Source International Information Centre and Healthlink Worldwide launched a pilot version of their forthcoming CD-ROM, “Child-centred approaches to HIV and AIDS: memory work”, at the OVC Symposium of the XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, August 2006. The pilot version CD-ROM is available free of charge from Source, c/o Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK. Email: source@ich.ucl.ac.uk.

The CD-ROM gathers together tools, manuals, case studies and useful contacts for organisations interested in using the memory work approach to psychosocial interventions with communities. It covers a wide range of themes including:

Implementing memory work: programme management and fundraising, training, monitoring and evaluating memory work, key organisations involved in memory work

Capacity building for HIV and AIDS organisations: advocacy, ARV treatment literacy, using ICTs, networking, documenting and learning from development work, HIV and disability, and more

Young children and HIV and AIDS [compiled with support from the Bernard van Leer Foundation]: psychosocial support and counselling, PMTCT, HIV and early childhood development, families and communtiies, child rights and participation, international conventions and policy issues

The CD-ROM also includes the full text of The memory work trainer's manual (2006, Healthlink Worldwide, NACWOLA). This manual is designed for trainers who wish to support parents, guardians and carers affected by HIV and AIDS.

This CD-ROM is a pilot version, with a full version due out in 2007. User feedback at this stage is crucial: which sections are useful? What haven't we covered? Have you produced a resource that we should include? The full version CD-ROM will respond as much as possible to expressed needs, and will include the full-text of many resources. In the meantime, this pilot CD contains links to the full-text of documents on the Internet for those with access. The content of the CD is also mirrored on the Source website: www.asksource.info/res_library/hiv.htm, where it is periodically updated.

The CD-ROM was produced as part of the four year International Memory Project (funded by Comic Relief), through which the National Community of Women living with HIV (NACWOLA) in Uganda and Healthlink Worldwide have been working with a group of partners from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Kenya to introduce and strengthen memory work approaches to communities in sub-Saharan Africa affected by the HIV epidemic. Healthlink Worldwide has also started to work with a partner organisation to pilot memory work in three states in India. For more information visit the Healthlink website at: www.healthlink.org.uk/projects/hiv/imp.html

The full collection of over 5,000 HIV and AIDS information resources, from which these 400 were selected, is available on the Source database which features a wealth of information relating to the practice, management and communication of health and disability issues in developing countries.

For more information contact Deepthi Wickremasinghe at wickremasinghe.d@healthlink.org.uk

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