Useful HIV/AIDS Website Addresses
Southern African Sites
www.aidsinfo.co.za
South African Government’s HIV/AIDS information website. Provides some good basic information on HIV and AIDS, access to Khomanani materials (leaflets and posters), as well as some other links. An attractive-looking but not very user-friendly site.
www.afroaidsinfo.org
An HIV/AIDS information portal for Southern Africa for researchers, health professionals, policy makers, educators and the general public. Lots of news content and information about up-coming events. Information on this portal is derived from scientific research with a southern African focus.
www.aidsconsortium.org.za
The AIDS Consortium is a network of over 1000 members, mainly community-based organisations focusing on HIV/AIDS related issues. Runs a new capacity building programme for CBOs. Reasonable links page to the usual organizations as well as some unusual links.
www.alp.org.za
The AIDS Law Project at WITS University provides information on all aspects of HIV/AIDS and the law, with a focus on human rights and discrimination. The ALP site provides access to legal judgements and a host of other information – egg on privacy and confidentiality. The ALP will take up cases on behalf of people whose rights have been infringed. A colourful and user-friendly website, with useful links to similar organisations in the region and around the world.
www.bonepwa.botsnet.co.bw
Website of the Botswana Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS.
www.bullion.org.za
South African Chamber of Mines website – under Health Services provides information about HIV/AIDS in the mining industry.
www.cadre.org.za
The Centre for Aids Development, Research & Evaluation is a South African non-profit organisation working in the area of HIV/AIDS social research, programme development and communication. Produces a huge range of downloadable publications of high quality, and has a comprehensive links section.
www.ccma.org.za
Commission for Conciliation, Mediation & Arbitration website, focuses on conciliation in the workplace in South Africa. You can download the Code of Good Practice on Aspects of HIV/AIDS Employment.
www.csa.za.org
Centre for the Study of AIDS at the University of Pretoria. Publishes an excellent annual AIDS Review – downloadable from the site.
www.healthinsite.net
Corporate health impact management programme, managed on-line – includes ‘AIDS Insite’ for companies seeking to manage the impact of HIV and AIDS on their workforce.
www.idasa.org.za
IDASA’s Governance & AIDS Project (GAP) publishes a wide range of materials concerned with the impact of HIV and AIDS on democracy and governance.
www.lifeworks.co.za
Lifeworks has established itself as a world-leading provider of HIV/AIDS diagnosis & medical management services. HIV diagnosis and treatment options are currently provided directly to over 150,000 people in South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho & Namibia.
www.lovelife.org.za
Lovelife is a national HIV and AIDS prevention programme for youth, which includes a high profile billboard and print media campaign. While pages on the site can take some time to download, there are chat forums for young people and there is useful information for parents on how to talk to their children about sex. The site has a funky feel and talks to youth in a language they can understand (although that language is English…)
www.nu.ac.za/heard
Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal. HEARD conducts research on the socio-economic aspects of public health, especially HIV/AIDS. It is based in South Africa at the University of Natal, but its operations are international in scope.
www.positive-action.org
Information portal about HIV/AIDS in Lesotho.
www.redribbon.co.za
Metropolitan Healthcare Group site that provides good basic information, as well as material for children and a very useful section on living positively, written by David Patient, which also includes information on people living openly. The Red Ribbon Diary Project records the continuing diary entries of 3 people living with HIV.
www.sabcoha.co.za
South Africa Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS. This site provides a wealth of information, case studies, surveys etc on HIV and AIDS in the workplace. SABCOHA provides a toolkit for managing HIV/AIDS in the workplace.
www.tac.org.za
The Treatment Action Campaign. The TAC’s main objective is to campaign for greater access to HIV treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments. Very useful website, containing a lot of information, and updated regularly.
www.wits.ac.za/radar
Rural AIDS & Development Action Research Group’s programmes comprise clinical and social intervention research on HIV/AIDS, with an emphasis on developing model approaches that are appropriate and relevant to the rural African context. Useful site for people working in a rural context, although the site does not appear to have been updated since May 2003.
International Organisations
www.aegis.com
Apparently the largest searchable database on HIV/AIDS in the world – the AIDS Education Global Information System.
www.aidsalliance.org
Provides access to a lot of useful material, eg. downloadable fact sheets on antiretrovirals, a toolkit on orphans and vulnerable children etc.
www.aidsmap.com
Information portal developed by a UK-based community organisation (NAM) – simple-to-access and has a searchable database as well as straight-forward basic no-nonsense information about safe-sex practices and much else.
www.aidsmedia.org
The AIDS Media Center web site is for media professionals reporting on national and global issues of HIV/AIDS. The center is sponsored by the World Bank, in partnership with UNAIDS, Kaiser Family Foundation, Panos and Internews among others. The goal of the project is to broaden journalists' knowledge of HIV/AIDS and improve the depth, quality and impact of their HIV coverage.
areyouhivprejudiced.org
Website of the UK National AIDS Trust campaign on stigma and discrimination. Useful material on prejudice.
www.coreinitiative.org
Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. The CORE Initiative is a USAID-funded global program whose mission is to support a response to HIV/AIDS by strengthening the capacity of community and faith-based groups worldwide. Leading this initiative is CARE International in partnership with the World Council of Churches (WCC), International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), International HIV/AIDS Alliance, and the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP).
www.globalhealth.org
The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. Membership is comprised of health-care professionals and organizations that include NGOs, foundations, corporations, government agencies and academic institutions.
www.hdnet.org
The Health and Development Network’s portal – provides access to various forums that you can subscribe to.
www.ilo.org
International Labour Organisation. Site contains a useful section on national policies and strategies related to HIV and AIDS in the world of work, from different countries around the world including southern Africa. Includes case studies, and the ILO Code of Good Practice on HIV/AIDS.
www.safaids.org.zw
Website for the Southern African HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service, based in Zimbabwe. The website has been recently revamped but is still rather thin on content, although there is useful information on upcoming events in the southern African region.
www.thebody.com
If you can ignore/manage the pop-down ads, this is a great interactive site for learning about the physical side of living with HIV. Lots of information about technical HIV/AIDS conferences around the world.
www.tht.org.uk
Website of the Terence Higgins Charitable Trust in the UK. Contains clear basic information on a range of themes not usually explored in southern Africa, such a living in a relationship where one partner is positive and the other is not, gay sex, oral sex etc.
www.unaids.org
Website on the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS – provides mostly up-to-date statistics on HIV/AIDS prevalence for all countries, and information about global strategies.
www.who.org
World Health Organisation website, focuses on health issues in general, as well as HIV and AIDS, but has some useful content, egg. an online toolkit on HIV/AIDS prevention for sex workers.
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