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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter A: HIV Stigma – Naming and Owning the Problem
Chapter B: Gender Violence –Naming & Owning the Problem
Chapter C: Shame and Blame –Stigma & Emotional Violence
Chapter D: More Understanding and Less Fear
Chapter E: Moving to Action
Annex 1: Fact Sheets
Annex 2: Making Your Own Training Program
Annex 3: Games for Training
Annex 4: Overview of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005
Annex 5: Pictures for Use in Toolkit Sessions

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This is the syllabus of a workshop that was held in Toronto August 14-16 2006. The workshop was organized by the Women's Human Rights Resources Programme. The syllabus contains detailed descriptions of material covered during the workshop as well as links to resources when available online. The workshop syllabus is divided into four topic areas: Overview articles; Sex, gender and social context in the HIV/AIDS pandemic; Challenges in access to prevention, treatment and care; Accountability, advocacy and documentation.

With funding from CIDA, ICAD has developed a toolkit on addressing HIV/AIDS and gender equality in food security and rural livelihoods programming. The toolkit can be used by program managers and their partners when working in situations where HIV and AIDS prevalence is high. While it is primarily geared towards the CIDA program cycle, the toolkit is also useful to a wider audience including NGOs, particularly those working closely with CIDA. The toolkit includes seven Guide Sheets which present key questions or issues that must be addressed at discrete points in the project or program cycle. The Guide Sheets cover topics such as: considering HIV/AIDS and gender equality issues in results oriented logical framework analysis; performance assessments and guidance on complying with the “Three Ones” principles. The kit also includes four “Tip Sheets” providing a glossary, selected resources and reference to key documents on international commitments and resources.

This module serves as an introduction to basic reproductive health services of women and girls in emergency settings. Although comprehensive RH services should be available to the entire population once the situation stabilizes, reducing the transmission of HIV, preventing sexual violence, providing care for survivors of sexual violence, ensuring clean deliveries and access to emergency obstetric care in the first days of a crisis are a priority because these actions will save lives and prevent illness. It includes chapter quizzes and a post-test, which can be completed online. A passing score results in certification and qualifies for continuing education credits for U.S. nurses. The module is also available in French.

Developed by the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Gender and HIV/AIDS (Co-chaired by UNIFEM and UNFPA), this Resource Pack aims to strengthen the impact of national HIV/AIDS programmes by tackling a key underlying factor that fuels the epidemic: gender inequality. The Resource Pack analyzes the impact of gender relations on the AIDS epidemic and provides guidance, including tools for effective advocacy and programming. The Resource Pack contains the following tools:

Operational Guide on Gender and HIV/AIDS: A Rights-Based Approach. Read more...
Review paper, 'Integrating Gender into HIV/AIDS Programmes'. Read more...
17 Fact Sheets with concise information on gender-related aspects of HIV/AIDS. Read more...

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This HIV counseling and testing manual is designed for service providers and counselors working with youth. Approximately one-third of clients who seek HIV testing are youth, and these young people often have different needs than do adults. This 92-page manual provides: step-by-step information for using a counseling and testing model for youth in general or specialized clinical settings; step-by-step information for using the traditional voluntary counseling and testing model with youth; resources to help meet the broader sexual needs of youth, including information on contraceptive options and sexually transmitted infections; information on how to counsel youth and use youth-friendly service approaches; tips and role-plays to use with young people on abstinence, being faithful, and using condoms; and guides for creating a referral network.

This tool captures exchanges organized between representatives of the media, positive women’s network and activists, on media response to HIV/AIDS, and how issues of concern to people living with HIV/AIDS, especially women, must be represented in mass media. It is meant for media practitioners, media and communications experts, groups involved in media advocacy, AIDS activists, networks of people living with HIV/AIDS, and others working on gender and HIV/AIDS. This module emerged from exchanges between positive people, journalists, and activists through consultations and workshops organized by the Center for Advocacy and Research in New Delhi, and Positive Women’s Network (PWN+) Chennai, and North East Network, Guwahati.

This Handbook is dedicated to the premise that evaluation must be a critical part of the initial phases of planning effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs.  It contains guidelines to implement a comprehensive and strategic approach to evaluation. Although not specifically focused on evaluation of gender and HIV/AIDS programmes, this tool provides useful and relevant information.

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“Community Lessons, Global Learning” is a partnership between the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Glaxo Wellcome’s Positive Action programme. This first report shares lessons about responding to HIV/AIDS between communities, countries and continents. Although the primary focus of the document is on community responses to HIV/AIDS, Section 5 of the report discusses gender, sexuality and sexual health. The “Community Lessons, Global Learning” programme – and, therefore, this report - draws lessons from the Alliance’s experience in supporting HIV/AIDS prevention and care strategies which deals with the provision of information and raising awareness about the epidemic.

This on-line minicourse is designed to provide a basic introduction to this topic and to help providers of reproductive health services incorporate a focus on HIV and AIDS into their services.

This manual was developed by an experts group and tested in two IPS journalists training workshops in South Africa and Jamaica. The manual has three modules: A Gender Analysis Framework for the Media; Gender and HIV/AIDS - The Missing Story; and Improved Knowledge and Skills. Hands on exercises and examples from the media offer a practical feel to the content of the modules. Contact romaser@ips.org with feedback, comments and questions about the new manual, or to obtain a printed edition.

This training manual has been developed to guide implementation of the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS in the World of Work. It contains core information on AIDS and the workplace, case studies, learning activities, and examples of laws and policies. The manual is divided into ten sections, including eight independent modules. Although gender issues are addressed throughout the manual, they are also set out in a Module 5 –The Gender Dimensions of HIV/AIDS and the World of Work.

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The Synergy APDIME Toolkit is a user-oriented, electronic one-stop-shop of HIV/AIDS programming resources. The Toolkit contains five modules of the programming cycle covering Assessment, Planning, Design, Implementation Monitoring, and Evaluation (APDIME). Each module outlines a comprehensive step-by-step method and links to a database of documents, tools, and materials to improve HIV/AIDS programming in resource poor countries.

In 2001, Ipas and Health & Development Networks (HDN) produced a training resource called Gender or sex: who cares? Skills-building resource pack on gender and reproductive health for adolescents and youth workers. These notes were developed for people who wish to train facilitators to carry out workshops based on the Gender or Sex curriculum. They contain ideas and materials that can be used for training-of-trainers (TOT) workshops, as well as materials that TOT trainees can incorporate into workshops for adolescents and youth workers based on Gender or sex: who cares?