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We work with local partners to fight poverty and injustice worldwide, reaching over 13 million of the poorest and most vulnerable people over the last year alone, helping them fight for and gain their rights to food, shelter, work, education, healthcare and a voice in the decisions that affect their lives.
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Our mission is to present AIDS education programs, tools, and information that is easily accessible, effective, and current. We will count on your feedback, as well as your examples of what has worked for you.
AIDS.ORG is to help prevent HIV infections and to improve the lives of those affected by HIV and AIDS by providing education and facilitating the free and open exchange of knowledge at an easy-to-find centralized website.
AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, with the aim of AVERTing HIV and AIDS worldwide.
The problem of HIV in the Middle East has elicited contradictory expectations and responses. Denial ("Not in our region") characterised the early phases of the epidemic. HIV was presented as a disease brought from countries where sexual morals were decadent, and obedience to Islam was thought to offer the best protection.1 Perhaps as a reaction to this, allegations have been exaggerated that the problem represents a public health crisis concealed "behind the veil."2
Mauritania is faced with an increasing HIV prevalence rate. With most of the population being Muslim, working with religious leaders to disseminate HIV/AIDS prevention and care and support messages insures reaching a wide audience.
CDC, as the sentinel for the health of people in the United States and throughout the world, strives to protect people’s health and safety, provide reliable health information, and improve health through strong partnerships.
The Commonwealth Health and Media Partnership seeks to advocate for improved health in resource poor settings through excellence in media training, operational research and policy development support.
The CORE Initiative partnered with community and faith-based groups to advance multi-sectoral responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through grants, capacity building, and networking. This web site highlights the CORE Initiative’s accomplishments and showcases the tools and publications developed.
Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research. We maintain an ever-growing collection of editorially selected and abstracted full-text, online documents selected by our editors from more than 4,500 different publishers. All documents are available free of charge.
Harm Reduction Journal is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal whose focus is prevalent patterns of psychoactive drug use, the public policies meant to control them, and the search for effective methods of reducing the adverse medical, public health, and social consequences associated with both drugs and drug policies.
The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) links five leading institutions together to accomplish its goal of strengthening public health in the developing world through strategic communication programs. Through its strategic approach to communication, HCP and its partners work to create an environment that supports individuals, families, and communities to act positively for their own health and to advocate for and have access to quality services.
The primary objectives of the IASC in complex and major emergencies are as follows: To develop and agree on system-wide humanitarian policies; To allocate responsibilities among agencies in humanitarian programmes; To develop and agree on a common ethical framework for all humanitarian activities;
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice.
By definition STDs are infectious diseases attributed to human sex life. Among all the infections afflicting mankind, STDs stand out unique in that, the reservoirs, the sufferers and the transmitters are all human beings.
The International AIDS Society is the world's leading independent association of HIV/AIDS professionals. It is a worldwide force of professionals working together to prevent, control and treat HIV/AIDS.
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), a registered UK charity, is the only international network run for and by HIV positive women. ICW was founded in response to the desperate lack of support, information and services available to women living with HIV worldwide and the need for these women to have influence and input on policy development.
ICASO is committed to: The central role of people, communities and their organizations in developing and implementing national and international policies and programs. The right of each community-based organization to determine its own priorities, methods of organization, and programs, and to have those choices respected by governments and international agencies.
The International Federation's programmes are grouped into four main core areas: promoting humanitarian principles and values; disaster response; disaster preparedness; and health and care in the community.
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) is a global partnership of nationally-based organisations working to support community action on AIDS.
IPPF/WHR work is grounded in the belief that access to quality, sexual and reproductive health information and services is a basic human right. By making these services available, IPPF/WHR helps to empower individuals to make decisions about their fertility and thus contributes to improving health and well being, national development and environmental quality.
Welcome to your site, Islam Online, which was created for you and is enriched by your presence and becomes more effective the more you visit. In this site, we strive to provide you with all the information you need about Islam and its civilizations, the universe and its changes, current affairs and their analyses, and general information and services that one cannot do without in the 21st century.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries.
The National Bureau of Asian Research is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution dedicated to informing and strengthening policy in the Asia-Pacific.
Since 1956 we have been keeping our readers up to date with the latest science and technology news from around the world. With a network of correspondents and seven editorial offices worldwide we have a global reach that no other science magazine can match.
The newest phase of the global AIDS pandemic is the unfolding of the contagion across the great Islamic expanse. In the years immediately ahead, the HIV/AIDS pandemic threatens to wash through the Muslim world. The disease will exact a grim toll in a number of vulnerable populations living within volatile polities—places unlikely to cope well with the significant new social stresses and economic burdens brought on by HIV/AIDS.
Ockenden International works with some of the most vulnerable communities in the world. We provide opportunities to rebuild lives torn apart by conflict or natural disaster, helping restore self-reliance to displaced people
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), a department of the United Nations Secretariat, is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights laws and treaties.
A multimedia portal facilitating exchange of information on HIV/AIDS among NGOs, CBOs and a global community of producers and broadcasters using radio to help fight HIV/AIDS
Religious constraints on sexuality may have consequences for the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. Recognising that several Islamic tenets may have the effect, if followed, of reducing the sexual transmission of HIV, this paper tests the hypothesis that Muslims have lower HIV prevalence than non-Muslims. Among 38 sub-Saharan African countries, the percentage of Muslims within countries negatively predicted HIV prevalence.
We are committed to developing a theology of compassion; a way of reading the Qur’an and understanding the Sunnah (the path of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him) that focuses on Allah who cares deeply about all creation.
Working with photographers, writers, designers and doctors, our team chronicles the HIV epidemic, both in the States and overseas.
In this paper, we seek to describe Muslim customs and practices that may represent risk factors for developing HIV/AIDS. We use the term 'risk' in its epidemiological sense, indicating activities that may increase or decrease the chances of contracting HIV infection. We consider issues such as polygamy, attitudes towards extra-marital relationships, homosexuality and the custom of male circumcision, all of which may have a bearing on the risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS.
We fight for children in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence, working with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face.
Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., through its Global Health and Development Strategies Division, provided technical assistance and services to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under The Synergy Project to design, evaluate, and coordinate HIV/AIDS programs and identify and disseminate lessons learned from these programs.
The Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is a national movement with more than 85 chapters at high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States committed to bringing an end to HIV and AIDS in the U.S. and around the world through education, informed advocacy, media work, and direct action.
TAMPEP provides migrant sex workers with culturally appropriate HIV/STD education, resources and materials. It has developed specific information materials in 10 different languages. It seeks to increase empowerment and self-esteem among migrant sex workers.
We aim to Use the Web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians. Demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment. Improve patients' quality of life and foster community through human connection.
The College of Family Physicians of Canada is a national voluntary organization of family physicians that makes continuing medical education of its members mandatory.
The Communication Initiative (The CI) network is an online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organisations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social development and change.
The Guttmacher Institute advances sexual and reproductive health through an interrelated program of social science research, policy analysis and public education designed to generate new ideas, encourage enlightened public debate, promote sound policy and program development and, ultimately, inform individual decision making.
Sphere is based on two core beliefs: first, that all possible steps should be taken to alleviate human suffering arising out of calamity and conflict, and second, that those affected by disaster have a right to life with dignity and therefore a right to assistance. Sphere is three things; a handbook, a broad process of collaboration, and an expression of commitment to quality and accountability.
The United Nations helps millions of people around the world in ways you never imagined.
The World Bank--in partnership with others-- is working to roll back the spread of this global epidemic. As the largest long-term investor in prevention and mitigation of HIV/AIDS in developing countries, the World Bank Group is working with its partners to
The UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development is a group of more than 80 UK based organisations which work together to understand and develop effective approaches to the problems created by the HIV epidemic in developing countries.
UNAIDS brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organisations to the global AIDS response.
YouandAIDS.org is an HIV/AIDS portal for Asia Pacific that seeks to address the strongly-felt information and services needs of the region…
The world must take urgent account of the specific impact of AIDS on children, or there will be no chance of meeting Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 – to halt and begin to reverse the spread of the disease by 2015
VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers. Our vision is a world without poverty in which people work together to fulfil their potential. We bring people together to share skills, creativity and learning to build a fairer world.
We can stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, take action today. Around forty million people are living with HIV throughout the world - and that number increases in every region every day.
The World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) was set up in 1998 by James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, and Lord Carey of Clifton, then Archbishop of Canterbury, to help to promote a dialogue on poverty and development, both among the different faith traditions and between them and development agencies, such as the World Bank
WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. Operations aim to: Save lives in refugee crises and other emergencies; Improve nutrition and quality of life of world's most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives
The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948.
The main focus of GWH is to promote the inclusion of gender perspectives in the work of the WHO by collaborating with other departments and, regional and country offices. It aims to increase knowledge of gender issues by conducting research, training and advocacy on how socio-cultural factors and discrimination affect health.