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Organisations

The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO)
www.tasouganda.org/
TASO is the largest indigenous NGO providing HIV/AIDS services in Uganda and the region. To date 83,000 People with HIV/AIDS have registered and 22,000 directly receive care and support. This organisation now offers an apprenticeship scheme for AIDS orphans.

Action Aid and AIDS
www.actionaid.org/index.asp?page_id=325
Charity fighting poverty that runs AIDS programmes worldwide. The website has a downloadable AIDS Factsheet.

Advocates for Youth
www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/youthlife.htm
Washington based organisation that works with young people in African countries affected by HIV/AIDS.

Aids Map
www.aidsmap.com
Delivers reliable and accurate HIV information across the world to HIV-positive people and to the professionals who treat, support and care for them.

AVERT
www.avert.org/aidsimpact.htm
Informative UK site with a dedicated section on Africa, and many sub-sections within that. The website has information and statistics on the history, prevention, transmission, testing and treatment of HIV/AIDS around the world.

Christian Aid and HIV/AIDS
www.christianaid.org.uk/hivaids/index.htm
Information on the work this charity carries out to tackle HIV/AIDS in Africa, plus lots of up-to-date reports and downloads.

The Global Fund – Fighting AIDS
www.theglobalfund.org/en/about/aids/default.asp
Website has coverage of last year's World AIDS Day, a special HIV/AIDS Report plus stories from the field on fighting HIV/AIDS.

Human Right Watch: The Less They Know the Better
http://hrw.org/reports/2005/uganda0305/
Online publication of the abstinence-only HIV/AIDS program in Uganda, which is clearly not working.

International HIV/AIDS Alliance
www.aidsalliance.org/sw1280.asp
EU organisation that supports community action on AIDS in over 20 countries including Sub-Saharan Africa. The site also has information on current treatments and vaccine development.

Make Poverty History
www.makepovertyhistory.org/
Every day 30,000 children are dying of extreme poverty and this statistic is directly linked to the AIDS epidemic. Check out how you can put pressure on the G8 leaders to cancel African debt and make trade fair when they meet at the Summit in Scotland on July 2nd.

Medecins Sans Frontieres
http://aids2004.msf.org.hk/en/press.htm
MSF currently treats 13,000 people in over 50 programmes in 25 countries and is continuing to scale up HIV/AIDS programmes. Their website has information and maps of areas where people are most at risk.

Oxfam
www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/hivaids/
Committed to fighting poverty and tackling the AIDS epidemic, Oxfam has lots of useful info and reports on the spread of this disease and what you can do to help.

Pressureworks
www.pressureworks.org./dosomething/act
/pc_mccullin_form.html
Write an e-mail from this page to Gordon Brown, asking him to ensure the AIDS epidemic is at the top of his agenda this July at the G8 summit.

Stop AIDS Campaign
www.stopaidscampaign.org.uk
Initiative of the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development, bringing together more than 70 of the UK's leading development and HIV and AIDS groups.

UNAIDS – Sub-Saharan Africa
www.unaids.org/EN/Geographical+Area/By+Region/
sub-saharan+africa.asp
Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10 per cent of the world's population, but is home to more than 60 per cent of all people living with HIV. This page gives regional HIV and AIDS estimates.

UNAIDS
www.unaids.org/wad2004/report.html
Website of the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Publications available to download, including 'AIDS: Epidemic Update': published in December 2004.

Women, Children and HIV
www.womenchildrenhiv.org/
Resources on the prevention and treatment of HIV infection in women and children.

The World Health Organisation
www.who.int/3by5/en/
The WHO has set up the '3 by 5 Initiative', aiming to provide three million people living with HIV/AIDS in developing and middle income countries with life-prolonging antiretroviral treatment (ART) by the end of 2005.

In The News

AIDS & Africa: Action not Silence
www.aidsandafrica.com/
Website dedicated to the subject of HIV/AIDS in Africa, with articles, statistics and images.

The AIDS Debate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/
special/aids/default.stm
BBC page with links to articles and interviews from around the globe on the issue of AIDS.

All Africa
http://allafrica.com/aids/
Lots of content on the subject of HIV/AIDS in Africa.

IRIN News.org
www.plusnews.org/webspecials/aids/southafrica3.asp
United Nations site that highlights a successful, school-based programme in South Africa.

New Internationalist Magazine
www.newint.org
Reports on issues of world poverty and inequality, with lots of articles on HIV/AIDS. Just type 'HIV Africa' or a related term into the search box.

South Africa: Challenging Stigma by Living Positively with HIV
www.irinnews.org/AIDSreport.asp?ReportID=4950
&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&
SelectCountry=SOUTH_AFRICA
Looks at the widespread stigma that surrounds HIV/AIDS, and how few people have the courage to go public about their status.

The Times of Zambia
www.times.co.zm/
Online Zambian news that covers current issues in politics and health.

Zambesi Times Online
http://health.zambezitimes.com/
Zambian newspaper with a health section that looks at the growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the country.

Books

	A Broken Landscape: HIV and AIDS in Africa by Gideon Mendel (Network Photographers, 2001) A remarkable photo essay of what the epidemic means to some of the individuals, families and communities whose lives it has transformed. Describing the tragic realities of AIDS, both in images and in the voices of the people featured it takes readers on a journey through Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe and transcends the terrible statistics of the disease. Get this book
	Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis by Emma Guest (Pluto Press, 2003) A moving collection of true stories taken from among the millions of street orphans, notably in such sub-Saharan countries as South Africa, Zambia, and Uganda. Often subjective and rarely conforming to the rigours of social science research, Guest's work fuses the case-study method with a flair for storytelling, attacking the real problems by drawing inspiration from the stories of real people. Get this book
	HIV and AIDS in Africa edited by Ezekiel Kalipeni, Susan Craddock, Joseph Oppong and Jayati Ghosh (Blackwell, 2003) Of the eleven people who contract HIV each minute in the world, ten live in sub-Saharan Africa. This book seeks to shift the predominant understandings generated by biomedical and epidemiological research, recognising that HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa is a complex and regionally-specific phenomenon rooted in local economies, deepening poverty, migration, gender, war, global economies, and cultural politics. Get this book
	Who Cares? AIDS in Africa by Susan Hunter (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) Hunter illuminates the history and social dynamics of the AIDS pandemic through focusing on Africa. She combines personal stories from her 20 years of work in Africa, analysis of the raging debates on the topic (Mbeki's continued assertions that HIV does not cause AIDS), and discussion of the failures and successes achieved by global health organisations working there. Get this book

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