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Governance & HIV and AIDS

Guidelines for implementing a multi-sectoral approach to HIV/AIDS in Commonwealth countries

| 2003
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Commonwealth secretariat
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health policy, health planning, programme management, aids
The guidelines are intended to assist those responsible for developing implementation and evaluation strategies for combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic through multisectoral approach at the national or decentralised level.

Local government responses to HIV/AIDS : a handbook to support local government authorities in addressing HIV/AIDS at the municipal level

| 2003
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World bank. Urban development unit. Local government and HIV/AIDS initiative
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: leadership, local government, evaluation, aids
The Handbook guides local government authorities through steps of prioritizing HIV/AIDS, assessing local impact of HIV/AIDS, and developing an HIV/AIDS Response Strategy (including workplace policy, mainstreaming and coordinating local responses).

Making the linkages : HIV/AIDS, urban local government and the Urban management programme in sub Saharan Africa : a discussion paper

| 2002
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: UNCHS-Habitat]. Urban management programme (UMP). Regional office for Africa
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: local government, households, working conditions, aids, africa south of sahara
This document is about the capacity of local governments to respond to the devastating impact of the HIV / AIDS epidemic.

HIV/AIDS : a governance challenge

| 2001
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations development programme (UNDP). Bureau for development policy (BDP)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: governance, civil society, health planning, aids
The effective governance of a scaled-up response to HIV/AIDS requires clear vision and leadership at the highest level of government.

Building political commitment

| 2000
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: POLICY project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health policy, health programmes, community participation, leadership, aids, africa south of sahara
This document discusses the nature of political commitment and why it is so important to efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
 

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The information portal provides access to selected, free full-text electronic publications and other Internet sources on the mechanisms of interaction through which HIV and AIDS policies and strategies are developed, implemented, monitored and evaluated at different levels involving both public and private parties.