AIDS and Violent Conflict in Africa Web Links
Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English on issues regarding AIDS and HIV infection as they relate to violent conflict in Africa. For related web links and regional issues, see Regional Resources: Africa.
These links complement the Institute Special Report: AIDS
and Violent Conflict in Africa.
Government Agencies and International Organizations
International Crisis Group (ICG)
United Nations
- Integrated Regional Information
Network (IRIN)
IRIN, a unit of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provides a clearinghouse of information
for humanitarian and international communities on the crises in
sub-Saharan Africa. Includes Latest
News from IRIN Africa: HIV/AIDS under theme or subject links.
Also includes news reports on AIDS in Africa from PlusNews,
which is "produced under the banner of RHAIN, the Southern African
Regional HIV/AIDS Information Network. RHAIN's members currently
include: UNAIDS, IRIN, SAfAIDS, PANOS, Health Systems Trust, Health
& Development Network, GTZ/Afronets."
- UNAIDS: the Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS
Web site co-sponsored by seven UN agencies: UNICEF,
UNDP, UNFPA,
UNDCP,
UNESCO, WHO,
World
Bank, and the ILO.
Extensive site contains news, documents, UN actions and programs,
resources by subject and country, statistics and links to related
web sites. Includes a web page for International
Partnership against AIDS in Africa (IPAA), which has documents,
reports, a bulletin, a newsletter, and background information on
the partnership.
- United Nations
General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, June 25-27, 2001
This web site contains press
releases, documents,
statements, multimedia, webcasts, a daily conference program and
related resources from the Dag Hammarskjold Library, including links
to other UN sites on AIDS.
United States
Maps and Guides
Media and News Sources
Research Centers and Resources
- HIV InSite: Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV InSite is a web site developed by the University of California San Francisco. This extensive gateway site contains a knowledge base of HIV/AIDS information; coverage of medical, prevention and policy analysis resources, and "multidisciplinary research on and analysis of the context, impact and response to HIV/AIDS worldwide" in the countries and regions section. The section on Sub-Saharan Africa includes selected country profiles, a discussion of context, factors, and impact of the AIDS epidemic, statistics and comparative indicators, gender issues, conferences, and numerous links to related web sites.
Selected Documents
- AIDS
Epidemic Update: December 2000
A report on the AIDS epidemic from the UNAIDS web site, includes
statistics and tables and updates the Report
on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, June 2001.
- AIDS
in Africa
A Congressional Research Service (CRS) Issue Brief on AIDS in Africa
by Raymond W. Copson, updated June 11, 2002.
- AIDS,
Poverty and Debt Relief: a Toolkit for Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS Programmes
into Development Programmes
Document in PDF from the UNAIDS web site (requires Adobe®
Acrobat® Reader to view).
- Demobilization
and its Implications for HIV/AIDS
Posted on the web site of the Linking
Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative (CERTI),
an interagency initiative funded in part by USAID. The PDF document
requires Adobe®
Acrobat® Reader to view. Also available in html.
- The
Global Infectious Disease Threat and its Implications for the United
States
Report dated January 2000 produced by the National Intelligence
Council and posted on the CIA web site.
- HIV
and Conflict: a Double Emergency
July 2002 report from Save the Children, a non-governmental organization
in the UK, posted on ReliefWeb. The report is in PDF, which requires
Adobe®
Acrobat® Reader to view.
- The
Macro Implications of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: a Preliminary Assessment
(August 2000)
A paper written by Channing Arndt and Jeffrey D. Lewis and posted
on the web site of the Trade and Industrial Policy Secretariat of
South Africa. In PDF, which requires Adobe®
Acrobat® Reader to view.
- Population
Mobility and AIDS
UNAIDS Technical Update, February 2001. Part of the UNAIDS Best
Practices Collection on the UNAIDS web site. In PDF, which requires
Adobe®
Acrobat® Reader to view.
Updated: July 31, 2002
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