South East Asia has the largest number of people living with HIV after Africa, and its share of the global epidemic is growing - an estimated 8.6 million people in the region were living with the...
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Antiretroviral Medication Policy for Refugees
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) ARV policy for refugees is designed to offer guidance to UNHCR and its implementing and operational partners as well as to host Governments...
Final Report: First Annual Humanitarian Health Conference
A new report from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative discusses the challenge of responding promptly, efficiently, and humanely when disasters occur. The report...
HIV and Refugees: Policy Brief
Conflict, persecution and violence affect millions of people worldwide, forcing them to uproot their lives. Refugees are those who flee their country of origin across national borders, often to a...
Forced Migration Review No. 27 - Sexual violence: weapon of war, impediment to peace
Forced Migration Review provides a forum for the regular exchange of practical experience, information and ideas between researchers, refugees and internally displaced people, and those who work with...
UNAIDS at Country Level: Supporting Countries as They Move Towards Universal Access
This publication examines the country-level work of UNAIDS in 2005 and early 2006 within the context of regional and global efforts to move towards universal access. Rather than chronicle every...
Global Risks 2007
At the core of this year's overview of risks to the global community over the next decade is a fundamental disconnect between risk and mitigation. Expert opinion suggests that levels of risk are...
World: Affected Areas with Confirmed Human Cases of H5N1 Avian Influenza from 1 January to 31 December 2006
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Coping with Crisis - Newsletter No. 3, 2006
Working together By Nana Wiedemann, Director of the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support When we send this newsletter out all over the world we often wonder: Who are the readers? What do...
U.S. announces $125 million award to improve health systems in developing nations
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced a $125 million five-year award to Abt Associates to strengthen health systems in...
Major commitment to global fight against Malaria
New grants to expand malaria control, research, and advocacy efforts At White House summit, Melinda Gates to call for stronger global malaria response, more funding SEATTLE -- On the eve of a major...
Africa: Declaration of the Abuja food security summit
WE the Heads of State and Government of the African Union assembled in Abuja, Nigeria, on the 7th day of December 2006; EXPRESSING our appreciation to His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,...
International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: 2006 Consolidated Version
The International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights arose because of various calls for their development in light of the need for guidance for Governments and others on how to best promote,...
UNAIDS/WHO AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2006
The annual AIDS epidemic update reports on the latest developments in the global AIDS epidemic. With maps and regional summaries, the 2006 edition provides the most recent estimates of the epidemic's...
AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses
More than a quarter-century after HIV was identified, the long-wave, intergenerational nature of AIDS epidemics is becoming starkly evident. We may have passed the peak of the infection wave in many...
Reinforcing Data Reporting from Refugee Settings: Project Report
The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), a WHO Collaborating Center based in the School of Public Health of the Université Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, has been...
Partnerships for Malaria Control: Engaging the formal and informal private sectors
A review commissioned by the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), in collaboration with the Working Group on Financing and Resources of...
Le VIH/Sida et les Droits de l'Homme Directives Internationales: Version Consolidée 2006
Les Directives internationales sur le VIH/sida et les droits de l'homme ont vu le jour suite à plusieurs appels en faveur de leur élaboration, à la lumière de la nécessité d'offrir une orientation...
Fighting Famine Through Agricultural Research
Famine is one of the most prevalent forms of natural disaster. While it may not be possible for humans to influence the environmental factors that bring about famine, much can be done to help poor...
ACF International Network: Annual review 2006 (English. French, Spanish)
This annual report summarizes ACF International Network's activities in 2006. ACF has become one of the major organizations specialized in the fight against hunger. 2006 key missions have been...