Technical Publications

Adding it Up The Benefits of Investing In Sexual and Reproductive Health Care This new report jointly published by The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, makes the case for increased funding for sexual and reproductive health services-particularly in resource-poor countries-by illustrating the unusually broad societal and individual impact of investments in sexual and reproductive health.

Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings The purpose of these Guidelines is to enable governments and cooperating agencies, including UN Agencies and NGOs, to deliver the minimum required multi-sectoral response to HIV/AIDS during the early phase of a crisis.

HIV Prevention in Maternal Health Services: Programming Guide These guides can be used to strengthen the integration of HIV prevention into maternal health services and build the capacity of health workers to address the prevention needs of pregnant and postpartum women.

HIV Prevention in Maternal Health Services: Training Guide These guides can be used to strengthen the integration of HIV prevention into maternal health services and build the capacity of health workers to address the prevention needs of pregnant and postpartum women.

HIV transmission through breastfeeding- A review of available evidence This publication is one of a series on HIV and infant feeding. It presents the scientific evidence relating to the transmission of HIV infection by breastfeeding.

Integrating HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing Services into Reproductive Health Settings Stepwise Guidelines for Programme Planners, Managers and Service Providers This guide aims to provide sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programme planners, managers, and providers with the information necessary to integrate voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS within their services.

Investing in People National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994-2004 This Global Survey includes responses from 169 countries on the steps they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action, including measures related to population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.

Investing in People -- A Summary National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994 - 2004 A summary of the Global Survey that includes responses from 169 countries on the measures they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action in the fields of population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.

Issues In Brief: The Role of Reproductive Health Providers in Preventing HIV Reproductive health professionals in developing countries already offer a wide range of services to millions of women now at the center of the global HIV pandemic, and they are increasingly expanding their outreach to adolescents and to men. Yet their current and potential role as front-line providers of HIV prevention services is largely untapped.

The Glion Call to Action on Family Planning and HIV/AIDS in Women and Children 3-5 May 2004 The linkages between reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention and care must be strengthened in order to achieve internationally agreed development goals. United Nations agencies have initiated a series of consultations to identify ways to build and reinforce these linkages. This Glion Call to Action reflects the consensus of the first consultation in May 2004 which focused on the linkage between family planning and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. The call is set within the context of the objectives and actions agreed at the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

The New York Call to Commitment: Linking HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health This document reflects the consensus of a high-level global consultation on linking HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health in June 2004. Participants included ministers, parliamentarians, ambassadors, leaders of United Nations and other multilateral agencies, donor organization officials, community and nongovernmental organization leaders, young people, and people living with HIV.

Women and HIV/AIDS Confronting the Crisis This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse it cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights. Noting that half of all people infected with HIV are women, the report documents the devastating and often invisible impact of AIDS on women and girls and highlights the ways discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence help fuel the epidemic.

Communication for Development Roundtable Report Focus on HIV/AIDS Communication and Evaluation This new publication summarizes discussions from the Eighth Roundtable on Communication for Development Roundtable (Managua, 2001) on strategies to meet the urgent challenge of HIV/AIDS. It highlights communications that address the needs of young people, use of community media, and community mobilization to tackle gender- based violence and discrimination. It also presents communications models and applications from the field, along with lessons learned. A CD-ROM companion features all presentations and related documentation. For related materials, please visit the Communication Initiative website.

Enlisting the Armed Forces to Protect Reproductive Health and Rights: Lessons from Nine Countries Taking advantage of the considerable organizational and human resources of military institutions to protect reproductive health and rights is emerging as a powerful strategy in both peacetime and conflict situations. For decades, UNFPA has worked with the military sector to reach out to men with information, education and services on family life and family planning. This experience is now being applied to a wider spectrum of reproductive and sexual health concerns, including maternal health, HIV/AIDS prevention and reduction of gender-based violence. This digital document offers lessons learned from reproductive health projects in nine different military organizations. Send comments to: cohen@unfpa.org Request CD ROMs to: conte@unfpa.org

HIV and Infant Feeding : Framework for Priority Action The purpose of this HIV and Infant Feeding Framework for Priority Action is to recommend to governments key actions, related to infant and young child feeding, that cover the special circumstances associated with HIV/AIDS. The aim of these actions is to create and sustain an environment that encourages appropriate feeding practices for all infants, while scaling-up interventions to reduce HIV transmission. The beneficiaries of the Framework include national policy-makers, programme managers, regional advisory bodies, UN staff, professional bodies, non-governmental organizations and other interested stakeholders, including the community. This Framework has been developed as a collaborative effort between UN agencies.

HIV and Infant Feeding: A Guide for Health-Care Managers and Supervisors This publication is aimed at helping mid-level health-care managers and supervisors understand issues and organize services to support all women, and especially HIV-infected women, on infant feeding. The document contains a list of key steps, background information, key resources and references, and extensive annexes.

HIV and Infant Feeding: Guidelines for Decision-Makers The purpose of this publication is to provide information on issues that need to be considered in relation to infant and young child feeding in the context of HIV, and to highlight areas of special concern on which policy decisions need to be made.

Preventing HIV Infection, Promoting Reproductive Health UNFPA Response 2003 Previously known as AIDS Update, this is the 12th annual publication to provide information about actions taken by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to prevent HIV infection. UNFPA has worked to improve reproductive health for more than 30 years; never has the need been more urgent. UNFPA is at the forefront of international prevention efforts, integrating HIV prevention throughout all reproductive health services. Young people, especially if poor, are at great risk: nearly half of all new infections occur between the ages of 15 and 24. UNFPA supports programmes that provide the knowledge, skills and services young people need in order to protect their reproductive health and prevent HIV infection.

Preventing HIV/AIDS among Adolescents through Integrated Communication Programming Preventing HIV/AIDS among adolescents is a challenging task that touches upon several controversial policy and cultural issues. Nevertheless, it is an absolutely crucial task, as more and more young people are being infected with the deadly virus each day. As several countries have shown, effective prevention programming includes integrating advocacy, behaviour change communication and educational strategies with other policy and service components. This manual focuses on HIV prevention throughintegrated communication programming that blends advocacy, behaviour change communication and education interventions.

Rapid Needs Assessment Tool for Condom Programming This document was developed in collaboration with the Population Council to design and test a rapid needs assessment and data-gathering tool to improve country level condom programming for HIV prevention of which condom distribution, promotion and use are important elements.

Strengthened Partnerships among Local FM and Community Radio Networks and RH Agencies on HIV/AIDS This interactive CD-ROM presents all materials developed for and discussed during two pilot regional training workshops in Africa and Asia in 2003. During the workshops, managers learned how to use entertainment-education methodologies to produce radio serial dramas that are culturally sensitive and research-based. The aim is to use this popular medium more effectively to reduce risky behaviour and prevent HIV/AIDS. The workshops were organized by UNFPA and the Population Media Center (PMC). Send feedback to cohen@unfpa.org Request copies from conte@unfpa.org

The Impact of HIV/AIDS A Population and Development Perspective Globally, the are about 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS and no major region of the world escapes the pandemic?s invasive presence. However, by far the greatest proportions are concentrated in the developing world where more than 95 percent of cases are located. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) address the major issues of our time, including halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS. The new publication by UNFPA entitled The Impact of HIV/AIDS: A Population and Development Perspective focuses explicitly on the relationship between the pandemic, population and development. It shows that the spread of HIV/AIDS is setting back progress towards the MDGs and, in some settings, increasing poverty.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Guidance for Reproductive Health Professionals in Developing-Country Settings This document is designed to provide an overview of the issues of HIV/AIDS, challenges, and opportunities around integrating a broad range of HIV/AIDS interventions into existing reproductive and sexual health programs and services, and to provide some practical examples of interventions that have been successful.

Strategic Guidance on HIV Prevention As one of the eight cosponsors of UNAIDS (the other cosponsors being UNICEF, UNDP, UNDCP, UNESCO, ILO, WHO and World Bank), UNFPA chairs Theme Groups in many countries and supports HIV-prevention interventions in almost all of its country programmes. To maximize its response and to strengthen coordinated activities with other partners, it is critical for staff at every level to have a common understanding of the Fund?s policies and strategic priorities. The aim of this document is to provide such guidance to staff, delineating the niche in which UNFPA as an organization has a definite comparative advantage in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially at the country level.

Strategic Options for HIV/AIDS Advocacy in Africa Report of the Joint UNFPA-UNAIDS HIV/AIDS Advocacy Mission to Africa This report documents advocacy efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, identifies major issues that still need to be tackled, and describes what partnerships at various levels can do to improve African responses to HIV/AIDS. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), sponsored the fact-finding mission to six African countries on which this report is based and provided support for printing and distribution, as a contribution to scaling up advocacy against AIDS on the African continent.

AIDS Update This publication provides information on UNFPA supported HIV/AIDS prevention activities at country, regional and interregional levels.

State of World Population

State of World Population 2004 The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and The Global Effort to End Poverty This year's report, The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty, examines the progress countries have made and the obstacles they have encountered at the halfway point in implementing the ICPD plan.

State of World Population 2000 Lives Together, Worlds Apart: Men and Women in a Time of Change The report examines a broad range of evidence from around the world showing that systematic discrimination against women and girls causes extensive suffering and lost opportunities for both women and men, and holds back efforts to reduce poverty, improve health, stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and slow rapid population growth. HTML Version | English | Español | Français |

General Information

At The Crossroads: Accelerating Youth Access to HIV/AIDS Interventions This publication highlights the ways in which young people remain at the centre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Noting that many young people are at high risk of HIV infection, the publication documents how they lack access to critical youth-friendly information, skills and services for the prevention, treatment and care of HIV and AIDS.

Global Youth Partners Brochure Preventing HIV Highlights of a groundbreaking initiative to support young leaders in their advocacy for increased access to information, education and services to help prevent HIV.

Position Statement on Condoms and HIV Prevention This brief document on Condoms and HIV prevention issued by UNFPA, UNAIDS, and WHO states that condom use is a critical element in a comprehensive, effective and sustainable approach to HIV prevention and treatment.

Women: Meeting the Challenges of HIV/AIDS This brochure was developed in collaboration with UNIFEM, UNAIDS and UNFPA to highlight critical issues impacting on women and girls in the context of HIV/AIDS.

Advocacy Booklet Series

Preventing HIV Infection, Promoting Reproductive Health UNFPA Response 2002 Previously known as AIDS Update, this is the 11th annual publication to provide information about action taken by UNFPA to prevent HIV infection. HIV/AIDS threatens to destroy a whole generation of leaders, workers, parents and youth, and to create a generation of orphans in the worst-affected countries. In many countries, the infection is creeping through the population,preparing to strike full-force. Prevention is about striking first. Reproductive health information, services and supplies enable people to avoid HIV infection and to protect themselves, their partners and their unborn children from this deadly virus.

Reproductive Health Essentials--Securing the Supply Global Strategy for Reproductive Health Commodity Security Previously known as AIDS Update, this is the 11th annual publication to provide information about action taken by UNFPA to prevent HIV infection. HIV/AIDS threatens to destroy a whole generation of leaders, workers, parents and youth, and to create a generation of orphans in the worst-affected countries. In many countries, the infection is creeping through the population, preparing to strike full-force. Prevention is about striking first. Reproductive health information, services and supplies enable people to avoid HIV infection and to protect themselves, their partners and their unborn children from this deadly virus.

Preventing Infection, Promoting Reproductive Health UNFPA’s response to HIV/AIDS Prevention. This is a central objective of UNFPA in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Among the many complex issues compounding the pandemic, prevention is the challenge that fits the agency best. For more than 30 years, UNFPA has supported a highly focused agenda to improve reproductive and sexual health.

Partners for Change: Enlisting men in HIV/AIDS Prevention This publication provides an introduction to the subject of men and HIV/AIDS in relation to the work of UNFPA, carried out in partnership with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations at all levels. As action intensifies, it will be important to recognize the positive and caring behaviour of many men, who do practise safe sex, treat women as equals, behave in non-violent ways and share in family care-giving. It will also be important to encourage the potential of all men to adopt more equitable, respectful and caring attitudes.

Evaluation Reports

An Evaluation of UNFPA Support for Preventing the Spread of HIV/AIDS Evaluation Report number 19 As a follow-up to the thematic evaluation of UNFPA support to HIV/AIDS related Interventions (Evaluation Report No. 16), conducted during 1997-98 and published in 1999, this report attempts to address three key questions: Is UNFPA doing the right things? Is it doing them right? And is it making a difference? It makes recommendations on how UNFPA can improve the performance in its support of HIV/AIDS prevention. The assessment is based on the analysis of case studies of UNFPA support in Albania, Bangladesh, Ghana, Honduras and Malawi as well as literature and desk reviews of relevant documents.

Other Reports and Documents

Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention This publication contains country-specific information reported by donors on the type, quantity and the total cost of contraceptives they provided to reproductive health programmes in developing countries in 2002. The report is especially useful to illustrate commodity shortfalls and changes in funding by donor and country.

HIV Prevention Now Programme Briefs The purpose of this Programme Brief series is to provide staff, particularly field staff, with concise and useful information in supporting countries in their response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Monitoring the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS New guidelines on the construction of core indicators provide technical guidance on how to measure the indicators for implementating the Declaration adopted at the UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001.

Prevent HIV Now - Partner with UNFPA UNFPA's framework for strategic condom programming The brochure highlights UNFPA's comparative advantage not only in delivery of quality contraceptive products at competitive prices but also the overall support in HIV/AIDS prevention.

Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS On 25–27 June 2001, Heads of State and Representatives of Governments met at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) dedicated to HIV/AIDS.

Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention The Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention 2001 report was prepared by analyzing information from the database on donor support for RH commodities maintained by the Commodity Management Unit (CMU) of the Technical Support Division (TSD). This publication contains country-specific information reported by donors on the type, quantity and the total cost of contraceptives they provided to RH programmes in developing countries in 2001. This report, the latest in a series of reports, is being used for contraceptive supply planning, advocacy and resource mobilization. The report is especially useful to illustrate commodity shortfalls and changes in funding by donor and country.

Report of the Planning Meeting on Strategic Options for HIV/AIDS Advocacy in Africa This report documents some of the efforts that have been made, the major issues that still need to be tackled, and what partnerships at various levels can do to improve African responses to HIV/AIDS. publication of this report.

UN System Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS – 2001 to 2005 The strategic objectives articulated within the UNSSP link the work of individual UN organizations with the overarching UN system objective of providing leadership and adding value to the work of national governments and their partners in achieving agreed goals.

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