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Report: Children Affected by AIDS Working Group Seminar – highlights, challenges, recommendations

A one-day seminar was held on 3rd April 2014 to mark 10 years of work by the STOPAIDS Children Affected by HIV and AIDS (CABA) working group. Despite encouraging global progress in promoting and protecting the rights of children and young people living with or affected by HIV, worrying gaps remain. Participants and presenters from across the international development, HIV … Continued

Evaluating advocacy: STOPAIDS’ role in the UK’s £1billion commitment to the Global Fund

STOPAIDS has spent a large part of its time over the last three years campaigning for an increase in the UK’s contribution to the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. In September 2013, the Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening, announced a better-than-doubling contribution of up to £1billion. … Continued

Harm Reduction and HIV

This factsheet explores harm reduction, effective interventions and outlines recommendations for the UK government. Harm reduction aims to reduce the health and social harms associated with drug use through a range of interventions and has been shown to be cost effective in preventing HIV infection among people who inject drugs.

Livelihoods and HIV

This factsheet explores to linkages between HIV and livelihoods, and provides recommendations on effective integration of HIV and livelihoods programmes.

WASH and HIV factsheet

This factsheet aims to explore the connections between water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), HIV and AIDS, and provide recommendations on how HIV interventions can integrate WASH into their programming (2013)

Palliative Care and HIV fact sheet

This fact sheet sets out to explain what palliative care is, the relationship between HIV, AIDS and palliative care, and information on access to pain drugs as a barrier to effective palliative care provision. (2013)

Investing In Communities Achieves Results

Before the scale-up of the international response to the AIDS pandemic, community responses in developing countries played a crucial role in providing services and care for those affected. This study is the first comprehensive, mixed-method evaluation of the impact of that response. The evaluation finds that community response can be effective at increasing knowledge of … Continued