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- Africa
Fighting Malaria
Africa Fighting Malaria is a not-for-profit health advocacy group
based in South Africa and in the United States and founded in
2000. We conduct research and write commentary on the political
economy of diseases and disease control in developing countries.
We focus primarily on malaria but write about other public health
problems as well, including HIV/AIDS and the problems associated
with a lack of access to clean, safe drinking water in poor countries.
- Global
Health Action (GHA)
Global Health Action (GHA) is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization
headquartered in Decatur, Georgia. For 33 years, GHA has served
the health needs of individuals, communities and countries through
five programmatic initiatives: Leadership and Management Training,
HIV/AIDS, Women's Health and Reproductive Health, Primary Health
Care and Second Generation Organizations. To date, GHA has trained
more than 6,500 health and community leaders in the United States
and 87 countries worldwide.
- Reproductive
Health Outlook (RHO)
The Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO) website provides up-to-date
summaries of research findings, program experience, and clinical
guidelines related to key reproductive health topics, as well
as analyses of policy and program implications. An important objective
of RHO is to help users link with quality online resources and
collaborate with colleagues around the world. Visit their impressive
resources page at http://www.rho.org/html/rh_resources.htm
where up-to-date details of conferences, courses and links to
relevant website are listed.
- YouthNet
YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and
prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old.
It is a collaboration with the young people whose lives it is
designed to improve. It also includes the energy, insight, and
experience of parents, schoolteachers, employers, policymakers,
the media, health professionals, nongovernmental organizations,
religious and community leaders, and other youth networks.
HIV/AIDS
- AIDS
Vaccine Advocacy Coalition's (AVAC)
Founded in 1995, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition's (AVAC)
mission is to speed the ethical development and global delivery
of preventive HIV vaccines. AVAC is a watchdog, educator and advocate.
We address ethical issues, critique the work of industry and government,
provide education and mobilization services, and speak on behalf
of affected communities with a credible, impartial, and objective
voice. AVAC is a coalition of volunteer advocates and paid staff.
- AIDSchannel.org
A multimedia web portal on issues relating to HIV/AIDS.
- AIDSweb
As a pilot intervention to explore the impact of using ICT for
HIV/AIDS education, the World Links' Program, a collaborative
partnership between the World Bank Institute's World Links for
Development (WorLD) program (now called the ICT for Education
program) and the World Links 501(c)3 Organization, has been working
with students and teachers in Africa since early 2000. WorLD and
its partners have been running the AIDSWEB project in secondary
schools in Africa using information and communications technology
(ICT) to promote HIV/AIDS education and prevention activities.
World Links is helping teachers, students, and their surrounding
communities explore issues of HIV/AIDS prevention and care through
activities using Internet, e-mail and CD-ROMs.
- Global
Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA)
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) is a worldwide alliance
of civil society groups, networks of women with HIV and AIDS,
governments and UN organizations. The Coalition works at global,
regional and national levels to highlight the impact of AIDS on
women and girls and mobilize actions to enable them to protect
themselves from HIV and receive the care and support they need.
The GCWA was launched by the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), the main advocate for global action on
HIV and AIDS.
- HIV/AIDS
Survey Indicators Database
The HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database provides an easily accessible
comprehensive source of information on HIV/AIDS indicators derived
from sample surveys. The database allows the user to produce tables
for specific countries by select background characteristics, as
well as country reports. The indicators included are primarily
derived from the UNAIDS National AIDS Programmes: Guide to Monitoring
and Evaluation. The guide provides standardized indicators for
measuring the success of HIV/AIDS programs. Included are a number
of indicators identified to monitor the goals set at the UN General
Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Development
Goals, and, recently, strategic goals of the President's Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief.
- HIV
AIDS Zimbabwe (HIVAIDSZW)
Our vision is to stimulate the active participation of Zimbabweans
and friends of Zimbabwe, in a sustainable HIV/AIDS campaign, and
to overcome the obstacles currently hampering effective and sustainable
progress against HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe and amongst Zimbabweans.
- International
AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
IAVI is a global not-for-profit organization working to speed
the search for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS. Founded
in 1996 and operational in 23 countries, IAVI and its network
of partners research and develop vaccine candidates. IAVI also
advocates for a vaccine to be a global priority and works to assure
that a future vaccine will be accessible to all who need it.
- International
HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance)
The Alliance was established to respond to the need for a specialist,
professional intermediary organisation which would work in effective
partnership with non-governmental and community-based organisations
in developing countries, as well as with national governments,
private and public donors and the UN system. The Alliance's mission
is to support communities in developing countries to play a full
and effective role in the global response to AIDS.
- IRIN's
PlusNews
PlusNews is produced under the banner of RHAIN, the Southern African
Regional HIV/AIDS Information Network. RHAIN's members currently
include:
- UNAIDS
The Joint
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main
advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens
and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission
of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability
of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating
the impact of the epidemic.
- IRIN
- Inter
Press Service (IPS)
- SAfAIDS
- PANOS
Panos London
stimulates informed and inclusive public debate around key
development issues in order to foster sustainable development.
We are working to promote an enabling media and communications
environment worldwide. Our aim is to ensure that the perspectives
of the people whose lives are most affected by development
(mainly the poor and marginalised) are included within decision-making
and that decisions are subject to their scrutiny and debate.
Our priority issues are: media and communications, globalisation,
HIV/AIDS, environment and conflict. We see gender as integral
to all these.
- Health
Systems Trust
Health
Systems Trust is a dynamic independent non-government organisation
established in 1992 to support the transformation of the South
African health system. The trust actively supports the current
and future development of a comprehensive health care system
through strategies designed to promote equity and efficiency
in health and health care delivery.
- Health
& Development Network
Health & Development Networks (HDN) is a non-profit organisation
with substantial experience in managing and moderating electronic
discussion forums and providing communication support to conferences.
The mission of HDN is to mobilize a more effective response
to HIV/AIDS and other health-and-development-related issues
by improving information, communication and the quality of
debate.
- GTZ/Afronets
The electronic
conference for the 'African Networks for Health Research &
Development' (AFRO-NETS) was established in 1997 to facilitate
exchange of information among different networks active in
Health Research for Development in Anglophone Africa, and
to facilitate collaboration in the fields of capacity building,
planning, and research.
- NetAid
Combining innovative programs with new technologies, and working
in partnership with the United Nations and the private sector,
NetAid is building a network of everyday people committed to working
for a world without extreme poverty.
Housing
- Centre
on Housing Rights and Evictions
COHRE has set itself a challenge: to promote and protect the right
to housing for everyone, everywhere. To achieve this, COHRE has
carefully developed a varied work programme, guided by international
human rights law, and designed to reach as many people as possible.
COHRE's work involves Housing Rights Training; Research and Publications;
Monitoring, Preventing and Documenting Forced Evictions; Fact-finding
Missions; Housing and Property Restitution; Women's Housing Rights;
Active Participation and Advocacy within the United Nations and
Regional Human Rights Bodies and activities in all regions of
the South.
- Homeless
International
Homeless International is a UK charity that supports community-led
housing and infrastructure related development in partnership
with local partner organisations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The initiatives are all led, developed and managed by the local
community groups themselves.
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Our current
electronic activism campaign calls on Zimbabweans
to rally together for democracy
We
apologise for the inconvenience but this is a revolution.
~ Subcomandante Marcos
International
petitions
In addition to local actions by Zimbabweans to confront the
current regime, many international organisations have launched petitions to
demand respect for human rights and a return to democracy in Zimbabwe. Some
of these include:
- Avaaz
- Every
human has rights
- Human
Rights First
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