Summary Booklet of Best Practices Table of Contents Introduction: Best practices and HIV/AIDS ............................................................5 What is meant by “best practice”?.......................................................................... 5 Why document best practice? ................................................................................ 6 Where do best practices come from?..................................................................... 6 Using the summary booklet.................................................................................... 7 We welcome your proposals .................................................................................. 7 Access to HIV/AIDS-related drugs ........................................................................11 National Medicine Fund for High Social Impact Diseases (Colombia) .................. 13 Antiretroviral therapy.............................................................................................17 Online Conference on ARV Treatment in Developing Countries (International) ....................................................................................................... 19 Netherlands–Australia–Thailand HIV Research Collaboration (Thailand)............. 22 Children and young people ...................................................................................27 Field Experiment: The Better You Know Yourself, the Better You Are Protected (Belgium).............................................................................................. 29 Women/Life Collective (Brazil) ............................................................................. 32 Yunnan/Australian Red Cross Youth Peer Education for HIV/AIDS Prevention Project (People’s Republic of China) .................................................. 35 Peer Educators for Young People (Denmark) ...................................................... 38 Save Your Generation Association (Ethiopia)....................................................... 40 Umbrella Project (Germany)................................................................................. 42 Asian Red Cross/Red Crescent Youth Peer Education Programme (International) ....................................................................................................... 44 Mathare Youth Sports Association (Kenya) .......................................................... 46 Red Cross Youth Peer Education Programme (Myanmar) ................................... 48 Sexplain: Peer Education on Sexual Health for Young People (Netherlands) ....................................................................................................... 50 Sema Life Development Project (Thailand) .......................................................... 53 Youth Career Development Programme (Thailand).............................................. 55 National Strategies to Reduce Vulnerability of Thai Girls (Thailand)..................... 57 Thai Youth AIDS Prevention Project (Thailand).................................................... 59 Thai Women of Tomorrow Project (Thailand)....................................................... 61 Education Loan Fund Project (Thailand) .............................................................. 64 HIV Prevention in First Year of Secondary School (USA)..................................... 67 Wan Smolbag Theatre: Popular Theatre for Health Education (Vanuatu) ............................................................................................................. 69 ii Issue 1 (June, 1999) UNAIDS Communications programming............................................................................ 73 The Red Ribbon of Solidarity (Japan) ...................................................................75 Safe Sex, My Choice (Russian Federation) ..........................................................77 Community mobilization ....................................................................................... 79 Project Hope (Brazil).............................................................................................81 Diocese of Kitui HIV/AIDS Programme (Kenya)....................................................84 Drug User Project, Ikhlas Community Centre, Pink Triangle (Malaysia)................87 National Meetings for People Living with HIV/AIDS (Poland) ................................91 Tateni Home Care Services (South Africa) ...........................................................94 Sanpatong Family Care Project (Thailand) ...........................................................98 Chirumhanzu Home-Based Care Project (Zimbabwe) ........................................102 Counselling and voluntary counselling and testing ......................................... 105 Effects of HIV Counselling on Sexual Behaviour of Men Attending STD Clinics (India)......................................................................................................107 Demetra Social Diseases Consultation Centre (Lithuania)..................................109 Wandzin: A Village for People Living with HIV/AIDS (Poland).............................111 Health system personnel and training ............................................................... 115 Integrated Pilot Project for Prevention of STDs and HIV/AIDS among Rio's Low-Income Population (Brazil)..................................................................117 Health Promotion in Action (Canada)..................................................................120 Support to Antenatal Clinics (Uganda)................................................................122 Human rights, ethics, and law ............................................................................ 125 The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (Canada)..............................................126 Republic of the Philippines AIDS Prevention and Control Law (Philippines)........................................................................................................128 Injecting drug use................................................................................................ 131 National Action Plan on HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug Use (Canada)..................133 HIV/AIDS Prevention among IDUs (Ukraine) ......................................................136 Male condom........................................................................................................ 139 It Takes Two: Pill and Condom (Canada) ...........................................................140 Men who have sex with men............................................................................... 143 MSM Outreach Programme (Hong Kong)...........................................................144 Project MSM (Switzerland)..................................................................................147 Mother-to-child transmission ............................................................................. 149 Short-Course ZDV to Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission during Routine Health Care (Thailand) ..........................................................................151 Summary Booklet of Best Practices June, 1999 iii National strategic planning .................................................................................155 National Consultation to Renew Canada's Strategy for HIV/AIDS (Canada) ............................................................................................................ 156 Prisons..................................................................................................................159 Sustainable HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities in Prisons (Ukraine)........................ 161 Religion.................................................................................................................163 Madarasa AIDS Education and Prevention Project (Uganda)............................. 164 Community Action for AIDS Prevention (Uganda) .............................................. 166 Family AIDS Education and Prevention through Imams Project (Uganda) ............................................................................................................ 167 AIDS Education through Imams (Uganda) ......................................................... 171 School-based interventions and services ..........................................................173 Skills for Healthy Relationships (Canada)........................................................... 174 Intersectoral STD and HIV/AIDS Prevention through Training of Secondary School Leaders (Colombia) .............................................................. 177 Sex workers..........................................................................................................181 Study in Social Organizations of Three Illegal “Red Light” Districts (People’s Republic of China) .............................................................................. 183 Wanchai Night Club Outreach Programme (Hong Kong) ................................... 186 TADA: Prevention of HIV and STDs among Sex Workers (Poland) ................... 189 Sexually transmitted diseases ............................................................................193 Training and Promoting Syndromic Management of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Philippines) .................................................................... 194 Surveillance and reporting (epidemiology) ........................................................197