Organisations

Hong Kong AIDS Foundation

Hong Kong

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5/F Saukeiwan Jockey Club Clinic
8 Chai Wan Road
Shaukeiwan

It aims to limit the spread of HIV infection in the community through the provision of support to those affected by the disease. Its objectives are to enhance public awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and educate them about HIV/AIDS; to provide a range of services needed by people infected with HIV or otherwise affected by HIV/AIDS; and to promote care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS. Its resource centre is open to the public

Red Ribbon Centre (RRC)|UNAIDS Collaborating Centre for Technical Support

Hong Kong

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2/F Wnag Tai Hom Jockey Club Clinic
200 Junction Road
East Hong Kong

Its mission is to facilitate and enhance the community's response to HIV/AIDS. It aims to do this by promoting community participation in AIDS education and research; enhancing the development of quality AIDS education programmes; facilitating the development of social, behavioural and epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong and the region; and providing an avenue for local and international collaboration in the fight against HIV/AIDS

Fiji Red Cross Society (FRCS)

Fiji

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PO Box 569
Suva

FRCS provides blood transfusion services for the country. It is a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Finnish Disabled People's International Development Association (FIDIDA)

Finland

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Lintulahdenkatu 10, 00500 Helsinki
Finland

FIDIDA is together with its member organizations implementing a programme called the Finnish Disability and Development Partnership, which aims at the full realization of the human rights of persons with disabilities living in the Global South. FIDIDA also offers training and consultation in disability related development cooperation, and lobbies for the mainstreaming of disability issues in national and international development policy

IMPACT

UK

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151 Western Road
Haywards Heath
West Sussex RH16 3LH

Impact's aim is that no-one should become disabled through disease, lack of knowledge or shortage of medical services. With effective delivery of today's know-how, it believes that, given the will and resources, it should be possible to reduce by one third the incidence of avoidable disability in developing countries, while at the same time helping to break the link between ageing and disability in industrialised countries like their own

Outreach|Television Trust for the Environment USA (TVE USA)

USA

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PO Box 820
Shelburne
VT 05482

Outreach Goal: To help improve the lifestyles and the environment of children and the poor in the developing world by supporting community based health and envionmental programmes through the provision of learning materials and by increasing awareness in industrialised countries of global environmenal and health issues, particularly the way in which they affect children and the poor in the developing world

Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau (URHB)

Uganda

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PO Box 24497
Kampala

URHB's objectives are to ensure that young people get access to services and information that will improve their health; to provide access to family planning services/skills through direct service delivery, to provide education and information for rural women; to provide essential services in adolescent reproductive and sexual health and counselling; and to provide IEC materials and publications. It runs 2 adolescent health clinics of 10 beds

National Office of Family and Population (ONFP)

Tunisia

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42 Avenue de Madrid
1002 Tunis

Aims to control population growth, increase the number of employed people, increase the school population, improve maternal and child health, and control social service expenditure. The resource centre is open to the public

Action Group for Family Health and Development (AGFAHD)

Sierra Leone

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14 Percival Street
Freetown

Aims to promote health and contribute to the improvement of the general socio-enonomic status of both women and youth. Its objectives are advocacy, information, education and communication activities in support of reproductive health and development issues that benefit the rural and urban community

Centre for Development Studies (CDS)

Egypt

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4 Ahmad Pasha St (City Bank Bldg)
4th Floor, Garden City
Cairo

Mission: to support individualised organisations realise their full potential and foster self-determined, self-sustaining change. This mission is premised on our behalf that participation is imperative to learning and change. CDS operate based on a need response mode, with a wide array of stake holders, International society, government and private sector organisations. Our approach relies on bringing stakeholsers to realise and appreciate their interdependence and work together to bring about meaningful change. The CDS resource centre is open to the public

Centre for Educational Development / Jordan University

Jordan

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Zip No 11942

The CED aims to provide in-service training courses for teaching and administrative staff, to design and produce teaching/learning materials in a variety of formats, to organise and implement training courses for health workers in a wider range of professional specialities, to provide health literature and information using medicine and Internet, to promote community health, and to provide IT support to teaching and learning at the University. The CED resource centre is open to the public.

European Forum on HIV, Children, Young People and Families

UK

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111-117 Lancaster Road
London

This is a multi disciplinary network of 13 collaborating centres in Europe. It includes NGOs, professionals, oung people and government agencies. It promotes the rights and needs and views of children and families. It operates within the UNCRC framework. It provides information, newsletters (5 languages) and bulletins. It conducts inter-country studies and projects on good practice,training and consultancy. It also organises seminars and conferences. Resource centre available on request.

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