Papers and reports on HIV and AIDS

2009

Leveraging Opportunities to Integrate Reproductive Health Services Into HIV and AIDS Programming - August

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2008

Failing women, withholding protection: 15 lost years in making female condoms accessible - August

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2004

Free Trade Agreement Between the USA and Thailand Threatens Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment – July

Shire Highlands Sustainable Livelihoods Programme, Malawi (PDF 398KB)

Learning to survive: How education for all would save millions of young people from HIV/AIDS

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2003

HIV/AIDS drugs online discussion
Oxfam health policy adviser Dr Mohga Kamal-Smith in an online discussion on access to HIV/AIDS drugs. Read the transcript on the BBC news website - November

Expansion of access to treatment for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa - report on Oxfam/EQUINET workshop in Nairobi - September

HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in Southern Africa
Southern Africa is facing a serious humanitarian crisis with severe long-term consequences affecting the entire region. Erratic rainfall, poor governance, poverty, unsustainable debt, failing agricultural policies, unfair international trade regimes, and collapsing public services have all contributed to the current situation, but without HIV/AIDS the crisis would not be of the same dimensions.

Debt relief and the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa: Does the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative go far enough?

Gender, poverty and intergenerational vulnerability to HIV/AIDS (PDF 65KB)
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been fuelled by gender inequality and poverty. This article looks at how young girls and older women are particularly vulnerable to infection and are affected by HIV/AIDS.

Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into Development: What it can look like (PDF 157KB)
This paper offers pragmatic guidance on three aspects of mainstreaming: HIV and AIDS iN the workplace, mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into strategy and planning, and making links with focused interventions in HIV and AIDS. It is useful to all organisations that work in areas of high or increasing rates of HIV and AIDS.

TRIPS, the disease burden in developing countries and the need for new drugs (PDF 176KB)

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2002

HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in Southern Africa (PDF 49KB)

Access to antiretroviral therapy in Uganda (PDF 691KB)
Recent (2002) research estimates place the number of HIV-infected Ugandans at between 1.5 and 2 million. While access to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) has increased, the great majority of HIV-infected Ugandans still cannot afford to pay for therapy.

Global HIV/AIDS and the Health Fund: Foundation for Action or Fig Leaf? (PDF 325 KB)
If properly funded and managed, the Global Fund could act as a vitally needed catalyst to spearhead renewed efforts to tackle the devastating global health crisis and to spur governments – at national and international level – to do much more to prioritise and deliver on the internationally agreed health targets. Without proper funding and international commitment, the Fund could serve merely as another exercise in window-dressing while the health crisis deepens.

Lessons learned on mainstreaming:
Flyer 1: Overview of mainstreaming (175KB PDF)
Flyer 2: Practical outcomes of mainstreaming (220KB PDF)
Flyer 3: Awareness raising (276KB PDF)
Flyer 4: Workplace policy workshop (181KB PDF)
Flyer 5: Research process (179KB PDF)
Flyer 6: Local research findings (386KB PDF)
Flyer 7: Modifying existing programmes (266KB PDF)