Download or read book Transport Against HIV AIDS written by World Bank. Transport Sector Board and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transport Against HIV AIDS written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transport sector is especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Transport workers including long distance truck drivers, seafarers, airline crews and infrastructure construction workers spend long periods of time away from home, often endure harsh working conditions, and may engage in unsafe behavior that can lead to infection. Their mobility makes it difficult to access health information and treatment, or to maintain drug regimen. Transport hubs and construction sites are often considered hot spots due to the influx and interaction that take place among the mobile workers. Furthermore, the sector works as a vector for HIV spread as the opening of new roads connects low and high prevalence areas. The World Bank transport group has been proactively mainstreaming HIV response by assisting client governments to design and implement sector-level interventions. Programs are most developed in the highest prevalence areas, initially in Sub-Sahara Africa and now also in Asia. Support to the sector includes organizing training events to increase staff awareness and knowledge, providing access to research materials, and securing funds to develop or scale up intervention programs. To institutionalize the response, explicit provisions for HIV prevention have been embedded in the standard bidding document. The group also collaborates with local workers organizations with the help of International Transport Workers Federation and the International Labor Organization. Some lessons learned are: (i) strategies must be crafted to meet the specific needs of the country in accordance with the local culture and unique epidemic situations; (ii) coordination with the health sector and the national AIDS authority is necessary for effective program design; and (iii) involving stakeholders from local communities is key to program success.
Download or read book Transport Sector Strategic HIV AIDS Plan written by South Africa. Department of Transport. National HIV/AIDS Transport Sector Coordinating Committee and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intersections Gender HIV and Infrastructure Operations written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to mainstream gender equality approaches in all sectors of its operations. This publication assesses the nexus between gender inequalities, HIV spread, and infrastructure development. A desk review and comparative analysis of existing infrastructure sector policies, legal and regulatory frameworks related to HIV prevention in Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, India, Papua New Guinea, and Tajikistan identifies factors which may contribute to promote an effective response to the epidemic. The assessment of and field visits in selected ADB transport project sites identified promising practices for a more sustainable and gender-inclusive response to the epidemic.
Download or read book HIV and Mobile Workers written by Eleonore Caraël and published by IOM. This book was released on 2005 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines HIV-related risks and programmes for mobile workers, focusing on truckers in West Africa, with references to South Asia in order to highlight similarities when the profession is the same, but the region is different. The report identifies living and working conditions that put truckers at risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, with examples of programmes aimed at promoting behaviour change among truckers; and sets out recommendations for further research and programme strategies to address this issue.
Download or read book Reduction of HIV Vulnerability Within the Land Transport Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HIV AIDS Policy for the Transport Sector of Zimbabwe written by and published by ILO Project. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Workplace Policy on HIV AIDS for the Transport Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recommendations for Prevention of HIV Transmission in Health care Settings written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World AIDS Day 2008 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.
Download or read book Building an Alliance with Transport Sector in HIV Vulnerability Reduction written by Lee-Nah Hsu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reduction of HIV Vulnerability Within the Land Transport Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World AIDS Day 2006 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hiv Aids Among Industrial Transport Workers written by Prof. Rajinder M. Kalra and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, entitled HIV/AIDS among Industrial Workers & Truck Drivers, is a world class humanitarian effort. Kalra & Kalra have condensed an immense amount of literature in to a single concise handbook. Statistics, editorials, government data and interviews outlined in this book provide a startling insight in to the complex causes of HIV dissemination and its real effects. This book stands alone as a powerful education tool to industrial workers, their employers and to general society. The authors should be commended for their hard work and dedication to this noble cause. George S. Athwal, MD, FRCSC Consultant and Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada Owned and Operated by St. Josephs Health Services Association of London, Incorporated Affi liated with the University of Western Ontario
Download or read book The Assessment and Mitigation of the Impact of Transport Infrastructure and Services on the Spread of HIV AIDS written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons Learned from Mainstreaming HIV AIDS in Transport Sector Projects in Sub Saharan Africa written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) pandemic burdens Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and continues to constrain its social and economic advancement. Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has estimated that in southern Africa alone, 930,000 adults and children died of AIDS in 2005. This represents about one-third of AIDS deaths recorded globally that year. In addition, about 12 million children below the age of 17 in SSA are estimated to have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Africa Technical Transport Sector Unit (AFTTR) has made progress in mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in its portfolio. However, there is still more work ahead in ensuring that all projects are mainstreamed as needed. In this context, the transport sector board needs to continue supporting such future mainstreaming efforts by establishing a sector board strategy for HIV/AIDS activities on Bank-financed transport projects. The diverse nature of transportation activities implies that mainstreaming is both challenging and urgent. In 2000, the Africa transport team gave high priority to its contribution to the campaign against the HIV/AIDS pandemic and pledged to mainstream HIV/AIDS actions in the Bank's lending operations and at country level in the transport sector. The transport sector contributed significantly through integrating simple activities into its operations (such as HIV/AIDS contract clauses into bidding documents for road construction site workers). Similarly, the Bank financed a first-round workshop to prepare HIV/AIDS prevention policy in the workplace for Ministry employees. Its main objective is to develop and implement highly focused prevention interventions to reduce HIV/AIDS prevalence and slow down the spread of the disease in the transport sector. This document is subdivided in four sections. The first section gives background information on the transport sector and HIV/AIDS. The second section describes the Bank's transport sector activities, with particular focus on the Africa region and its achievements regarding HIV/AIDS. The third section presents the process and the results of the assessment of the Africa transport sector portfolio for HIV/AIDS mainstreaming. The fourth section enumerates the lessons learned as well as the recommendations made to the World Bank's Transport Sector Board and to stakeholders in the client countries.
