Yesterday, people around the globe honored December 1 as World AIDS Day. This year in 2007, approximately 33.2 million people are living with HIV and 2 million people died from the virus. With such devastating numbers, organizations such as USAID are increasinly turning to ICTs as a tool for both prevention of HIV/AIDS and care of person with AIDS.
USAID ICT activities in HIV/AIDS currently include:
-Strengthening HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention campaigns
-Using GIS to support disease surveillance
-Communicating guidelines and training materials for doctors, nurses and midwives for proper treatment of persons with AIDS
-Providing access to the latest medical information to the medical community and the general population
-Supporting diagnostic tools to disseminate and track test results
Also, one major program worth looking at is UNESCO's project "ICTs Helping to Fight HIV/AIDS" More really good information about this can be found at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001414/141417e.pdf
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