Applied social issues internship report: Understanding the dynamics of prevention, care, and empowerment: A systems approach to HIV/AIDS policy innovation

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
David William Lounsbury
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Aids Policy ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals China AIDS policy implementation: reversing the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2015

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (Supplement 2) ◽  
pp. ii1-ii3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Wu ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
R. Detels ◽  
M. J. Rotheram-Borus
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Aids Policy ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals The implications of early marriage for HIV/AIDS policy

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Bruce ◽  
Shelley Clark
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Safe Motherhood ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
Aids Policy ◽  
Health Vulnerability ◽  
Health Programming ◽  
Adolescent Reproductive Health ◽  
Hiv Aids

This brief is based on a background paper prepared for the WHO/UNFPA/Population Council Technical Consultation on Married Adolescents, held in Geneva, Switzerland, December 9–12, 2003. The final paper is entitled “Including married adolescents in adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS policy.” The consultation brought together experts from the United Nations, donors, and nongovernmental agencies to consider the evidence regarding married adolescent girls’ reproductive health, vulnerability to HIV infection, social and economic disadvantage, and rights. The relationships to major policy initiatives—including safe motherhood, HIV, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights—were explored, and emerging findings from the still relatively rare programs that are directed at this population were discussed. Married adolescent girls are outside the conventionally defined research interests, policy diagnosis, and basic interventions that have underpinned adolescent reproductive health programming and many HIV/AIDS prevention activities. They are an isolated, often numerically large, and extremely vulnerable segment of the population, largely untouched by current intervention strategies. As stated in this brief, promoting later marriage, to at least age 18, and shoring up protection options within marriage may be essential means of stemming the epidemic.

Frontiers for Networks for Social Impact

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-232
Author(s):  
Michelle Shumate ◽  
Katherine R. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Network Design ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Science Approach ◽  
Do So

The final chapter synthesizes arguments from the book. We offer a systems approach that integrates the configuration and processes approaches, addressing the possible network designs needed for success and how the system must adapt to a changing environment. We do so by unpacking the axioms that underly our approach, integrating material from the rest of the book. We draw several implications for research and practice. We advocate a solution-science approach to the study of social impact networks. We argue that researchers need to test interventions to improve networks’ social impact and communicate the results widely. We contend that both funders and network instigators should pay attention to the nature of social issues (i.e., simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic) when writing requests for proposals and selecting a network design. The match between the type of social problem and the network design is critical to achieving social impact. We end the chapter with optimism and urgency. Not only do we think networks can be impactful if designed and managed well, but we also believe they must be impactful to address the most challenging issues of our time.

From Condom to Cabbages: Reflections on Primary Health Care

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Bala Mudaly
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Local People ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Hiv Aids

In November 2002, I undertook an extended visit to Thailand. I toured the urban centres and rural areas of north and north eastern Thailand. From reading the local newspapers, talking to local people, and from personal observations, I gained a sense of the more urgent social issues troubling this country: rural poverty, HIV/AIDS, the low status ofwomen, and corruption.

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