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- Behaviour Change Theory in Practice: A Review of Four HIV Organisations (November 2007) (PDF 3.7MB)
- This report provides case studies of behaviour change for HIV risk from Oxfam partner organisations based in South Africa's Limpopo province.
- Community Engagement: Documenting Strategies of the Australian Partnerships with African Communities Program Partners (March 2007) (PDF 2.6MB)
- This report explores theoretical approaches to community engagement and highlights emerging best practice in community entry strategies for HIV and sustainable livelihoods development projects.
- Faith-based Responses to HIV and AIDS: Examples from JOHAP (2007) (PDF 1.3MB)
- This case study documents the ways three faith-based partner organisations in South Africa have responded to HIV and AIDS and how their faith has influenced their responses.
- Youth involvement in JOHAP partner responses to HIV and AIDS (2007) (PDF 1.7MB)
- The study documents and shares the ways four partner organisations in South Africa have engaged young people from their communities in their HIV and AIDS work.
- Case Study on the Pheland Community Centre: Facilitating Multi-sectoral Collaboration in Limpopo, South Africa (2007) (PDF 1.3MB)
- This study documents Phelang Community Centre's collaboration with government, civil society and the private sector to prevent, manage and respond effectively to HIV and AIDS in South Africa's Limpopo province.
- Where has all the water gone?
- Oxfam’s Charlotte Sterrett sees the effects of climate change first-hand.
- Journal from South Africa
- Oxfam's Charlotte Sterrett goes on the road with our partner organisation, the Bela Bela HIV and AIDS Prevention Group.
- Going with the grain
- A year ago, Smangele Myeni, of Ingwavuma, South Africa, never expected she would be supporting her family by making and selling furniture.
- Kick it to me!
- An innovative peer education program in South Africa is working to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.
- Where has all the water gone? Understanding climate change from a community perspective. Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (April 2007) (PDF 928KB)
- This report looks at the issue of climate change from the perspective of poor rural women and men living in northern KwaZulu-Natal. It documents their understandings of climate change, their experience of its impacts, and their efforts to live, learn and adapt to the changes.
- Documenting the Community Engagement Strategies of the Seven Australia Partnership with African Communities (APAC) Partners in Southern Africa (March 2007) (PDF 71KB)
- This report explores theoretical approaches to community development focusing on community engagement and highlights emerging best practice in community entry strategies for HIV and sustainable livelihood development projects. It considers the community engagement strategies undertaken by the seven partners working on the APAC program and identifies the approaches that they use, highlights the strengths and challenges they encounter in their strategies, and discusses common trends that have emerged from a study of the various approaches. The report also provides lessons and recommendations that emerge from the findings to inform further community engagement practice.
- Coming out
- For young lesbian and gay South Africans, 'coming out' can be one of the most traumatic times of their lives.
- Oxfam Australia's HIV and AIDS work in South Africa
- Oxfam Australia manages the Joint Oxfam HIV/AIDS Program (JOHAP) which supports more than 20 partner organisations to deliver projects in Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.
- Sharing Lessons Learnt from Oxfam’s Southern Africa HIV & AIDS Programs with the Pacific (PDF 515KB)
- Oxfam Australia has been working with community-based partners in Southern Africa on HIV and AIDS programs since the mid-1990s. This report documents the lessons learnt for the benefit of our HIV and AIDS programs in the Pacific region. (September 2006)
- Men as carers: a South African case study (PDF 160KB)
- This case study features research into men's involvement in home-based care activities in South Africa.
- The Lost Generation
- A generation of AIDS orphans in South Africa is seeing grandparents, once care recipients, becoming care providers. (September 2005)
- A caring exchange
- Oxfam Australia is using its experience in South Africa to help respond to the looming HIV/AIDS epidemic in Papua New Guinea. (September 2005)
- Understanding HIV and AIDS stigma and discrimination at a community level: Perspectives from rural KwaZulu-Natal (PDF 3.28MB)
- This research by the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa identifies factors contributing to HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in a rural community in KwaZulu-Natal.
- HIV and AIDS and the law (PDF 3.6MB)
- A guide to teaching people about HIV and AIDS and the law.
- Youth in shebeens & taverns - an HIV and AIDS Prevention Opportunity (PDF 1.19MB)
- This case study highlights the work of the Lamontville HIV and AIDS Support Centre by providing an overview of its HIV and AIDS Shebeens and Taverns Peer campaign. (2005)
- Integrated Prevention and Care: including men in care (PDF 1.13MB)
- This case study highlights the work of the Centre for Positive Care and tells the story of how one man is challenging notions of masculinity in South Africa. (2005)
- Learning the meaning of HIV and AIDS and Gender - yesterday, today and tomorrow (PDF 761KB)
- This case study highlights the work of the Gender AIDS Forum by documenting its thoughts on the relationships between gender, HIV and AIDS in a South African context. (2005)
- Has the impact of HIV and AIDS affected the lives of rural ‘Gogos’? (PDF 971KB)
- This case study highlights the work of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) by sharing the stories of two grandmothers who fought for access to government grants and recognition in the face of the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
- Strengthening community responses to HIV and AIDS in South Africa (PDF 1.15MB)
- This report highlights the lessons learned by JOHAP partners from their work in HIV and AIDS-affected communities in South Africa. (2005)
- JOHAP booklet: evaluation 2005 (PDF 667KB)
- This is a summary of an external evaluation of the Joint Oxfam HIV and AIDS Program. The evaluation assessed the impact of partners' work on the lives of beneficiaries and the relevance of the program's strategies.
- A Gender Analysis of Targeted AIDS Interventions (TAI) (PDF 617KB)
- This analysis looks at how Oxfam partner organisation Targeted AIDS Interventions has incorporated 'gender' into its HIV/AIDS intervention work. (2005)
- Durban Lesbian & Gay Community & Health Centre: Gender HIV/AIDS Analysis (PDF 628KB)
- This analysis identifies lessons from the work of the centre to inform work on 'gender mainstreaming' in the field of HIV/AIDS. (April 2005)