[afro-nets] C-Channel 18 - HIV Prevention - from C-Change

C-Channel 18 - HIV Prevention - from C-Change

March 2010

Dear Colleagues,

C-Channel 18 highlights HIV prevention and SBCC.

* Three articles explore HIV prevention in the context of gender equity and heterosexual relationships.
* Five articles look at HIV and the underserved population of men who have sex with men (MSM).
* One article explores HIV and multiple concurrent partnerships (MCP).

* The final two articles are on malaria prevention during pregnancy.

C-Change used its Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Learning Package (see
http://c-changeprogram.org/our-approach/capacity-strengthening/sbcc-modules) to conduct a 10-day SBCC training for Southern African AIDS Trust (SAT) in January-February 2010, which further strengthened SAT's organizational and programming capacity in SBCC (see http://www.c-changeprogram.org/).

C-Change also implemented an innovative community dialogue intervention in Lesotho that addresses MCP, a significant driver of HIV (see http://www.c-changeprogram.org/where-we-work/lesotho).

Thank you,
The Knowledge Management Team at C-Change

To view the abstracts from this issue, visit:

http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18

Back issues of C-Channel can be accessed at:

http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel

To receive C-Channel on a monthly basis, please subscribe by selecting
http://sympa.healthnet.org/wws/subscribe/c-channel-dw or
http://sympa.healthnet.org/wws/subscribe/c-channel-iw depending on your location. For further information please contact c-channel@healthnet.org.

HIV AND GENDER

1. Gender & sexuality: Emerging perspectives from the heterosexual epidemic in South Africa & implications for HIV risk and prevention

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#1
Free full text: http://www.jiasociety.org/content/13/1/6

2. Integrating HIV prevention into services for abused women in South Africa

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#2

3. Couple-centred testing and counselling for HIV serodiscordant heterosexual couples in sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#3

HIV AND MSM

4. HIV prevalence, risks for HIV infection, and human rights among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Malawi, Namibia, and Botswana

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#4
Free full text: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2657212/

5. Breaking the silence: South African HIV policies and the needs of men who have sex with men

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#5

6. HIV and related risk behavior among men who have sex with men in Zanzibar, Tanzania: Results of a behavioral surveillance survey

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#6

7. Sexual risk behaviours and HIV seroprevalence among male sex workers who have sex with men and non-sex workers in Campinas, Brazil

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#7
Free full text: http://sti.bmj.com/content/84/6/455.full

HIV AND MCP

8. Sexual networks and social capital: Multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships as a rational response to unstable social networks

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#8

MALARIA PREVENTION AND PREGNANCY

9. Rural Gambian women's reliance on health workers to deliver sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine as recommended intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#9
Free full text: http://www.malariajournal.com/content/8/1/25

10. Community-based distribution of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy improved coverage but reduced antenatal attendance in southern Malawi

Abstract: http://c-changeprogram.org/c-channel/issue18#10
Free full text:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121640361/HTMLSTART

OTHER RESOURCES

ART and risk of heterosexual HIV-1 transmission in HIV-1 serodiscordant African couples: A multinational prospective study
Visit http://www.retroconference.org/2010/Abstracts/39222.htm to access the abstract online

SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

To receive monthly issues of C-Channel, you must subscribe. Please visit Developing World (http://sympa.healthnet.org/wws/subscribe/c-channel-dw) or Industrialized World (http://sympa.healthnet.org/wws/subscribe/c-channel-iw) to complete your subscription information. To share C-Channel with your colleagues or affiliated institutions, please have them contact c-channel@healthnet.org.

This publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Developmen (USAID) under the terms of Agreement No. GPO-A-00-07-00004-00. The contents are the responsibility of the C Change program, managed by AED, and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.

--
Annie Kearns
mailto:annie@healthnet.org