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Initiating Second Generation HIV Surveillance Systems: Practical Guidelines

This report presents guidelines to assist national AIDS programs and ministries of health in implementing second generation surveillance systems to monitor HIV. The monograph discusses the role of second generation surveillance in a National Strategic plan and the assessment of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and current behavioral surveillance systems in order to find the gaps and design a new system to fill those gaps.

Employers' Handbook on HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Action

This monograph serves as a handbook to guide employers’ organizations and their members in creating programs to deal with the impact of HIV on their companies. The monograph gives basic facts about HIV transmission, prevention, and progress from HIV to AIDS, and regional trends on HIV/AIDS. It discusses whether employers and their organizations should be involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS by examining the effect of HIV/AIDS on the business environment and on individual companies.

National AIDS Councils: Monitoring and Evaluation Operations Manual

This manual is a guide for practitioners who design and implement program monitoring and evaluation (M&E) such as National AIDS Councils (NACs), particularly those in the role of grant-provider and their public sector and civil society implementing partners in sub-Saharan Africa and donor institutions involved in the preparation, implementation, and M&E of HIV/AIDS programs in partnership with NACs. The manual introduces key concepts; presents procedures along with a checklist of the process, timing, and costs of building participatory program M&E for NACs.

National Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating Programmes for the Prevention of HIV in Infants and Young Children

This report presents guidelines for monitoring programs for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in infants and young children. It presents a list of core indicators and additonal indicators for indicating the success of these programs. Countries with prevention programs for infants and young children should have the core indicators in operation. The report gives a definition of each indicator, the rationale for its use, what it measures, measurement tools and how the indicator is measured, and its strengths and limitations.