The World Health Organisation, the United Nations specialised agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Treatment Action Campaign, fighting for affordable treatment for people with HIV.

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The International HIV/AIDS Alliance, (the Alliance) is an international development non-governmental organisation which was set up in 1993 by a consortium of international donors. The Alliance was established to respond to the need for a specialist, professional intermediary organisation which would work in effective partnership with non-governmental and community-based organisations in developing countries, as well as with national governments, private and public donors and the UN system. The Alliance's mission is to support communities in developing countries to play a full and effective role in the global response to AIDS.

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The Stop AIDS Campaign is about people in the UK uniting to demand action against the global AIDS epidemic. The Campaign was set up by 15 development and HIV/AIDS groups who believe that by working together to demand action from our leaders, we can free the world from HIV/AIDS.

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ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.

We advise and inform. We demonstrate.

We are not silent.

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What is Health GAP (Global Access Project)? They are an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts, fair trade advocates and concerned individuals who campaign against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions and fuel the spread of HIV. They are dedicated to eliminating barriers to global access to affordable life-sustaining medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS as key to a comprehensive strategy to confront and ultimately stop the AIDS pandemic. They believe that the human right to life and to health must prevail over the pharmaceutical industry's excessive profits and expanding patent rights.

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The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS is honoured and proud to be the only international network which strives to share with the global community the experiences, views and contributions of 19 million incredible women worldwide, who are also HIV positive.strives to share with the global community the experiences, views and contributions of 19 million incredible women worldwide, who are also HIV positive.

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ACORD is currently restructuring its 45 separate interventions in Africa into 10-12 larger area programmes and five cross cutting thematic programmes. It is also in the process of moving its strategic leadership, identity and management from the UK to Africa. In terms of its programme of work ACORD and its partners have identified five critical areas for change: strengthening civil society, creating the conditions for resolving conflicts, overcoming gender and other forms of discrimination, improving livelihoods, and addressing the causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS. ACORD is a member of the Stop AIDS Campaign.

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AMREF The African Medical and Research Foundation is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to improve the health of disadvantaged people in Africa as a means for them to escape poverty and improve the quality of their lives. AMREF defines the disadvantaged as people who suffer from high prevalence and severe impact of major health problems like malaria, HIV/AIDS, poor water and sanitation, lack of information about adolescent and reproductive health, and poor access to health care.

Founded in 1957, AMREF has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and has country offices in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. It has field offices in Ethiopia and Mozambique and major projects in Rwanda, Somalia and southern Sudan.

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ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON AIDS MPs and Peers who have joined the Group have done so because they are concerned about both the devastation that HIV/AIDS is causing in developing countries and as an issue here in the UK that affects their constituents. They believe that HIV/AIDS is one of the most serious threats facing the world at the beginning of the 21st century and it is vital that parliamentarians, in industrialised as well as developing countries, play their part in addressing the epidemic. In particular they have an important role in ensuring that laws and policies are respectful of human rights and promote public health.

On this website, you can read Reports published by the Group, see examples of where they have raised HIV/AIDS in Parliament and find out how to stay in touch with their work.

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Student Partnership Worldwide (SPW) SPW is a youth development charity harnessing the energy and enthusiasm of trained young volunteers to work at the heart of rural communities in Africa and Asia. European, American and Australasian volunteers live and work alongside local volunteer partners, tackling the health and environmental issues facing young people in rural areas.
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UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development
The Consortium’s vision is to promote an effective global response to HIV and AIDS that contributes to sustainable development. Its mission is to encourage, initiate and support collaborative action by civil society to contribute to and influence the global response to HIV and AIDS.

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ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK’s largest development agencies, they work in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over nine million of the world’s poorest people.

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Interact Worldwide , formerly Population Concern, works for the improvement of the quality of life worldwide by advancing the right of all people to exercise free and informed reproductive health choice and to have access to confidential sexual and reproductive health services including family planning; particularly we promote the right of women and young people to have effective access to those services and the right of women of all ages to an education which enhances their economic and social standing.

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Partners in Health
Partners in Health is a non-profit organisation that works in Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the United States. Drawing on the resources of the world's elite medical and academic institutions, and the living experiences of the world's poorest and sickest communities, thier team of physicians, scholars and activists tackle health issues that 'can't be solved', and does whatever it takes to solve them.

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Church of Scotland - HIV/AIDS PROJECT, The HIV/AIDS pandemic is "a tragedy of unprecedented proportions" (Nelson Mandela) with 42 million people infected worldwide, 30 million in sub Saharan Africa.

The General Assembly of 2002 therefore adopted an HIV/AIDS project to:

• Break the silence on HIV/AIDS
• Stand together with partner churches
• Offer practical support
• Speak up for the voiceless
• Involve every member         

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Scotland Zimbabwe Group
SZG promotes people-to-people links and network of friends of Zimbabwe. Members are generally members of the Britain Zimbabwe Society. (BZS)

The main purpose of BZS is to increase knowledge, understanding and respect, and to promote good relations between the peoples of Britain and Zimbabwe. The Society was formed in 1981 not long after Zimbabwe's independence. It expressed the need for a new relationship between Zimbabwe and its former colonial power, based on mutual respect and equality.

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VSO sends skilled and experienced volunteers to work with communities in the developing world, and campaigns in Britain to change attitudes towards the South. VSO is a UK registered charity, No. 313757.

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Global Spread of HIV-1 Focus on Africa. A clear and comprehensive website on the Global Epidemic of HIV-1 especially as it relates to the African continent. Very useful for anyone researching the African epidemic. Loads of links.

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The Lancet Interactive The on-line and interactive edition of the well-respected journal. Subscription is necessary but there is a search facility for the casual browser, plus an Electronic Research Archive and eprint server to widen the peer review of papers.

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Medscape
Providing clinicians and other healthcare professionals with the most timely source of clinical information that is highly relevant to their patients and practice:

• To make the clinician's task of information gathering simpler, more fruitful, and less time-consuming;and
• To make available to a broad medical audience clinical information with the depth, breadth, and validity needed to improve the practice of medicine.

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UK National AIDS Manual
The best UK HIV site, offering a wide range of information and access to many other webpages. Good....up to date information.

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UNAIDS
Twenty years after the first clinical evidence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was reported, AIDS has become the most devastating disease humankind has ever faced. Since the epidemic began, more than 60 million people have been infected with the virus. HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. Worldwide, it is the fourth biggest killer, this site has all the facts

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The Body
New York based multi-award winning website featuring chat and bulletin boards, answers from America's leading experts, access to The Body's library and links to HIV/AIDS related periodicals.

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Terence Higgins Trust
This long-established organisation including pages on Trust news, Africa, prevention, housing rights, legal issues, women, treatment and research information. It also has a search facility and links to other HIV/AIDS sites.

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British Medical Journal
A general medical website which often carries reports on the latest developments in HIV/AIDS research.

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Crusaid
The homepage of the UKs' national fundraiser for HIV & AIDS. Offers access to other link pages: National AIDS Trust; The Mining Company;Avert;THT;JAMA and the CDC National AIDS Hotline

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AVERT-AIDS Education and Research Trust
AVERT - The AIDS Education and Research Trust - has compiled this excellent website for the general publc. It focuses on information about education to prevent infection with HIV, information for HIV positive people and the latest news and statistics. Details of AVERT's publications are also included.

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The UK National AIDS Trust (NAT) supports the global campaign to remove barriers to HIV treatment access in developing countries. NAT calls for immediate measures to ensure that the cost of HIV drugs are dramatically reduced in developing countries. Only properly managed antiretroviral therapy currently provides long term prospects for the management of HIV disease.

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Oxfam International,is a confederation of twelve non-governmental organizations working together in more than 80 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. The Oxfams are strategic funders of development projects; provide emergency relief in times of crisis; and campaign for social and economic justice.

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Waverley Care was founded in 1989 as a direct response to the HIV epidemic in Lothian. Over the past 10 years their services have changed and developed to reflect the changing needs of their service users.

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HIV Scotland, formerly the Scottish Voluntary HIV & AIDS Forum, was launched in March 2003, marking a major development in HIV work in Scotland. Since our inception in 1995, changes in the epidemic and our responses have been dramatic and complex. Global and national trends lead to new demands on people with HIV as they cope with the perennial stigma, discrimination and inequalities which fuel the epidemic as well as with its health and social implications.

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People & Planet is the largest student network in Britain campaigning to:

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The Global Fund was created to finance a dramatic turn-around in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These 3 diseases kill more than 6 million people each year, and the numbers are growing. This massive scaling-up of resources will support aggressive interventions against all three. By funding the work of new and existing programs, we can save millions of lives and stop the spread of the disease and halt the devastation to families, communities and economies around the world.

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SATELLIFE: Essentialdrugs.org
According to the World Health Organisation, essential drugs are "those that satisfy the primary health care needs of the population."
To promote this idea, in 1995 SATELLIFE and a group of volunteer moderators started E-Drug, the English language discussion group of essentialdrugs.org. Its objective is to support the concept of essential drugs by improving and speeding up communications among all health professionals working in the field of essential drugs. Discussions focus on topics such as rational use of drugs, drug policy, economics and financing, supply and marketing, legislation and regulation, quality assurance and safety, and training. E-drug is specifically targeted to health workers in developing countries, and is based on simple off-line e-mail technology.

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