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ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT (ART) |
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The Siyayinqoba Beat It! Treatment Literacy Series (TLS) is a non-broadcast series that provides detailed treatment literacy information. The TLS is intended for training peer educators, treatment supporters, home-based care givers and people living with HIV and AIDS. It is designed for any organisation that wants to provide training support for HIV and AIDS services. The series consists of 21 DVDs, each covering a different topic, and is available in isiXhosa, English, seSotho, Portuguese and isiZulu. There are four DVDs that are available on the topic of ART which can be purchased at a price of R150 per DVD for NPOs and R300 for businesses:
- ARVs for adults
- ARVs for children
- ARV side effects
- Adherence
There is also a free manual available on their website which complements this material.
TAC tries to monitor the ART rollout statistics in order to match those provided by the government but it is extremely difficult as there are inadequate monitoring systems in place, both in the private and public sphere. Below is a compilation of the best estimates.
Many people are confused about whether South African Identity Documents are required in order to access ART, including the medical staff responsible for administering the treatment. The following document provides definitive evidence that this is not the case and that ART is available to everyone who qualifies in terms of CD4 count and other medical criteria.
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FAITH BASED HIV AND AIDS RESOURCES |
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Christian AIDS Bureau South Africa (CABSA)
CABSA aims to equip Christian communities to respond to HIV and AIDS. Several publications, which are designed to help empower a Christian response, have been made available through the CARIS project. These can be downloaded from the Resources and Tools section of their website.
CORE Initiative
The CORE Initiative is a USAID-funded global programme designed online pokie to support an inspired, effective, and inclusive response to the causes and consequences of HIV and AIDS by strengthening the capacity of community- and faith-based groups worldwide.
HIV, AIDS, Islam. A Workshop Manual Based on Compassion, Responsibility and Justice |
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GENERAL |
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The AIDS Law Project launched its 18-Month Review of AIDS, health and the law at the Constitutional Court on 24 March 2009. The Review reports on the work of the ALP and provides an analysis of the developments in law, politics and health policy in South Africa since July 2007.
CMT is an non-profit organisation which has been producing HIV nad AIDS public health education material since 1998 under the Siyayinqoba Beat It! brand. Siyayinqoba Beat It! provides reliable, scientifically based information to people living with HIV and AIDS, their partners, family, friends, caregivers and health workers.
CMT runs four programmes:
1. The Siyayinqoba Beat It! television magazine programme promotes positive living, treatment access and prevention of HIV infection both for the uninfected and people living with HIV.
2. Siyayinqoba Beat It! Treatment Literacy Series is a 21-part
non-broadcast audio visual series providing detailed treatment literacy
information for training of peer educators, health workers, community
health workers working in community organisation, business and
government. The DVD series is available in English, isiXhosa, isiZulu,
seSotho and Portuguese for Mozambique. The cost for NPOs is R150 per
DVD. There is also an accompanying manual which can be downloaded from
the website entitled HIV Prevention and Treatment Literacy. This manual
can be used to complement the DVD series or it can be used as a
separate resource.
3. Siyayinqoba Beat It! Outreach Project employs 70 Treatment Literacy and
Prevention Practitioners in 5 provinces, (Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal, Free
State, Eastern Cape and Western Cape) to present Siyayinqoba Beat It!
content in clinics, hospitals, schools and any other organisation
requiring assistance in establishing treatment and prevention literacy
programmes.
4. Siyayinqoba Beat It! Archive is the largest audio visual archive on the
history of HIV and AIDS and the health in South Africa with over 1500
hours of material which is available on the website.
Engenderhealth provides a wide range of technical publications and resources, including training curricula, clinical guidelines, instructional videos, brochures, working papers, articles, and online information. Most can be downloaded in pdf format and then printed, e.g. posters promoting various behaviours such as use of condoms.
Governance, citizens and HIV/AIDS - new diaries from sub-Saharan Africa is a project of Idasa’s HIV/AIDS Communication programme and is designed to encourage news reporting about governance and HIV and AIDS. Examples of articles include the following: Swine flu and HIV; Encouraging collective action; Prosecuting HIV transmission; Migrant workers vulnerability to HIV; Circumcision and HIV; and Does foreign aid help or hinder? It is possible to sign up for regular email updates.
This book is a comprehensive guide to HIV and AIDS and features the illustrated work of newspaper satirist, Sifiso Yalo. Its fresh and no holds-barred perspectives on all the issues surrounding HIV and AIDS, accompanied by cartoon illustrations, has made the book successful with both businesses and schools. It is published by Jacana and special orders of the book can be made by contacting Helen Holyoake on 011 462 2302 or helco@mweb.co.za
MSF has released a new report describing the health worker crisis in southern Africa and its impact on scaling up HIV and AIDS treatment. The report describes the situation in the following four countries: South Africa, Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique.
Learnscapes specialises in e-learning training programmes and has produced a Health and Wellness computer-based programme covering a broad spectrum of health issues around HIV and AIDS, STIs and TB, including prevention and treatment guidelines. The comprehensively researched content is delivered in a user-friendly and easy to understand format that achieves a high rate of information transfer and retention. The company also produces DVDs, CD-Roms, playing cards and InfoBytes to promote health awareness around HIV and AIDS. For more information go to their website or contact Leon van der Merwe on 011 475 4777 or leonvdm@learnscapes.co.za
OSF-SA has produced the HIV/AIDS Disclosure Manual (2009), a practical booklet which provides guidelines and references to practitioners and service providers on identified issues. The themes covered in the manual include:
- Constitutional values and and state obligation with regard to HIV and AIDs
- Disclosure in the workplace; employment and discrimination laws
- HIV disclosure in criminal law and in prison settings
- Disclosure in medical settings; ethical obligations of health providers; and what the law says
Positive HealthThis booklet takes a fresh look at
healthy living for people who are infected with HIV - whether on AIDS
medication or not. Positive Health is written in simple language and
offers useful, practical information. The booklet is written by Neil
Orr (a research psychologist) and David Patient, who has been living a
healthy life with HIV since 1983. For a free copy of the booklet email Renee Sabor on
rsabor@metropolitan.co.za
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or call 021 940 5275.
TAC produces a wide variety of reports and documents, which are available on their website. TAC also produces a regular and very informative publication entitled Equal Treatment, which is available in hard copy and online. Equal Treatment is dedicated to covering health and HIV matters. It is produced several times a year, funds permitting, and is generally available in several different languages including isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho and Tsonga. To receive a free hard copy you need to send an email with your name and address to et@tac.org.za. If you are from a medical institution, professional organisation or from overseas, TAC requests that you make a donation. Equal Treatment information may be reproduced without permission except for photographs and cartoons that are credited to other sources. All sources must be appropriately acknowledged. For permission to reproduce copyrighted material not belonging to TAC, you need to contact the credited source.
- 2006: Science and HIV (19); Women and HIV (20); Making HIV Prevention Work (21)
- 2007: Equal Treatment (22)
- 2008: Children and HIV (23); Youth and HIV (24); Report on the systematic abuse of immigrants (25); TB and HIV (26)
- 2009: Social Grants (27); Side Effects and Adherence (28)
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The following document is the government's HIV and AIDS and STI strategic plan for South Africa 2007-2011. The plan defines the nature of the South African HIV and AIDS problem and identifies key interventions to be carried out in order to reduce the rate of new HIV infections. It also recognises the plight of the many people that are living with HIV and AIDS and outlines relevant interventions to mitigate the impact of this disease on individuals, families and communities.
Government's National Strategic Plan (Draft 10 NSP 2007)
The following document covers the government's latest legislation concerning children in South Africa, particularly with reference to the care of orphans and vulnerable children.
Children's Amendment Bill
Three South African mortality audit reports: Saving Mothers, Saving Babies and Saving Children, provide a review of the health care provided to mothers, babies and children. These reports help to guide priorities for the National Department of Health and all levels of health service delivery. In 'Every Death Counts', the authors of these three reports have come together in order to provide a unified call for action to save the lives of South Africa's mothers babies and children.
Every Death Counts 2008 The Department of Social Development (DSD) is mandated to provide programmes and services to vulnerable children according to international agreements ratified spielautomaten by the government. These include various agreements that mandate the provision of services aimed at protecting children’s rights as entrenched in the Constitution of South Africa, the Children’s Act of 2005 and the UN Conventions on the Rights of the Child.The plight of children living in child-headed households is a significant concern, as these children are vulnerable, have limited means to generate an income, are unable to effectively sustain their household, and are less able to protect themselves from various forms of abuse. The Gauteng DSD commissioned research into child-headed households in this province, which are presented in the following report.
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CINDI, based in KwaZulu-Natal, has produced an illustrated 22-page booklet on the importance of good nutrition in HIV disease, which is available in both English and isiZulu.
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ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN |
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The Institute aims to contribute to policies, laws and interventions that promote equality and realise the rights and improve the conditions of all children in South Africa, through research, advocacy, education and technical support. Numerous useful publications are available on their website under the following headings: General, Child Health Services, Child Poverty, Child Rights, HIV and AIDS, Environment, and Trauma and Violence. Also on their website is a section entitled Children Count (Abantwana Babalulekile) in which you can find facts and figures about children in South Africa including their living conditions, their care arrangements, their health status, and their access to schools and other services. The Institute recently produced a report analysing the Department of Social Development's budget allocations for 2009/10 – 2011/12 to assess the government’s progress in effecting its obligations under the Children’s Act (2005) to provide and/or fund a comprehensive range of social services for children including ECD; prevention and protection services; foster care; and child and youth care centres. The paper also provides information on budget trends in relation to government personnel and transfers to non-profit organisations in 2008/09.
The Institute also produces the highly regarded South African Child Gauge report each year with a new theme. This publication gives an annual snap-shot of the status of South Africa’s children and critically examines the links between the reality, South Africa’s commitment to child rights, and society’s progress in this regard (Note that individual chapters can be downloaded from the website link provided above or the full issues can be downloaded from the relevant links below. These are approximately 4 MB each and will take some time to download.)
- Children in the context of HIV and AIDS (2005/6). This issue focuses on the theme of children and HIV/AIDS and features essays on antiretroviral roll-out to children, social security for children in a time of AIDS, schools as nodes of care and support for children affected by HIV/AIDS, and children’s participation in law-making processes
- Children and poverty (2006/7). This issue features key findings of the Institute's 'Means to Live' research which reviewed barriers to children and caregivers’ access to key government poverty alleviation programmes that benefit children. The edition included a pull-out poster of a map of South Africa that provides quick provincial reference to a few key child-centred socio-economic indicators
- Children’s right to social services within the context of a developmental social welfare system (2007/8). The themed essays in this issue describe and analyse the policies and the law (Children’s Act) that are aimed at giving effect to this right, and explore and make recommendations on key budgetary, human resource and implementation challenges
- Meaningful access to basic education (2008/2009). The themed essays in this issue focus on the right to education, meaningful access, budgetary frameworks and school-fee waivers, children who are out of school, the relationship between poverty and exclusion, how to build effective partnerships between schools and communities, and what is required to build a strong foundation in numeracy and literacy
CRC has many useful documents and publications relating to the rights and needs of children living with HIV and AIDS. Refer to their website for more information on the hard copy publications that are available.
Helping Children Living with HIV is the companion adult guide to the My Living Positively Handbook.
This publication is a full colour picture handbook for children living with HIV that encourages children to live positively and to participate actively in the medical and health management of their illness.
This is a treatment literacy book for parents to help them understand and offer holistic care for their child who is living with HIV.
This booklet is full of useful ideas such as building child-care circles of support, access to grants and providing social and emotional support to children.
This is a resource booklet for adult and peer facilitators to encourage young people between the ages of 11-18 to explore the issues surrounding voluntary counselling and testing for HIV.
This publication provides guidelines on ethical practice in fulfilling children’s rights to participation advises on the best interests of children when they participate. It covers every situation that children are involved in from the home - to school - to youth organisations, conferences and so on, all the way up to parliament.
This initiative, part of the University of Witswatersrand, aims to improve access to holistic HIV prevention and care for HIV infected and affected infants, children and adolescents. Their website provides online resources to support this aim.
The following guide has been produced by REPSSI, a regional capacity-building organisation working in Southern and Eastern Africa to enhance the psychosocial well-being of all children affected by HIV and AIDS, poverty and conflict.
The SCI is a multi-media communication initiative that was developed by UNICEF in 1994 to create awareness of adolescent issues in Eastern and Southern Africa. Since then, it has also proven popular in other parts of the world, especially in Western and Central Africa. Sara, the feisty young girl who is the main character in all the Sara materials, was created to communicate a message of empowerment and act as a role model for all the children of Africa. The titles produced so far include eleven core episodes in comic book, reader and poster format, five of which are also available in video/DVD format. The Sara stories are effective in the development of life skills programmes for young people as they focus on critical issues such HIV and AIDS prevention, orphaned and vulnerable children, adolescent reproductive health, girls’ education and children’s rights. UNICEF works in conjunction with Maskew Miller Longman, a leading publishing company, to promote the existing materials to a wider audience and to develop an even more comprehensive range of materials.
The ‘Children at the Centre’ series has been compiled by Save the Children, UK and is written for organisations that support community groups working with vulnerable children. It is drawn from the experiences of Save the Children across Africa where such community groups or committees form the backbone of their work with vulnerable children (whether as a result of HIV and AIDS, conflict or other causes).
The following Save the Children report focuses on the plight of children in southern Africa who cross borders unaccompanied in search of work and education in neighbouring countries. Many of these children are from the poorest and most vulnerable households and have lost their parents as a result of HIV and AIDS. These children are often exploited and abused once they arrive in the host country, and their undocumented status often means that they are denied essential services and assistance. This report aims to inform legislation, policy-making and programming in order to ensure that these very vulnerable children are better protected.
Also written by Save the Children, the next report contains a detailed and highly recommended analysis on the challenges of channelling resources to communities responding to orphans and vulnerable children in southern Africa.
UNICEF's 2007 and 2008 reports focus on both women and children, as any benefits gained by women in terms of equality in the household, education, employment, politics and government, and health are immediately passed on to their children.
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The Population Council conducts research to improve policies, programmes and products in three areas: HIV and AIDS, poverty, gender, youth and reproductive health. Together with the Rural AIDS and Development Action Research Programme (RADAR), the School of Public Health at the University of Witswatersrand, and the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre the following research has been conducted:
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PREVENTION OF MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION (PMTCT) |
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The Siyayinqoba Beat It! Treatment Literacy Series
(TLS) is a non-broadcast series that provides detailed treatment
literacy information. The TLS is intended for training peer educators,
treatment supporters, home-based care givers and people living with HIV
and AIDS. It is designed for any organisation that wants to provide
training support for HIV and AIDS services. The series consists of 21 DVDs,
each covering a different topic, and is available in isiXhosa, English,
seSotho, Portuguese and isiZulu. There one DVD that is available
on the topic of PMTCT which can be purchased at a price of R150 for NPOs
and R300 for businesses. There is also a free manual available on their website which complements this material.
ELDIS, a programme of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University, has developed a training module and field guide for the continuing care for mothers, children, and families following PMTCT programmes. It seeks to link HIV-infected women and their families with ongoing HIV care, treatment, and support after participation in a national PMTCT programme.
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VOLUNTARY COUNSELLING AND TESTING (VCT) |
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The Siyayinqoba Beat It! Treatment Literacy Series
(TLS) is a non-broadcast series that provides detailed treatment
literacy information. The TLS is intended for training peer educators,
treatment supporters, home-based care givers and people living with HIV
and AIDS. It is designed for any organisation that wants to provide
training support for HIV and AIDS services. The series consists of 21 DVDs,
each covering a different topic, and is available in isiXhosa, English,
seSotho, Portuguese and isiZulu. There is one DVD that is available
on the topic of VCT which can be purchased at a price of R150 for NPOs
and R300 for businesses. There is also a free manual available on their website which complements this material.
The following document was produced by the Joint Civil Society Monitoring Forum at their 9th meeting in Cape Town, October 2006.
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SABCOHA has produced a comprehensive Toolkit as a step-by-step guide - especially for small and medium sized businesses (50-300 employees) - to assist in formulating and implementing a workplace HIV and AIDS programme. The basic framework of the Toolkit is taken from best practice programmes of Unilever and Standard Bank, who are members of SABCOHA. The Toolkit contains a number of key components, including:
- HIV and AIDS programme introduction and management summary
- Management pathway – overview, guide and process to setting up an effective HIV and AIDS programme
- Steering committee guide – relevant processes and documentation on how to get started with an HIV and AIDS programme
- Champion’s reference – supporting documentation and resources for the workplace Champion and Steering Committee
- Frequently asked questions (contained on index cards)
- Resource materials – brochures, posters, a video with information on living positively with HIV and AIDS
The Toolkit retails for R470 (excluding VAT and courier fees). For further information or to purchase a Toolkit, please contact tel: 011 880 4821 or email: info@sabcoha.co.za |
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