Special section on tools for Local Responses.

Strategies for Hope Series
http://www.stratshope.org
Site about the Publications and Media series, Strategies for Hope. Explores approaches of different agencies to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in developing countries.

UNAIDS: The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS.
http://www.unaids.org/
A major resource site of the joint UN Programme. The site has a large electronic bibliography with many articles on site. Includes sub-sites on Best Practices, including articles on Gender and HIV/AIDS, Community Mobilization, and HIV/AIDS Education. There are also descriptions of the International Partnership Against AIDS in Africa, and related regional activities. The site also provides links to the Programme's Co-Sponsors: WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNESCO, the World Bank and UNDCP.

UNDP/HDP
The site on UNDP and a sub-site on the HIV and Development Programme can be reached through the main site at: http://www.undp.org.
The site describes the mission, programmes, and activities of the program and provides useful links to other relevant sites. The sub-site can be reached at: http://www.undp.org/hiv/index.htm

World Bank HIV/AIDS page
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hivaids/default.htm