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Bass Line 2008/09 - Report Assessing the sexual HIV prevention needs of African people in England. Just released, our report for Bass Line 2008-09, a survey about sexual health and HIV in which 2580 African people in England took part.

African HIV Prevention Handbook Putting the THE KNOWLEDGE, THE WILL AND THE POWER into practice. This handbook addresses key planning issues and outcomes related to each type of intervention used to reduce HIV prevention need among African people in England.

Faith and HIV in Action: Evaluation Report A training workshop for Christian communities.

Vital Voices Leadership Training Programme - Evaluation Report
The Vital Voices Leadership Training Programme was designed to enhance the meaningful involvement of African people living with HIV by providing them with the knowledge and skills to allow them to become active in HIV�]related advocacy and campaigning.

HIV and AIDS Prevention & Support Charities - Directory 2009 The African HIV Policy Network (AHPN) has commissioned a directory of organisations within the UK, which provide services to Africans.

Bass line 2008/09 - African Health and Sex Survey The health and sex survey to improve HIV education for African people in England. Your participation in this survey will be anonymous and the findings will help your local and national African organisations in England improve the way they work to reduce the spread of HIV by focusing and responding to specific sexual health needs that are important to YOU and YOUR community.

BASS Line 2007 Survey Assessing the sexual HIV prevention needs of African people in England. All sexually active people have specific needs that must be met in order for them to reduce their likelihood of participating in HIV transmission – including people who have been tested HIV negative, those who have been diagnosed HIV positive, and those who have not been tested for HIV.

Data reports from BASS Line 2007 survey These reports present specific data for each Strategic Health Authority (SHA) in England except the South West of England where there were not enough recruits.

THE KNOWLEDGE, THE WILL AND THE POWER A plan of action to meet the HIV prevention needs of Africans living in England

NAHIP Toolkit Part 12: Social Marketing 2 - Audience Segmentation
It focuses on audience segmentations and targeting in health promotion and HIV prevention.

NAHIP Toolkit Part 11: Do it Right - Africans Making Healthy Choices
“Do it Right: Africans making healthy choices” is the 3rd mass media campaign to be delivered by the National African HIV Prevention Programme (NAHIP).

NAHIP Toolkit Part 10: Prevention update - Vital Voices
The Vital Voices Leadership Training Programme (Vital Voices) was initiated by the African HIV Policy Network (AHPN) to enhance leadership skills among African people living with HIV.

NAHIP Toolkit Part 9: How to critique a paper
This NAHIP toolkit describes how to critique a paper and provides a step-by-step guide to assessing the quality and reliability of peer reviewed and grey literature about HIV and AIDS.

NAHIP Toolkit Part 8: Behaviour Change at Population, community and individual levels
This guidance highlights the need to plan interventions carefully; equip practitioners with the skills to support behaviour change using evidence based tools and evaluate all programmes and interventions.

NAHIP Toolkit Part 7: Social Marketing
Health-related social marketing is: The systematic application of marketing alongside other concepts and techniques, to achieve specific behavioural goals, to improve health and reduce health inequalities. (French, Blair-Stevens 2006)

NAHIP Toolkit Part 6: HIV in the UK - Testing Times
The 2007 annual report is entitled “Testing Times” which refers to the fact that while there has been some improvement in HIV prevention since 2005, the overall picture has worsened and there has been a steady increase in heterosexual HIV transmission within the UK, especially in black communities

NAHIP Toolkit Part 5: Improving HIV Testing in African Communities
Encouraging HIV testing among African communities in the UK is a key priority for many healthcare professionals.

NAHIP Toolkit Part 4: Translating research findings into HIV prevention activity
This edition of the NAHIP Toolkit provides an overview on how to search for research and epidemiological data for use in developing HIV prevention programmes.

NAHIP Toolkit Part 3: Epidemiological Update
HIV in UK - A Complex Picture Each year the Health Protection Agency (HPA) releases new information about the number of people living with HIV in the UK. The 2006 annual report “A Complex Picture” marks the 25th anniversary of the first reported case of AIDS in the UK and reflects on the changes that have occurred during that time in the HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) epidemics.

NAHIP Toolkit Part 2: Research and Evaluation
Why evaluate? “Evaluation is the process of assessing the effectiveness of an intervention (What difference did it make?)”. This publication provides an overview of why and how interventions should be evaluated.

NAHIP Toolkit Part 1: Prevention Case Study
This publication provides an overview of the development and implementation of the NAHIP Campaign: “Lets Talk HIV, Let’s Talk Safer Sex” Beyond Condoms, Building a Safer Sex Culture.

Human rights: Gender & HIV - Issue 14 - The AHPN newsletter
Responses to HIV necessitate recognition of gender dynamics. And if we have any hope of addressing HIV within our community it is imperative that men AND women are engaged in re-examining and challenging gender relations.

Human Rights: Leadership and Advocacy – The AHPN newsletter - Issue 13
‘The relationship between HIV and human rights is profound. Vulnerability to HIV infection and to its impact feeds on violations of human rights, including discrimination against women and violations, which create and sustain poverty.’

Completing the Picture: An examination of the Home Office's country reports on the availability of HIV treatment in Zambia, Malawi, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.

Doing It Well A good practice guide for choosing and implementing community-based HIV prevention interventions with African communitties in England.

NAHIP Research Briefing: Behavioural prevention interventions in HIV

NAHIP Research Briefing: Treatment issues: Lipodystrophy and associated metabolic complications impr

Beyond Condoms Evaluation Report

NAHIP Toolkit Part 9: How to critique a paper
This NAHIP toolkit describes how to critique a paper and provides a step-by-step guide to assessing the quality and reliability of peer reviewed and grey literature about HIV and AIDS.