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Asia-Pacific Publications Catalogue 2011

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The Assessment and Mitigation of the Impact of Transport Infrastructure and Services on the Spread of HIV/AIDS

Author(s): Transport Division (TD)

Economic Sector(s): (1) HIV/AIDS

ESCAP Reference No.: ST/ESCAP/2192

Division/Office: Transport

Published Date: 2001

Country: {Non-country Specific Publication}

Hard Copy Price: N/A

This annotated bibliography provides a thorough introduction to activities in the ESCAP region, and in some cases in other parts of the world, such as Africa. It is to be used as a tool for those working on this highly important issue, and it will provide a clear picture, both of the region and of its activities and research on HIV/AIDS and the transport industry. Projects, reports or publications are listed, each with an abstract where the main objectives and recommendations are reported. Information on how to find additional information or how to procure the document is also provided.

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I.	Acronyms and abbreviations Introduction UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS (PDF, 246KB, 11 pages, 13 items)
	1.	Reduction of HIV vulnerability within the land transport sector: towards a public policy framework for addressing HIV/AIDS in the transport sector
	2.	Building an alliance with the transport sector in HIV vulnerability reduction
	3.	Cambodia HIV vulnerability mapping: highways one and five
	4.	Population mobility and HIV vulnerability in South-East Asia: an assessment and analysis
	5.	Early warning rapid response system: HIV vulnerability caused by mobility related to development
	6.	Land transport and HIV vulnerability: a development challenge
	7.	Report of the Intercountry Meeting of Parliamentarians and Specialists on HIV/AIDS and STDs in East and South-East Asia
	8.	A global view of HIV infections
	9.	HIV vulnerability and population mobility in the northern provinces of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
	10.	AIDS, poverty reduction and debt relief: a toolkit for mainstreaming HIV/AIDS programmes into development instruments
	11.	Population mobility and AIDS
	12.	Reducing girls’ vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: the Thai approach
	13.	Summary booklet of best practices
II.	COUNTRY/REGIONAL REPORTS (PDF, 356KB, 21 pages, 19 items)
	1.	China responds to AIDS: HIV/AIDS situation and needs assessment report
	2.	Project administered by Voluntary Health Services, Chennai with financial assistance from the United States Agency for International Development under bilateral agreement with the Government of India
	3.	The crossroads of risk and responsibility: truck drivers and HIV/AIDS in central Viet Nam
	4.	AIDS AND TRANSPORT: The experience of Ugandan road and rail transport workers and their unions
	5.	Socio-economic impact of HIV on the transport sector in India
	6.	Trucker project
	7.	Wheeling and dealing HIV/AIDS and developments on the Shan State borders
	8.	Rapid assessment of seafarer vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and drug abuse: Vietnam findings
	9.	Profiling the maritime industry and responses to HIV and drug use among seafarers in Ranong, Thailand
	10.	Rapid applied research and HIV/AIDS/STD prevention and care for mobile populations in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
	11.	Ethnographic study of long-haul truck drivers for risk of HIV infection: Thai edition with executive summary in English
	12.	Prevention of STD/HIV/AIDS along the highway: AIDS prevention and control project
	13.	The trucking industry in India: an overview
	14.	A brief summary of the private transport sector involvement to prevent the spread of STD/HIV among the workforce: healthy highways project
	15.	Mongolian railways HIV/AIDS/STI awareness and prevention project
	16.	Mongolian railways’ peer-based STD/HIV/AIDS prevention project curriculum
	17.	Mobility and HIV/AIDS in the Greater Mekong Subregion
	18.	Knowledge, attitude and sexual practices of taxi and truck drivers in the Philippines
	19.	The art of policy formulation: experiences from Africa in developing national HIV/AIDS policies
III.	BOOKS/JOURNALS/MAGAZINES (PDF, 179KB, 5 pages, 4 items)
	1.	No place for borders: the HIV/AIDS epidemic and development in Asia and the Pacific
	2.	Trucking through the AIDS belt
	3.	The India-Nepal partnership: building cross-border collaboration in areas of affinity
	4.	“Special Issue: Migration and HIV/AIDS”, International Migration, Quarterly Review, Vol. 36(4) 1998
IV.	GENERAL REFERENCES (PDF, 189KB, 5 pages, 5 items)
	1.	Guidelines for rapid applied research on mobile populations: planning and implementing STD/HIV/AIDS prevention and care
	2.	Maps of international borders between mainland South-East Asian countries and background information concerning population movements at these borders
	3.	Needs assessment on cross-border trafficking in women and children: the Mekong Subregion
	4.	Potential for spread of HIV/AIDS on the Lao-Vietnamese border,Sepon District, Savannakhet Province
	5.	Approaches to applied research: mobile populations and HIV vulnerability
V.	Websites (PDF, 97KB, 1 page, 2 items)
	1.	South Africa Department of Transport web site
	2.	Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper Online

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