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• Africa Fighting Malaria
  Africa Fighting Malaria is a not-for-profit health advocacy group based in South Africa and in the United States and founded in 2000. We conduct research and write commentary on the political economy of diseases and disease control in developing countries. We focus primarily on malaria but write about other public health problems as well, including HIV/AIDS and the problems associated with a lack of access to clean, safe drinking water in poor countries.
• Global Health Action (GHA)
  Global Health Action (GHA) is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Decatur, Georgia. For 33 years, GHA has served the health needs of individuals, communities and countries through five programmatic initiatives: Leadership and Management Training, HIV/AIDS, Women's Health and Reproductive Health, Primary Health Care and Second Generation Organizations. To date, GHA has trained more than 6,500 health and community leaders in the United States and 87 countries worldwide.
• Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO)
  The Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO) website provides up-to-date summaries of research findings, program experience, and clinical guidelines related to key reproductive health topics, as well as analyses of policy and program implications. An important objective of RHO is to help users link with quality online resources and collaborate with colleagues around the world. Visit their impressive resources page at http://www.rho.org/html/rh_resources.htm where up-to-date details of conferences, courses and links to relevant website are listed.
• YouthNet
  YouthNet is a global program to improve reproductive health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old. It is a collaboration with the young people whose lives it is designed to improve. It also includes the energy, insight, and experience of parents, schoolteachers, employers, policymakers, the media, health professionals, nongovernmental organizations, religious and community leaders, and other youth networks.

HIV/AIDS

• AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition's (AVAC)
  Founded in 1995, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition's (AVAC) mission is to speed the ethical development and global delivery of preventive HIV vaccines. AVAC is a watchdog, educator and advocate. We address ethical issues, critique the work of industry and government, provide education and mobilization services, and speak on behalf of affected communities with a credible, impartial, and objective voice. AVAC is a coalition of volunteer advocates and paid staff.
• AIDSchannel.org
  A multimedia web portal on issues relating to HIV/AIDS.
• AIDSweb
  As a pilot intervention to explore the impact of using ICT for HIV/AIDS education, the World Links' Program, a collaborative partnership between the World Bank Institute's World Links for Development (WorLD) program (now called the ICT for Education program) and the World Links 501(c)3 Organization, has been working with students and teachers in Africa since early 2000. WorLD and its partners have been running the AIDSWEB project in secondary schools in Africa using information and communications technology (ICT) to promote HIV/AIDS education and prevention activities. World Links is helping teachers, students, and their surrounding communities explore issues of HIV/AIDS prevention and care through activities using Internet, e-mail and CD-ROMs.
• Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA)
  The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) is a worldwide alliance of civil society groups, networks of women with HIV and AIDS, governments and UN organizations. The Coalition works at global, regional and national levels to highlight the impact of AIDS on women and girls and mobilize actions to enable them to protect themselves from HIV and receive the care and support they need. The GCWA was launched by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), the main advocate for global action on HIV and AIDS.
• HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database
  The HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database provides an easily accessible comprehensive source of information on HIV/AIDS indicators derived from sample surveys. The database allows the user to produce tables for specific countries by select background characteristics, as well as country reports. The indicators included are primarily derived from the UNAIDS National AIDS Programmes: Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation. The guide provides standardized indicators for measuring the success of HIV/AIDS programs. Included are a number of indicators identified to monitor the goals set at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Development Goals, and, recently, strategic goals of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
• HIV AIDS Zimbabwe (HIVAIDSZW)
  Our vision is to stimulate the active participation of Zimbabweans and friends of Zimbabwe, in a sustainable HIV/AIDS campaign, and to overcome the obstacles currently hampering effective and sustainable progress against HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe and amongst Zimbabweans.
• International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
  IAVI is a global not-for-profit organization working to speed the search for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS. Founded in 1996 and operational in 23 countries, IAVI and its network of partners research and develop vaccine candidates. IAVI also advocates for a vaccine to be a global priority and works to assure that a future vaccine will be accessible to all who need it.
• International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance)
  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.
• IRIN's PlusNews
  PlusNews is produced under the banner of RHAIN, the Southern African Regional HIV/AIDS Information Network. RHAIN's members currently include:
  • UNAIDS
    The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.
  • IRIN
  • Inter Press Service (IPS)
  • SAfAIDS
  • PANOS
    Panos London stimulates informed and inclusive public debate around key development issues in order to foster sustainable development. We are working to promote an enabling media and communications environment worldwide. Our aim is to ensure that the perspectives of the people whose lives are most affected by development (mainly the poor and marginalised) are included within decision-making and that decisions are subject to their scrutiny and debate. Our priority issues are: media and communications, globalisation, HIV/AIDS, environment and conflict. We see gender as integral to all these.
  • Health Systems Trust
    Health Systems Trust is a dynamic independent non-government organisation established in 1992 to support the transformation of the South African health system. The trust actively supports the current and future development of a comprehensive health care system through strategies designed to promote equity and efficiency in health and health care delivery.
  • Health & Development Network
    Health & Development Networks (HDN) is a non-profit organisation with substantial experience in managing and moderating electronic discussion forums and providing communication support to conferences. The mission of HDN is to mobilize a more effective response to HIV/AIDS and other health-and-development-related issues by improving information, communication and the quality of debate.
    
  • GTZ/Afronets
    The electronic conference for the 'African Networks for Health Research & Development' (AFRO-NETS) was established in 1997 to facilitate exchange of information among different networks active in Health Research for Development in Anglophone Africa, and to facilitate collaboration in the fields of capacity building, planning, and research.
• NetAid
  Combining innovative programs with new technologies, and working in partnership with the United Nations and the private sector, NetAid is building a network of everyday people committed to working for a world without extreme poverty.

Housing

• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
  COHRE has set itself a challenge: to promote and protect the right to housing for everyone, everywhere. To achieve this, COHRE has carefully developed a varied work programme, guided by international human rights law, and designed to reach as many people as possible. COHRE's work involves Housing Rights Training; Research and Publications; Monitoring, Preventing and Documenting Forced Evictions; Fact-finding Missions; Housing and Property Restitution; Women's Housing Rights; Active Participation and Advocacy within the United Nations and Regional Human Rights Bodies and activities in all regions of the South.
• Homeless International
  Homeless International is a UK charity that supports community-led housing and infrastructure related development in partnership with local partner organisations in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The initiatives are all led, developed and managed by the local community groups themselves.

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Our current electronic activism page focuses on the post election violence in Zimbabwe.

Escalating cases of organised violence and torture
900 victims have reported incidents of organised violence and torture. But this figure grossly underestimates the number of victims presenting countrywide as the violence is now on such a scale that it is impossible to properly document all cases. There have been 22 confirmed deaths but at least double that number have been reported but are yet to be confirmed. Read more from Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights

Land, retribution and elections
The immediate aftermath of Zanu PF's 2008 election defeat has included drastic consequences for the few remaining commercial farmers and their workers. The current surge in invasions and human rights violations on the farms is violent, widespread and systematic. Read more from Justice for Agriculture

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