HIV/AIDS Publications

Below is a listing of a number of HIV/AIDS related publications found on Soul Beat Africa. More publications on a wide variety of topics can be found at http://www.comminit.com/africa/materials.html. More information about the publication, ordering, contact details, and, where available, a link to the document online can be found from the full descriptions. Please click on the links provided below for more information.

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MATERIALS

HANDBOOKS / MANUALS

1. The HIV and AIDS Question and Answer Handbook: Nigeria

This handbook presents the most commonly asked questions about HIV, targeted to HIV/AIDS hotline counselors, teachers, extension workers, radio and television journalists and public speakers. It aims to represent how health care providers can respond to diverse, sensitive and technically detailed topics.

2. Gender and HIV: A Training Manual For Southern African Media and Communicators

By Pat Made, Liesl Gerntholtz and Colleen Lowe Morna

This manual explores how the gender dimension of HIV/AIDS has been missing and/or misrepresented by the media. It also explores how the media and other communicators can contribute towards developing a human rights based approach to covering HIV/AIDS, including the importance of gender equality.

3. Understanding amd Challenging HIV Stigma: Toolkit For Action

By Ross Kidd and Sue Clay

This collection of participatory educational exercises is designed for HIV educators, non-governmental organisations, and community groups to promote actions to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. It aims to provide people working in the AIDS field with a set of flexible educational materials to raise their own understanding and help facilitate awareness raising with community groups.

4. Treating HIV & AIDS: A Training Toolkit

Edited by Theo Smart and Keith Alcorn

The training toolkit is designed to provide basic training on HIV treatment and care for health care workers in resource-limited settings, to support the safe and effective introduction of antiretroviral therapy.

5. Preventing HIV/AIDS Among Adolescents: Through Integrated Communication Programming

Edited by Sylvie I. Cohen

This manual focuses on HIV prevention through integrated communication programming that blends advocacy, behaviour change communication and education interventions. The manual provides a series of checklists to address key questions related to evidenced-based communication programming for HIV prevention among adolescents.

6. Media Handbook on HIV/AIDS-Nigeria

This Handbook aims to "promote qualitative and objective reporting on HIV/AIDS issues in the Nigerian media through providing a reliable and credible source of information." The handbook includes background information on HIV/AIDS, ethical issues and a practical guide to reporting HIV/AIDS. Information for the handbook was gathered from practicing journalist, media trainers, communications experts, epidemiologists, human rights advocates and people living with HIV/AIDS.

7. Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Africa: A Manual

This is a tool for media professionals to use in improving and increasing their coverage of HIV/AIDS in Africa. It provides guidelines and tips for reporters based on the advice of experienced journalists from Africa and other regions of the world, who shared their expertise in interviews, publications, and online workshops.

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Looking for more publications with general information about HIV/AIDS? Visit the Soul City Instutute for Health and Development Communication website for printed publications and videos on HIV/AIDS

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REPORTS

8. Children of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability to Possibility

Edited by Arvind Singhal and W. Stephen Howard

The publication describes HIV/AIDS interventions for children in difficult circumstances and presents insights into data gathered from surveys and observations concerning HIV/AIDS. Chapters focus on issues such as storytelling as a psychological intervention, community-based youth projects in Kenya, participatory HIV intervention in Ghana, and the Soul Buddyz multimedia campaign in South Africa.

9. What's News: Perspectives on HIV/AIDS in the South African Media

By Joanne Stein

The report aims to contribute to the development of a media advocacy approach to HIV/AIDS in South Africa by exploring key role-players' views regarding an appropriate advocacy approach, constraints to fulfilling this role, the limitations of current HIV/AIDS news coverage and potential ways to improve it.

10. Children, HIV/AIDS & Communication in South Africa: A Literature Review

This review aims to provide insight into issues related to communication of HIV/AIDS to children in the 3-12 year age group, with an emphasis on South Africa. It identifies key issues related to children and HIV/AIDS, including discrimination, grief, knowledge, attitudes and practices and explores what programmes have been implemented, both media and non-media, in regard to children and HIV/AIDS.

11. Communicating with Adolescents about AIDS: Experience from Eastern & Southern Africa

By Ruth Nduati and Wambui Kiai

An assessment of HIV/AIDS communication tools aimed at the youth of Eastern and Southern Africa are presented. The book describes specific programmes that were visited in Malawi, Zambia, how they are being carried out, the difficulties being experienced, and some of the successes achieved. Included is a guide for evaluating HIV/AIDS prevention programmes among youth.

12. Letting Them Die: How HIV/AIDS Intervention Programmes Often Fail

This book examines the context and social construction of sexuality, HIV prevention and community development, based on a three-year study of a large-scale HIV/AIDS prevention programme in a South African gold mining community. It provides an account of sexuality and HIV prevention amongst three groupings: migrant mineworkers, commercial sex-workers and young people.

FILMS

13. Dancing on the Edge

By Karen Boswall

A documentary is set in rural Mozambique, where a mother struggles with the contradictions of maintaining traditional customs while adapting to the reality of modern challenges. Antonietta is HIV positive and works as an AIDS counselor in the city.

14. Looking for Busi

By Robyn Hofmeyr

A documentary of a fifteen-year-old's journey to take control of her life. Abandoned by her mother when she falls pregnant, even before testing positive for HIV, she must depend on the help of extended family and friends.

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STRATEGIC THINKING

15. Disentangling HIV/AIDS STIGMA in Ethiopia, Tanzania & Zambia

From April 2001 to September 2003, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) led a study of HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in three African countries: Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. This project unraveled the complexities around stigma by investigating the causes, manifestations and consequences of HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in sub-Saharan Africa. It then used this analysis to suggest programme interventions.

16. On the Move: The Response of Public Transport Commuters to HIV/AIDS in South Africa

By Warren Parker, Salome Oyosi, Kevin Kelly and Susan Fox

According to the All Media Products Survey (AMPS) there are 18,3 million commuters in South Africa, of whom 77% are taxi commuters and 33% commute on buses or trains. The highest proportion of commuters are located in KwaZulu-Natal, 22%, followed by 19% in Gauteng and 12% in the Northern Province. This large mobile audience has potential for interactive HIV/AIDS activities. This report explores interventions that have attempted to target this group.

17. Reducing HIV Infection Among Youth: What Can Schools Do?

This report focuses on initial findings from a three-country study examining school HIV prevention programmes. Conclusions regarding implications for school-based programmes include: teachers need to be prepared for students with a range of experiences; strategies for negotiating or refusing sex should take into account the intermittent nature of adolescent sex; students know some things about HIV but that they also misunderstand or are unaware of other aspects of HIV.

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The Soul Beat seeks to cover the full range of communication for development activities. Inclusion of an item does not imply endorsement or support by The Partners.

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