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Title of project
ECHANGES D'INFORMATIONS EPIDEMIOLOGIQUES
SUR LE SIDA ET L'INFECTION A VIH EN EUROPE

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:

Nom: INSTITUT DE MEDECINE ET D'EPIDEMIOLOGIE AFRICAINES
(Centre européen pour la Surveillance Epidémiologique du Sida - CESES)

Adresse: CESES
Hôpital national de Saint-Maurice
14, rue du Val d'Osne
F - 94410 SAINT-MAURICE
Téléphone: +33 1 41 79-68 65/-68 00
Fax: +33 1 41 79-68 02
Personne de contact: Dr. Françoise HAMERS

ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:

Le Centre travaille de façon permanente avec un coordinateur national dans chaque pays de l'Union Européenne.

DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 11/97 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 11/98
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

L'objectif principal du programme est le développement du système de surveillance Européen du sida et de l'infection par le VIH. Le système permet la collecte, l'analyse, l'interprétation et la diffusion au niveau de l'Union Européenne et pour chaque Etat membre, des données de surveillance nationale. Les objectifs secondaires ayant été développés à partir de l'activité du programme comportent l'évaluation des méthodes de surveillance, la détermination de la période d'incubation et de la durée de survie du sida, l'analyse des tendances épidémiologiques et la réalisation de prévisions, ainsi que l'analyse des maladies dont les caractéristiques épidémiologiques sont associées à l'épidémie due au VIH (tuberculose, hépatite, MST).
Site internet: http://www.eurohiv.org


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Title of project
EUROSURVEILLANCE: BULLETIN EPIDEMIOLOGIQUE EUROPEEN
SUR LES MALADIES TRANSMISSIBLES

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:

Nom: INSTITUT DE MEDECINE ET D'EPIDEMIOLOGIE AFRICAINES

Adresse:Hôpital national de Saint-Maurice
14, rue du Val d'Osne
F - 94410 SAINT-MAURICE
Téléphone: +33 1 43 96 65 45; +33 1 44 85 63 03
Fax: +33 1 43 96 50 81; +33 1 44 85 63 04
Personne de contact: Prof. Jean-Baptiste BRUNET

ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Le Centre travaille de façon permanente avec un coordinateur national dans chaque pays de l'Union Européenne.
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 07/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 11/1998
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

Ce projet a pour objectif d'accroître, au sein de l'Union Européenne, la circulation d'information dans le domaine de l'épidémiologie des maladies transmissibles, entre les systèmes de surveillance nationaux et les personnes impliquées dans la Santé Publique. Le projet vise également à la publication mensuelle d'un bulletin bilingue français-anglais réalisé par une équipe franco-britannique en collaboration avec un comité éditorial composé d'éditeurs de bulletins épidémiologiques nationaux ainsi que de responsables de systèmes de surveillance pour les pays qui ne publient pas de bulletin. Un réseau d'experts a été constitué pour la fourniture, l'analyse et la validation des données à la fois nationales et européennes. Ce bulletin est diffusé à 10.000-12.000 exemplaires et est également accessible sur Internet: http://www.eurosurveillance.org


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Title of project
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE OF TUBERCULOSIS IN EUROPE

ORGANISATION:

Name: INSTITUT DE MEDECINE ET D'EPIDEMIOLOGIE AFRICAINES

Address: CESES
Hôpital National de Saint-Maurice
14, rue du Val d'Osne
F - 94410 SAINT-MAURICE
Telephone: +33 1 41 79 68 05
Fax: +33 1 41 79 68 02
Contact person: Dr. Valérie Schwoebel

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Dr Jaap Veen - KNCV - Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association (NL)

other EU partners organisations:

  • Austria - Dr Jean-Paul Klein - Bundesministerium fur Arbeit, Gesundheit
  • Belgium - Dr Maryse Wanlin - Belgian Lung & Tuberculosis Association BELTA
  • Denmark - Dr Else Smith - Statens Serum Institute -
  • Finland - Dr Petri Ruutu - Natioanl Public Health Institute
  • France - Dr Bénédicte Decludt - Réseau National de Santé Publique (RNSP)
  • Germany - Dr Edgar Werner - Robert Koch Institute
  • Greece - Dr Katarina Hatzidaki - Ministry of Health and Welfare
  • Ireland - Dr John Devlin - Department of Health
  • Italy - Dr Maria-Luisa Moro - Istituto Superio di Sanita
  • Luxembourg - Dr Pierrette Huberty-Krau - Direciton de la Santé
  • Portugal - Dr Antonio Fonseca Antunes - Directorate General of Health
  • Spain - Dr Odorina Tello Anchuela - Instituto de Salud Carlos III
  • Sweden - Dr Victoria Romanus - Swedish Intitute for Infectious Disease Control
  • United Kingdom - Dr John Watson - PHLS Communicable Diseases Surveillance
START OF PROJECT: 10/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

The project aims to collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate data from national tuberculosis notifications in each Member State of the European Union and the countries of the European Region of the World Health Organisation. Requirements for pursuing this surveillance on a long term basis were assessed, and possibility of exchanging and disseminating other information relevant to the epidemiology and the control of tuberculosis in Europe were also explored. This surveillance project intend to co-ordinate with potential EU projects promoting the cooperation in the field of tuberculosis surveillance, prevention and control in Europe.
Internet site: http://www.eurotb.org


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Title of project
HIV INFECTION, CONTACT TRACING AND PARTNER NOTIFICATION/
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW MODEL WHICH WOULD ADAPT TO THE EUROPEAN REALITY

ORGANISATION:

Name: USL VERONA
Address: Via Germania 20
I - 37135 VERONA
Telephone: +39 45 862 22 35
Fax: +39 45 862 22 39
Contact person: Mr Sergio LUZI

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Liga Portuguesa Contra a Sida, Lisboa (P)
  • Université de Paris X, Nanterre (F)
  • Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London (UK)
START OF PROJECT: 09/1997 END OF PROJECT: 09/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the aim of which is the development of a European model of contact tracing and partner notification which could be adapted to the cultural and legislative realities of the countries interested, so as to achieve the maximum disruption of the routes of infection. The main expected result is to break the chain of HIV transmission.

Plan of work
  • Detailed record of the European legislation as far as partner notification is concerned;
  • workshop aiming at comparing different models and legislation;
  • implementation of an initial model of anonymous contact tracing and partner notification on the basis of international experiences, which would be in compliance with the legislation of the different countries and adapt to their culture;
  • assessment of the degree of index patients acceptance and compliance with contact tracing and partner notification procedures;
  • assessment of the degree of contact acceptance of contact tracing procedures;
  • costs/benefits analysis on the basis of the results from contacts screening; i.e. calculation of contact tracing and partner notification procedure costs in relationship with contacts turned out to be HIV positive;
  • workshop aiming at comparing data collected and data processing
  • workshop aiming at discussing processed data and the lay-out of a European operational protocol;
  • publication and dissemination of a European manual which provides a study report.


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Title of project
EUROPEAN ANTI-MICROBIAL RESISTANCE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM

ORGANISATION:

Name: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Address: Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9
NL - 3720 BA BILTHOVEN
Telephone: +31 30 274 38 58
Fax: +31 30 274 44 09
Contact person: Dr. Gijs ELZINGA

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • NPHC, Réseau National de Santé Publique, St. Maurice (F)
  • Institut Pasteur, Paris (F)
  • Communicable Diseases Surveillance Centre and Antibiotic Resistance Centre of the National Institute of Health (P)
  • Statens Serum Institut, København (DK)
  • National Public Health Institute, Helsinki (FIN)
  • Direction de la Santé, Luxembourg (L)
  • Robert Koch Institut
  • Scientific Institute of Public Health Louis Pasteur, Brussel (B)
  • Ministry of Public Health (IRL)
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma (I)
  • Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Madrid (E)
  • Akademiska Hospital, Uppsala (S)
  • Public Health Laboratory Service, London (UK
  • Universität Wien (A)
  • Ministry of Health and Welfare, Athens (GR)
START OF PROJECT: 12/1997 END OF PROJECT: 12/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Long term objective
The long term objective is to reduce antimicrobial resistance in the European Community.

Short term objective
The short term objective is to establish a permanent initiating, facilitating and co-ordinating structure for Antimicrobial resistance in Europe which will enable:
  • the establishment of an ‘early warning system'
  • surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the EU, including evaluation of currently active national and international antimicrobial surveillance systems, including standardisation and validation of antimicrobial resistance susceptibility testing, as well as the identification of risk factors for antimicrobial resistance.

The achievement of these objectives will provide information for use by local laboratories and physicians, to support both appropriate antibiotic use and also by national governments and European authorities in formulating policies on antibiotic use. Electronic data and information transfer systems (INTERNET) will be developed in order to achieve fast automatic analysis of accumulated data and subsequent feedback.



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Title of project
EPIET 3: EUROPEAN PROGRAMME FOR INTERVENTION EPIDEMIOLOGY TRAINING

ORGANISATION:

Name: RESEAU NATIONAL DE SANTE PUBLIQUE
Address: 14, rue du Val d'Osne
F - 94 415 SAINT-MAURICE
Telephone: +33 1 43 96 65 00; +33 1 43 96 66 30
Fax: +33 1 43 96 65 02; +33 1 43 96 66 16
Contact person: Prof. Jacques DRUCKER

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Athens School of Hygiene, Athens (GR)
  • Bundergesundheitsamt, Berlin (D)
  • Department of Health, Dublin (IRL)
  • Direction de la Santé, Luxembourg (L)
  • European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS, Saint-Maurice (F)
  • Instituto Salud Carlos III, Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia, Madrid (E)
  • Instituut voor Hygiëne en Epidemiologie, Brussel (B)
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma (I)
  • National Institute of Health, Lisboa (P)
  • National Institute of Public Health and Environment Protection, Bilthoven (NL)
  • Public Health Laboratory Service, London (UK)
  • Staten Serum Institute, København (DK)
START OF PROJECT: 12/1997 END OF PROJECT: 12/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aims to continue the European fellowship training programme in applied epidemiological methods for surveillance, information production, public health action and control of infectious diseases. The proposed programme consists of a short-term theoretical course followed by a long-term assignment devoted to practical applications in national institutions, with a mandatory period in a country different from the country of origin of the candidate. In the short-term, this course should provide suitable training opportunities at identified national institutions in charge of surveillance and control of communicable diseases, and in medium-term, the new human resources should develop into a European network with similar experience to largely improve the exchange of epidemiological information and consolidate a network of European public health epidemiologists

General objectives:
  • To strengthen the practices of public health, in particular in the field of surveillance of infectious diseases and clusters of public health importance in EU Member States;
  • To develop a European network of public health epidemiologists with an EU perspective, common objectives and common methods;
  • To develop a common European response capacity to challenges in the area of public health through enhanced epidemiological research capabilities in the field;
  • Contribute to the development of a true European surveillance with a cross-BORDER=1 or even European-wide response capacity for infectious disease or environmental health threats in the E.U.


Educational objectives:

  • After the training epidemiologists were supposed to be able to:
  • assume service responsibilities in epidemiology;
  • respond to clusters and outbreaks of diseases;
  • adequately communicate the results of specific investigations to the media, the decision makers and the scientific community;
  • keep the international perspective in focus;
  • influence decision makers in public health.


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Title of project
PRIORITISATION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE COLLABORATION

ORGANISATION:

Name: PHLS COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE CENTRE
Address: 61, Colindale avenue
UK - NW9 5EQ LONDON
Telephone: +44 181 200 68 68
Fax: +44 181 200 78 68
Contact person: Dr. Christopher BARTLETT

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Ministry of Health, Welfare and Social Security, Athens (GR)
  • Institut d'Hygiène et d'Epidémiologie, Bruxelles (B)
  • Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid (E)
  • Robert Koch Institut, Berlin (D)
  • Statens Seruminstitut, København (DK)
  • Instituto Nacional de Saude, Lisboa (P)
  • National Public Health Institute, Helsinki (FIN)
  • Department of Health, Dublin (IRL)
  • Direction de la Santé, Luxembourg (L)
  • Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Konsumentenschutz, Wien (A)
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma (I)
  • Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm (S)
  • Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiëne, Bilthoven (NL)
  • Réseau National de Santé Publique, Saint-Maurice (F)
START OF PROJECT: 09/1997 END OF PROJECT: 02/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aims of which is to complete a priority ranking of topics for collaboration in the field of the surveillance of communicable diseases between the Member States of the European Board of National Surveillance Centres, with the view to informing the future collaborative agenda.

Main objectives
  • To undertake a consensus exercise to determine the priority areas for the collaboration at EU level in the field of communicable disease surveillance, between centres with responsibilities in communicable disease surveillance at national levels;
  • To deliver a list of priorities based on consensus to the European Commission.

The project uses the knowledge and experience of national experts in a consensus method adapted from the Delphi technique. In this technique, consensus is reached by means of questionnaire and feedback rounds circulated among a group of experts; The method retains anonimity and avoids the drawbacks of committee settings such as domination or coalition.



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Title of project
EURECHINOREG: ESTABLISH MENT OF A EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR CONCERTED SURVEILLANCE OF ALVEOLAR ECHINOCOCCOSIS

ORGANISATION:

Name: SERF UNIT UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTE
Address: Rue Goudimel
F - 25030 BESANCON
Telephone: +33 3 81 66 50 01
Fax: +33 3 81 66 50 25
Contact person: Prof. Claude OYTANA

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Prof. P. S. Kern, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Immunology Section, University of Ulm (D)
  • Dr. Thomas Römig, Dept. of Zoology/Parasitology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (D)
  • Dr. Auer, Institute of Hygiene, University of Wien, (A)
  • Prof. Y. Carlier, Dept. of Parasitology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, (B)
  • Craig, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Salford (UK)
  • Dr. A. Siracusano, Dept. of Immunology, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Roma (I)
START OF PROJECT: 12/1997 END OF PROJECT: 12/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aim of which is to establish a European Network for concerted surveillance of Alveolar Echinococcosis, six countries of the European Union will be actively involved in the project.

Main objectives:
  • To collect reliable data on epidemiology of alveolar echinococcosis.
  • To monitor the follow-up of patients using a common European classifications scheme.
  • To create the network resources for conducting new multicentre therapeutic trials.
  • To facilitate international staff exchanges, training of physicians, surgeons, PhD students and Post-Doctoral researchers.
  • To support the goals of the WHO Working Group on Echinococcosis.


Plan of work:

As AE is a rare but lethal and long-lasting disease, a scientifically reliable collection of all data concerning epidemiology of AE in Europe will be of help to delineate the real importance of AE for Public Health in European countries and serve as a basis for future studies on the relationship between animal infection and human contamination and on the clinical management of patients. The basic tools of this pilot project will be two computerised registers for the collection of human epidemiological and clinical data on the one hand, and of the animal epidemiological and ecological data on the other hand. The two registers (A. Human aspects; B. Animal and environmental aspects) will be separated into 4 sub-registers, two for French speaking countries or regions [A. in Besançon (F); B. in Dijon (F)] and two for German speaking countries or regions [A. in Ulm (D); B. in Stuttgart-Hohenheim (D)]. Data from Switzerland will be referred to either sub-registers depending on language and/or convenience. In every country, sub-centres will refer cases and data to the sub-registers according to language convenience. All the data will be translated into English before the French and German sub-registers. All the data will be translated into English before the French and German sub-registers are combined. Mobility of young physicians, surgeons or scientists from all teams involved in the project will help exchanges between clinical and research teams on the one hand, and the registers on the other hand.



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Title of project
QUALITÄTSMANAGEMENT FÜR DAS SAMMELN UND VERARBEITEN VON BLUT UND DIE VERTEILUNG VON BLUTCOMPONENTEN IN DER EUROPÄISCHEN UNION:
EIN WEG IN DIE ZUKUNFT

ORGANISATION:

Name: BUNDESMINISTERIUM FÜR ARBEIT, GESUNDHEIT UND SOZIALES
Address: Stubenring 1
A - 1010 WIEN
Telephone: +43 1 711 00
Fax: +43 1 64 00
Contact person: Dr. Gunter LIEBESWAR

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Partner in alle EU-Länder
START OF PROJECT: 12/1997 END OF PROJECT: 12/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Projekt zur Organisation und Durchführung der Konferenz über Blut und Blutsicherheit die vom 13. bis 15. Juli 1998 in Wien stattfindet wird.

Ziele der geplanten Aktion

Es werden in diesem Bereich erforderlichen Maßnahmen diskutiert werden, um Qualitätssicherung, GMP und Qualitätskontrolle in Blut- und Transfusionsmedizinischen Einrichtungen der EU ein- bzw. durchführen.

Ein strukturierter Rahmen wird entworfen der wesentliche, praktisch anwendbare Elemente betreffend des Qualiätsmanagements von Blut einschließt.

Diese werden als Beitrag zu den derzeitigen Bemühungen der verantwortlichen Behörden in den Mitgliedsstaaten sein, ihre Politiken betreffend Blutsicherheit zu verbessern und die Einrichtungen der Gemeinschaft und den Mitgliedsstaaten zu erlauben, deren Anstrengungen in Richtung Umsetzung der Blutstrategie für die Europäische Union zu unterstützen.


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Title of project
EURO-NOPS: EUROPÄISCHES NETZWERK DER ORGANISATIONEN FÜR MÄNNLICHE PROSTITUIERTE UND STRASSENKINDER

ORGANISATION:
Name: AIDS-HILFE FRANKFURT
Adresse: Frieberger Anlage 24
D - 60316 FRANKFURT
Telefon: +49 69 43 97 04
Fax: +49 69 43 80 171
Kontaktperson: M. Achim TEIPELKE
PARTNER ORGANISATIONEN:
  • CLASH, London (UK)
  • Vida, Lisboa (P)
  • Bågen, Häsleholm (S)
  • Subway, Berlin (D)
  • Life Line Project, Manchester (UK)
BEGINN DES PROJEKTES: 12/1997 ENDE DES PROJEKTES: 12/1998
ZIELE UND INHALT DES PROJEKTES:

Projekt dessen Hauptziel es ist die Europäische Kooperation der Organisation für männliche Prostituierte und Straßenkinder zu fördern.

Ziele der geplanten Aktion
  • HIV-Prävention bei Homo-, Bi-, und Transsexuellen, männlichen Prostituierten, und Migranten.
  • Prävention von sexuell übertragbaren Krankheiten (STD).
  • Gesundheitsvorsorge und Gesundheitsfürsorge bei Jugendlichen.
  • Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen von männlichen Prostituierten.
  • Abbau der Diskriminierung von HIV-Infizierten und aids-Kranken.
  • (Re-) Integration in soziale Zusammenhänge.
  • Rückführungsmodelle.
  • Verbesserung des Informationsstandes innerhalb der europäischen Organisationen.
  • Förderung des Erfahrungsaustausches zwischen den beteiligten Projekten.
  • Fort- und Weiterbildung von professionellen Mitarbeitern.


Beschreibung der Aufgaben

  • Nachfolgende Stichpunkte geben die Bereiche wieder:
  • Treffen mit verschiedenen europäischen Projekten im Hinblick auf Kooperation und Koordination und Arbeitsfelder
  • Überblick von europaweiten Migrationsbewegungen unter dem Gesichtspunkt Prostitution im Rahmen von grenzüberschreitender Leiharbeiterschaft bedingt durch Verarmungstendenzen in wirtschaftlich unterentwickelten Regionen Europas.
  • Austausch von klientenbezogenen Daten zwecks besserer und zuverlässigerer Hilfeleistungen.
  • Darstellung unterschiedlicher Arbeitsansätze, sowie deren inhaltliche Weiterentwicklung.
  • Erarbeitung von Arbeitsstandards im europäischen Verbund.
  • Unterstützung und Hilfeleistung bei arbeitsspezifischen Problemsituationen.
  • Weiter- und Fortbildung bei arbeitsrelevanten Themen (AIDS - HIV-Prävention, Drogen, Kriminalität, Ausstieg).
  • Infopool für medizinischen Problemen (Geschlechtskrankheiten, durch obdachlosigkeit bedingte Krankheiten wie TBC, AIDS).
  • Infopool für psychosoziale Probleme (Drogengebrauch, Identitätsbildung bzw. Stabilisierung, Gesundheitsbewustsein, Wohnungsmöglichkeiten).
  • Infopool für arbeitstechnische Probleme (Anträge, Finanzierungen, Ämtergänge, Adressen von Hilfesystemen).
  • Sammlung und Weiterentwicklung von Infos in den jeweiligen Landessprachen der Klienten (kulturell sensitive Aufklärungsarbeit z.B. Safer Sex Infos und Broschüren).
  • Rückführungsmöglichkeiten für Klienten, Erarbeitung von individuellen Lebensplänen, soziokulturell auf die jeweiligen Heimatländer abgestimmt.
  • Dokumentation


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Title of project
EC CO-ORDINATION OF INFORMATION ON HIV AND STDs

ORGANISATION:
Name: MERCHANT NAVY WELFARE BOARD
Address: 19-21 Lancaster Gate
UK - W2 3LN LONDON
Telephone: +44 171 723 36 42
Fax: +44 171 723 36 43
Contact person:Captain David PARSONS
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Danish Maritime Authority, København (DK)
  • Association pour la Gestion des Instituts Sociaux Maritimes, Paris (F)
  • Work Research Centre, Dublin (IRL)
  • Casa del Mar, Instituto Social de la Marina, Barcelona (E)
START OF PROJECT: 02/1997 END OF PROJECT: 02/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at improving the effectiveness of AIDS-information materials provided specifically to those seafarers visiting EC ports.

The main objectives of the project was to identify duplication and/or gaps in existing materials and developing/updating/adapting low cost materials where necessary and to strengthen collaboration between key organisations for the delivery of information programmes to seafarers. In addition, the project comments on and makes recommendations to the EC for extending this collaboration to other Member States.

Global patterns of trade and the method of recruiting ships crews ensured that non-EC owned, flagged and crewed ships were drawn into this project. Many of the vessels and people will originate from those developing countries where HIV is greatest and prevention resources are limited. All seafarers are absent for very long periods of time and many countries are unlikely to be able to target such a migratory workforce. It is proposed that the results of this project are used as the basis for establishing links with relevant key organisations in countries of origin. The purpose of this would be to extend the use of effective materials and good practice, and increase the capability of the linked countries to carry out prevention work for all seafarers visiting their ports.


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Title of project
ACT NOW - DEVELOPMENT OF A CULTURALLY SENSITIVE PEER-EDUCATION PACKAGE ADRESSING HIV (AND DRUG USE) USING APPLIED DRAMA AS AN APPROACH

ORGANISATION:
Name: INVICTA COMMUNITY CARE NHS TRUST
Address: Blackhurst, Halls Hole Road
UK - TN2 4RG TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Telephone: +44 1892 53 91 44
Fax: +44 1892 53 55 22
Contact person: Ms Maggie DAVIES
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali, Roma (I)
  • Hellenic Society Quality in Health Care, Athens (GR)
  • IVESP, Valencia (E)
  • University of Köln (D)
  • Netherlands Institute for Alcohol and Drugs, Utrecht (NL)
START OF PROJECT: 10/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at developing a culturally sensitive education package addressing HIV (and drug use) using applied drama as an approach.

Main objectives
  • To gain an overview of HIV education in participating Member States' prisons.
  • To conduct a survey of perceived needs in respect of HIV education issues in prison to inform the development of a resource.
  • To produce a culturally appropriate European training pack/video on HIV in prisons in 6 Member States.
  • To develop existing successful UK package for use in other EU Member States.
  • To use applied drama as an approach to tackling HIV education in prisons.
  • To leave each pilot prison with a core group of prisoner peer educators.
  • To disseminate training pack in participating countries.
  • To establish links between prisons and health educators.
  • To produce a report on needs assessment element, development of an evaluation tool, formation and use of the pack.


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Title of project
ETUDE DE FAISABILITE D'UNE ENQUETE MULTICENTRIQUE DANS TROIS VILLES D'EUROPE DU SUD PORTANT SUR LES CARACTERISTIQUES ET SUR LA MORBIDITE AUX HEPATITES ET AU VIH DES USAGERS DE DROGUE EN VUE DE LA DEFINITION D'UN RESEAU D'EXPERTS

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:
Nom: ASSOCIATION MEDITERRANEENNE DE PREVENTION DES TOXICOMANIES
Adresse:
19, rue de la République
F - 13002 MARSEILLE
Téléphone:
+33 4 91 56 08 40
Fax:
+33 4 91 90 09 32
Personne de contact: M. Jean-Victor CORDONNIER
ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Servicio d'Atencio Prevencio Sociosanitaria per a Drogadependens, Barcelona (E)
  • Servizio Tossicodipendenza, Genova (I)
  • Service d'intervention communautaire en toxicomanies et sida, Dundee (UK)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 07/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 01/1999
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

Projet visant à étudier la faisabilité d'une enquête multicentrique dans 3 villes d'Europe du sud portant sur les caractéristiques sanitaires et sur la morbidité aux hépatites et au VIH des usagers de drogue, en vue de la définition d'un réseau d'experts.

Objectifs:
  • Collecter et comparer dans trois villes portuaires d'Europe du Sud (Marseille, Barcelone, Gènes) les données sociodémographiques, de séroprévalence et de co-morbidité caractérisant les usagers de drogues par voie injectable fréquentant les dispensaires de vie (centres d'accueil spécialisés sans hébergement ciblant plus particulièrement des usagers de drogues désinsérés et n'exigeant pas de leur part un engagement dans une démarche d'arrêt de prise de produit)à et les comparer avec celles émanant des dispositifs équivalents implantés dans un port de l'Europe du Nord: Dundee qui tient lieu de "cas témoin".
  • Situer les populations d'usagers de drogues utilisatrices de structures d'accueil à "bas seuil" par rapport aux populations fréquentant les centres de soins spécialisés conventionnels. Chaque pays sera représenté per un organisme spécialisé dans la prévention et le soin de la toxicomanie disposant à la fois d'une structure à bas seuil d'exigence et d'une structure classique de consultation.
  • Rassembler les intervenants spécialisés dans le domaine de la toxicomanie de l'Europe du Sud en vue de définir des outils d'objectivation de la situation sanitaire des usagers de drogues les plus marginalisés.
  • Définir les conditions de faisabilité de stratégies de réduction des risques de contamination au VIH et aux hépatites et de co-morbidité associées, adaptées aux usagers de drogues utilisateurs des structures "bas seuil" et utilisables par les intervenants spécialisés en toxicomanie.
  • Organiser un séminaire de synthèse en vue de la diffusion des résultats en Europe.


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Title of project
EURO-BND: PREVENTION DU SIDA ET DES HEPATITES PAR LES PAIRS EN MILIEU TOXICOMANE - BOULE DE NEIGE

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:
Nom: MODUS VIVENDI A.S.B.L.
Adresse:
51, rue de Haerne
B - 1040 BRUXELLES
Téléphone: +32 2 644 22 00
Fax:
+32 2 644 21 81
Personne de contact: Mme Hélène BERTRAND
ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Association Ruptures, Lyon (F)
  • AIDES Dauphiné, Grenoble (F)
  • Organ Tecnic Drogodependencias, Departamento Sanidad y Seguridad Social, Generalitat Catalunya, Barcelona (E)
  • Grupo Interdisciplinar sobre Drogas, Madrid (E)
  • Gruppo Abele, Torino (I)
  • Daphni Hospital, Athène (GR)
  • Hellenic Centre for the Control of AIDS and STDs, Athène (GR)
  • Aristote University, Dept. of Psychiatry, Thessaloniki (GR)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 09/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 11/1998
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

Projet de prévention du sida et des hépatites par les pairs en milieu toxicomane.
  • Réduire la dissémination des virus du sida et des hépatites auprès des usagers de drogues au niveau local, sur base d'une participation active des usagers de drogues.
  • Favoriser la prise de conscience par les intervenants du secteur spécialisé en toxicomanie de la nécessité d'intégrer dans la prise en charge, des objectifs de réduction des risques et d'éducation à la santé.
  • Favoriser le transfert de la méthodologie et les échanges d'expériences entre institutions, intervenants de terrain et usagers de drogues dans des pays et des contextes socio-culturels et politiques différents.
  • Réaliser à l'issue de ce projet pilote un manuel méthodologique "européen" qui permette à d'autres équipes d'utiliser la méthode Boule de Neige en l'adaptant à leur contexte.


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Title of project
SOCIO-SEXUAL INVESTIGATION OF GAY MEN AND AIDS (FINNSIGMA)

ORGANISATION:
Name: FINNISH AIDS COUNCIL
Address:
Hietanimenkatu
FIN - 00100 HELSINKI
Telephone: +358 9 454 20 70
Fax: +358 9 454 20 760
Contact person: Ms Hannele LEHTIKUUSI
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • University of Essex, Dept. of Sociology, Colchester (UK)
  • Göteborg University, Dept. of Social Work, Göteborg (S)
  • RFSL HIVKansliet, Stockholm (S)
START OF PROJECT: 08/1997 END OF PROJECT: 08/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

International survey on the social and sexual lifestyles in Finland, Sweden and England. Main objectives: The main objectives of the project are to describe the sexual behaviour and the social and sexual lifestyles of men who have sex with men, gay and bisexual and other men who have sex with men, whether gay- or non non-gay-identified. The project has a particular current epidemiological importance in working against the spread of the HIV infection. the goal is also assess the state of knowledge of safer sex and adhere to its principles.


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Title of project
RESEAU DE RECHERCHE EUROPEEN SUR LES INFECTIONS A VIH/SIDA ET LES HEPATITES VIRALES EN MILIEU CARCERAL: SURVEILLANCE EPIDEMIOLOGIQUE ET OBSERVATION DES COMPORTEMENTS A RISQUE

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:
Nom: OBSERVATOIRE REGIONAL DE LA SANTE - PROVENCE, ALPES, CÔTE D'AZUR Adresse: 23, rue Stanislas Torrents
F - 13006 MARSEILLE
Téléphone:
+33 4 91 37 48 24
Fax:
+33 4 91 37 11 75
Personne de contact: Dr. Michel ROTILY
ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Wissenschaftliches Institut der Ärzyte Deutschlands, Bonn (D)
  • Department for Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (S)
  • Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Cambridge (UK)
  • Netherlands Institute for Alcohol and Drugs, Utrecht (NL)
  • ARECS, Milano (I)
  • Ministry of Justice, Prison Dept., Helsinki (FIN)
  • National Committee on AIDS, Lisboa (P)
  • Asociación SARE, Pamplona (E)
  • Prisoners Resource Service, London (UK)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 01/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 03/1998
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

Continuation d'un projet permettant la mise en place d'un réseau européen pour la prévention de l'infection à VIH et de l'hépatite virale dans les prisons au moyen de la surveillance épidémiologique et de l'observation des comportements à risque.

Objectifs:
  • Collecter, comparer et diffuser les données sur l'épidémiologie et la prévention du VIH/sida et des hépatites virales en milieu carcéral de la Communauté européenne;
  • mise en place d'outils communs pour la surveillance épidémiologique et l'observation des comportements dans les prisons de la Communauté européenne;
  • mise en place d'une stratégie en vue de réduire les risques de contamination;
  • formuler les recommandations pour lutter contre le VIH/sida et les hépatites virales destinées aux personnes infectées ou non.


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Title of project
EUROPÄISCHES NETZWERK ZUR HIV-PRÄVENTION IM STRAFVOLLZUG

ORGANISATION:
Name: WISSENSCHAFTLICHES INSTITUT DER ÄRZTE DEUTSCHLANDS
Adresse:
Godesberger Allee 54
D - 53115 BONN
Telefon: +49 228 810 41 72
Fax: +49 228 810 41 55
Kontaktperson: Dr. Caren WEILANDT
PARTNER ORGANISATIONEN:
  • Observatoire Régional de la Santé - Provence, Alpes, Côte d'Azur, Marseille (F)
  • The Cranstoun project, London (UK)
  • AIDS & Mobility, Woerden (NL)
  • Migrations Santé, Paris (F)
  • Department of Immunology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford (UK)
  • Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Cambridge (UK)
  • Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow (UK)
  • Direzione Sanitaria Servizio 2, Unità Socio Sanitaria 75/1, Milano (I)
  • Provveditoriato agli Studi di Milano, Ufficio Aggiornamento et Interventi Educativi, Sezione Educazione alla Salute, Milano (I)
  • Department for Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (S)
  • Fédération AIDES, Paris and the Fédération AIDES, Provence (F)
  • First Community Health, Chadsmoor Cannock (UK)
  • Nationale Commissie AIDS-Bestrijding, Amsterdam (NL)
  • Netherlands Institute for Alcohol and Drugs, Utrecht (NL)
BEGINN DES PROJEKTES: 01/1997 ENDE DES PROJEKTES: 03/1998
ZIELE UND INHALT DES PROJEKTES:

Projekts dessen Hauptziele die Fortführung, Ausbau und Erweiterung der Aktivitäten des "European Network on HIV prevention in prison" unter Einbeziehung aller europäischen Mitgliedländer, sind.

Ziele:
  • Sammlung und Vergleich von Daten zu HIV/Aids-Infektion und Prävention im Strafvollzug in den 15 europäischen Mitgliedstaaten.
  • Zusammenführung der europäischen Partner um gemeinsame Instrumente für ein anonymes epidemiologisches Monitoring System (HIV und Hepatitis) sowie die Beobachtung von HIV-Bezogenen Risikoverhalten im europäischen Strafvollzug zu entwickeln und zu implementieren.
  • Förderung des Informations- und Erfahrungsaustauschs innerhalb der Europäischen Union bezüglich HIV-Prävention im Strafvollzug durch:

Organisation und Durchführung einer internationalen Konferenz in Deutschland. Aufbau einer europäischen Projektdatenbank sowie einer Sammlung von Präventionsmaterialien für Strafgefangene und Justizvollzugspersonal.



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Title of project
ANALYSIS OF BORDER ISSUES WITH REGARD TO HIV/AIDS/STDs AND DEVELOPMENT OF CO-OPERATIVE BORDER-CROSSING METHODS OF PREVENTION - THE UMBRELLA PROJECT

ORGANISATION:
Name: SOZIALPÄDAGOGISCHES INSTITUT BERLIN
Address:
Stresemannstr. 30
D - 10963 BERLIN
Telephone:
+49 30 25 21 210; +49 30 25 21 619
Fax: +49 30 25 16 094
Contact person: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang HECKMANN
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • The Diaconess Institute, Helsinki (FIN)
  • AIDS-Information and Support Centre, Tallinn (EST)
  • Bella Donna, Frankfurt/Oder (D)
  • Mandragora, Slubice (POL)
  • Servizio Tossicodipendenze, Gorizia (I)
  • Regional Institute of Public Health, Koper (SLO)
  • Hellenic Centre for the Control of AIDS and STD's
  • Comissao para a igualdade e para os direitos das Mulheres,
  • Servicio Galego de Igualdade, Santiago de Compostela (E)
START OF PROJECT: 10/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming to analyse Border issues with regard to HIV/AIDS, STDs and to develop co-operative, border-crossing methods of prevention. Issues relating to HIV transmission are visible and are issues of public awareness and discussion at several borders within the EU and even more along the borders of the EU Member States and the newly independent states of Central and Eastern Europe. Measures responding to these situations are rare. It is thus of interest for the EU Member States to assess the situation in Europe as a whole, to identify examples of good practice, to create guidelines for reacting to this situation and to develop bordercrossing methods of prevention, to create new projects and to evaluate them. A growing number of experts working on the grass root level along the European borders used the experience of SPI BERLIN as a basis for planning and development of BORDER=1 crossing prevention activities. Pilot projects at the borders of the countries involved were developed and examples of good practice were analysed.

In the second phase of the Umbrella Project, the main task is to disseminate the experience of the pilot project into various border regions throughout Europe and to evaluate the use of the methodology of border crossing social work in these regions.


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Title of project
PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS/STDs AND OTHER TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES IN PROSTITUTES WORKING AROUND THE BORDER BETWEEN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

ORGANISATION:
Name: ADMINISTRAÇAO REGIONAL DE SAUDE DO NORTE
Address: Rua Santa Catarina 1288
P - 4200 PORTO
Telephone:
+351 2 550 98 17
Fax: +351 2 550 98 15
Contact person: M. Mario SILVA
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Dirección Xeral Saúde Pública ,Galicia (ES)
  • Servicio Galego de Promoción da Igualdade do Home e da Muller, Galicia (ES)
  • Alecrim, Galicia (ES)
START OF PROJECT: 10/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

The Commission will support a project which main aim is the prevention of HIV/AIDS, STDs and other communicable diseases among prostitutes working around the border, between Spain (Galicia) and the North of Portugal.

Main objectives
Primary and secondary prevention of HIV/AIDS, STDs and other transmissible diseases among prostitutes working around the BORDER=1 between Spain (Galicia) and the Northern region of Portugal (creation of a network of health promotion agents - provision of preventive means, condoms, injection material, and training in basic skills to use them correctly ).
  • To facilitate and promote health and social care (to establish a protocol to refer to and make use of the available health and social services).
  • To inform male sexual partners about prevention on AIDS and STDs.
  • To create a database with epidemiological information about this group.
  • To share and interchange information, experiences and methodology between the Spanish and the Portuguese professionals.


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Title of project
COMPARATIVE SURVEY ON HIV/AIDS RISK BEHAVIOUR IN A POPULATION OF YOUNG MARGINALISED PEOPLE IN THREE SOUTHERN EUROPEAN CITIES

ORGANISATION:
Name: CARITAS DIOCESANA DI ROMA
Address: Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano 6A
I - 00184 ROMA
Telephone: +39 6 988 64 24; +39 6 988 61 05
Fax: +39 6 988 61 25; +39 6 988 64 89
Contact person: Dott. Claudio CECCHINI
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Fundación Anti-Sida España, Madrid (E)
  • Caritas Hellas, Athens (GR)
START OF PROJECT: 08/1997 END OF PROJECT: 08/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aims of which is make a comparative survey on HIV/AIDS risk behaviours in a population of young marginalised people in three southern European cities.

Main Objectives:
The main objective of the project is to provide a survey of HIV/AIDS drug or sex related risk behaviours (unprotected sexual intercourses, drug use, needles exchange, ....) in a sample of young marginalised people (homeless, unemployed, those suffering hardship) in three great southern European cities (Rome, Madrid, Athens). These people are "distant" from services and difficult to reach for information/prevention campaigns; they're supposed to adopt HIV/AIDS risk behaviours as they try to overcome economical needs through illegal activities (drug pushing, often involving addiction too, prostitution). The research is therefore aimed at inquiring their:
  • HIV/AIDS and STD's risk behaviours, and their motivation (as related to social and personal condition);
  • knowledge about such diseases' ways of transmission and preventive measures.

This survey, comparing different situation in three EU countries, will be helpful in planning and evaluating specific prevention programmes targeting young people.



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Title of project
ENMP - EUROPEAN NETWORK MALE PROSTITUTION

ORGANISATION:
Name:AMSTERDAMS OECUMENISCH CENTRUM (AMOC)
Address: Stadhouderskade 159
NL - 1074 BC AMSTERDAM
Telephone:
+31 20 672 11 92
Fax: +31 20 671 96 94
Contact person: Ms Ingeborg SCHLUSEMANN
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Streetwork, Wien (A)
  • Adzon, Brussel (B)
  • Basisproject, Hamburg (D)
  • Streetwise Youth, London (UK)
  • PAF, København (DK)
  • ARAS, Bukarest (ROM)
START OF PROJECT: 09/1997 END OF PROJECT: 09/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aim of which is to create a European network on HIV prevention as regards male prostitution.
  • To develop a network of organisations in the Member States and East Europe that work in the field of HIV/STD prevention for male sex workers. The network starts with organisations from Germany, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom, Austria, Rumania and The Netherlands, and invites during this initial stage other organisations, also from other countries, to become members. The network will take advantage of the infrastructure of Europap.
  • To develop a European resource book with information about the different organisations, their aims and (medical) services for the target group as well as an analysis of the legal and cultural situation regarding male prostitution and homosexuality.
  • To facilitate the repatriation of migrant male sex workers to the native country.
  • To exchange experience and knowledge concerning strategies and methodology of HIV/STD prevention and to stimulate mutual support through bilateral visits.
  • To develop a travel guide with information reference addresses for male sex workers.

Amsterdam is the co-ordination centre for the network, responsible for the organisation of the exchange programme to maintain and expand the network. It is also be responsible for producing the resource book and travel guide. All the organisations will have a local co-ordinator who stays in contact with the network for the practical exchange, organisation of the visits and provides the material for the travel guide and the resource book.

  • Preparation of first meeting, documentation of material and experience, structuring the network.
  • First meeting, mutual introduction, analysis of situation the various countries, description of plan of action.
  • Gathering of material for country report of the national situation, organising visits, making an inventory of existing material and methodology, development of proposals for travel guide and resource book, preparation of second meeting.
  • Second general meeting: Presentation of proposed resource book and travel guide, discussion on central topics and issues with regard to HIV/STD prevention for this target group, discussion on extension of network with new members.
  • Drafting reports of the meeting, to work on outcome and resolutions of the meeting.
  • Developing contact and formal membership of new partners, preparation of third meeting with all project members.
  • Third general meeting, discussion on the structure of the network in the future, to integrate new members in all aspects of the network, to set up an editing group for the travel guide and the resource book, making bilateral visits.
  • Finishing the country reports, travel guide, resource book.
  • Last general meeting to discuss topics: East - west relation, north - south relation, legal and cultural aspects, co-operation with other local and national service providers, to set up a practical system of collaboration and reference.
  • Finishing the production of the resource book (including country reports), travel guide, activities to sustain the network for the future; formal presentation of the products.


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Title of project
PROGRAMME OF EVALUATION ON HIV/AIDS PREVENTION TARGETING HOMOSEXUALLY ACTIVE MEN IN THE EUROPEAN UNION BY A NETWORK OF EUROPEAN HOMOSEXUAL ORGANISATIONS

ORGANISATION:
Name: COGAM COLECTIVO DE GAIS Y LESBIANAS DE MADRID
Address:
37, C/. Fuencarral
E - 28004 MADRID
Telephone: +34 1 522 45 17; +34 1 523 00 70
Fax: +34 1 522 45 17
Contact person: M. Pedro GONZALEZ ZEROLO
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • AIDS-Hilfe, Wien (A)
  • OADZ/HOSI-Wien (A)
  • Ex Aequo, Bruxelles (B)
  • AIDS Team Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (B)
  • Stop AIDS Kampagnen, København (DK)
  • UNAIDS, Regional Office for Europe, København (DK)
  • SNEG, Paris (F)
  • AIDES, Paris (F)
  • Agence Française de Lutte contre le sida, Paris (F)
  • David et Jonathan, Paris (F)
  • Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, Berlin (D)
  • Nexus Research, Dublin (IRL)
  • Arci Gay, Bologna (I)
  • Aidsberodung-Croix Rouge, Luxembourg (L)
  • ILGA-Portugal, Lisboa (P)
  • CGL, Barcelona (E)
  • Plan Nacional sobre el sida, Madrid (E)
  • RFSL, Stockholm (S)
  • AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, Zürich (CH)
  • MCAP, Rotterdam (NL)
  • Trimbos Institute, Utrecht (NL)
  • Stichting AIDS Fonds, Amsterdam (NL)
  • SAD-Schorestichting, Amsterdam (NL)
  • Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, London (UK)
  • GMFA, London (UK)
  • Terrence Higgins Trust, London (UK)
START OF PROJECT: 12/1997 END OF PROJECT: 12/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the aim of which is to evaluate HIV/AIDS prevention targeting homosexually active men in the European Union by a network of European homosexual organisations.

Main objectives:
  • to help preventing HIV infection amongst homosexually active men in Europe, by developing a supranational evaluation programme;
  • to identify the gaps in the priorities in current HIV/AIDS prevention and develop research & development in response to these, including pilot projects in Member States, in order to minimise the epidemic;
  • to help focusing effective European HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns aimed to the homosexual population;
  • to establish a network of European homosexual organisations to exchange experience and information on HIV/AIDS prevention.


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Title of project
Research about lifestyles among socially excluded illegal drug users at HIV/AIDS risk

ORGANISATION:
Name: ESCUELA ANDALUZA DE SALUD PUBLICA
Address:
Campus Universitario de Cartuja
E - 18080 GRANADA
Telephone:
+34 58 161 044
Fax:
+34 58 161 142
Contact person: Dr. Francisco Javier CATALA VILLANUEVA
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Asociación Hogar - 20, Granada (E)
  • Association for prevention of addiction, London (UK)
  • Centro sperimentale per l'educazione sanitaria, Perugia (I)
  • Positivo, Grupos de Apoio e Autoajuda, Liboa (P)
START OF PROJECT: 12/1997 END OF PROJECT: 12/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at performing a research about lifestyles among socially excluded illegal drug users at HIV/AIDS risk.

Main objectives
  • To know the lifestyle of socially excluded illegal drug users at risk for HIV/AIDS in order to be in the position to design interventions adapted to this population and aimed at preventing and reducing the effects of HIV/AIDS and other problems (drug addiction, working, legal, social and family problems;
  • to initiate HIV/AIDS prevention activities and inform about the social and health resources available, taking advantage of the contact with the target population required in objective A.

Specific objectives:

  • To determine the level of knowledge, behaviour and attitudes concerning HIV/AIDS;
  • to determine the behaviour and attitudes concerning illegal drug use;
  • to know their health situation concerning HIV/AIDS and other diseases;
  • to know to what extent they have access to social and health services;
  • to know their income sources;
  • to know their social and family situation;
  • to recruit and train members from the target population so that they can distribute the questionnaire and act as "health agents";
  • to offer the target population information abouot HIV/AIDS and the social and health resources available;
  • to offer HIV/AIDS prevention instruments (injection kits and condoms).


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Title of project
INSIGHT

ORGANISATION:
Name: VALENCIAN ASSOCIATION AGAINST AIDS
Address: C./Cuba 61 bajo izq.
E - 46006 VALENCIA
Telephone:
+34 6 380 07 37
Fax: +34 6 380 07 37
Contact person: M. Frederic LOPEZ CASTELLÓ
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Alternativa Positiva, Lisboa (P)
  • Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro l'AIDS Lazio, Roma (I)
START OF PROJECT: 01/1997 END OF PROJECT: 04/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aim of which is to understand the reality of the HIV positive women and support them in their needs.

Main objectives:
  • To identify the problems met by HIV positive women through:
    • the collection of documentation on most recent research,
      the study of the general state of health of HIV positive women participating to this project,
      the analysis of the correlation between quality of life and the general state of health,
  • To reach for a better doctor-patient relationship by:
    • training HIV positive women in communication skills,
      organising contacts between the health professionals and the organizers of the project.
  • To inform and support the HIV positive women through a number of interventions such as:
    • giving psycho-social support,
      offering information on the most recent research so as to allow a better self-care,
      organising self-care activities,
      offering education in nutrition and physical exercise,
      creating a meeting place where HIV positive women may share their emotions and experience,
      offering complementary holistic support.


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Title of project
WOMEN'S AIDS KNOW-HOW

ORGANISATION:
Name: CENTRO SPERIMENTALE PER L'EDUCAZIONE SANITARIA
Address:
Via delle Cove 8
I - 06126 PERUGIA
Telephone:
+39 75 573 09 46; +39 75 572 83 77
Fax: +39 75 573 09 46
Contact person: Prof. Lamberto BRIZIARELLI
PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Escuela Andaluza de Salud Publica, Granada (E)
  • Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Athens (GR)
START OF PROJECT: 09/1997 END OF PROJECT: 09/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aim of which is to develop and extend the preventive strategies for the HIV infection in the European Union, specifically aimed at young adolescent, young and middle aged women (15 - 45 year age group) belonging to the so-called general population.

Main objectives and plan of work Phase I
  • Production of a ‘map' of institutions and non-governmental organisations working within the European Union having carried out research activities on knowledge, attitudes, behaviours, and information/prevention actions aimed at the following target groups: adolescent and young and middle aged women.
  • Creation and activation of a data-base that will be the basis for the development of a European Observatory to act as an interactive agent and reference point for institutions and non-governmental organisations working in Europe. First draft of a ‘reference manual'.

Phase II Realisation of a European seminar with the participation of responsible from institutions and non-governmental organisations working in the field of AIDS in Europe to elaborate common reference guide-lines in the area of information and prevention actions, evaluation of interventions and production of informative materials. Phase III Final draft and circulation of a ‘reference manual' for the development and extension of specific preventive strategies in the Member States of the European Union. Edition and circulation of a ‘reference manual', containing the collected data, systematised by area, type of action and target group, with a ‘map' of the resources present in Europe and with the guide-lines that have emerged from the European Seminar.



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Title of project
2EME CONFERENCE EUROPEENNE SUR LE SIDA EN EUROPE:
LES ASPECTS SOCIAUX ET COMPORTEMENTAUX

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:
Nom: AGENCE NATIONALE DE RECHERCHE SUR LE SIDA
Adresse:
66 bis, av. Jean Moulin
F - 75014 PARIS
Téléphone:
+33 1 44 12 26 24; +33 1 44 12 26 00
Fax: +33 1 44 12 26 17; +33 1 44 12 26 01
Personne de contact: Prof. Jean-Paul LEVY
ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis
    Bruxelles (B)
  • Universidad del País Vasco San Sebastian (E)
  • Robert Koch Institut, Berlin (D)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 01/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 04/1998
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

Organisation de la 2ème conférence sur "Le Sida en Europe: les aspects sociaux et comportementaux", Paris, Janvier 1998.

Objectifs:
  • Renforcer l'échange entre chercheurs engagés dans des travaux sur les dimensions sociales et psychosociales du sida dans les pays européens.
  • Actualiser le bilan de la recherche dans le domaine des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société, à la fois en terme de problématiques, de méthodes et de résultats, et d'applications.
  • Favoriser le transfert de connaissances auprès des acteurs de la lutte contre le sida et l'échange avec les chercheurs dans les disciplines biomédicales.
  • Poursuivre la coopération internationale dans le but d'identifier les domaines de recherche prioritaires utiles à la lutte contre le sida, et à favoriser la mise en oeuvre de projets de recherche communs.


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Title of project
PROJECT FOR THE REALIZATION OF A DATA BASE FOR THE EUROPEAN AIDS HELPLINES

ORGANISATION:

Name: ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ
Address: V.le Regina Elena, 299
I - 00161 ROMA
Telephone: +39 49 90 21 68
Fax: +39 49 38 42 10
Contact person: Prof. Aurelia SARGENTINI

ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Sida Info Service, Paris (F)
  • Act Together, Bruxelles (B)
  • AIDS Berodung, Luxembourg (L)
  • AIDS Danisma Merkesi, Berlin (D)
  • AIDS-Hilfe Köln (D)
  • AIDS-Hilfe Leipzig (D)
  • AIDS Infolijn, Amsterdam (NL)
  • AIDS Jouren, Noah's ArK, Stockholm (S)
  • AIDS Linien, København (DK)
  • Berliner AIDS-Hilfe (D)
  • Fundación Anti Sida, Madrid (E)
  • Hotline AIDS, Barcelona (E)
  • National AIDS Helpline, Glasgow (UK)
  • Sos Sida, Lisboa (P)
  • Telefono Verde, Roma (I)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 06/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 06/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at the realisation of a database for the European AIDS Help-lines.

Main aims:
  • Setting up of a computerised information database available to the help-lines which belong to the network and partially also to the Internet users interested in HIV and AIDS.
  • Intercommunication among the European help-lines.
  • Establishment of a base-line in order to share the data regarding the European users.

Furthermore, and integrated analysis of all data will allow to draw up an annual report on all the help-lines and their users, in order to set up a guidelines both for help-lines organisation and operators training, as well as to identify any lack of information among users on specific targets to be used for more effective information campaigns.



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Title of project
PUBLICATION ET DISTRIBUTION DE LA BROCHURE "SIDA:
LES FAITS, L'ESPOIR" DANS LES LANGUES EUROPEENNES

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:

Nom: MED EDITION
Adresse: 4/16 Impasse Prudhon
F - 94200 IVRY SUR SEINE
Téléphone: +33 1 42 17 71 20; +33 1 42 17 71 21
Fax: +33 1 42 17 71 22
Personne de contact:
Prof. Saad KHOURY

ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Bernhard Nocht Institut, Hamburg (D)
  • St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London (UK)
  • Université de Copenhague (DK)
  • Hospital Universitari Germans Trias, Barcelona (E)
  • Institute of Medical Technology, Tampere (FIN)
  • Athens School of Hygiene, Athènes (GR)
  • Municipal Health Centre, Amsterdam (NL)
  • Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano (I)
  • Universidade Lisboa (P)
  • International AIDS Society, Stockholm (S)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 03/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 07/1997
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

L'objectif est de publier et de distribuer la brochure "Sida, les faits, l'espoir" dans les langues suivantes:
Allemand, Espagnol, Grec, Portugais, Anglais, Finnois, Italien, Suédois, Danois, Français, Néerlandais.

Plan de travail:
  • Impression de la brochure "Sida, les faits, l'espoir" dans les langues susmentionnées.
  • Distribution par la poste de 10.000 brochures dans les Etats membres.


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Title of project
PREVENTION A LA CARTE

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:

Nom:ASSOCIATION DE RECHERCHE EUROPEENNE POUR LA MEDECINE INFORMATIQUE INTERACTIVE
Adresse: Rue Paul Lelong 27
F - 75002 PARIS
Téléphone: +33 1 40 45 05 23; +33 1 42 61 33 03
Fax: +33 1 42 61 33 02
Personne de contact: Dr Marc SHELLY

ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Agence de Prévention du Sida de la Communauté Française de Belgique, Bruxelles (B)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 07/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 07/1999
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

Projet pilote de prévention du VIH/sida destiné au développement et à la finalisation d'un outil interactif de communication, sensibilisation, information et d'éducation à la santé et simultanément d'investigation et d'évaluation, orienté selon un axe de prévention primaire et secondaire à la fois vers le grand public, notamment les jeunes, et les groupes les plus exposés.

Objectifs:
Mise en place du dispositif en France puis en Belgique au sein d'un réseau de plusieurs sites de proximité accueillant des jeunes de niveaux socio-éducatifs contrastés et de parcours multiples, a priori exposés à des risques hétérogènes (sexuels, usage de drogue par intraveineuse, etc...). Cette phase de finalisation multisite de l'outil, menée en étroite collaboration avec ses futurs utilisateurs appartenant à divers groupes cibles ainsi que les intervenants de ces actions de prévention - et les équipes de recherche partenaires du projet - a donné lieu notamment à des échanges suivis d'informations, d'expériences et de compétence entre les différents acteurs (cibles et intervenants) de ce projet de Recherche/Action.

L'objectif final de ce projet pilote est la mise en réseau - susceptible de constituer à terme un véritable observatoire télématique "sentinelle" - d'un outil attractif et innovant, à la fois d'intervention et d'investigation, dédié à la prévention du VIH/sida. L'enquête statistique anonyme intégrée au dispositif permet le recueil auprès de diverses catégories de consultants de données quantitatives et qualitatives - strictement anonymes - concernant les connaissances, croyances, comportements, pratiques, attitudes vis-à-vis du risque ainsi que l'évaluation de la perception individuelle et collective de ce risque et le suivi évolutif de ces indices. Ceci permettra, à terme, d'établir pour les différents groupes cibles concernés une véritable cartographie dynamique autorisant un suivi longitudinal, notamment de l'effet des diverses stratégies préventives mises en oeuvre, dans la perspective d'optimiser des actions de prévention ciblée.


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Title of project
AIDS PUBLIC EDUCATION IN EUROPE: INFORMATION EXCHANGE

ORGANISATION:

Name: LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE
Address: Keppel street
UK - WC1E 7HT LONDON
Telephone: +44 171 927 20 36; +44 171 636 86 36
Fax: +44 171 580 65 07; +44 171 637 32 38
Contact person: Ms Kaye WELLINGS

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • IPAC (B)
  • Board of Health (DK)
  • APF (F)
  • BZgA (D)
  • HSSCA (GR)
  • Department of Health, Dublin (IRL)
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome (I)
  • AIDSBerodung-Croix Rouge (L)
  • STD Fdn (NL)
  • Board of Health (N)
  • Ministry of Health (POL)
  • CNLCS, Lisboa (P)
  • Huete (E)
  • Malmqvist (S)
  • IUMSP (CH)
  • Department of Health (UK)
START OF PROJECT: 10/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Main Objectives:
  • To document information relating to HIV/AIDS public education campaigns in Europe and to provide a resource for use by policy makers.
  • To compare and contrast the experiences of Member States - identifying key programmatic factors which may lead to more successful implementation.
  • To explore the extent to which lessons learnt in one Member State have relevance for others, and for other European countries.
  • To facilitate the selection and implementation of effective preventive strategies.
  • To disseminate the conclusions in a policy relevant form.

The project ‘AIDS Public Education in Europe: Information Exchange' centrally supports actions c11-13 of the programme of the prevention of AIDS and certain other communicable diseases and furthers the specific objective of the Community Action Plan in relation to AIDS' to help to increase awareness and improve public information and education and provide, including with regard to the early detection of communicable diseases, better training for health professionals and relevant personnel'. A strong indication of need for exchange of experience in the field of AIDS Public Education became clear in the response to the first phase of this project. This was the first systematised attempt to explore to what extent interventions transfer from one context to another.

With the move towards European unity it is no longer practicable to assess health promotional activities solely on national basis. The opening up of Eastern and Central Europe presents further opportunities for experiences to be shared. A major focus for the work of this project lies in drawing parallels and exposing differences between country specific initiatives and their outcomes in order to identify key predictive variables in the success and failure of aspects of campaigns.



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Title of project
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEURAL EXPERT SYSTEM (NES) FOR PREDICTING AIDS RISK PERCEPTION IN VARIOUS SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATION

ORGANISATION:

Name: CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO INTERNAZIONALE
Address: Corso Sangallo 95-99
I - 52048 MONTE SAN SAVINO (AR)
Telephone: +39 575 844 418; +39 575 844 419
Fax: +39 575 844 544
Contact person: Dr. Umberto ZERBINI

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Universidad de Barcelona (E)
  • Universität Tübingen (D)
  • University of London (UK)
START OF PROJECT: 03/1997 END OF PROJECT: 09/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at developing a neural expert system (NES) for predicting AIDS risk perception in various segments of population.

Main objectives:
Development of a computerised system which can be consulted by people involved in planning prevention strategies about AIDS. The system will be a repository of knowledge on how persons perceive risk about AIDS and will be an important piece of information in planning strategies of prevention. The final product will be a neural expert system which will run under Windows and will be user-friendly in the consultation.

The neural expert system will give reliable estimates of perceived risk about AIDS in various segments of populations but more importantly will permit simulations. It will answer questions such as "What will be the impact on the perception of risk of HIV transmission if we change the attitude X or the behaviour Y?"



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Title of project
AIDS AND YOUTH IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL,
A STUDY ON DETERMINANTS OF SEXUAL PREVENTION

ORGANISATION:

Name: ESCUELA ANDALUZA DE SALUD PUBLICA
Address: Campus Universitario Cartuja APDO. 2070
E - 18080 GRANADA
Telephone: +34 58 16 10 44
Fax: +34 58 16 11 42
Contact person: Dr. Francisco Javier CATALA VILLANUEVA

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Ministerio da Educaçao, Lisboa (P)
START OF PROJECT: 02/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at identifing the factors involved in the prevention of sexually transmitted HIV among young people in Andalusia (Spain), Algarve and Alentejo (Portugal).

Main objectives:
  • To identify factors predisposing-leading to particular sexual practices: information, attitudes, values, believes.
  • To identify factors that will make it easier for young people to practice safer sex: personal abilities, the existence and accessibility of resources (instruments, centres, services.)
  • To identify factors that contribute to reinforcing safer sex practices and factors that contribute to reinforcing unsafe sexual practices as well as factors that help to finish with unsafe sex or those that dissuade from practising safe sex: attitudes and behaviours of the environment (partner, family, peer group, health professionals, social helpers, and the mass media), self-reinforcement, physical benefits (pleasure, convenience), touchable rewards (economic benefits, lower costs.)
  • To provide useful data which will contribute to develop efficient policies, projects and actions to prevent the spread HIV/AIDS.


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Title of project
EVALUATION OF METHODS FOR HIV PREVENTION IN THE SCHOOL

ORGANISATION:

Name: OSSERVATORIO EPIDEMIOLOGICO REGIONE LAZIO
Address: 53, via di S. Costanza
I - 00198 ROMA
Telephone: +39 6 861 00 40
Fax: +39 6 860 37 52
Contact person: Dr. Carlo Alberto PERUCCI

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Institut Municipal de la Salut, Ajuntament Barcelona (E)
  • Hellenic Centre for the Control of AIDS and STDs, Athens (GR)
START OF PROJECT: 06/1997 END OF PROJECT: 07/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at evaluating the methods of HIV prevention in schools in three European countries (Spain, Italy and Greece).

Main objectives:
  • To implement new prevention programmes of HIV infection in schools, on the basis of the results of the evaluation process of previous interventions in Italy and in Spain, exploiting the methods and the research tools that proved effective in such previous experiences.
  • To evaluate the new interventions, to compare the results obtained in Italy and in Spain, with the aim of providing models of validated programmes.
  • To disseminate validated tools for prevention interventions in schools.


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Title of project
JUGEN-AIDS-PRÄVENTION IN GRENZÜBERGREIFENDEN SPRACHRÄUMEN, PHASE 2

ORGANISATION:

Name: AIDS-HILFE AACHEN
Address: Zollernstr. 1
D - 52 070 AACHEN
Telephone: +49 241 532 558; +49 241 533 872
Fax: +49 241 902 232
Contact person: Herr Frank PORTEGYS

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Ministerium der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft, Abteilung Familie, Gesundheit und Soziales, Eupen (B)
START OF PROJECT: 12/1997 END OF PROJECT: 06/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Projekt dessen Hauptziel die Organisation und Umsetzung des in der ersten Projektphase entwickelten AIDS-Präventionskonzeptes im schulischen und außerschulischen Jugendbereich für die Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft Belgiens und den Südkreis Aachen ist.

Ziele der geplanten Aktion:

Die folgende Feinziele sollten erreicht werden:
  • Sicherung und Ausbau des deutsch-belgischen grenzübergreifenden Kooperationsnetzes;
  • Installierung eines gemeinsamen Präventionsarbeit auf Grundlage der durchgeführten Befragungen von Jugendlichen;
  • Entwicklung und Institutionalisierung eines gemeinsamen grenzübergreifenden Weiterbildungskonzeptes für Multiplikatoren.


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Title of project
A EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP WITH AFRICAN COMMUNITIES FOR ACTION FOR PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

ORGANISATION:

Name: FOCUS CONSULTANCY Ltd
Address: 33B Warwick Square
UK - SW1V 2AQ LONDON
Telephone: +44 171 932 00 72
Fax: +44 171 932 00 74
Contact person: Mr Martin BENNETT

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • GRDR, Montreuil (F)
START OF PROJECT: 02/1997 END OF PROJECT: 02/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at developing methods to reduce the risks of HIV infection among African communities and their social networks/contacts in EU countries.

Main objectives:
  • To develop a social map of the sub-Saharan African communities in Europe, key migration routes (internal and external) and the main-European communication and social networks.
  • To carry out pilot actions in two EU countries, France and UK, linking community-based health promotion activities in Europe with similar activities in selected African countries (e.g. Uganda, Mali).
  • To launch a-European network of African community organisations able to deliver effective HIV/AIDS prevention work, health promotion and safe sex education.
  • To identify and develop models of collaboration between public health authorities and community organisations in the context of HIV/AIDS infection and notification which are applicable to sexually transmitted and other infectious diseases (e.g. tuberculosis, hepatitis). In other words, to tackle specific issues affecting African communities - e.g. late presentation for diagnosis and treatment, and social exclusion of those with AIDS - using methods which are typical of African communities and can therefore be applied to other infectious diseases.


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Title of project
EUROPEAN PROJECT "AIDS & MOBILITY"

ORGANISATION:

Name: NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASES PREVENTION
Address: De Bleek 13
NL - 3440 WOERDEN
Telephone: +31 34 843 76 00
Fax: +31 34 843 76 66
Contact person: Drs Jeanette DE PUTTER

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Commissão Nacional de Luta contra a SIDA, Lisboa (P)
  • Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen (B)
  • AIDS Information Zentrale, Wien (A)
  • Service Social des Etrangers, Bruxelles (B)
  • National Board of Health, København (DK)
  • Migrations Santé, Paris (F)
  • Hellenic Centre for the Control of AIDS and STDs
  • Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Madrid (E)
  • National Institute of Public Health, Stockholm (S)
  • National School of Public Health, Athens (GR)
  • Bundesamt für Gesundheit, Bern (CH)
  • DFFP, Middlesex (UK)
  • EUROPAP/TAMPEP, Gent (B) and London (UK)
  • GNP+, Amsterdam (NL)
  • IPPF, Utrecht (NL)
  • Sozialpädagogisches Institut Berlin (D)
  • Cranstoun Projects, London (UK)
  • VIA, Duisburg (D)
  • National Public Health Institute, Helsinki (FIN)
  • Eastern Health Board, Dublin (IRL)
  • Telefono Verde, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma (I)
  • International Organisation for Migration
  • The NAZ Project, London (UK)
START OF PROJECT: 01/1997 END OF PROJECT: 01/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at providing mobile populations with appropriate HIV/AIDS prevention information.

Main objectives:
  • to highlight and respond to the specific needs of mobile populations with regard to HIV/AIDS education and prevention programmes;
  • to facilitate and encourage collaboration and exchange among non-governmental, community based and governmental organisations by providing resources and a network for the exchange of experiences, expertise, views and concerns.

The European Project AIDS & Mobility provided the following services:

  • a comprehensive documentation service: books, articles, project descriptions, reports and educational materials;
  • a referral service: the network of the project will consist of approximately 1250 organisations and individuals involved in HIV and health education aimed at mobile populations;
  • consultancy: the staff will participate in steering committees and supports organisations in their prevention efforts;
  • training;
  • advocacy and agenda setting: the staff will participate in various international meetings and publish relevant experiences/policy issues;
  • the co-ordination of the implementation of pilot projects;
  • the co-organisation of international workshops and expert meetings.


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Title of project
TRAINING IN THE DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION
AND EVALUATION OF AIDS PUBLIC EDUCATION INITIATIVES

ORGANISATION:

Name: LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE
Address: Keppel street
UK - WC1E 7HT LONDON
Telephone: +44 171 927 20 36; +44 171 636 86 36
Fax: +44 171 580 65 07; +44 171 637 32 38
Contact person: Ms Kaye WELLINGS

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Mr Yannas Tountas, Institute of Social Preventive Medicine, Athens (GR)
  • Professor George Papaevangelou, Athens School of Hygiene, Athens 5GR)
START OF PROJECT: 09/1997 END OF PROJECT: 09/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aims of which is the training in the development, implementation and evaluation of AIDS public education initiatives.

Main Objectives:
To provide a mechanism by which those working in the field of AIDS public education may assist those less experienced in developing and evaluating AIDS Public education initiatives.
To provide training and support to:
  • develop skill using paid and unpaid media,
    develop skills working with journalists,
    develop research and evaluation skills.

To disseminate the stock of knowledge on evaluation of AIDS public education.
The project will provide intensive customised training to key personnel in three priority cities:
Needs assessment will be conducted in one pilot country to determine:

  • the extent of resources available for AIDS Public education,
    size and nature of the epidemic,
    existing working arrangements and organisational support,
    the cultural and political context in the country.

The needs assessment will permit the tailoring of the training modules to the particular circumstances of the country.
Concurrently a training program will be developed compromising core training in:

  • developing public education initiatives
    working with journalists
    research and evaluation

Additional Modules will be selected according to key criteria:

  • the cultural and political climate
  • the nature and scale of the epidemic and the groups affected
  • the availability of technical resources and existing expertise and experience in running public education initiatives.

A training manual will be produced for use during the training days. In addition a video will be produced comprising a selection of TV spots from around Europe, illustrating particular themes of relevance and their application of specific target groups.

Developing and evaluating AIDS public education initiatives is still a relatively new area of health education activity. The requirement for more systematic and targeted training in the development, implementation and evaluation of AIDS public education clearly exists amongst many Central/Eastern and Southern European countries. The Health Authority has over ten years experience of doing this work in the UK and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has many years experience in training people from around the world in health education and epidemiology. This combined expert knowledge base is a valuable resource for countries with limited experience of AIDS public education.



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Title of project
IMPROVING QUALITY OF CARE OF HIV POSITIVE CLIENTS
THROUGH INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA

ORGANISATION:

Name: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE
Address: Adelphi Building
UK - PR1 2HE PRESTON
Telephone: +44 1772 89 21 13
Fax: +44 1772 89 29 31
Contact person: Mr. Alan ROFF

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Kemi-Tornio Polytechnic, Unit of Health Care and Nursing, Kemi (FIN)
  • Cork AIDS Alliance, Cork (IRL)
  • University of Barcelona (E)
  • Gruppo C Rete Nazionale, ULSS 25 Regione Veneto, Verona (I)
START OF PROJECT: 09/1997 END OF PROJECT: 12/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aim of which is to improve quality of care of HIV+ clients through Interactive Multimedia.

Main objectives
  • To develop an interactive multimedia package designed to reduce anxiety and prejudice in health professionals who have little or no experience in dealing with clients who are HIV positive but may be responsible for providing care and support for them.
  • To disseminate and evaluate the experience of health professionals who have dealt extensively with HIV+ clients.
  • To evaluate the experiences of HIV+ individuals in terms of what they would consider optimal in terms of support from health professionals.
  • To make these experiences available through the use of interactive multimedia and digital video, allowing care providers to increase their understanding of individuals' experience of AIDS and their dealing with HIV+ patients in everyday care situations. By gaining a more informed understanding of the patient's experience of AIDS, the carers' attitudes would be influenced positively.


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Title of project
THE EUROPEAN PRIMARY CARE AIDS NETWORK (EPCAN)

ORGANISATION:

Name: UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM
Address: Meibergdreef 15
NL - 1105 AZ AMSTERDAM
Telephone: +31 20 566 46 06; +31 20 566 47 06
Fax: +31 20 691 35 48
Contact person: Prof. Dr. Lodewijk WIGERSMA

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Prins Leopold, Antwerpen (B)
  • University of Odense (DK)
  • Lähetyksen Kehitysapu, Vantaa (FIN)
  • Société Française de Sidénologie de Ville, Paris (F)
  • DAGNÄ, Aachen (D)
  • Koropi Health Centre, Athens (GR)
  • University College and Trinity College, Dublin (IRL)
  • Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo (I)
  • Erasmus University, Rotterdam (NL)
  • Portuguese Association of General Practitioners, Lisboa (P)
  • Centro de Salud Occidente, Cordoba (E)
  • The Spittal Street Centre, Edinburgh (UK)
  • WONCA, Newcastle (UK)
  • Edinburgh Drug Addiction Study (UK)
  • Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London (UK)
  • FACTS Health Coordination centre, London (UK)
START OF PROJECT: 05/1997 END OF PROJECT: 11/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at setting up a European primary AIDS care network (EPCAN).

Main objectives:
  • To stimulate and execute concerted action between projects within EC Member States and other European countries in primary HIV/AIDS care, with respect to the closely interrelated fields of care and prevention, research in both areas, and education/support of care providers and patients. This includes projects aimed at special groups (IDUs, families, women/children, gay men, prisoners) and projects concerning improvement of the access to and utilisation of primary care;
  • To exchange and co-ordinate information, projects and actions in these fields;
  • To produce and distribute overviews of all projects, and to widely distribute results through international meetings and conferences, reports to relevant organisations, and in scientific, educational and popular journals and books;
  • To establish close links to complementary Community programmes and other European organisations.


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Title of project
EUROPEAN PWA/HIV LEADERSHIP TRAINING

ORGANISATION:

Name: ITALIAN LEAGUE FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS
Address: Viale Tibaldi 41
I - 20143 MILANO
Telephone: +39 2 58 11 49 80; +39 2 89 40 16 11
Fax: +39 2 89 40 09 41
Contact person: Mr Vittorio AGNOLETTO M.D.

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Fundacion Anti-Sida de España, Madrid (E)
  • AIDES Languedoc Cévennes, Nîmes (F)
  • HIV Vereniging Nederland, Amsterdam (NL)
START OF PROJECT: 09/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at creating training and education guidelines that facilitate greater involvement and leadership of seropositive persons and people with AIDS (PWA/HIV) in Southern Europe, not only in AIDS programs but in the full context of the HIV epidemic. Such leadership, evident in the countries of Northern Europe, offers significant benefits in the fight against AIDS, particularly in the following areas :
  • self-help groups for PWA/HIV (persons with AIDS or HIV) that provide not only psychological support, but that also promote personal autonomy and social activism;
  • stronger influence with public and private health institutions, benefiting the development of medical research, health and social services and public policy;
  • more accurate public images of seropositive persons, which increase self-esteem among PWA/HIV, encourage the reduction of passivity in self-care, and reduce discrimination against seropositive persons.

The project articulates guidelines for PWA/HIV leadership training and education which are applicable to the varied cultural realities of the Member States.



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Title of project
TARGETING FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND PARTNERS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IN ORDER TO OFFER INFORMATIVE, EMOTIONAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT

ORGANISATION:

Name: NOAH'S ARC RED CROSS
Address: Drottninggatan 61
S - 11121 STOCKHOLM
Telephone: +46 8 700 46 00; +46 8 700 46 50
Fax: +46 8 700 46 10; +46 8 700 46 51
Contact person: Mr Ulf ROSENQVIST

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Austrian Red Cross, Wien (A)
  • Danish Red Cross, København (DK)
  • Finnish Red Cross, Helsinki (FIN)
  • French Red Cross, Paris (F)
  • Italian Red Cross, Roma (I)
  • Luxembourg Red Cross, Luxembourg (L)
  • Spanish Red Cross, Madrid (E)
  • Greek Red Cross, Athens (GR)
START OF PROJECT: 10/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aim of which is to target family members , friends and partners of people living with HIV in order to offer informative, emotional and practical support.

Main objective is a training programme for 32 key persons among staff and volunteers from 8 different Red Cross National Societies of the EU, based on the Noah's Ark model of support and care targeting families, friends and partners of people living with HIV/AIDS. The training programme shall help the 32 Red Cross staff and volunteers to meet these needs by offering education and counselling.

Secondly to supervise these key persons when they implement the model in their own countries according to national situation. As a result we estimate that in 1999: 3200 relatives, friends and partners of HIV positives will be educated and emotionally supported by the key persons. The well being of these 3200 persons will increase and they will create networks in their surroundings and thus increase the understanding of HIV/AIDS in society as well as reduce irrational fear and prejudices which otherwise might provoke discrimination of HIV positives.


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Title of project
ELECTHIV - EUROPEAN LEVEL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF COMPLEMENTARY TREATMENTS

ORGANISATION:

Name: ITALIAN LEAGUE FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS
Address: Viale Tibaldi 41
I - 20143 MILANO
Telephone: +39 2 58 11 49 80; +39 2 89 40 16 11
Fax: +39 2 89 40 09 41
Contact person:Mr Vittorio AGNOLETTO M.D.

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Positivo, Lisboa (P)
  • Actua, Barcelona (E)
  • Deutsche AIDS Hilfe, Berlin (D)
  • Action Treatment, Paris (F)
  • Witte Raven, Antwerpen (B)
  • Positively Healthy, Surrey (UK)
START OF PROJECT: 03/1997 END OF PROJECT: 05/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at investigating the field of use of complementary forms of assistance among people living with HIV/AIDS and its possible relations with parameters of quality of life and long periods of asymptomacity. The forms of complementary support include: nutritional and vitamin support, relaxation techniques, traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy and various others.

Main objectives:
  • Creation of a valid panorama of the present state of knowledge and entity of use of complementary forms of assistance among people living with HIV/AIDS.
  • Determination of the practices/methods most utilised/better known.
  • Preliminary screening of subjective reports on efficacy/safety results from users and their possible relation with amelioration of quality of life.
  • Individualisation of eventual problems regarding : knowledge use and relationship with conventional health practitioners and investigation of the eventuality of abuse (economical and psychological).


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Title of project
THE PROJECT FOR PROMOTING SKILLS TO WORK
WITH COUPLES AND FAMILIES LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS

ORGANISATION:

Name: SEKSUAALINEN TASAVERTAISUUS SETA RY/AIDS TUKIKESKUS
Address: Hietaniemenkatu 5,4 kr
FIN - 00100 HELSINKI
Telephone: +358 9 454 20 70; +358 9 566 51 10
Fax: +358 9 454 20760
Contact person: Ms Hannele LEHTIKUUSI

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • The Terrence Higgins Trust, London (UK)
START OF PROJECT: 03/1997 END OF PROJECT: 07/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project aiming at identifying the type of counselling and therapy utilised with couples and families living with HIV/AIDS which can be applied in a different cultural setting.

Main objectives
  • To enhance the skills to work with couples and families living with HIV/AIDS;
  • To gain knowledge and methods to prevent HIV/AIDS-related psychosocial problems among couples and families;
  • To develop methods in promoting safe sex habits among partners living together;
  • To create good consultative and practical co-operation between two European organisations as well as to strengthen the existing networks in this field.


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Title of project
HIV/AIDS FAMILY CAREGIVING/CAREFUL COMMUNICATION

ORGANISATION:

Name: HELLENIC SOCIETY FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE
Address: Sapfous 59
GR - 17676 ATHENS
Telephone: +30 1 725 39 02
Fax: +30 1 725 39 02
Contact person: Mr Yannis SKALKIDIS

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Université de Louvain, Brussels (B)
  • Centre Hospitalier Victor Jousselin, Dreux (F)
  • Universität Köln (D)
  • Avedis Donebedian Foundation, Barcelona (E)
  • Hospital Sant Pan, Barcelona (E)
  • Weald of Kent, Tunbridge Wells (UK)
  • Merton, Sutton & Wandsworth Health, Mitcham (UK)
  • International Society for Quality in Health Care, Carlton, Victoria (AUS)
START OF PROJECT: 06/1997 END OF PROJECT: 06/1999
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the aiming at improving communication among family members and health care professionals, and enhancing quality of health assistance provided to HIV/AIDS patients.

Main objectives:
  • To examine AIDS family caregivers interaction with professional health care providers.
  • To enhance communication among AIDS family caregivers and health care providers, identify and reduce the negative aspects of it, for effective patient assistance.
  • To identify family needs and provide support to families and to professional health care teams to work together for the common good of the HIV and AIDS patient.
  • To provide information and training to AIDS family caregivers which can be led to better patient assistance at home and at the hospital, and thus to enhance patients' satisfaction.
  • To develop, test and disseminate an information package for AIDS family care givers based on a survey with family members and health assistance teams, as well as on relevant literature.


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Title of project
ACCESS PROCEDURES FOR PEOPLE WITH AIDS TO HOME-CARE SETTINGS IN THE LARGE EUROPEAN CITIES: NETWORKING BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

ORGANISATION:

Name: COOPERATIVA "FARSI PROSSIMO" CARITAS AMBROSIANA
Address: Via San Bernardino 4
I - 20122 MILANO
Telephone: +39 2 760 22 814; +39 2 760 37 211
Fax: +39 2 760 03 163; +39 2 760 21 676
Contact person: Mr Giovanni CARRARA

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Ayuntamiento de Madrid - Departamento Drogadependencia - Concejala de Servicios Sociales (E)
  • Plan Regional del SIDA, Madrid (E)
  • Katholische Stiftungsfachhochschule München (D)
START OF PROJECT: 09/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aim of which is to provide access to procedures for people with AIDS to home-care settings in large European cities through:

Main objectives:
  • setting a permanent monitoring of population needs and services supplied;
  • comparing different experiences in large European cities;
  • making confrontation in the relations between public and private agencies and the reciproque networking experience;
  • improving home care settings accessibility.

Tasks:

  • International co-ordination, aiming to set the project and to start confrontation between the works being carried on in the concerned cities..
  • Establishing common protocols for application for home care settings, in the aim of improving quality and ways of insertion.
  • Analysing insertion's request for choosing the most appropriate community, following social, health, psychological needs of applicants; the aim is to improve communities capability in offering the best services.
  • Setting the access procedures on the common protocol base, make and run a waiting list in each metropolitan area.
  • Analysing the access procedures in each country and make a confrontation.
  • Access procedures follow-up in each country.


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Title of project
EVALUATION OF GUIDED GROUP PROGRAMMES FOR PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS,
CREATION OF A NETWORK OF THERAPISTS IN GERMANY

ORGANISATION:

Name: E.K. UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN
Address: Reutlingerstr. 12
D - 72072 TÜBINGEN
Telephone: +49 70 71 29 77 301
Fax: +49 70 71 29 595
Contact person: Mr. Michael VON DÖRING

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • Dr. Med. Jordi Blanch, Unitat de psiquiatria de Consulta I Enllac, Hospital Clinic i Provincial de Barcelona, Barcelona (E)
  • Dipl. Psych. Maria Teresa Sigardo, Comite Ciutada de Lluita Contra la SIDA, Barcelona (E)
  • Dipl. Psych. Monserrat Rufo, COGAM, Madrid (E)
  • Dr. Phil. Ingo Stöckel, PARSEC, Rome (I)
START OF PROJECT: 03/1997 END OF PROJECT: 10/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

Project the main aims of which is the evaluation of guided group programmes for people with HIV/AIDS and the creation of a network of therapists in Spain, Italy and Germany.

Main Objectives:
  • Evaluation of guided self-help group programmes commonly used in AIDS-Help organisations as regards their effect on psychological and physical variables, development of a European multicultural new concept of guided self help group programmes.
  • Establishment of indications for different groups like homosexuals, drugusers, women and improvement of the established programmes at the AIDS-help organisations on the basis of a handbook on group therapy.
  • Increase of co-operation, exchange of expertise and scientific results between large self-help organisations in Italy, Spain, and Germany.

Therapy groups take place in the centres, accompanied by regular supervision, local and international meetings of the therapist and the responsible persons for the study. The training of the therapists is continued and concurrently 200 people with HIV/AIDS are examined with an age range from about 18 to 60. Each group contains about 10 persons. Every centre should run about three groups and have about 16 meetings per group. The group members are examined at 4 different times through questionnaires and interviews. The examinations times are four weeks before treatment (T1), at the beginning of the treatment (T2), at the end of the treatment (T3) and 12 weeks later (T4). Furthermore the participants keep a weekly diary from T1 to T3. The data collected from T1 to T2 serves as a baseline measurement. This time span might be expanded to three months. The data will be used to control the results for the data collected during the intervention (T2 and T3) and the follow-up time from T3 and T4. The monitoring, the evaluation and the input of data is done parallel to this.



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Title of project
PROYECTO PILOTO DE ESTUDIO DE NECESIDADES Y ASISTENCIA P
SICO-SOCIAL A NIÑOS VIH Y A FAMILIAS AFECTADAS POR EL SIDA

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:

Nom: COMITE CIUDADANO ANTI-SIDA DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA
Adresse: C/. Flora 7 bajo
E - 46010 VALENCIA
Téléphone: +34 6 361 88 11; +34 6 391 67 67
Fax: +34 6 360 22 00; +34 6 391 66 93
Personne de contact: M. Antonio GIMENO SANCHEZ

ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • European Forum on HIV/AIDS,Children and Families, London (UK)
  • London Lighthouse, London (UK)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 10/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 11/1998
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

Projet pilote concernant l'étude des besoins en matière d'assistance psychosociale des enfants séropositifs ou malades du sida ainsi que des familles affectées par le virus.

Objectifs:
  • Etudier les besoins des enfants séropositifs ou malades du sida, de leurs familles originelles ou adoptives ainsi que des familles affectées par le virus dans la ville de Valencia. Identifier les besoins en assistance bio-psycho-sociale non satisfaits parmi cette population.
  • Mettre en relation ce groupe cible et les services sociaux publics et privés compétents.
  • sensibiliser les institutions publiques et privées à l'égard de ce groupe cible.
  • Mettre en exergue les besoins psychologiques non satisfaits des enfants séropositifs mis sous la tutelle de la Generalitat Valenciana.
  • Mettre en exergue les besoins psychologiques des familles affectées par le VIH/sida.
  • Réaliser une étude comparative des programmes de soutien (psychologique et social) développés en Europe et destinés à ce groupe cible.


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Title of project
MISE A JOUR DU THESAURUS EUROPEEN ET DE LA BASE DE DONNEES DE LITTERATURE GRISE SUR LE SIDA ET L'INFECTION PAR LE VIH

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:

Nom: CENTRE REGIONAL D'INFORMATION ET DE PREVENTION DU SIDA
Adresse: 192, rue Lecourbe
F - 75015 PARIS
Téléphone: +33 1 53 68 88 88
Fax: +33 1 53 68 88 89
Personne de contact: Dr. Didier JAYLE

ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Agence de Prévention du sida, Bruxelles (B)
  • AIDS-Info, Odense (DK)
  • Associazione Gruppo Abele, Torino (I)
  • NISSO, Utrecht (NL)
  • SIDA-STUDI, Barcelona (E)
  • Université de Louvain, Bruxelles (B)
  • Archiv für Sozialpolitik, Frankfurt (D)
  • Stichting AIDS Fonds, Amsterdam (NL)
  • Terrence Higgins Trust, London (UK)
  • NHPIS/HEA, London (UK)
  • IPAC, Antwerpen (B)
  • CNLCS, Lisboa (P)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 03/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 05/1999
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

Continuation d'un projet permettant la mise à jour du thésaurus européen et de la base de données de littérature grise sur le sida et l'infection par le VIH.

Objectifs:
  • Mise à jour du Thésaurus Multilingue Européen sur le sida (allemand, anglais, danois, espagnol, français, italien, néerlandais, portugais).
    Corrections apportées à la version 1.0, ajouts de nouveaux concepts afin de suivre l'évolution du domaine de la connaissance qu'il recouvre, ajouts de relations sémantiques et de notes d'application afin de faciliter son utilisation.
    Promotion, diffusion et formation des utilisateurs.
    Edition des versions 1.1 et 2.0
    Mise à jour de la base de données bibliographiques européenne de littérature grise sur le sida.
    Intégration de nouveaux centres producteurs de notices.
    Apports de nouvelles notices par les producteurs existants et par les nouveaux.
    Edition d'un nouveau CD-ROM.

Le thésaurus européen mis à jour régulièrement permettra de répondre de façon adaptée aux besoins des centres d'information et de documentation sur le sida. Le thésaurus permettra une indexation et des recherches documentaires précises dans la base de données européenne. Il permettra de traiter tous les documents (dossiers, rapports, enquêtes, avis, communiqués de presse, brochures d'information, affiches, cassettes audio et audio-visuelles, kits pédagogiques, etc...) référencés dans la base de données, dans tous les domaines de l'infection à VIH et du sida (éthique, économie, psychosocial, prévention, thérapeutique, prise en charge, etc...)

La base de données mise à jour contiendra de nombreuses références issues de centres de documentation appartenant à l'Union européenne, ainsi que des centres extérieurs (Suisse, Canada, centres africains appartenant au Réseau CRIPS) et sera un outil complet à la disposition des chercheurs, professionnels et du public.



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Title of project
SIDA: URGENCES POUR LES PAYS LATINS DE LA COMMUNAUTE EUROPEENNE
- FRANCE, ESPAGNE, ITALIE ET PORTUGAL

ORGANISME RESPONSABLE:

Nom: AIDES FEDERATION NATIONALE
Adresse: 23, rue de Château Landon
F - 75010 PARIS
Téléphone: +33 1 53 26 26 81; +33 1 53 26 26 80
Fax: +33 1 53 26 27 85; +33 1 53 26 27 92
Personne de contact: M. Franck JOUCLA

ORGANISMES PARTENAIRES:
  • Fundación Anti-Sida de España, Madrid (E)
  • ABRAÇO, Lisboa (P)
  • Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro l'AIDS, Milano (I)
  • AIDES Provence, Marseille (F)
DEBUT DES TRAVAUX: 04/1997 FIN DES TRAVAUX: 02/1998
OBJECTIFS ET CONTENU DU PROJET:

Projet visant à faire un état des lieux des diverses barrières politiques et sociales constituant un frein à la promotion de la réduction des risques de contamination du VIH/sida dans 4 Etats membres de l'Union européenne (France, Espagne, Portugal et Italie) ayant des racines culturelles et sociales communes.

Objectifs:
  • Faire un état des lieux des problèmes et des besoins des pays latins susmentionnés (qui totalisent plus de 75 % des cas de Sida déclarés de toute la Communauté européenne) en terme de politique sanitaire et sociale nécessaire au développement de programmes de réduction des risques de contamination du VIH/Sida et d'assistance médicale pour les populations les plus vulnérables de cette région : les usagers de drogue par voie intraveineuse, les homosexuels et les bisexuels, les personnes incarcérés et les migrants.
  • Pour chacune des populations cibles, établir un rapport incluant un état des lieux dans les 4 Etats membres, les problèmes majeurs qui constituent des barrières à une politique efficace de réduction des risques et d'assistance médicale, des recommandations à l'attention des ONG et des gouvernements de chaque pays.
  • Effectuer une synthèse sur les 4 thèmes permettant d'élaborer des recommandations quant aux axes politiques à soutenir ou à promouvoir auprès des Etats membres de cette région, y compris en ce qui concerne les droits des personnes appartenant à ces populations vulnérables.
  • Améliorer les programmes mis en place dans chaque pays par une meilleure coordination entre ONG et services publics, entre ONG elles-mêmes ainsi qu'entre ces 4 pays.
  • Initier des projets novateurs transnationaux pour cette région sur ces grands thèmes.


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Title of project
EUROPEAN AIDS DATABASE AND DIRECTORY ON NGO'S ACTIVE IN HIV/AIDS PREVENTION

ORGANISATION:

Name: NAM PUBLICATIONS
Address: 16A Clapham Common Southside
UK - SW4 7AB
Telephone: +44 171 627 32 00
Fax: +44 171 627 31 01
Contact person:Mr Colin NEE

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS:
  • ARCAT-SIDA, Paris (F)
  • ANLAIDS, Rome (I)
  • FIT, Madrid (E)
  • Finnish Body Positive, Helsinki (FIN)
START OF PROJECT: 11/1997 END OF PROJECT: 11/1998
OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS OF THE PROJECT:

After assessment of the results of the three previous phases of production of the ‘Directory of European Community AIDS Service Organisations' a third phase was implemented in order to:
  • encourage and support the sharing of information and expertise on HIV/AIDS throughout Europe;
  • enable communication and co-operation between those involved in the fight against AIDS in Europe.

The European AIDS Directory provides:

  • information on specific expertise in HIV and AIDS work both at national and European level;
  • key contacts in all nations and regions of Europe, enabling further local referral.

The project consisted in researching, translating, publishing and distributing a new European AIDS Directory and a new European AIDS Database. The directory was extensively indexed so that all areas of expertise and special interest in HIV and AIDS work were clearly described. Such areas of expertise include treatments work; immigration and migration; information and documentation; clinical research; and work with particularly affected communities. These categories formed the principal search tools for the Database. Although the principal focus of both resources were national and regional organisations with special expertise, it also includes detailed regional and local listings. The directory has been published as one multi-lingual edition in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The database is operable in any of these five languages.



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