Monitoring the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS

Monitoring the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2005
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9291734330

On cover and title page: United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS

Global AIDS Monitoring 2019

Global AIDS Monitoring 2019
Author: United Nations Publications
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-04-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9789292530884

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to national AIDS programmes and partners on the use of indicators to measure and report on the country response. The 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS, adopted at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS in June 2016, mandated UNAIDS to support countries in reporting on the commitments in the Political Declaration. The Political Declaration on Ending AIDS built on three previous political declarations: the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS and the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS.

Preparing for the Future of HIV/AIDS in Africa

Preparing for the Future of HIV/AIDS in Africa
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2011-03-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309212073

HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections. The Institute of Medicine recommends that the United States and African nations move toward a strategy of shared responsibility such that these nations are empowered to take ownership of their HIV/AIDS problem and work to solve it.

Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Getnet Tadele
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137009950

This book examines HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, impacts and responses in the socioeconomic and cultural context of Sub-Saharan Africa. With contributions from social scientists and public health experts, the volume identifies gender inequality and poverty as the main causes of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

HIV/AIDS and the Security Sector in Africa

HIV/AIDS and the Security Sector in Africa
Author: Obijiofor Aginam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN:

Throughout history, communicable diseases have devastated armies and weakened the capacity of state institutions to perform core security functions. Today, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has prompted many of the affected countries to initiate policies aimed at addressing its impact on their armed forces, police, and prisons. This volume explores the dynamics of how the security sectors of selected African states have responded to the complex and multifaceted challenges of HIV/AIDS. Current and impending African HIV/AIDS policies address a range of security-related issues: * The role of peacekeepers in the spread or control of HIV * The dilemma of public health (the need to control HIV) versus human rights (protection against mandatory medical testing) needs * The gender dimensions of HIV in the armed forces * The impact of HIV on the police and prisons The chapters in HIV/AIDS and the Security Sector in Africa are written by African practitioners, including commissioned officers who are currently serving in the armed forces, medical officers and nurses working in the military, and African policy and academic experts. While the book does not comprehensively address all aspects of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the security sector, the contributors nonetheless highlight the potentials and limits of existing policies.

Research Handbook on Global Health Law

Research Handbook on Global Health Law
Author: Gian Luca Burci
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1785366548

The effect of Globalization on health has attracted the attention of scholars and policy makers across multiple disciplines. A key concern is the regulation of international health protection, and in particular the use of international health instruments and the complex interaction between international law and health considerations. For the first time, a group of law and policy scholars have analysed these issues, drawing on knowledge from their respective fields. The resulting book provides comprehensive coverage of contemporary issues in global health law and governance.

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China
Author: Errol Mendes
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2009-04-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 077661780X

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.