Publications | Africa
Generating
Action:
UNDP’s Response to HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa demands an unprecedented
response from the world community. UNDP country offices in this region
have spearheaded a number of innovative initiatives to address the epidemic.
This report focuses on select initiatives that have been led by UNDP
at the global and regional levels, in partnership with country offices.
While many of the challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS epidemic are
common to all regions of the world, UNDP is focusing much of its efforts
on addressing key challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. (UNDP Regional Report
on HIV/AIDS: Africa)
Human Rights & HIV: Advocacy Tools
Based on feedback from a set of stakeholder consultations from 22 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, a website was designed by the Regional Center in Johannesburg to offer easy access to a series of advocacy tools that can be used by parliamentarians, government officials, members of the judiciary, lawyers, civil society organisations, people living with HIV to promote and implement a human rights approach to the response to HIV. The advocacy tools include an instruction booklet, a checklist, powerpoint presentation, flipchart, guide, and a compendium. In addition to these advocacy tools, the website also offers an important library of reference documents including HIV-related treaties, declarations, legislation, policies and case law from Eastern and Southern Africa and other regions.
Africa
- Swaziland - National Human Development Report - Redirecting our responses
to HIV/AIDS (2003)
The current Zimbabwe Human Development Report is the fourth publication
in a series which started with Poverty (1998), Globalization (1999)
and Governance (2000). The theme for the Zimbabwe Human Development
Report 20031 on “HIV and AIDS” is most befitting. Southern
Africa, Zimbabwe included, is the epicenter of the epidemic. The report
comes in to challenge the nation on the need to address the epidemic
from a developmental perspective in addition to the current largely
biomedical response.
Agriculture against AIDS (2004)
HIV/AIDS is creating a crisis in the rural areas of the countries most
severely affected by the disease. In such areas, a significant proportion
of the population depends on agriculture for subsistence. Up to now,
most of the responses to national HIV epidemics have come from the health
sector. However, owing to the centrality of agriculture in the lives
of rural populations, people are beginning to see that the agricultural
sector has a fundamental role to play in mitigating the impact of the
epidemic.
More Publications
UNDP
HIV/AIDS Fast Facts (2004)
UNDP
HIV/AIDS Results (2003)
