Publications -HIV and AIDS

HIV and AIDS
Publications

Ministry of Health publications

UNGASS Country Progress Report New Zealand: Reporting Period: January 2006 – December 2007
Country reports received by UNAIDS, on behalf of the Secretary-General, are used to prepare the Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic

HIV/AIDS Action Plan - Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy
As the world enters the third decade of the AIDS epidemic it is timely to review and update our response to HIV/AIDS in New Zealand. The need for this was signalled in phase one of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy released in 2001.

HIV / AIDS Management Guidelines
Information for health practitioners on voluntary counselling and testing for diagnosis of HIV infection.

HIV/AIDS : Information for Health Professionals. Department of Health : Wellington, 1993.
This book was written to give health workers information about HIV and AIDS.
A copy is available from the Ministry of Health library.

Public Perceptions of AIDS : Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour / Ruth Kilgour, Caroline Maskill and Stephen Lungley. Department of Health : Wellington, 1990.

This report is based on the results of the 1989 survey, ‘New Zealanders’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour Relating to AIDS’.

A copy is available from the Ministry of Health library.

Other publications

Please note that the following is a selective rather than a comprehensive list of books on the subject. Contact your local library to access this information:

AIDS : Images of the Epidemic. World Health Organisation : Geneva, 1994.
By setting out some of the facts, figures and faces of the epidemic this book aims to provide not an exhaustive account but rather snapshots of AIDS today, drawing on first-hand experiences.

AIDS in the World II: Global Dimensions, Social Roots, and Responses / edited by Jonathan M. Mann and Daniel J.M. Tarantola. Oxford University Press : New York, 1996.
This edition of AIDS in the world continues to track the pandemic and the efforts, successes and failures encountered as the world attempts to curb its course and mitigate its impact.

HIV/AIDS : the Public Health Commission’s Advice to the Minister of Health 1993-94. Public Health Commission: Wellington, 1995.
These issues based papers provide recommendations on outcome targets and policy, programme and research and information targets to achieve the outcomes.

Mate Ketoketo/Arai Kore : a Report About HIV/AIDS and Maori. Te Puni Kokiri : Wellington, 1994.
This review of the epidemiology of Mate Ketoketo/Arai Kore (HIV/AIDS) in Maori reveals a lack of data needed to accurately assess risk, predict trends and identify gaps in service provision/access to services.

The New Zealand Strategy on HIV/AIDS. National Council on AIDS : Wellington, 1990.
The National Strategy on HIV/AIDS - a discussion document produced by the National Council on AIDS for the Minister of Health. This document was produced to assist Government to formulate a strategy policy for HIV/AIDS in New Zealand.

A copy is available from the Ministry of Health library.

No Place for Borders : the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Development in Asia and the Pacific / edited by Godfrey Linge and Doug Porter. Allen & Unwin : Sydney, 1997.

HIV/AIDS is spreading rapidly in Asia and the Pacific region. Within a decade it will be the epicentre of the disease, yet world attention continues to focus on the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A copy is available from the Ministry of Health library.

Time to Act : the Pacific Response to HIV and AIDS. United Nations : Fiji, 1996.
The purpose of this report is to increase awareness about the HIV epidemic and its potential consequences in the Pacific region, and to highlight the types of action that can help contain the epidemic and ameliorate its impact.

A copy is available from the Ministry of Health library.

Women Living with HIV/AIDS : Issues Confronting Women with HIV/AIDS and Women Who Care for People with HIV/AIDS / Penny Brander and Valerie Norton. Ministry of Health : Wellington, 1993.

The purpose of this publication was to determine the adequacy of current resources for women with HIV/AIDS and women who care for people with HIV/AIDS and to identify areas where improvements were needed.

A copy is available from the Ministry of Health library.

Related information:

AIDS : New Zealand.
This is a newsletter produced by AIDS Epidemiology Group, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, PO Box 913, Dunedin.

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