Online Manuals
Advocacy-HIV/AIDS
Advocacy Guide to the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, International Council of AIDS Service Organisations (ICASO), October, 2001
Advocacy Guide for HIV/AIDS and Advocacy Guide to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, International Planned Parenthood Federation, June - July, 2001
Advocacy in Action – A Toolkit to Support NGOs and CBOs Responding to HIV/AIDS, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, June,
Advocacy Tools and Guidelines: Promoting Policy Change Manual, Care International, 2001
Advocacy Guide: HIV/AIDS Prevention for Injecting Drug Users, International Harm Reduction Association, 2004
published by WHO, UNAIDS and UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Care & Treatment- HIV/AIDS
HIV Care and Support: A Strategic Framework, Family Health International (FHI), June, 2001
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Community Home-Based Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2003
The Framework for the Protection, Care and Support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Living in a World with HIV and AIDS, UNICEF, July, 2004
Treating 3 million by 2005 – Making it Happen, WHO, December, 2003
Scaling Up HIV Testing and Counselling Services – A Toolkit for Programme Managers, International HIV/AIDS Alliance and WHO, 2004
Improving Access to HIV/AIDS-Related Treatment – A Report Sharing Experiences and Lessons Learned International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2002
Community engagement for antiretroviral treatment – Trainers’ manual, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2006
Charter-HIV/AIDS
The Sphere Project: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, 2004
2nd Edition
Children-HIV/AIDS
Children on the Brink 2004: A Joint Report on Orphans Estimates and Program Strategies, UNAIDS, UNICEF and USAID, July , 2002
pp.9-11
Dying to Learn: Young People, HIV and the Churches, Christian Aid, October , 2003
Children’s Participation in HIV/AIDS Programming, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, December, 2002
Rights of Children and Youth Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS: Trainers’ Handbook, Save the Children (UK), 2001
Children on the Brink: A Joint Report on Orphan Estimates and Program Strategies, UNAIDS, UNICEF and USAID, July, 2002
Orphans and Other Children Made Vulnerable by HIV/AIDS: Principles and Operational Guidelines for Programming, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2002
What Religious Leaders Can Do about HIV/AIDS: Action for Young Children and Young People, UNICEF, UNAIDS and World Council for Religions for Peace, November , 2003
Building Resilience: a Rights-Based Approach to children and HIV/AIDS in Africa, Save the Children Sweden, 2007
Community Mobilisation- HIV/AIDS
Levene, J., Community Mobilisation and Participatory Approaches: Reviewing Impact and Good Practice for HIV/AIDS Programming, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, November , 2004
This document has been re-named ‘Tools Together Now!’
From Principle to Practice: Greater Involvement of People Living with or Affected by HIV/AIDS (GIPA), UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, September , 1999
How to Mobilize Communities for Health and Social Change: A Field Guide, Health Communications Partnership, online tool at
Community Mobilisation and Participatory Approaches: Reviewing Impact and Good Practice for HIV/AIDS Programming, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, forthcoming, 2004
Re-named: re-named ‘Tools Together Now!
Expanding Community Action on HIV/AIDS – NGO/CBO Strategies for Scaling Up, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, June, 2001
See Reports and Studies, Scaling up.
Global Mobilization of HIV Prevention: A Blueprint for Action, Global HIV Prevention Working Group, July , 2002
The Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Community-Based Prevention, Care and Support Programmes in Developing Countries, Horizons and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, July , 2003
Care, Involvement and Action: Mobilising and Supporting Community Responses to HIV/AIDS Care and Support in Developing Countries, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, July , 2000
Signs of Hope, Steps for Change, Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, 2003
CD-ROM multilingual resources, with a particular focus on mobilising and enhancing the role of faith communities and religious leaders in addressing HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.
Declaration- HIV/AIDS
Stories from the Front Lines: Experiences and Lessons Learned in the First Two Years of Advocacy around the Declaration of Commitment, International Council of AIDS Service Organisations (ICASO), September , 2003
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), 25-27 June, 2001
Development- HIV/AIDS
Collins, J. and Rau, B., AIDS in the Context of Development, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Programme on Social Policy and Development, Paper Number 4, Geneva, UNRISD and UNAIDS, 2000, p.6.
Holden, S., AIDS on the Agenda: Adapting Development and Humanitarian Programmes to Meet the Challenges of HIV/AIDS, ActionAid, Oxfam GB and Save the Children UK, 2003
For a detailed discussion of HIV/AIDS as a development issue, see pp.9-38.
Holden, S., Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Development and Humanitarian Programmes, Oxfam, Action Aid and Save the Children, 2004
pp.85-87
Holden, S., AIDS on the Agenda: Adapting Development and Humanitarian Programmes to Meet the Challenge of HIV/AIDS, Oxfam GB, December , 2003
Oxfam resources to support mainstreaming HIV within the work of development and Humanitarian organisations,
Positive Development: Setting Up Self-Help Groups and Advocating for Change, Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+), 1998
A Manual for People Living with HIV/AIDS
Multisectoral Responses to HIV/AIDS: A Compendium of Promising Practices from Africa, USAID and Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA), 2003
includes chapters on micro finance, agriculture, capacity development, and working with vulnerable populations such as children, women and refugees.
Building Blocks: Africa-Wide Briefing Notes, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, January , 2003
A series of booklets on psychological support, health and nutrition, economic strengthening, education and social inclusion, communities working with orphans, and support to older carers.
Discrimination & Stigma- HIV/AIDS
HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and an Agenda for Action, Horizons, May , 2002
Understanding and Challenging HIV Stigma: Toolkit For Action, Centre for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and ICRW, September , 2003
Gender- HIV/AIDS
Kim, J., Conceptual Framework: Understanding the Linkages between Gender Inequity, Lack of Access to Water, and HIV/AIDS, Rural AIDS and Development Action Research (RADAR), 2004
Fulfilling Reproductive Rights for Women Affected by HIV: A Tool for Monitoring Achievement of Millennium Development Goals, Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Ipas, ICW and the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health, 2004
Integrating Gender into HIV/AIDS Programmes, WHO, 2003
Gendering AIDS: Women, Men, Empowerment, Mobilisation, Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), October , 2003
Men in HIV/AIDS Partnership, POLICY Project, 2003
Gender and AIDS: Best Practices/Programmes That Work, August , 2002
Original version: http://www.unaids.org/html/pub/topics/gender/bestpractices_en_pdf.pdf
Saving Mothers, Saving Families: The MTCT-Plus Initiative, WHO , 2003
Welbourne, A., Stepping Stones: A Training Package on HIV/AIDS, Gender Issues, Communications and Relationship Skills, 1995
Strategies for Hope
Guidelines on HIV/AIDS
Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings, Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2003
Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings and the Sphere Project: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, 2004
2nd Edition
Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings, IASC, Food security and nutrition pp.44-57. See also UN World Food Programme, HIV/AIDS Policy Papers.
NGO Summary of the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights and An Advocate’s Guide to International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, ICASO, 1999
Guidelines for Interventions in Emergency Settings, Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2003
Human Rights- HIV/AIDS
Patterson, D., Programming HIV/AIDS: A Human Rights Approach. A Tool for International Development and Community Based Organizations Responding to HIV/AIDS, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2004
25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights, World Health Organisation (WHO), Health and Human Rights Publication Series , 2002
Issue No.1, p.9.
HIV/AIDS and Human Right: International Guidelines, OHCHR and UNAIDS, 1998
HIV/AIDS and Human Right: International Guidelines – Revised Guideline 6, 2002
General Comments: The nature and content of individual rights and the obligations of governments, May , 2000
The Committee adopted a General Comment on the right to health
General Comments: The Protection of Human Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS, Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/47
General Comments: The reports of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health I,
General Comments: The reports of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health II,
HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: International Guidelines, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations, New York and Geneva, 1998
The Guidelines have been revised to reflect new standards in HIV/AIDS treatment and evolving international law on the right to health. HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: International Guidelines, Revised Guideline 6, Access to Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support, OHCHR and UNAIDS, March 2002. Both are available at
Programming HIV/AIDS: A Human Rights Approach – A Tool for Development and Community-Based Organizations Responding to HIV/AIDS, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2004
NGOs-HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS NGO/CBO Support Toolkit, CD-ROM and website, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, December , 2002
2nd Edition
Working Positively: A Guide for NGOs Managing HIV/AIDS in the Workplace, UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development, December , 2003
Also provides a good list of resources available online.
NGO Capacity Analysis – A Toolkit for Assessing and Building Capacities for High Quality Responses to HIV/AIDS, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2004
Learning through Practice: Integrating HIV/AIDS into NGO Programmes: A Guide, POLICY Project and Futures Group, 2002
Partnership-HIV/AIDS
Building Partnerships: Sustaining and Expanding Community Action on HIV/AIDS, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, March , 2000
Prevention- HIV/AIDS
Global Mobilization of HIV Prevention: A Blueprint for Action, Global HIV Prevention Working Group, p.10
Jemmott, J. et al, Abstinence and Safer Sex: HIV Risk Interventions for African-American Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial, JAMA, 1998
Research indicates that comprehensive programmes are more effective in reducing HIV risk than programmes that promote abstinence alone, 1529-1536. Cited in Global Mobilization of HIV Prevention: A Blueprint for Action pp.8-18. See also the Eldis guide, which provides a review of the evidence base in relation to abstinence-only programmes, broad-based sexual health programmes, peer education, mass media HIV awareness and behaviour change, providing summaries of research on the key issues, with links to further sources;
HIV/AIDS, Human Rights And Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs In The United States, Human Rights Watch, September , 2002
- The Institute of Medicine, the federal body of experts responsible for advising the United States federal government on issues of medical care, research and education, found that scientific literature, as well as experts who had studied the issue, showed that comprehensive sex and HIV/AIDS education programmes and condom availability programmes could be effective in reducing high-risk sexual behaviours, while no such evidence supported abstinence-only programs
Cohen, S., Beyond Slogans: Lessons From Uganda’s Experience With ABC and HIV/AIDS, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, December , 2003
Singh, S. et al, A, B and C in Uganda: The Roles of Abstinence, Monogamy and Condom Use in HIV Decline, December , 2003
Learning to Survive: How Education for All Saves Millions of Young People from HIV/AIDS, Oxfam, 2004
p.5
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care: A Handbook for the Design and Management of Programs, Family Health International (FHI), 2004
Chapter 8: Reducing HIV Risk in Sex Workers, Their Clients and Partners
Keeping Up With the Movement: Preventing HIV Transmission in Migrant Work Settings, The Synergy Project and the University of Washington Centre for Health Education and Research, 2002
Evaluating Programs for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Developing Countries: A Handbook for Programme Managers and Decision Makers, Family Health International, 2004
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Best Practices in HIV/AIDS Prevention Collection, Family Health International (FHI) and UNAIDS, 2004
Covers a broad range of topics including mobile populations, emergency relief, prevention and care, and VCT.
Positive Prevention: Prevention Strategies for People with HIV/AIDS, July , 2003
Beyond Awareness Raising: Community Lessons about Improving Responses to HIV/AIDS, July , 1998
Wilkins, M. and Vasani, D., Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS: Looking Beyond Awareness, Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), 2002
Behaviour Change Communication Sexually Transmitted Infection, Family Health International (FHI), Series of strategic frameworks
Aspects of HIV prevention: mobile populations, MSM, MTCT and IDUs, Family Health International (FHI), Fact sheets
UNAIDS’ reports on HIV/AIDS
The Global AIDS Epidemic (report), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2004
pp.123-127. For examples, see section 4.2 of the Code on voluntary counselling and testing and addressing stigma and discrimination.
The Global AIDS Epidemic (report), UNAIDS, - On improving national multi-sectoral responses. Chapter 7 and the framework of the ‘Three Ones’.
A wide range of resources is available on the UNAIDS website, See also section 5.3 Key resources.
UNAIDS resources on programming, monitoring and evaluation,
UNAIDS resources, Sex Work and HIV/AIDS,
Other related documents
STI/AIDS Network, Bangladesh TAMPEP International Foundation,
Lessons Learned in Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS, Oxfam, Flyer 5: Researching HIV/AIDS at Local Level and Flyer 6: Findings of Local Research on HIV/AIDS
Southern Africa… Not Business as Usual (report), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2003
This report examines the interface between HIV/AIDS, food insecurity, vulnerability and poverty in Southern Africa and proposes an integrated system of support to households and communities made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, including home-based care, water and sanitation, food security and income generation, among other features.
Mainstreaming Checklist and Tools: Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into Our Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policies, Plans, Practices and Programmes, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), 2004
Manual on integrating and mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in emergencies,