Guest guest Posted April 16, 2002 Report Share Posted April 16, 2002 Dear Forum subscribers, UNAIDS Publication Lists http://www.unaids.org/aidspub/list.asp - This site provides links to lists of UNAIDS publications, many available in two or more languages, which are available online ready for printing. List of Topics. About UNAIDS Access to care and support Access to drugs Advocacy Agricultural/ Rural development AIDS in crisis situations Antiretroviral therapy Blood safety Carer support Children/ Orphans Communications programming Community mobilization Condoms Cost-effectiveness analysis Counselling and voluntary counselling and testing Debt relief Determinants of the epidemic Diagnostic tests Economics and Development Education – outside school-settings Estimates and projections -epidemiology Evaluation Gender and HIV/AIDS Greater Involvement of People Living with or Affected by HIV/AIDS Health reform Health service delivery Health system personnel and training Home and community-based care Human rights, ethics, and law Impact on agriculture and rural households Impact on children and families Impact on countries' development and economies Indigenous peoples Injecting drug use Intellectual property Local response: urban and rural communities Men who have sex with men Microbicides Mobile populations: displaced people, migration, refugees, mobile workers Mother-to-child transmission National strategic planning and management Non-governmental organizations and networks Notification and reporting Nursing Older people Opportunistic infections Palliative care Prevention Prisons Private sector collaboration Refugees Religion Reproductive health Resource mobilization Schools Sectoral impact - development Security Sex workers and clients Sexually transmitted infections Stigma and discrimination Surveillance and reporting Theme Groups - UN system action at country level Trafficking of women and children Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS UN system at country level UN system at global level Uniformed services Vaccines Virology, immunology, and laboratory practices World of work/ HIV in the workplace Young people ________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 18, 2002 Report Share Posted April 18, 2002 [This is in reference to the message; UNAIDS Publication Lists http://www.unaids.org/aidspub/list.asp] This is a good list. I would love feedback on the content. One thing is glaring in its absence. There is nothing about the role of traditional healers to whom most infected individuals turn throughout the world. Indeed, even where mainstream medicine exists, many utilize non-patented interventions for a variety of reasons. Botanical interventions may offer a variety of benefits include symptom reduction, delaying progression, managing antiviral side effects (for those who have access) and OI management. Clinical evaluation of such interventions is critical to assess their benefits (or lack thereof) and any risks or side effects. Evaluating these may yield some positive results. Should these arise, it is critically important that any commercial benefit that may accrue from such findings should a) assure that the price remains stable; the profits accrue to the local community, farmers, people wtih HIV/AIDS; c) the environmental situation is carefully considered in terms of maintaining local ecosystems to assure access to such botanicals. By contrast, interventions that fail to show benefit for a particular indication will also provide useful and healthful information! For the UN to blithely ignore what a majority of individuals must rely on merely underscores an extant bigotry of the organization that must end. M. Director, FIAR E-mail: gmc0@... http://aidsinfonyc.org/fiar/index.html ______________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2002 Report Share Posted April 19, 2002 Dear M , You are wrong. On that very site there is at least one major document on Collaboration with Traditional Healers and several on Cultural approaches, under Access to Care and Support. The UN does not " blithely ignore what a majority of individuals must relay on " . Many UN employees come from cultures where the services of traditional healers are used more than in others - and they use them themselves, many UN employees work in such cultures and collaborate with the traditional healers professionally on a variety of conditions. One of UNAIDS Cosponsors, the World Health Organisation, has an office working on Traditional Medicine. I would not think that this is a fact that " underscores an extant bigotry of the organisation " . Regards ¬ Calle Almedal Senior Adviser Partnerships Unit UNAIDS 20 Avenue Appia CH 1211 Geneva 27 SWITZERLAND tel + 41 22 791 45 70 fax + 41 22 791 48 98 almedalc@... www.unaids.org ____________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2002 Report Share Posted April 19, 2002 [This is in reference to Calle Almedal's message:] No, I'm not wrong. That LIST does not contain ANYTHING about traditional healers. There are no publications about this topic. I refer to: http://www.unaids.org/aidspub/list.asp And the list by topic provided at http://www.unaids.org/aidspub/publication_list.asp?SQLType=topic & OrderBy=Name " On that very site there is at least one major document on Collaboration with Traditional Healers and several on Cultural approaches, under Access to Care and Support " . Where is it? What site? I may well have missed it. " The UN does not " blithely ignore what a majority of individuals must relay on " . Many UN employees come from cultures where the services of traditional healers are used more than in others - and they use them themselves, many UN employees work in such cultures and collaborate with the traditional healers professionally on a variety of conditions. One of UNAIDS Cosponsors, the World Health Organisation, has an office working on Traditional Medicine. I would not think that this is a fact that " underscores an extant bigotry of the organisation " . " Then why isn't this included on that list? And how does one find this document? I am hopeful that the UN does indeed have a concern about traditional healers and the value they can confer. Of course, like any profession at all including medical doctors, there will be the subset of practitioners who are fraudulent or incompetent. ly, the bigotry I have seen coming from UNAIDS has been reflected by a personal and unpleasant interchange I had with Piot who completely, arrogantly and very snottily dismissed any discussion of trials of botanical interventions when I met with him a few years ago. I've seen that replayed many times--but I also recognize the UN is a big organization and that there are MANY good people doing this kind of work. Please do highlight where that work is taking place. I am certainly delighted to be proven wrong about something like this and hope that this reflects the change occurring globally that sees all of our efforts occurring in the spirit of partnerships and collaborations that accords appropriate respect. A good review and discussion may be found in , PA, The ethnobotanical approach to drug discovery: strengths and limitations, in Ethnobotany and the search for new drugs, Wiley, Chichester (Ciba Foundation Symposium) 1994:25-41. M. E-mail: <gmc0@...> _______________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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