Health Equity: 09/16/09

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

[EQ] Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes in the health sector

Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes in the health sector

Tool to improve responsiveness to women's needs

World Health Organization, Department of Gender, Women and Health, 2009

108 pages (English) ISBN 978 92 4 159719 7

Available online at:http://www.who.int/gender/documents/gender_hiv/en/index.html

Gender inequalities fuel the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Hence, gender-responsive programmes can improve the quality of HIV/AIDS services.

This hands-on tool is aimed at programme managers and health-care providers in the public and private sectors who wish to set up, implement and evaluate gender-responsive HIV/AIDS programmes.

It describes basic steps in gender-responsive HIV/AIDS programming and suggests practical actions to address key gender issues in four HIV/AIDS service delivery areas:

1. HIV testing and counseling

2. Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV

3. HIV/AIDS treatment and care

4. Home-based care and support for people living with HIV

The tool also provides examples of gender-responsive interventions from the field and resources such as: counseling role plays for risk reduction and adherence to AIDS treatment; examples of gender-sensitive communication messages; and protocols for addressing the risk of violence against women as a result of HIV status disclosure.

The tool can be used to:

· Train programme managers and service providers to incorporate gender-responsive actions into their daily work.

· Integrate gender into pre-service and/or in-service basic HIV/AIDS training curricula.

· Engender relevant national HIV/AIDS strategies, frameworks, guidelines and operational plans.

· Integrate gender-responsive actions into district health and HIV/AIDS plans.

· Sensitize senior programme managers and policy-makers to gender and HIV issues.

· Remind programme managers and service providers of key gender-responsive HIV/AIDS strategies.

Monika Gehner Department of Gender, Women and Health (GWH)

Communications, Advocacy and Resource Mobilization - World Health Organization
20 avenue Appia CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland

Email: gehnerm@who.int Tel: +41 22 791 3941Fax: +41 22 791 1585 www.who.int/gender/

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[EQ] World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change

World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change

Published September 15, 2010

Website: http://go.worldbank.org/FTD88BBDV0

Press release: http://go.worldbank.org/CEYPULJJ00

"……Poverty reduction and sustainable development remain core global priorities. A quarter of the population of developing countries still lives on less than $1.25 a day. One billion people lack clean drinking water; 1.6 billion, electricity; and 3 billion, adequate sanitation. A quarter of all developing country children are malnourished. Addressing these needs must remain the priorities both of developing countries and of development aid—recognizing that development will get harder, not easier, with climate change.

Yet climate change must urgently be addressed. Climate change threatens all countries, with developing countries the most vulnerable. Estimates are that they would bear some 75 to 80 percent of the costs of damages caused by the changing climate. Even 2°C warming above preindustrial temperatures—the minimum the world is likely to experience—could result in permanent reductions in GDP of 4 to 5 percent for Africa and South Asia. Most developing countries lack sufficient financial and technical capacities to manage increasing climate risk. They also depend more directly on climate-sensitive natural resources for income and well-being. And most are in tropical and subtropical regions already subject to highly variable climate.

Economic growth alone is unlikely to be fast or equitable enough to counter threats from climate change, particularly if it remains carbon intensive and accelerates global warming. So climate policy cannot be framed as a choice between growth and climate change. In fact, climate-smart policies are those that enhance development, reduce vulnerability, and finance the transition to low-carbon growth paths.

A climate-smart world is within our reach if we act now, act together, and act differently than we have in the past:

- Acting now is essential or else options disappear and costs increase as the world commits itself to high-carbon pathways and largely irreversible warming trajectories.
- Acting together is key to keeping the costs down and effectively tackling both adaptaption and mitigation.
- Acting differently is required to enable a sustainable future in a changing world. In the next few decades, the world's energy systems must be transformed so that global emissions drop 50 to 80 percent…."



Advance Press Edition, still subject to ﬁnal changes (ﬁnal Report due out in late October) Download options for the World Development Report 2010. (To read these PDF files, you need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader). Overviews (multilingual) English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish Table of Contents & front matter Complete report \| Part One \| Part Two Overview 1. Understanding the links between climate change and development Focus A: the science of climate change Part I 2. Reducing human vulnerability: helping people help themselves Focus B: Biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate 3. Managing land and water to feed nine billion people and protect natural systems 4. Energizing development without compromising the climate Part II 5. Integrating development into a global climate regime Focus C: Trade and climate change 6. Generating the funding needed for mitigation and adaptation 7. Accelerating innovation and technology diffusion 8. Overcoming behavioral and institutional inertia Glossary

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[EQ] New discussion paper on research priorities on Equity and health: the third wave of global health research

Discussion paper

Priorities for research on equity and health:
Implications for global and national priority setting and the role of WHO to take the health equity research agenda forward

Piroska Östlin (Task Force coordinator and core author), Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Global Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Ted Schrecker (core author), Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada

Ritu Sadana (core author), Equity Analysis and Research Unit, Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, Information, Evidence and Research Cluster, World Health Organization;

Josiane Bonnefoy, Ministry of Health, Chile

Lucy Gilson, University of Cape Town, South Africa and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Clyde Hertzman, Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), University of British Columbia, Canada

Michael P. Kelly, Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, United Kingdom

Tord Kjellström, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Ronald Labonté, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada

Olle Lundberg, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

Carles Muntaner, Social Equity and Health Section, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada

Jennie Popay, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management, Centre for Public Policy, Bangalore, India

Ziba Vaghri, Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), University of British Columbia, Canada

Commissioned by the World Health Organization - September 9, 2009

The discussion paper is available as PDF file [38p.] at

http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/electronic%20library/Priorities%20for%20research%20on%20equity%20and%20health.pdf.

“…The report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health was released in August, 2008. Subsequently, a group led by Sweden’s Piroska Östlin, comprising 14 researchers who were actively involved with the Knowledge Networks that supported the Commission, was commissioned by WHO to update an earlier (2005) report on priorities for health equity research. The new (September 9, 2009) discussion paper observes that:

“The bulk of global health research has focused on biological disciplines, to develop medical solutions, to be provided through clinical, individual patient care. The past two decades have witnessed a rise in a new public health paradigm, enlarging disciplinary perspectives, stakeholder analysis, and recognition that health systems can be designed more effectively through new knowledge. This paradigm shift represents a second wave of global health research. With the 10/90 gap embraced by many organisations as an objective to be reversed and the CSDH's report widely distributed, among other contemporary efforts, this paper argues that we are on the cusp of a third wave in global health research, one that explicitly links broader social, political and economic determinants with improvements in equity in health, within and across countries………”

GLOBALIZATION KNOWLEDGE NETWORK:
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION COMMISSION ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

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