AIDS on the Agenda: Adapting Development and Humanitarian Programmes

Published by Oxfam in association with ActionAid and Save the Children UK, this book is written for policy-makers, managers, and programme staff, to promote debate about the challenges that confront them by the AIDS pandemic. The author, Sue Holden, shows how mainstream work like educational programmes can be modified to reduce susceptibility to HIV infection and vulnerability to the impact of AIDS. She emphasises that what works in one country or region may not work in others. For example, in section Part One "How AIDS became a development issue", Holden writes that the same successful educational campaigns that focused on reducing risky behaviours among gay men in North America and Western Europe had very little success in other regions of the world - like Africa.

Based on case studies, this book is full of advice and contributions from a wide range of organisations.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Glossary
• Part I
  • Mainstreaming AIDS in development and humanitarian programmes: background and rationale
  • Introduction
  • AIDS as a development issue
  • Terms, meanings, and examples
  • Mainstreaming AIDS in an idealised world
• Part II:
• Experiences of mainstreaming AIDS
• Experiences of mainstreaming AIDS internally
• Experiences of mainstreaming AIDS externally in development work
• Experiences of mainstreaming AIDS externally in humanitarian work
• Learning from the mainstreaming of gender
• Part III
• Ideas for mainstreaming AIDS
• Strategy and guiding principles
• Ideas for internal mainstreaming
• Ideas for external mainstreaming
• Issues and challenges
• Conclusion
• Resources
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Readers' feedback

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