Resource Guide

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Children Affected by AIDS (CABA). To subscribe to the CABA forum, send a message to: listserv@list.s-3.com with the following in the body SUBSCRIBE CABA

Orphans and Vulnerable Children Task Force. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ovctaskforce/ This is an online forum and information exchange

The Psychosocial Support E-Forum. This forum is a project of the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative for Children Affected by AIDS (REPSSI), which was created by the Salvation Army and Terre des Hommes, Switzerland. To register, send an e-mail message to forum.admin@repssi.org or go to http://www.repssi.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

Basic information about REPSSI is available at http://www.repssi.org/

Association François-Xavier Bagnoud (AFXB). http://www.afxb.org/en Founded in 1989 by Albina du Boisvouvray, AFXB is an international nongovernmental association whose mission is to advocate for and provide direct support to families and communities affected by HIV/AIDS. The Web site describes AFXB programs in eleven countries as well as the AFXB Center on Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, and the International Pediatric HIV Training Program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Children in Distress Network (CINDI). http://www.cindi.org.za/ CINDI is a consortium of over seventy nongovernmental organizations, government departments, and individuals that network in the interests of children affected by HIV/AIDS in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands Region of South Africa. Among the working groups described on the Web site are Children Helping Children and Home-Based Care

Children's Rights Network. http://www.crin.org This Web site has updates on children's rights issues and links to reports and publications. Viewers can also sign up for e-mail information and a listserv

Community Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic (CORE) Initiative. http://www.coreinitiative.org/

The CORE Initiative is a USAID-funded global program that aims to strengthen the capacity of community-based and faith-based organizations to respond. CARE International is the lead organization, in partnership with many others. The Web site contains technical resources, information about grants, and links to other resources

Displaced Children and Orphans Fund, USAID. http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/thefunds/dcof/index.html The Web site describes the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) programs in nineteen countries and the Peace Corp. It has links to its publications. For more general information on USAID's HIV/AIDS programs, see http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/

The Firelight Foundation http://www.firelightfoundation.org/ The Firelight Foundation is a charity based in Santa Cruz, CA, that makes small grants to grassroots, community-based organizations for direct support to meet the needs and rights of orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The Web site has information about its programs

Hope for African Children Initiative. http://www.hopeforafricanchildren.org/ The Hope for African Children Initiative brings together six organizations concerned with HIV/AIDS: CARE, Plan International, Save the Children, Society of Women and AIDS in Africa, World Conference on Religion and Peace, and World Vision. Established with seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, it now has programs operating in Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda

Human Rights Watch. http://www.hrw.org Includes reports on failures to fulfil the rights of children affected by AIDS in Kenya, sexual abuse of girls in Zambia, abuses against children affected by AIDS in India, and others

Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development http://www.icad.org This Canadian coalition of more than one hundred organizations focuses on both global and domestic responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Web site has fact sheets, publications, and other information

InSite http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite Sponsored by the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine HIV/AIDS information center, this site has updated information about treatment, prevention, and policies

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance http://www.aidsalliance.org/eng/ The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is a British charity that supports community action on HIV/AIDS in developing countries. The Web site has descriptions of programs, toolkits, and publications

Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children Support Toolkit. http://www.ovcsupport.net/sw505.asp Jointly established by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Family Health International, this Web site makes available many key documents relevant to children affected by HIV/AIDS

The Synergy Project http://www.synergyaids.com The Synergy Project provides technical assistance and services to USAID to design, evaluate, and coordinate HIV/AIDS programs and to disseminate lessons learned. The Web site contains information about program evaluation and links to publications

UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp The Joint UN Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) is a consortium of nine UN organizations concerned with HIV/AIDS, including UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank Group. The Web site has extensive resources

UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/ The major UN organization concerned with children, UNICEF has offices and programs around the world. The Web site has links to publications and other resources

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/ The CDC is the primary U.S. governmental agency for collecting and disseminating data on HIV/AIDS in the United States. It includes several centers, of which the primary one for HIV/AIDS is the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. The Web site contains information on the Global AIDS Program as well as on the epidemic in the United States

Women, Children, and HIV http://www.womenchildrenhiv.org This Web site is a project of the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud and the HIV Information Center of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. It contains links to many of the articles and reports cited in this volume

World Bank Group, Early Childhood Development http://www.worldbank.org/children/aidsgroup.html The World Bank Group is the largest source of funding for education and HIV/AIDS programs. This Web site contains information on governmental agencies and other resources. Other sections of the World Bank Group's Web site contain research reports on HIV/AIDS and economic development and education

Everyone's Child. 1996. VHS, 16 mm and 35 mm. Directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Produced in Zimbabwe by Media for Development Trust. 90 minutes. There is also a 20-minute training video drawn from the film with written material. http://www.mfd.co.zw/index.cfm

General information available at: http://www.newsreel.org/films/everyone.htmThe Orphan Generation. 1992. Produced by Small World Productions. 10- and 40-minute segments. Can be ordered through the UNICEF Web site http://www.unicef.org/