Newsflashes

• Youth participation and leadership: an effective tool in combating HIV / AIDS in southern Africa
  (6 September 2010)
  This paper has a fourfold purpose:

  • to share promising practice of where National AIDS Authorities (NAAs) across South Africa are working with young people,
  • to showcase activities and methods of the youth participation that could be used in other regions;
  • to demonstrate the benefits to NAAs of working with young people; and
  • to start sharing solutions to some of the common barriers to working with young people faced by NAAs. Read more.
       
• Men are changing
  (30 August 2010)
  This report describes and analyzes 12 programs from around the world that wants to change the attitudes and behaviours of men in relation to their sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, violence, and relationships. Read more.
    
• Sexual and reproductive health needs of women and adolescent girls living with HIV
  (23 August 2010)
  This research project identified trends across three countries - Brazil, Ethiopia and the Ukraine - and issues unique to each country that need to be considered in strategic planning to improve HIV-positive women’s and adolescent girl’s access to and use of sexual and reproductive health services. Read more.

• Improving the reproductive health of Sub-Saharan Africa’s youth (a route to achieve the millennium development goals)
  (16 August 2010)
  This elaborative report aims to provide policymakers, program managers, and the interested public in sub-Saharan Africa with a better understanding of the needs and experiences of youth in this region and how educational investments in the youth can help achieve the Millinium Goals. Read more.

• Feel! Think! Act! A guide to interactive drama for sexual and reproductive health with young people
  (10 August 2010)
  This is a wonderful guide full of very useful activities to explain transmission, infection and prevention of HIV to students in an educational environment through the medium of drama. Read more.

• It's how you spend the money that saves lives
  (2 August 2010)
  This article explores the question of government spending for health. It focuses on the importance of spending it where it is needed instead of simply allocating more money. The problem of increasing child mortality in various African countries is also discussed. Read more.

• School-based reproductive health and HIV education programs — an effective intervention.
  (29 June 2009)
  This brief reviews recent research and program evaluations. It emphasizes that evaluations show that well-designed programs work, but implementation issues such as teacher training and cultural sensitivities remain challenging. (Family Health International, 2007) Read more.

• Swine flu and HIV: guidance issued by us health authorities
  (11 May 2009)
  Health authorities in the United States have issued guidance concerning swine flu and people with HIV. On April 30th, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published information on what is currently known about the symptoms of swine flu, along with recommendations concerning its treatment and prevention. Read more

• Toolkit for educators
  The toolkit resulted from a collaboration between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Family Health International. It was produced for the Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER), a project coordinated by UNFPA. They designed this toolkit to help program managers and master trainers of peer educators.

• Refugee children in U.S. schools: a toolkit for teachers and school personnel
  (10 May 2010)
  This paper looks at the difficulties and challenges of teaching refugee children in schools in the United States. It also explores the area of child abuse. Read more.

• Agenda for accelerated country action for women, girls, gender equality and HIV
  (19 April 2010)
  Nearly 30 years since the HIV epidemic was acknowledged, consistent gender inequality and human rights violations put women at a greater risk of and vulnerability to HIV continue to impede improvement and threaten the gains that have been made in preventing HIV transmission and in increasing access to antiretroviral therapy. Read more.
  

• Read more about the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)

Last updated: 6 September 2010