Additional Resources:

On the World Wide Web

www.unaids.org -- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. UNAIDS has statistics for each country on HIV/AIDS, as well as an extensive links section to other AIDS websites.

www.unicef.org -- United Nations Children’s Fund. Has a focus on children’s rights.

www.undp.org -- United Nations Development Programme.

www.unfpa.org -- United Nations Population Fund.

www.undcp.org -- United Nations Drug Control Programme.

www.unesco.org -- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

www.who.org -- World Health Organization.

www.worldbank.org -- World Bank.

www.aegis.com -- the largest HIV/AIDS site in the world, updated hourly.

www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.html -- US government site on AIDS research with science, prevention, vaccine research, slides, risk analysis and a Kids Corner.

www.afxb.org -- action for AIDS orphans.

www.thebody.com -- Information from the International AIDS Conferences, information about what HIV is, what it does, and how to take care of yourself if you are HIV positive.

www.stratshope.org -- Strategies for Hope is a series of books and videos, which focus mainly on Sub-Saharan Africa.

Publications

Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS, Geneva, 2000

The State of the World’s Children 2000, UNICEF, New York, 2000

HIV/AIDS: A threat to decent work, productivity and development, ILO, Geneva, 2000

Graphs/charts

http://www.unaids.org/epidemic_update/report/epi_core/sld001.htm