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Capital assets: a community research intervention by The African Forum in Redbridge and Waltham Forest
This survey contains information about the assets and health needs of African residents in Redbridge and Waltham Forest (United Kingdom). It helps to identify key areas where community organisations and statutory services in partnership can improve quality of life, knowledge on HIV/AIDS and access to services.
Understanding racial-ethnic and societal differentials in STI
The author describes a new paradigm in epidemiology. This social epidemiology is concerned with the question: "Why are some societies healthy and others not?". The author describes a possible way in which relations among social determinants, their mechanisms of action, and their impact on STD morbidity may be conceptualised.
AIDS & Mobility: looking to the future. Migration and HIV/AIDS in Europe - Recent developments and needs for future action
This report describes the recent developments of migration and HIV/AIDS in Europe and gives recommendations concerning the future priorities and the development of the AIDS & Mobility project. It examines the trends of AIDS among migrants and ethnic minorities as provided by current (2001) surveillance systems in EU countries and the methodological limitations for their interpretation both at…
La Porte de l'Amour: Roman photo No. 1, 2, 3.
3 photo comics (consisting of photographs) aimed at African migrants. No. 1: about the fear of being infected with AIDS and attitudes towards condom use. No. 2: about the complications of living with HIV/AIDS, for example problems at work, ignorance and the fear of telling you’re HIV positive. No. 3 about an angel with flying problems falling from the sky and reminding people of the importance of…
Selling sex in Amsterdam: Advice and support for men selling sex to men!
Gives ten golden rules to male sex workers in Amsterdam and offers confidential assistance from AMOC/DHV in no-nonsense, clear language. Also available in Romanian, German and Polish. NB: organisation has merged with other, 'De Regenboog'. Only available in hard copy, order through website.
Gay London
This booklet gives sexual health information for gay men from non-English speaking backgrounds. Text in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, German and French. NB: only in hard copy, order through website/ email.
SAFE
Booklet with information for gay black men on coming out, where to meet other gay men, safer sex and sexual health clinics. NB: only in hard copy, order through website/email.
Population mobility and AIDS: UNAIDS technical update
This publication describes the background of migration, mobility and HIV/AIDS in the world, the challenges and responses. Contains suggested actions for migrants and mobile people. Also available in French, Russian and Spanish.
Designers against AIDS flyer
Flyer of DAA. The main objective of Designers against AIDS is to raise awareness and to get the subject of HIV/AIDS back into the media all over the world, as lately it has become a forgotten disease, especially in the western world. Our messages are: ‘Prevention is the only cure for HIV/AIDS‘ (protect yourself and your partner) and ‘Know your status’ (get tested). Furthermore we fight for the…
Reports of European Network Male Prostitution
Interim and final reports of the European Network Male Prostitutions (ENMP). The ENMP stimulates, develops and improves proper health and social services, which contribute to the needs and well-being of male sex workers (MSWs). Furthermore, the network intents to bridge the gap between the needs of MSW and the services provided by agencies, active in the field of HIV/STI prevention and health…
Positive in life - short theatrical play
An awareness raising theatrical play focussing on real social issues regarding HIV, Acted out by the volunteers of Center for life.
Main pamphlet HIV/AIDS
What is HIV? How is HIV transmitted and not? Do you protect yourself? Can you help?
Prevención del VIH/SIDA en immigrantes y minorías étnicas [Prevention of HIV/AIDS of immigrants and ethnic minorities]
Describes the epidemiology of HIV in Spain, the health care and prevention of HIV for migrants living in Spain at the beginning of the 21st century.
Health, migration and return : a handbook for a multidisciplinary approach
This book offers a overview of theories in order to serve as a basis for a wider debate covering the right to health, medical norm setting, ethics, the right to migration, the duty to return and health and migration. The main issue is in how far communities which have reached a certain level of economic and social development are obliged to share the fruits of that developments with members of a…
Risk perception and sexual relations among African migrants in Amsterdam
This study intends to gain more insight in the socio-sexual behaviour of sub-Saharan African migrants living in the Netherlands. Main conclusion is that, despite extensive information available on the topic, HIV and AIDS are still surrounded by vagueness and mysteries. Especially among recent black migrants more eclectic risk perceptions are existing. With abstract in Dutch.
Human mobility and population health: new approaches in a globalizing world
Population mobility represents a growing challenge to the development of public health programs and legislative policies to prevent the importance of disease, and to promote and protect the health of migrants and the local, receiving population. A new paradigm is needed to facilitate the development of policies and programs to address the health consequences of population mobility.
The social meanings of death from HIV/AIDS: an African interpretative view
This paper looks at the social meanings of death from HIV/AIDS within the context of the Christian and African religious schema as they pertain in Kenya today. By drawing parallels between Christian and African religious interpretations of death, it has been shown that HIV/AIDS is not just viewed as a biomedical pathological condition that occasions physical demise, but a social pathology which…
Sexual behaviour and HIV infection in black-Africans in England: results from the Mayisha II survey of sexual attitudes and lifestyles
Study aimed at estimating HIV prevalence and distribution of high-risk sexual behaviours, sexual health service use, and HIV testing among black Africans aged 16 years or over living in England. Conclusion: Despite about half the sample having had an HIV test at some time in the past, 9.2% of respondents had an undiagnosed HIV infection. This study supports current policy efforts to further…
Global threats, local options, personal risk: dimensions of migrant sex work in Europe
This article explores a middle-level analysis of threats and risk-taking behaviour (incl. on HIV/AIDS) in sex work among migrant women in Europe. It draws attention to important distinctions between danger, risk and no risk and locates these in a discussion. Two findings are underlined: that a sense of control over threat is prerequisite to dealing with risk; and that it is on local context that…
Interventionsplan HIV/AIDS-Prävention bei Sub-Sahara MigrantInnen
This study provides an overview of the socio-demographic characteristics of the Sub-Saharan African migrants in Switzerland, its organisational structures, forms of communication, and media-relevant aspects. Makes comparisons with other European countries. It points to the opportunities and difficulties of primary prevention of the entire group and of prevention for people living with HIV/AIDS,…
The UK, HIV and human rights: recommendations for the next five years
Report of the inquiry into the UK's respect for and promotion of the international guidelines on HIV/AIDS and human rights, with recommendations for government action.
HIV transmission and aids risks. Situations, Risks, Advice.
Multilingual leaflet on HIV/AIDS, risks, transmission and safe sex. With pictures in easy language. Abailable in 13 languages (partly through website).