worldwide to control the HIV and AIDS

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) work worldwide to control the HIV and AIDS
epidemic in collaboration with community, state,
national and international partners in activities that
focus on surveillance, research, and prevention and
evaluation.
The Communication Initiative:
http://www.comminit.com
The Communication Initiative aims to advance the
extent and quality of dialogue around HIV and AIDS.
This website contains overviews of key research
documents, alerts about upcoming events and reviews
of programmatic experience in a wide variety of
countries. It also invites readers to provide feedback on
its documents and postings, and promotes discussion
fora on emerging issues. Links to many international
organizations working on HIV and AIDS can be made
from this site.
ELDIS:
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/
resource-guides/hiv-and-aids
ELDIS shares key resources on development, policy,
practice and research in HIV and AIDS (and other
topics). The website includes a review of successful
case studies (such as the Observatoire in Senegal),
of research and also hosts discussion fora on current
HIV- and AIDS-related issues.
HIV InSite: http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu
This website of the University of California provides
up-to-date information on medical and social aspects
of HIV and AIDS, including such issues as treatment
guidelines, clinical profi les, and ARV charts and
tables. Summaries of recent medical developments
and news items provide a quick insight into the latest
developments around HIV and AIDS.
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance:
http://www.aidsalliance.org
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is a global
partnership of nationally-based organizations that help
local community groups and other NGOs to take action
on AIDS. The Alliance has unique experience in working
directly with community groups and empowering local
responses to HIV and AIDS. The Alliance has produced
a wide range of interesting documents and resources in
multiple languages on issues such as gender, sexuality,
stigma and discrimination, and prevention among key
populations based on its work with communities.
NAM: www.aidsmap.com
NAM is a community-based organisation, which
works from the UK. It focuses specifi cally on providing
reliable and accurate HIV information to HIV-positive
people across the world and also to the professionals
who treat, support and care for them.
UNAIDS: http://www.unaids.org
This UNAIDS website documents the efforts and
resources of the ten UN organizations that are part
of the global AIDS response (ILO, UNDP, UNESCO,
UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNODC, WFP, WHO and
the World Bank).
WHO: http://www.who.int
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing
and coordinating authority on international health
and takes the lead within the UN system in the
global health sector response to HIV and AIDS. The
HIV/AIDS department provides evidence-based,
technical support to WHO Member States to help
them scale up treatment, care and prevention
services as well as drugs and diagnostics supply to
ensure a comprehensive and sustainable response to
HIV and AIDS.
HIV and AIDS in education
The Accelerate Initiative:
http://www.schoolsandhealth.org/
IV-AIDS&Education-Accelerate/HIVIDS&
Education-Accelerate.htm
The Accelerate Initiative is a working group established
by the UNAIDS IATT on Education in 2002 and has
the specifi c operational aim of helping countries to
‘Accelerate the Education Sector Response to HIV/
AIDS in Africa’. Key elements of this activity are subregional
and national workshops that bring together
education, health and AIDS teams to share good
practices and develop more effective strategies that
result in implementation at the school level. The
Accelerate initiative has resulted in the establishment
of networks of focal points from ministries of
education. More information on the networks can be
found at the above link.