World Aids Day ribbon
Source: Allan Gichigi/IRIN
The aim of this year's World AIDS Day (1 December) is to highlight the need for innovation, vision and perseverance in the face of the HIV/AIDS challenge. As well as continuing to call on governments and policy makers to ensure that they meet the many targets that have been set, this year's campaign looks to other sectors of society for new thinking in fighting the disease. Families, communities, civil society organisations and business are all encouraged to become involved in providing stronger leadership on HIV/AIDS initiatives.
ODI continues to work on HIV/AIDS, building on research from 2005 and 2006 which focused on food and nutrition, the implications of HIV/AIDS on humanitarian responses, scaling up, and long term research methodologies. Research in 2007 suggests that the private sector can, and should, show greater leadership on national responses to HIV/AIDS. A new Briefing Paper on South Africa illustrates a range of workplace and community-based programmes. It provides ideas for corporations wishing to adopt and adapt similar programmes as well as recommendations for governments and donors.
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show details hide detailsWorld AIDS Day – Time for enlightened leadership
This blog examines how leadership of different types has been successful in controlling sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the past. It argues that we are still far from curbing the HIV/AIDS pandemic, despite this leadership. It goes on to ask what types of leadership will be needed in 2008 and beyond in order to achieve real progress, and to which particular challenges these types of leadership might best be directed.
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30 November 2007
Kent Buse and Fiona Samuels
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show details hide detailsAids and the private sector: The case of South Africa
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This Briefing Paper provides a snapshot of multinational corporations'
programmes that focus on AIDS outside the workplace.
It explores the 'business case' for the MNC
response to the epidemic and highlights some
of the debates about the role of businesses in
a national response. While the Briefing Paper is
focused on South Africa, it offers lessons that may
be appropriate for businesses responding to AIDS
in other countries.
ODI Briefing Paper 30
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Melissa Davis, Fiona Samuels and Kent Buse
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show details hide detailsScaling-up the HIV/AIDS response: From alignment and harmonisation to mutual accountability
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Without greater mutual accountability among all stakeholders, lack of harmonisation will continue to cost lives. The international community reiterated its commitment to Universal Access to HIV/AIDSprevention, treatment, care and support at the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in May-June 2006. But without hastening the application of the Three Ones principles to guide the nationalAIDS response, we face a collective failure to realise the Universal Access commitment.
ODI Briefing Paper 9
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August 2006
Kent Buse (ODI), Michel Sidibe, Desmond Whyms, Ini Huijts and Steven Jensen (UNAIDS) |
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show details hide detailsUnderstanding HIV/AIDS and livelihoods: The contribution of longitudinal data and cluster analysis
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It is now accepted that HIV/AIDS is a long-wave event, with accumulative and systemic impacts. It follows from this that longitudinal studies are needed, to establish the effects on individuals, households and communities and their complex interactions over time. But what kinds of longitudinal studies illuminate these issues the best? This Briefi ng Paper provides one kind of answer. It draws on longitudinal research carried out in Zambia in 1993 and 2005 using methods derived from the anthropological and ethnographic tradition.
ODI Briefing Paper 8
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August 2006
Fiona Samuels (ODI), Michael Drinkwater (CARE International) and Margaret McEwan (FAO) |
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show details hide detailsFood, Nutrition and HIV: What next?
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Access to adequate food and nutrition significantly mitigates the impacts of HIV and AIDS. This is well established and increasingly recognised. To date, however, limited progress has been made in integrating nutrition interventions into HIV/ AIDS programmes and policies. A key reason for this is the lack of inter-sectoral collaboration. Typically, the food and agriculture sector interacts little with the health sector. On the other hand, a major step forward was taken in June 2006, with the inclusion of Article 28 in the Declaration of Commitment by the United Nations General Assembly Special Session dedicated to HIV/AIDS (UNGASS).
ODI Briefing Paper 7
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August 2007
Fiona Samuels (ODI) and Sara Simon (CARE International) |
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show details hide detailsResponding to HIV/AIDS in Agriculture & Related Activites (PDF, 115kb)
HIV/AIDS has multiple impacts on agriculture and the livelihoods of rural households which are only slowly being understood. This will gradually help in identifying the kinds of agricultural policy instrument that could offer appropriate support to HIV/AIDS-affected households. At the same time, responses are also urgently required to ensure that hard-won gains in poverty reduction are not eroded by the pandemics effect on agricultural growth. This NRP explores the challenges posed for agriculture by the pandemic and considers a range of policy options.
Natural Resource Perspectives
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show details hide detailsHIV, Nutrition, Food and Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence, debates and reflections for guidance
This report is one output of a review study, commissioned by the UK Department of International Development (DFID), with the objective of supporting DFID Health Advisers and Livelihoods Advisers to be better able to give up-to-date, informed, and evidence based policy advice for linking HIV and Livelihood programmes and strategies, with the broader aim of better integration between policy and programme solutions in the two areas.
Report for donor
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June 2007
Jerker Edstrm and Fiona Samuels With Petra Bongartz, Ian Maclausan, Karen Proudlock, Steve Wiggins and Ingrid Young |
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show details hide detailsUniversal Access for HIV/AIDS: Alignment, harmonisation and accountability (PDF, 387MB)
The 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, ended with a call for universal access for HIV prevention, and care and treatment for AIDS patients. This call marked the culmination of a year of debate and action on how best to achieve these goals following the commitment made by the G8 group of countries in September, 2005, to provide universal access. At the UN General Assemblys request, UNAIDS started several consultations convening thousands of people in more than 130 countries to identify the specifi c obstacles to scaling up, and to affi rm their commitment to take the necessary steps towards universal access in 2010.
Lancet Comment
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November 2006
Michel Sidibe, Ilavenil Ramiah (UNAIDS) and Kent Buse (ODI) |
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show details hide detailsHIV/AIDS and humanitarian action
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The crisis in southern Africa during 2002 and 2003 highlighted the complex interactions between HIV/AIDS, food security and famine. The UN Special Envoy argued that HIV/AIDS was challenging the paradigm of humanitarian assistance; Alex De Waal contends that it threatens new variant famine. Others have asked whether the importance of HIV/AIDS as a factor in the crisis has been overstated, and whether an undue focus on HIV/AIDS risks neglect of other equally important issues.
HPG Report 16
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show details hide detailsHIV/AIDS Theme on DFID's Professional Development for Livelihoods (PLOW)website
A set of web-based learning resources to contribute to the development of the professional competence of DFID's livelihoods advisers. Includes a two page briefing on HIV/AIDS, a summary of recent and likely future policy debates within the area and links to resources for further reading.
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HIV/AIDS in Emergencies - Development of a Conceptual Framework.
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This meeting presented findings from the literature review carried out for this project (see right) for feedback before the field work began.
21st September 2007, ODI
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The Link between HIV and AIDS and Food Insecurity: Exploring the Evidence.
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Workshop for NGO practitioners, research institutions, advocates and policy makers to explore the links between HIV and AIDS and Food Security.
25th May 2007, ODI
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Scaling Up on HIV/AIDS: People and Promises, Opinions and Reality
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In the run up to the 16th International AIDS Conference, in 2006, ODI hosted a series of four meetings with the central theme of HIV/AIDS. Partnering with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, UNAIDS, UNHCR and UNICEF, the meetings focused on a number of topical issues on the HIV/AIDS agenda. August 2006, ODI
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