Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Development and Humanitarian Efforts

Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Development and Humanitarian Programmes, by Sue Holden, explains how international organizations can respond to the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS without setting up special treatment or care programs. Ms. Holden, an honorary research associate at Lancaster University, in England, writes that the high incidence of AIDS in poor nations both impedes development work and is a consequence of underdevelopment. She recommends that nonprofit groups educate staff members about the disease and design policies to reduce the susceptibility of employees to it. The author also presents ideas for how development groups can incorporate HIV/AIDS prevention into their agriculture, microfinance, health-care, and other work, and advises humanitarian organizations on how to minimize the spread of HIV/AIDS when working with refugees or other people who have been ousted from their homes.

Publisher: Oxfam Publishing, 274 Banbury Road, Oxford, England OX2 7DZ; (44) 1865-311-311; publish@oxfam.org.uk; http://www.oxfam.org.uk/publications; 135 pages; $13.60.