HIV Coordination, Adolescent Reproductive and School Health
Below, you’ll find timely updates and information on adolescent reproductive and sexual health issues, events, news, research, resources and other happenings in Asia and the Pacific region, compiled from various sources. To subscribe to our mailing list, click here. To contribute news, announcements, research or other materials related to your Asia and the Pacific regional or country ARSH project, send an e-mail to arsh@ (follow this email prefix with unescobkk.org)
December News
PROJECT UPDATES
ARSH Online Library: Updates
Over 300 new publications have been added during the year 2006 to this searchable online database, which includes bibliographic references for thousands of titles related to adolescent reproductive and sexual health, available upon request. Publications include research, case studies, best practices, lessons learned, educational materials, advocacy and IEC/BCC tools, and other resources highlighting Asia and the Pacific country and regional data, information and experiences. References include links to publications that are also available online for immediate download.
Visit the ARSH Online Library: http://www2.unescobkk.org/arshdb/index.htm
RECENT REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS
All together now
This is a toolkit on how to mobilize communities for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, support, and treatment and impact mitigation. The toolkit takes communities through a process of starting together; assessing & planning together; acting together; monitoring, evaluating and reflecting together; and scaling up together.
Published by: International HIV/AIDS Alliance - 2006
Visit: http://synkronweb.aidsalliance.org/graphics/secretariat/publications/All_Together_Now.pdf
Tools together now: a toolkit of 100 participatory tools to help facilitate community mobilization
This toolkit provides a selection of 100 Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) tools, which you can use for community mobilization and HIV/AIDS. PLA tools are interactive activities, which enable communities and organizations to learn together about HIV/AIDS in their community, develop a plan, act on it and evaluate and reflect on how it went.
Published by: International HIV/AIDS Alliance - 2006
Visit: http://synkronweb.aidsalliance.org/graphics/secretariat/publications/Tools_Together_Now.pdf
Making the linkages: HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive rights
This linkages booklet explain the importance of HIV/AIDS initiatives having a sexual and reproductive rights perspective as well as a youth perspective and discuss ways that young people can advocate for their sexual and reproductive rights within HIV/AIDS frameworks.
Published by: Youth Coalition - 2006
A young activist's guide to sexual and reproductive rights
This guide is developed for young activists to provide an overview of the sexual and reproductive rights that are protected by international and regional human rights treaties and other agreements; show how these rights apply to adolescents and young people; discuss ways that young people can advocate for their sexual and reproductive rights.
Published by: Youth Coalition - 2006
Visit: http://www.youthcoalition.org/DEV/mambo2/images/stories/SRRGUIDE/srr%20guide%20final%20version.pdf+
Faith-based family life education curricula
- Teaching Adults to Communicate with Youth from a Christian Perspective (PDF, 2.11 MB) with Participant Handbook (PDF, 853 KB)
- Teaching Adults to Communicate with Youth from a Muslim Perspective with Participant Handbook (available December 2006)
These manuals contain six workshops and a participant handbook designed for a Christian and Muslim audience, respectively. Participants practice communication skills and learn factual information as linked to religious teachings and appropriate Bible and Quran verses. The manuals encourage open discussion about sexuality, reproductive health, and HIV in the context of faith communities.
Published by: Family Health International – 2006
Visit: http://www.fhi.org
Standards for curriculum-based reproductive health and HIV education programmes
This resource provides the standards that can be used by programme designers, educators, and others to assess the quality of existing RH/HIV education programmes or to help in developing or adapting new curricula. It contains examples and tips that are useful for trainers and supervisors as a reference tool on state-of-the-art programming.
Published by: Family Health International – 2006
Visit: http://www.fhi.org
OTHER RESOURCES
Circle of hope: children's rights in a world with AIDS
This document describes a programmatic framework for responding to children affected by HIV/AIDS. This framework places children in the center, surrounded by families, communities, and institutions. Programme examples and child profiles are provided.
Published by: Plan International - 2006
Visit: http://www.plan-international.org/pdfs/circle.pdf
Review of the evidence: girls' education and HIV prevention
This CD ROM from the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education contains more than 100 documents, case studies, reports, tools, curricula, and other materials from a range of settings and in several languages. Resources demonstrate the importance of girls’ education as a strategy for reducing the vulnerability of girls to HIV infection; provide examples of progress to date and suggestions for how the education sector can better meet the needs of girls; and advocate for intensified action around girls' education as part of national responses to HIV and AIDS.
Published by: UNAIDS, UNESCO – 2006
Website: http://www.unesco.org
Achieving the global goals on HIV among young people most at risk in developing countries: young sex workers, injecting drug users and men who have sex with men
This is a systematic literature review identified programmes in developing countries targeting young people in the three selected groups most at risk from HIV - young sex workers, injecting drug users, and men who have sex with men.
Published by: World Health Organization – 2006
Visit: http://www.who.int
Changes in high-risk behaviors over time among young drug users in South Viet Nam: a three-province study
Viet Nam is in the midst of an expanding HIV epidemic, primarily driven by an increase in injection drug use in young people. This study was conducted to understand the patterns and initiation of drug use, and the sexual risk behavior among youth in three provinces in southern Viet Nam.
Published by: AIDS Behaviour – 2006
WEBSITE RESOURCES
The following web resources serve as a primary source of information on Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) related issues:
Academy for Adolescent Health (AAH)
www.healthyteens.com
Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (UNESCO Bangkok)
www.unescobkk.org/arsh
Advocates for Youth
www.advocatesforyouth.org
EU/UNFPA Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in Asia(RHIYA)
Family Health International (FHI)
www.fhi.org
Focus on Young Adults (FYA)
www.pathfind.org
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
www.ippf.org
International Council on Management of Population Programmes
www.icomp.org.my
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
www.paho.org
Partners in Population and Development: A South-South Initiative
www.south-south.org
Population and Health Infoshare
www.phishare.org
Q Web: A Women's Empowerment Base
www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se/main.html
The Development Gateway
www.developmentgateway.org
Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO)
www.rho.org/html/adolescent.htm
UNICEF's Voices on Youth
www.unicef.org/voy
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
www.unfpa.org
World Health Organization (WHO)
www.who.int/en
NEWS AND EVENTS
International Conference on Actions to Strengthen Linkages between Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS – Feb 4-8, 2007 - Mumbai, India
The National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Indian Council of Medical Research, the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction and the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility, together with other partners, are organizing an international conference on "Actions to Strengthen Linkages between Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS". The conference will be held at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Centre in Mumbai, India. For more information, logon to: http://www.icmr.nic.in/icmrnews/HIV_Conf.pdf
International HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Training Course – Feb 5-9, 2007 - Centre for International Health, Curtin University of Technology - Perth, Western Australia
The course has been designed to equip HIV/AIDS practitioners with the concepts and practical skills required to design and manage effective monitoring and evaluation systems. The programme is attractive to people working in Australia and intending to work overseas or people currently working in PNG, the South Pacific Region as well as South East Asia and Africa.
Contact: cihevents[at]curtin.edu.au or Tel: +61 8 9266 3985
Website: http://www.cih.curtin.edu.au/eventsActivities/events_profPrograms_monitorEvalTrain.html
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ARH News is a monthly activity of UNFPA funded project, “Advocacy and Information Support to Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health”. For more information, please contact:
Sultan Ahmed Khan
Co-ordinator
Advocacy and Educational Support to Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH)
UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education
Mom Luang Pin Malakul Centenary Building
920 Sukhumvit Road
Prakanong, Bangkok 10110 Thailand
Tel. (66) 02.391.0550, ext. 235
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