HIV Care and Support
HIV Care and Support
 | East Asia and Pacific is the most diverse region in the world. Geographically, it spans small island states to landlocked nations. It includes the world’s most populated country – China (population 1.3 billion) – and the least populated – Nieu (population 1,700). Across the region and within countries, there is ethnic diversity. Countries are at different stages of socio-economic development, but in almost all countries, faith-based organizations are among the most important social and cultural forces. Download this publication |
| 0n 15-17 January 2008, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office convened an Interfaith Consultation on Children and HIV in Bangkok, Thailand. The Consultation was attended by over 80 leaders from Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) and other participants from 13 countries. The aim of the meeting was to develop an interfaith regional framework to strengthen the role of FBOs in responding to HIV & AIDS and in addressing the needs of children affected by HIV and other vulnerable children. Download this publication |
| Priority interventions: HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector defines the essential interventions the health sector should deliver and provides key references as well as links to web-based resources. This initial version of the document will be further adapted and finalized in coming weeks, and will be published in print format as well as electronically, to be then updated on a regular basis as a "living document". The document provides WHO's best attempt to assemble and package normative advice for the health sector concerning the essential response to HIV/AIDS. Download this publication |
| Burnout is not an event but a process in which every day stresses and anxieties that are not addressed gradually undermine the carer’s mental and physical health, so that even- tually care giving and personal relationships suffer.As a medical condition burnout has no clear definition, but as a psychological condition it has been well defined1 and is increasingly recognized by people in the caring professions. Burnout has long been identified as a crucial issue in HIV care and support; yet there is relatively little known about what measures can be taken to prevent or mitigate it. Download this publication |
| This manual has been designed to help facilitators to conduct workshops with Buddhist monks, nuns, novices, lay teachers and other leaders on the issues of HIV and AIDS. The workshop sessions apply Buddhist teachings to understand the suffering and challenges of communities facing the crisis of HIV and AIDS. It is based on the experience of working with and training Buddhist leaders in countries throughout South and South-East Asia. Download this publication |
| One of the most alarming concerns about HIV/AIDS in India is the rate of the increase in the number of infected persons across the country. The first case was detected in India in 1986. By the end of 2003, less than twenty years later, the total number of persons living with HIV/AIDS was 5.1 million! The estimates from 1994 till 2000 show that the incidence has been doubled. Every year since 2000, five lakhs reported cases have been added, which may be just the tip of the iceberg. The financial burden, social constraints, and above all the personal and psychological pain and strain of those infected and affected experience are immense. Download this publication |
| HIV/AIDS takes an enormous physical toll on those infected by the virus as well as those who care for them. However, the psychological toll of the epidemic is just as significant. The psychological and social effects of HIV/AIDS are magnified in young people. Children and adolescents are an ever-growing part of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 2004, an estimated 2.2 million children under the age of 15 were living with HIV. Download this publication |
| With over 9 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific at the end of 2004, the disease has gained a firm foothold in a region that is home to over 60 per cent of the world’s people. More than 1 million people were infected with HIV in 2004 in Asia and the Pacific and the number of newly infected people in the region has been increasing each year. Download this publication |
| Mr. Nun (a pseudonym) is one of many Cambodians who suffer from AIDS. What is unique about Mr. Nun is that his physical condition is better now than it was last year and that his improvement happened after receiving HIV care and treatment from a local hospital. Mr. Nun is the beneficiary of a new collaborative initiative in Moung Russey Operational District (OD) between the district health services, the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD (NCHADS), communities, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), and international and local non-government organizations. Download this publication |
