Combating child labour and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

The HIV/AIDS pandemic adds a new and tragic dimension to the worst forms of child labour. With the death of one or both parents from HIV/AIDS, millions of children have been orphaned. Millions more will be. Many of these children will find security in the households of relatives. Others, however, will drop out of school, looking for work to survive.

HEARD - AIDS Brief - Donor Operations

As part of the current USAID project "Operationalising HIV/AIDS Issues For Development", which commenced early in 1998, HEARD identified a need for a much wider, expanded and more detailed series of documents.

HEARD - AIDS Brief - Community-Based Natural Resource Management

As part of the current USAID project "Operationalising HIV/AIDS Issues For Development", which commenced early in 1998, HEARD identified a need for a much wider, expanded and more detailed series of documents.

HEARD - AIDS Brief - Development Personnel

As part of the current USAID project "Operationalising HIV/AIDS Issues For Development", which commenced early in 1998, HEARD identified a need for a much wider, expanded and more detailed series of documents.

Latest Gender and Development Publications

The Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) has the following quality research reports and other publications, covering Domestic Violence, Local Government and Gender, Women and Governance, and Media, available for order:

Launching the HIV/AIDS Alliance NGO/CBO Support Toolkit

The HIV/AIDS NGO/CBO Support Toolkit is a website and CD-Rom with over 500 downloadable resources and supporting information. To access the website please go to:

December 2002 HIV/AIDS Public Health Journal Club

The last Journal Club meeting of the year featured Andy Gray and Dr Donnie Mcgrath from the Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Natal's Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine in Durban. Their presentations focused on recent clinical and logistical reviews of "Making ARVs available in resource-poor settings".

African governments urged to support women

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged that more attention be devoted to the plight of African women as the continent battles the twin threats of famine and AIDS. This deadly combination "is threatening the backbone of Africa - the women who keep African societies going and whose work makes up the economic foundation of rural communities", Annan wrote in an opinion piece published in the International Herald Tribune [on 30-12-02].

Nutritional care and support training course

The Institute of Food, Nutrition and Family Sciences (IFNFS) at the University of Zimbabwe, in close collaboration with the International Agricultural Centre (IAC) will be holding a regional training course on nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS from 20 - 31 January 2003 in Harare, Zimbabwe.

HIV/AIDS researchers reduced to tears

A nightmarish horror story of life in the poorest HIV-infected families shows that poverty in South Africa is spilling over into wholesale destitution.