These fact sheets aim to provide policy makers with concise information about gender related aspects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. They deal with core facts and issues in thematic areas and are underpinned by an analysis which clarifies how gender issues are fuelling the crisis. Each theme presents a self-contained set of issues and recommendations and many of the themes are interlinked. All of them are connected by a concern to promote a gender-enlightened and comprehensive response to HIV/AIDS and its impacts
The PLACE method is designed to expose sexual and injection drug use networks, identify sites where high-risk populations overlap and help focus interventions where they are most needed. This report presents both a baseline assessment of HIV/AIDS risks and an evaluation of condom promotion programmes in four cities in Central Asia. The report shows that sexual and drug use networks are extensive and diffuse. The rate of new partnership formation is also very high, and the use of condoms with new partners is "quite high". Injection drug use is common, and needles are often shared. The report calls for programmes and interventions to concentrate their efforts on sites at high risk, where there is an overlap of high-risk populations (people meeting new partners, youth, injection drug users, sex workers)
This document is a report of the second interagency technical meeting on indicators. The meeting reviewed country experiences in strengthening health information systems for monitoring reproductive health and discussed a guideline for district level health managers describing a process of identifying reproductive health indicators according to specific criteria. The meeting also discussed a draft set of indicators for global monitoring
This document is a report of the second report interagency technical meeting on indicators. Some 40 participants attended the meeting from country level, United Nations and partner agencies, and donor organizations. The purpose of this meeting was to review experience with the existing common set of Reproductive Health Indicators for Global Monitoring