Academic Resources: topical resources: hiv/aids
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research groups
AIDS & Anthropology Research
Group
Canadian
HIV Trials Network
The HIV Prevention Trials
Network (HPTN)
HIV Vaccine Trials Network
The International AIDS Vaccine
Initiative
research tools
AIDS and Anthropology Bibliography Resource Center from the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
AIDS
Book Review Journal
An electronic journal reviewing books, videos, journal titles, and other
materials covering AIDS, safer sex, and sexually transmitted diseases, published
irregularly by the University of Illinois at Chicago Library.
AIDS Education
Global Infomation Service (AEGIS)
Through our keyword-searchable knowledgebase, AEGiS offers cutting edge
information via HIV/AIDS specific publications and news sources from around
the world. In addition, an array of reference materials are offered. As
new aspects of HIV/AIDS arise, AEGiS will continue to extend its efforts
towards the dissemination of potentially life saving information.
Comparative Prices of ARV Drugs Public and Private Sector (html and excel)
Eldis
HIV/AIDS Resource Guide
ELDIS is a gateway to information on development issues, providing free
and easy access to wide range of high quality online resources. The site
provides summaries and links to online documents, a directory of websites,
databases, library catalogues and email discussion lists.
GlobalHealthFacts.org, global health data on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and more from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Measure DHS, national and sub-national data on family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted infections (STIs), infectious diseases, reproductive health and nutrition.
Population
mobility and HIV/AIDS (Eldis)
The literature on HIV/AIDS and mobility addresses the causes and consequences
of the many reasons that people have for moving, both temporarilyand permanently,
either within their home country or abroad. This page collects research
on the potential vulnerability of mobile populations to HIV/AIDS and on
interventions to address the specific needs of these groups.
UNAIDS
geographic information
Regional HIV/AIDS information.
USAID
Fact Sheet: Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention (pdf)
The effect of male circumcision (MC) on risk of HIV infection – and
the practice's impact on the spread of HIV across different populations
– have for years been subjects of interest to epidemiologists and
other researchers. HIV/AIDS and reproductive health program professionals
have become increasingly interested in MC, and USAID is now supporting preliminary
activities to investigate male circumcision as a potential tool in the fight
against HIV/AIDS.
syllabi
anthropology & international health
anthropology & reproductive
health
health & human rights
HIV/AIDS
infectious diseases
sexuality
organizations, projects, centers
Center
for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)
The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at the University of California
San Francisco is committed to maintaining a focus on prevention of HIV disease,
using the expertise of multiple disciplines, and an applied and community-based
perspective within a university setting.
CDC
- Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP)
CDC's HIV mission is to prevent HIV infection and reduce the incidence of
HIV-related illness and death, in collaboration with community, state, national,
and international partners.
Center
for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), School of Public Health,
Yale University
CIRA's mission is to support the conduct of interdisciplinary research focused
on the prevention of HIV infection and the reduction of negative consequences
of HIV disease in vulnerable and underserved populations nationally and
abroad.
Harvard
AIDS Initiative
Established in 1988, the Harvard AIDS Initiative is dedicated to promoting
research, education and leadership to end the AIDS epidemic in Africa and
other resource-scarce settings.
HIV InSite
HIV InSite's mission is to be a source for comprehensive, in-depth HIV/AIDS
information and knowledge. The site has an extensive collection of original
material, including the HIV InSite Knowledge Base, a complete textbook with
extensive references and related links organized by topic. (See also the
AIDS Research
Institute (ARI), which coordinates and integrates all AIDS research
activities at the University of California, San Francisco.)
International
AIDS Economics Network
IAEN focuses on the economics of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, providing
data, tools, and analysis for researchers and policymakers working to define
and implement effective AIDS policy.
IMPACT
Project, Family Health International (FHI)
Managed by FHI, the project is designed specifically to help USAID missions
and bureaus support HIV/AIDS programs by increasing the capacity of local
organizations—public and private (including community- and faith-based
organizations)—to implement effective HIV/AIDS strategies.
Joint United
Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
The global mission of UNAIDS as the main advocate for worldwide action against
HIV/AIDS is to lead, strengthen and support an expanded response to the
epidemic.
The
National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR), University of New South
Wales, Sydney
The National Centre in HIV Social Research conducts research which describes
and analyses the social understandings, meanings and practices of peoples,
institutions and communities in relation to HIV, Hepatitis C and other communicable
diseases.
The
Program on the Social and Economic Impacts of the AIDS Epidemic, The
Center for International Health, Boston University School of Public Health
The multi-disciplinary program involves economists, clinicians, public health
experts, and other social scientists in the U.S. and abroad. It has grown
rapidly and is now one of the most important programs of the CIHD. Research
results have been widely cited and been put to immediate use by researchers
and analysts in Africa and elsewhere.
The
Synergy Project
The Synergy Project is a five-year, performance-based contract that provides
technical assistance and services to the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) to design, evaluate, and coordinate HIV/AIDS programs
and identify and disseminate lessons learned from these programs.
World
Bank HIV/AIDS
In many countries, HIV/AIDS is rapidly reversing the hard-won development
achievements of the past 50 years. Consequently, fighting HIV/AIDS and other
communicable diseases is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
which together would halve the incidence of poverty, and broadly improve
welfare by 2015.
YouthNet,
Family Health International (FHI)
YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and prevent
the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old. Most importantly,
it is a collaboration with the young people whose lives it is designed to
improve. But it also includes the energy, insight, and experience of parents,
schoolteachers, employers, policymakers, the media, health professionals,
nongovernmental organizations, religious and community leaders, and other
youth networks.
Check out the SMA's lists of Health and Human Rights organizations and Health-related NGOs.
clinical trials
AIDS Clinical
Trials Information Service (ACTIS)
Central resource for current information on federally and privately
funded clinical trials for AIDS patients and others infected with the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This service is a Public Health Service (PHS)
project provided collaboratively by the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Library
of Medicine, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pediatric
AIDS Clinical Trials Group
The PACTG, a joint effort of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the National Institute for Child Health
and Human Development (NICHD), encompasses the mission for HIV-infected
pregnant women and children that the Adult AIDS Clinical Trial Group (AACTG),
the Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA), the AIDS Vaccine
Evaluation Group (AVEG), the Division of AIDS Treatment Research Initiative
(DATRI), and the pharmaceutical industry-sponsored studies represent for
HIV-infected adults.
also see SMA Takes a Stand: Clinical Drug Trials
publications
AIDS
Care: Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
Culture,
Health & Sexuality
Family Health International (FHI): key
publications; fact
sheets
UNAIDS Publications
UNDP
HIV and Development Programme list of publications
WHO Epidemiological
Fact Sheets by Country 2006
HIV in Predominantly Rural Areas of the United States (pdf) in Journal of Rural Health, Summer 2005: The report by Irene Hall and colleagues of CDC's National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention profiles the burden of HIV/AIDS in rural areas of the U.S. where poverty, unemployment, lack of education and other factors often are barriers to HIV services.
Global
AIDSLink®
A bimonthly, 24-page publication, every issue contains articles and regular
features addressing current international HIV/AIDS prevention, care and
treatment issues affecting people domestically, as well as in developing
countries. International in scope, Global AIDSLink includes a comprehensive
listing of events in countries around the world, as well as the latest posting
of conferences. Researchers and activists report from the field the latest
findings in their spheres. Published by the Global Health Council's Global
AIDS Program.
Locked Doors: The Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China
(html
| pdf)
Widespread discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS is fueling the spread
of the epidemic in China. This 94-page report is based on more than 30 interviews
with people with HIV/AIDS, police officers, drug users, and AIDS outreach
workers in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Yunnan province. Many people living with
HIV/AIDS have no access to health care because hospitals refuse to treat
them. Human Rights Watch found that at one hospital, the door to the AIDS
clinic was actually padlocked. National laws discriminate against people
with HIV/AIDS, and some local laws ban them from using swimming pools or
working in food service. The police send drug users to detoxification centers,
where they are forced to labor without pay to make trinkets for tourists.
Instead of receiving help for their problem, they are driven underground,
making it harder for the government to combat the AIDS virus. (September
3, 2003)
The
Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS: Theory and Application to South Africa
(pdf), World Bank, July 2003
This report warns thatHIV/AIDS causes far greater long-term damage to national
economies than previously assumed, for by killing mostly young adults, the
disease is robbing the children of AIDS victims of one or both parents to
love, raise and educate them, and so undermines the basis of economic growth
over the long haul. This suggests that a country like South Africa could
face progressive economic collapse within several generations unless it
combats its AIDS epidemic more urgently.
Interventions to Reduce HIV/AIDS Stigma: What Have We Learned? (pdf)
Lisanne Brown, Lea Trujillo & Kate Macintyre, Population Council,
Horizons Program
This paper reviews 21 interventions that have explicitly attempted to decrease
AIDS stigma both in the developed and developing countries and 9 studies
that aim to decrease stigma related with other diseases.
Phase
I Report of the ABC Study: Summary of HIV Prevalence and Sexual Behavior
Findings (MS Word)
The USAID-supported ABC Study examines how prevention behaviors may have
affected HIV prevalence and fertility patterns in three countries where
HIV prevalence declined during the 1990s (Uganda, Zambia, Thailand) and
in three countries where it appears not to have declined (Cameroon, Kenya,
Zimbabwe). The Study's "Phase I" report1 compares levels and trends
of behavioral indicators such as abstinence and age of sexual debut among
youth, faithfulness in sexual relationships, multiple sexual partners, and
condom use (especially with non-regular partners).
good links
- AIDSChannel: a multimedia Web portal on issues relating to HIV/AIDS.
- UNAIDS Data Links
- Gender & AIDS portal -- UNIFEM
- links -- from the National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR), University of New South Wales
- HIV/AIDS Information Links -- from the The AIDS and Anthropology Research Group (AARG), an interest group of the SMA
- HIV/AIDS Window -- from the Communication Initiative
- HIV/AIDS Links -- from the Synergy Proejct are grouped by topic and by country. The list contains both global and country-specific sites.
updated April 20, 2007