Useful Resources

All resources in this category are non-HST publications. They are ordered according to the year published and the date posted on this site. To search for a specific publication, please use the search bar at the top of the page and restrict your search to publications.
Human Rights Indicators - Indicators to promote and monitor the implementation of human rights
World Health Organization | 2013
The publication aims to assist in developing quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure progress in the implementation of international human rights norms and principles. The Guide describes the conceptual and methodological framework for human rights indicators recommended by...
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/human-rights-indicators-indicators-promote-and-monitor-implementation-human-rights
Comprehensive Sexuality Education: The Challenges and Opportunities of Scaling Up
UNESCO | 2012
Summary:  "Even in countries with the highest HIV rates, there are relatively few examples of scaled-up, sustainable programmes within educational curricula."
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/comprehensive-sexuality-education-challenges-and-opportunities-scaling
World Malaria Report 2012
World Health Organization | 2012
The World Malaria Report 2012 summarizes information received from 104 malaria-endemic countries and other sources, and updates the analyses presented in the 2011 report. It highlights the progress made towards the global malaria targets set for 2015 and describes current challenges for global...
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/world-malaria-report-2012
Women Out Loud: how women living with HIV will help the world end AIDS
UNAIDS | 2012
UNAIDS explores the impact of HIV on women and the instrumental role women living with the virus are playing to end AIDS. It includes the latest data and commentary from some of the leading advocates on women and HIV. The report includes the voices of some 30 women living with HIV who have...
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/women-out-loud-how-women-living-hiv-will-help-world-end-aids
Optimizing health worker roles to improve access to key maternal and newborn health interventions through task shifting
World Health Organization | 2012
The World Health Organization’s recommendations on optimizing the roles of health workers aim to help address critical health workforce shortages that slow down progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A more rational distribution of tasks and...
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/optimizing-health-worker-roles-improve-access-key-maternal-and-newborn-health-intervent
The 2011 National Antenatal Sentinel HIV & Syphilis Prevalence Survey in South Africa
Department of Health (South Africa) | 2012
The HIV sentinel surveillance data has helped to map the epidemic and monitor HIV infection trends in the country and has served as an advocacy tool, resulting in the mobilization of partners, resources and development of innovative approaches by the national response to HIV and AIDS. The 2011...
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/2011-national-antenatal-sentinel-hiv-syphilis-prevalence-survey-south-africa
Gender Violence and HIV – Perceptions and Experiences of Violence and Other Rights Abuses against Women Living with HIV in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal and Western Cape, South Africa
AIDS Legal Network (ALN) | 2012
Gender inequality and violence against women constitute one of the key drivers of the HIV epidemic. Violence against women and HIV are also mutually reinforcing. While violence against women exacerbates women’s risks and vulnerabilities to HIV exposure and transmission, a positive HIV...
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/gender-violence-and-hiv-perceptions-and-experiences-violence-and-other-rights-abuses-ag
UNDP Strategy on HIV, Health and Development
United Nations Development Programme | 2012
The strategy elaborates UNDP's response to address social, cultural and economic determinants of HIV and Health. UNDP has an important role in supporting health outcomes by helping countries to address the social, cultural and economic determinants of HIV and health, in partnership with UN...
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/undp-strategy-hiv-health-and-development
SADC Regional Assessment Report of Policies and Programmes on Child and Adolescent HIV, TB and Malaria - 2011-2012
Southern African Development Community (SADC) | 2012
Member States (MS) of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have made important progress in the last decades in reducing child mortality. However, with children under 18 years old representing 48% of the total population in the SADC region, child survival and development remains a key...
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/sadc-regional-assessment-report-policies-and-programmes-child-and-adolescent-hiv-tb-and
Health in South Africa: changes and challenges since 2009
The Lancet | 2012
Since the 2009 Lancet Health in South Africa Series, important changes have occurred in the country, resulting in an increase in life expectancy to 60 years. Historical injustices together with the disastrous health policies of the previous administration are being transformed. The change in...
http://www.hst.org.za/publications/health-south-africa-changes-and-challenges-2009