HIV / AIDS Resources

AAHPERD's What Every Educator Should Know About HIV/AIDS Education
http://www.aahperd.org/aahe/publications-hivselfstudy.html

Advocates for Youth
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org

Advocates for Youth seeks to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health, and advocates for a more positive and realistic approach to adolescent sexual health. The organization offers youth-adult partnerships, an emergency contraception access initiative, policy and communications, a parent-child communication initiative, media projects, study tours, and initiatives for youth at risk. Web site topics include abstinence, abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, adolescent sexual behavior and contraceptive use, adolescent sexual health in developing countries, advocacy, cultural competence, dating violence and child abuse, emergency contraception, European approaches, HIV/STI prevention and treatment, HIV vaccines, gay and lesbian youth, peer education, sex education, teen pregnancy prevention, and youth of color. The site, which is also available in French and Spanish, includes news and events, facts and figures, recent publications, and Web sites and communities.

American Red Cross HIV/AIDS Education
http://www.redcross.org/services/hss/hivaids

The Red Cross, working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, educates people on how to stop the transmission of HIV, encourages people to respond in informed ways to people who have HIV, and helps people apply the facts about HIV to their behavior. Goals are accomplished through the following educational programs on this Red Cross Health and Safety Services site: Basis HIV/AIDS Program, African American HIV/AIDS Program, Hispanic HIV/AIDS Program, Workplace HIV/AIDS Program, and Programs for Youth. An interactive map of American Red Cross chapters offering HIV prevention programs for youth is available as well as leader's guides for building HIV prevention skills in Hispanic/Latino and African American communities.

American School Health Association
http://www.ashaweb.org

Web site of the American School Health Association, a multidisciplinary organization of administrators, counselors, dentists, health educators, physical educators, school nurses and school physicians, which advocates high-quality school health instruction, health services, and a healthful school environment. The Web site includes information about membership, conferences, and ASHA's quarterly publication, "Health in Action."

CDC - Interventions with CDC Support for Materials, Production, Technical Assistance and Training
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/hivcompendium/section2-2.htm

This table lists the interventions that receive CDC support through Replicating Effective Programs (REP) or the Prevention Counseling Course Series in CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention or Research to Classroom: Programs That Work (PTW) in CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health. Since some of the REP and PTW studies were recently funded, some materials are not yet available.

CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm

As part of its overall public health mission, CDC provides national leadership in helping control the HIV epidemic by working with community, State, national, and international partners in surveillance, research, prevention, and evaluation activities. This CDC Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention site provides featured items and current reports. Topics include basic science, surveillance, prevention research, vaccine research, prevention tools, treatment, funding, testing, evaluation, software, training, basic statistics, brochures, conferences, fact sheets, frequently asked questions, HIV/AIDS fax system, HIV/AIDS information, links to other sites, media/campaigns, publications, and slide sets.

HIV/AIDS and Comprehensive School Health Programs (CSHP)
http://www.pta.org/programs/hivlibr.htm

This HIV/AIDS and CSHP Resource Library site features its Our Health Newsletter, HIV/AIDS prevention resources, CSHP resources, and a section on sexuality and sex education.

Kaiser Family Foundation HIV/AIDS Web site
http://www.kff.org/hivaids/index.cfm

This Kaiser Family Foundation site provides data and information on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including policy reports, fact sheets, and survey data, and information on media partnerships, journalist training programs, and HIV/AIDS initiatives in South Africa. In addition, it includes online news summaries and information resources provided through the free online resource, kaisernetwork, particularly the Daily HIV/AIDS Report and HIV-related Webcasts, and the State Health Facts Online information service.

Reducing the Risk: A School Leader's Guide to AIDS Education
http://www.nsba.org/site/doc_schoolhealth_abstract.asp?TRACKID=&CID=1116&DID=21174

This Web site contains a National School Board?s Association guide about HIV infection and what schools can do to help young people protect themselves and stop the spread of HIV infection. Information about the epidemiology of AIDS and HIV infection, the threat of HIV infection to young people, the need for HIV education and policy, considerations for making curriculum and instruction decisions, and resources for school officials to use in the fight against the HIV epidemic are included.

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