International Resources

Many organizations are working to prevent HIV/AIDS and to promote education and care and support programs. This listing contains organizations and resources that may be useful to those interested in addressing HIV/AIDS in their companies, communities, or countries.

Please click on the subject heading below for links to HIV/AIDS resources on the following topics:

General

AIDS Educational Global Information System (AEGIS)
A vast database containing over 1 million files of facts pertaining to the history, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The foundation cites the prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission as its top global priority and provides an assortment of HIV/AIDS reports, articles, and recent grants.

CDC National Aids Clearinghouse
Houses the nation's largest collection of information and resources on HIV/AIDS, STD, and TB prevention.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Offers information on a wide-range of HIV/AIDS prevention related topics including surveillance, vaccine research, prevention tools, and guidelines for community planning.

Eldis
Contains information on a wide-range of HIV/AIDS research themes and provides summaries and links to related web sites.

Family Health International (FHI)
Details a range of FHI's efforts including clinical trials of promising HIV/AIDS prevention methods to managing and supporting prevention and care programs worldwide.

International AIDS Economic Network (IAEN)
Provides data, tools and analysis on the economics of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in developing countries for cost-effective responses to the global epidemic.

International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)
A global network of non-governmental and community-based organizations complete with specific activity and project reports.

International HIV/AIDS Alliance
An international development non-governmental organization offering access to a host of HIV/AIDS training materials, program design tools, and global needs assessment.

National AIDS Manual
A searchable database providing extensive information on HIV/AIDS treatments, organizations, and HIV clinics in the UK. There is also a large international resources database accessible in six languages.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Offers a comprehensive list of NIH institute and center resources on HIV/AIDS.

Synergy AIDS Project
Provides technical assistance to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the design, evaluation, and co-ordination of HIV/AIDS programs and in the identification and dissemination of lessons learned from these programs. This site includes the APDIME toolkit, resource to support HIV/AIDS program designers and managers.

United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
A comprehensive compilation of relevant HIV/AIDS articles, publications, country specific reports, and fact sheets. Included is an extensive partnership menu that helps the private sector find innovative HIV/AIDS partnership opportunities in developing countries.

World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative's (GHI)
GHI's mission is to increase the quantity and quality of business programs fighting HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria.

World Health Organization (WHO)
Provides links to HIV/AIDS prevention information and activities. Offers links to contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programs and offices working on HIV/AIDS.

World Bank HIV/AIDS
Offers inclusive HIV/AIDS news and events, reports and publications, as well as detailed tools and guidelines for implementing HIV/AIDS country programs.

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Business

American Red Cross Workplace HIV/AIDS Education Program
Provides information on the specific components and format of the Red Cross HIV/AIDS workplace program.

The Asian Business Coalition on AIDS (ABC on AIDS)
Offers many resources, including: a booklet that identifies strategies for business responses both inside and outside the workplace; a manual that gives a comprehensive overview of AIDS-related interventions in the workplace; case studies of workplace programs; a directory of AIDS organizations in the region; and an outline of training programs designed to prevent discrimination in the workplace.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS
A site designed specifically to address HIV/AIDS in the workplace. Offers professional toolkits to assist business and labor leaders in the developing of tailored workplace programs. Contains a legal section with suggestions for building HIV/AIDS workplace programs and policies that conform to federal legal requirements and expectations.

Cooperative for Assistance & Relief Everywhere (CARE)
Contains project descriptions of CARE's HIV/AIDS workplace prevention efforts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Development Alternatives International (DAI)
Details the activities DAI HIV/AIDS Response Team (H/ART) including the training of the micro-finance industry on HIV/AIDS planning and mitigation in areas heavily affected by the disease.

Family Health International
An index of manuals, toolkits, and guidebooks for HIV/AIDS programming produced by FHI's Insitute for HIV/AIDS. Includes Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs: An Action Guide For Managers.

Futures Group
Includes details of Future's HIV/AIDS projects, contacts for all national and regional offices, and full-text versions of all publications.

Global Business Coalition on AIDS
An alliance of international businesses dedicated to combating the AIDS epidemic. The site offers resources and tools for addressing HIV/AIDS as a workplace issue.

Health Global Access Project (HGAP)
Highlights the organization's campaign for drug access and the resources necessary to sustain access for people with HIV/AIDS across the globe. Includes information on the HGAP campaign challenging multinational corporations to provide HIV/AIDS treatment to employees.

HIV/AIDS and Business in Africa and Asia
Offers information on a series of international workshops providing an opportunity for innovative thinking and action concerning corporate responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
Committed to corporate social responsibility, this site offers case studies on workplace health programs.

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
As the "voice of world commerce," the ICC site offers a business perspective on the importance of workplace based HIV/AIDS prevention programs, specifically in Africa. Utilize the search option on the homepage to access HIV/AIDS related documents.

International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Link to the IFC Good Practice Note. Offers guidance and examples of businesses' approaches to successfully addressing HIV/AIDS issues in the workplace.

John Snow International (JSI)
Details JSI's efforts to improve the delivery of HIV/AIDS services by providing training and technical assistance in areas such as service planning and delivery needs assessment and outcome measurement. Complete with links to specific projects. All HIV/AIDS information is accessible within the "What We Do" section of the site.

National AIDS Fund
Provides resources for funders and community organizations engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDS, including descriptions of a range of specific programmatic activities.

Policy Project
Presents a model guide for government departments managing HIV/AIDS in the workplace.

United Nations Global Compact
Provides guidelines and examples on company policies dealing with HIV/AIDS in the workplace and information for companies fighting HIV/AIDS beyond the workplace.

United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
A collection of reference documents produced by the United Nations System organizations to enhance the dissemination of information on the issue of HIV/AIDS in the workplace, and to assist organizations in elaborating and shaping their internal policies (select the topic 'World of work/HIV in the workplace').

US Agency for International Development (USAID)
Information on a variety of HIV/AIDS technical programs, including details on several workplace education projects, action guides, and implementation toolkits.

World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative's (GHI)
This pamphlet, Doing it Together: Managing HIV and TB in the Workplace, discusses the links between HIV and TB and how these diseases can be managed in the workplace. It advises business that it is important to manage HIV and TB jointly, and lists key steps in a joint program including raising awareness and encouraging prevention; promoting counseling and diagnostic opportunities; and providing the means for care, support, and treatment.

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Labor

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
Overview of AFT Africa AIDS campaign providing teachers with the resources and support needed to provide effective peer to peer education programs to control the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS
A site designed specifically to address HIV/AIDS in the workplace. Offers professional toolkits to assist business and labor leaders in the developing of tailored workplace programs. Contains a legal section with suggestions for building HIV/AIDS workplace programs and policies that conform to federal legal requirements and expectations.

International Labor Organization (ILO)
Examines HIV/AIDS as a workplace issue, providing detailed information and links on the social and economic impacts of HIV/AIDS. Offers advice on policy for governments, employers, and workers, and provides program guidelines on prevention, care, and measures to combat discrimination. Included is the ILO Code of Practice as a resource to support HIV/AIDS program designers and managers.

Health and Safety Page of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

University of California Berkeley-Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) Highlights LOHP's work in providing HIV/AIDS prevention training within local unions, the national ALF-CIO, and the Coalition of Labor Union Women.

US Department of Labor
Provides information on the International HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Program (IHWEP) and its objective to promote HIV/AIDS prevention education and policy development through technical assistance to government, employers, and workers.

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Government

Centers for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Africa Program
An overview of the goals and activities conducted by the CSIS Task Force on Strengthening US Leadership on HIV/AIDS.

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau
Offers information on grant opportunities, education and training, and existing HRSA HIV/AIDS programs.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Provides general information concerning blood born infections, including HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C.

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
A description of the purpose, governance, resources, and grant information linked to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

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Tripartism

Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
A secretarial report made to the 7th National Congress calling for constructive social dialogue and the implementation of functional tripartite structures in southern Africa.

ILO Social Dialogue
Provides a thorough definition and history of tripartism, complete with links to related country projects and activities.

International Labor Organization (ILO)
A complete text: "The Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy."

Public Policies to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility
A presentation, given by Janelle Diller, ILO, defining the key principles and functions of the "Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy."

United Nations Economic and Social Council
ILO report on HIV/AIDS and human rights. Details regional tripartite workshops in Africa on strategies to address the social and labor implications of HIV/AIDS.

US Department of Labor (USDOL) Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

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Stigma and Discrimination

AVERTing HIV & AIDS
Identifies the causes and forms of the stigma and discrimination attached to HIV/AIDS and makes suggestions for eliminating it.

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Addresses legal, ethical, and human rights issues raised by HIV/AIDS.

International Center for Research on Women (IRCW)
Outlines IRCW's current research in Africa, which examines how the stigma of HIV/AIDS increases infection and reduces the use of programs for prevention, treatment, and care.

National AIDS Trust (NAT)
The UK's leading HIV and AIDS policy development and advocacy organization. Provides information on the NAT launching of England's first HIV stigma and discrimination campaign.

Positive Action
Provides information on several African HIV/AIDS programs designed to directly involve infected and affected people and to reduce the stigma attached to the AIDS epidemic.

United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
This publication, HIV-related stigma, discrimination and human rights violations: Case studies of successful programs, documents case studies of successful action against HIV-related human rights violations, stigma and discrimination, including several examples from the workplace.

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Education, Support, and Care

Academy for Educational Development (AED) - Center for Community-Based Health Strategies (CCHS)
Offers detailed descriptions of CCHS U.S. and international HIV/AIDS prevention programs.

AVERTing HIV & AIDS
Provides information on HIV/AIDS prevention measures for health care workers, IDUs, mother to child transmissions, and resource poor countries.

CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse
Featured CDC HIV/AIDS prevention information.

Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) University of California, San Francisco
A comprehensive listing of CAPS HIV/AIDS programs. Includes a prevention tool kit for school-based interventions.

FXB - International Training Program
Informs practitioners in developing nations of the latest advance in caring for pediatric AIDS patients.

HIV/AIDS/STD INFOTECH Center
Provides information about the latest developments in HIV/AIDS. Serves the medical community, voluntary organizations, and others working to provide support and care to the victims of the epidemic.

HIV InSite
HIV InSite provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and policy from the University of California, San Francisco. The site makes available news, country-specific information and multi-disciplinary research for community planners, practitioners, and policy-makers.

United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
This case study, Access to treatment in the private-sector workplace, describes the work of three companies in South Africa-Anglo American, BHP Billiton, and Eskom-in providing their employees with antiretroviral therapy (ART).

World Health Organization (WHO)
Illustrates the benefits and procedures involved in using palliative care for people living with HIV/AIDS.

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Treatment

AIDS Info
Offers the latest federally approved information on HIV/AIDS research, clinical trials, and treatment for patients and health care providers. Sponsored by the National Institute of Health.

aidsmap
Lists the latest resources on anti-HIV treatments.

American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
A comprehensive, searchable database with information on drugs, active clinical trials, treating HIV and HIV-associated conditions, and other resources.

AVERTing HIV & AIDS
Focuses on information about HIV prevention education, information for HIV positive people, and the latest related news and statistics.

The Body
Provides access to detailed information about HIV/AIDS treatments as well as regular news updates, bulletin boards, and links to other organizations.

HIV InSite
Offers comprehensive, up to date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco.

National Aids Manual (NAM)
Listing of NAM treatment publications. Reviewed by a medical panel to ensure accuracy and impartiality.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Provides a comprehensive overview of AIDS vaccine development.

Project Inform
Covers a wide range of HIV/AIDS prevention topics including information about specific anti-HIV therapies, diagnosis and treatments for HIV/AIDS-related diseases, and discussions about things to consider when treating HIV.

World Health Organization (WHO)
Provides information on access to HIV-related medicines.

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Statistics and Impact Findings

AIDS Educational Global Information System (AEGIS)
The AEGIS searchable HIV/AIDS Encyclopedia.

AVERTing HIV & AIDS
Global HIV/AIDS statistics reflecting trends amongst drug users, men, women, children, and gay men. They also show trends by age and sex.

CDC National Aids Clearinghouse
Detailed information comprised of HIV/AIDS prevalence surveys, annual reports, and surveillance summaries.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Provides an assortment of HIV/AIDS fact sheets organized by topic.

Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD)
List of comprehensive global HIV/AIDS statistics.

National AIDS Trust (NAT)
Fact sheets providing basic, up-to-date information about HIV and AIDS in the UK and globally.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Fact sheet offering general HIV/AIDS statistics and findings.

Stop Global AIDS
Global HIV/AIDS statistical information including the results of debt cancellation strategies in impoverished nations.

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