Global Curriculum Databank for HIV&AIDS education: Contains a wide usseful collection of publications visit www.ibe.unesco.org

UNESCO: Empowering people through the free flow of ideas by word and image, and by access to information and knowledge. http://portal.unesco.org

Oxfam:  Get access to Oxfam publications http://publications.oxfam.org.uk    

Family Health International: FHI publications provide practical, evidence-based information for policy and community leaders, program managers, health care providers, educators, and others on HIV/AIDS prevention and care, sexually transmitted infections, infectious diseases, reproductive health, maternal health, adolescent health, contraceptive technology, and gender issues. http://www.fhi.org/en/Publications/index.htm

AIDS alliance  online toolkits bring together learning and resources from the Alliance and other organisations on a range of topics. Finally, the links area on this site offers information about complementary resources that are available from other organisations’ websites. http://www.aidsalliance.org/sw5698.asp?

AIDSQuest: The HIV/AIDS Survey Library .What Is the HIV/AIDS Survey Library. AIDSQuest is a resource for researchers and others developing HIV/AIDS-related data collection tools. Click here: http://www.popcouncil.org/horizons/AIDSquest/index.html

AEGIS:The largest HIV knowledgebase in the world. On this page you will find the HIV Daily Briefing, a listing of some of the national HIV article written every day, search engine, fact sheets, law library, etc.

CDCNPIN: NPIN is a national reference, referral and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

National Library of Medicine PubMed: Provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations and includes links to many sites providing full text articles. Use the Limits feature, and Subset AIDS to narrow your search. The MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) Browser gives indexing terms used by the National Library of Medicine to expand your search. There is an online Tutorial to help you use PubMed features. Use National Library of Medicine Gateway to search conference and meeting abstracts.

New York Online Access to Health (NOAH): Ask Noah About AIDS. NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. The New York Public Library and New York University created NOAH. On this page you will find answers to questions like what is HIV/AIDS, what are some medications, what is Kaposi's sarcoma?

UCLA AIDS Institute: Committed to the eradication of HIV infection worldwide through research and clinical care. The institute shares its online resources through this resource link: http://www.uclaaidsinstitute.org/publications/publications.php

Public Health Service: HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service
Provides information about federally approved treatment guidelines for HIV and AIDS.

HIV Insite: A peer-reviewed web site that contains information on AIDS and HIV research and treatment topics, edited by scientists, physicians and other AIDS workers. (Taken from BIOSites). It was created by the same organization that brought you the AIDS Knowledge Base, a searchable textbook about HIV.

National Library of Medicine's MedLineplus; Information pages to direct you to resources to help you research your health questions; health topics, dictionaries, clearinghouses for health literature, directories, MEDLINE and other databases, online publications, consumer organizations, and consumer health libraries.

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Webportal: Gender and HIV/AIDS:UNFPA and UNIFEM, as Co-Chairs of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Gender and HIV/AIDS are pleased to announce the release of a new tool to assist in the response to HIV/AIDS - the Resource Pack on Gender and HIV/AIDS. Developed by the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Gender and HIV/AIDS, 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. http://www.genderandaids.org

National Library of Medicine HIV/AIDS Information Resources: A comprehensive AIDS information service is vital to enable people to combat the AIDS epidemic. Scientists, physicians, educators, and other health professionals need rapid access to the latest information on AIDS research, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention. Consumers require similar access to appropriate information for decision-making about their behavioral choices and treatment. Community-based organizations, clinics and other types of service providers also need access to high quality, accurate and timely information for their staff and clients. The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, has been developing AIDS information services since the AIDS crisis began in 1980.http://www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv.html

Medscape HIV/AIDS: offers a wide range of HIV/AIDS journals and research articles. http://www.medscape.com/hiv/journals

Amnesty International (AI) Online Library: Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. The Amnesty International library contains an archive of most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date. http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex

Disclaimer: links to the libraries at this site are provided as a service to our consumers. The Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO)  is not responsible for the content found at these links.

Global Campaign for Microbicides:The Global Campaign for Microbicides is a broad-based, international effort to build support among policymakers, opinion leaders, and the general public for increased investment into microbicides and other user-controlled prevention methods. Through advocacy, policy analysis, and social science research, the Campaign works to accelerate product development, facilitate widespread access and use, and protect the needs and interests of users, especially women. http://www.global-campaign.org

AidsPortal: AIDSPortal is an internet platform which provides tools to support global collaboration and knowledge sharing among new and existing networks of people responding to the AIDS epidemic. http://www.aidsportal.org

The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty. We are headed by a Cabinet minister, one of the senior ministers in the Government. This reflects how important the Government sees reducing poverty around the world. We have two headquarters (in London and East Kilbride, near Glasgow) and 25 offices overseas. We also have over 2500 staff, almost half of whom work abroad. For more information: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/aboutdfid

Family Health International: Formed in 1971, FHI is a leader among nonprofit international public health organizations, managing research and field activities in more than 70 countries to meet the public health needs of some of the world's most vulnerable people.  http://www.fhi.org/

HealthLink Worldwide: Healthlink works to improve the health and well being of disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in developing countries. We work in partnership to strengthen the local provision, use and impact of health communication and to support advocacy initiatives to increase participation and inclusion. Healthlink Worldwide’s vision is a world where there is equitable access to health care and where a person’s participation in decision-making for social change is not solely dependent.   http://www.healthlink.org.uk

Child-to-Child Trust: Children surviving natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis have several challenges to cope with.  They suffer trauma from loosing friends, family members, homes and possessions and witnessing devastation in their communities.  These children along with their families and communities also face the further threat of disease and illness due to shortages of food, clean water, shelter and poor hygiene conditions. http://www.child-to-child.org

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Bill and Melinda Gates believe every life has equal value. In 2000, they created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by co-chairs Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and William H. Gates Sr., and by CEO Patty Stonesifer. http://www.gatesfoundation.org

UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development: The Consortium’s vision is to promote an effective global response to HIV and AIDS that contributes to sustainable development. It’s mission is to encourage, initiate and support collaborative action by civil society to contribute to and influence the global response to HIV and AIDS. http://www.aidsconsortium.org.uk

United Nations Development Program (UNDP): UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners. http://www.undp.org

UNAIDS: UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organizations to the global AIDS response. Cosponsors include UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank. Based in Geneva, the UNAIDS secretariat works on the ground in more than 75 countries world wide. http://www.unaids.org

USAID: The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country. It is this caring that stands as a hallmark of the United States around the world -- and shows the world our true character as a nation.

U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world. Spending less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget, USAID works around the world to achieve these goals. http://www.usaid.gov

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) The Emergency Plan aims to support treatment for at least two million people living with HIV/AIDS, prevent seven million new infections, and support care for 10 million people infected with and affected by HIV, including orphans and vulnerable children. The Emergency Plan works in over 120 countries around the world, with a special emphasis on 15 countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. These countries—which are home to approximately 50 percent of HIV infections worldwide—are Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia. http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/pepfar.html

South Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service: Established in 1994, SAfAIDS is a  regional HIV/AIDS organisation based Harare, Zimbabwe. Its goal is to disseminate HIV/AIDS information to promote, inform and support appropriate responses to the epidemic. http://www.safaids.org.zw

The Global Fund : The Global Fund was created to finance a dramatic turn-around in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These diseases kill over 6 million people each year, and the numbers are growing. To date, the Global Fund has committed US$ 4.9 billion in 131 countries to support aggressive interventions against all th http://www.theglobalfund.org

CDC: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves.

AVERT: AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, with the aim of AVERTing HIV and AIDS worldwide.AVERT has a number of overseas projects, helping with the problem of HIV/AIDS in countries where there is a particularly high rate of infection, such as South Africa, or where there is a rapidly increasing rate of infection such as in India. http://www.avert.org

International Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (HIVOS) : HIVOS focuses on the following sectors of NGO activity: culture and art, women, sustainable development, human rights, and AIDs awareness. http://www/dds.nl/~hivos/

The Future Group:  The Future Group is a Canadian-based non-governmental organization dedicated to combatting human trafficking and the child sex trade. http://tfgwebmaster.web.aplus.net/wwwthefuturegrouporg/

ICRW:  The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) was created in 1976 to fill gaps in understanding the complex realities of women's lives and their role in development.

http://www.icrw.org

The Policy Project: Building on more than 25 years of experience in population and development, the POLICY Project works with host-country governments and civil society groups to achieve a more supportive policy environment for family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), HIV/AIDS, and maternal health. Multisectoral engagement, community and organizational empowerment, and promotion of human rights and gender equality characterize POLICY's approaches to better reproductive health policies and programs. http://www.policyproject.com

AMREF: is the continent’s leading health development organisation. AMREF has offices in 5 Eastern and Southern African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. We have field offices in Somalia and Sudan. Each year we train health professionals from countries all over the African Continent. Our headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, and we are proud that 97% of our staff is African. http://www.amref.org

ABANTU For Development (ABANTU) is a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) established in 1991 by African women based in Europe. The organization has regional offices in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria. The Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa ( ROESA) based in Nairobi, Kenya was set up in July 1995.http://www.abantu.org

Agency For Cooperation and Research in Development(ACORD);   ACORD was established in 1976 as a consortium of international agencies headquartered in the North to provide its members with operational capacity to address poverty issues resulting from the drought in sub-Saharan Africa. By 2001, ACORD was implementing 45 long-term community-based development programmes in 17 countries in Africa focusing primarily on poverty alleviation. Throughout its history, it remained independent of political or religious orientation. http://www.aidsportal.org

MAP International:  A Christian organization working to save lives, MAP maintains an affirmed commitment to diversity and equal opportunity in the fulfillment of its global mission.Founded in 1954 as Medical Assistance Programs, today MAP International, a top 100 non-profit, promotes the total health - physical, economic, social, emotional and spiritual health - of impoverished people in over 115 countries through the world. http://www.map.org

World Vision is an international Christian relief and development organisation working to promote the well being of all people - especially children. In 2004, World Vision offered material, emotional, social and spiritual support to 100 million people in 96 countries.  http://www.wvi.org

Alive and Kicking Kenya assists children and young people from poorer communities play more sport, and at the same time addresses their vulnerability to preventable diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Awareness messages are printed onto large numbers of durable, repairable leather footballs, volleyballs and netballs which Alive & Kicking makes here in Kenya from leather prepared by Bata. The balls are sold at hugely subsidised prices to schools, NGOs, CBOs, FBOs and to Corporates in connection with their community support projects. To supplement the messaging on balls, Alive and Kicking has designed a series of HIV/AIDS awareness posters. The behavioural advice given is endorsed by eight of Kenya’s top sports personalities including Congestina Achieng, Catherine Nderiba, Musa Otieno, and Dennis Oliech.

For more information link to www.aliveandkicking.org.uk

Martin Barnard,  Director
Alive & Kicking Kenya
Tel: 20 552688/98
Mob: 0722 530216

Child-to-Child ideas and activities represent an approach to health education. The distinguishing characteristics of Child-to-Child are the direct involvement of children in the process of health education and promotion and the nature of their involvement.

Child-to-Child ideas and activities spread and take root in many different countries and contexts, for example, in national education programmes; in local programmes and individual schools; in training programmes for teachers and health workers; in youth movements and youth groups linked with schools and school children; in youth groups operating outside of the school system; when schools are linked with medical schools, health centres and health campaigns; when older children help pre-school children; and in programmes and activities designed to help children in especially difficult circumstances. Wherever Child-to-Child activities take place, they stress the potential of children to promote better health:

• To younger children;
• To children of the same age;
• In their families and communities.