​​The following links concern HIV / AIDS in the Arab world. This page will be updated regularly so please visit often.

Suggest additional resources or tell us if a link is broken. Please write us at: phaw-admin@aub.edu.lb

Audio Visual Materials

• Mauritania: Aids Prev​ention - Mauritania (WorldBank, 2010)
• MaximsNewsNetwork: Djibouti HIV AIDS Health Program, Chahnas Said Salem, World Bank - Djibouti (MaximsNewsNetwork, 2009)
• Preventing HIV transmission: Djibouti (UNICEFUK, 2009)
• UNDP in the Arab States (UNDPArabStates) (list of videos related to different public health topics in the Arab countries): HIV / AIDS
•  الإيدز في السودان - الحلقة الأولى، الحلقة الثانية (sympatic000, 2012)

Blogs

• HIV in the Arab World

Data and Statistics 

• Global HIV/AIDS Response (WHO) (information on low and middle income countries in Annexes include data on Arab countries)
• HIV/ AIDS Survey Indicators Database - statistics: Comoros, Morocco (1992, 2003-2004)
• MDG 6: HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (WHO) 
• Public Health, Nutrition, HIV and WASH Annual Factsheets - MENA Factsheets 2011 (UNHCR) 
• Urban health: Health determinants (WHO): Knowledge of transmission of HIV/AIDS
• UNICEF - HIV/ AIDS
• UNICEF statistics (variety of topics): Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Documentaries, Reports, Other

• Abu Raddad, L.J., Akala, F.A., Semini, I., Riedner, G., Wilson, D., & Tawil, O. (2010). Characterizing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa. Washington DC: The World Bank
• "All The Doctors Scared" , a short documentary on AIDS in Egypt
• Behavioral and Social Sciences Research on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Meeting summary, Tunisia, 2007
• Jenkin, c., & Robalino, D.A. (2003). HIV/Aids in the Middle East And North Africa: The Costs of Inaction. Washington DC.: World Bank

Global Fund

• Friends of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA Friends of Global Fund) 
• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (see specific country projects)

Grant Programs

• Reducing HIV/AIDS Discrimination and Exclusion (Ford Foundation)

International agencies

• Health Policy Initiative - Middle East and North Africa (USAID)
• Work in Jordan, Yemen
• Publications   
• HIV InSite - Middle East and North Africa (Center for HIV Information (CHI), University of California, UCSF Medical Center): Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar,  Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara,  Yemen
• International HIV/AIDS Alliance - MENA Regional Programme

Maps

• Global Health Observatory (GHO) Map Gallery (WHO): HIV/AIDS

National Programs and Initiatives

• Association de Lutte contre le SIDA (ALCS) (Morocco)
• National Aids Prevention Program (NAP) (Oman)
• Sudan HIV/AIDS Working Group (SHAWG) (Sudan)
• إدارة مكافحة الإيدز والأمراض المنقولة جنسيا ً - ليبيا  

Networks and forums

• Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa (GNR-MENA)
• Regional Arab Network against AIDS (RANAA) (Beirut, Lebanon)
• Global Forum on MSM & HIV - Middle East and North Africa

Projects and programmes

• AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases (WHO EMRO): Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Oman, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen
• Health Policy Initiative - Middle East and North Africa: Jordan, Yemen (special focus on reprodctive health and HIV/ AIDS)

Resolutions on health

• AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases Resolutions (WHO EMRO)

Special Journal Issues

• Gender and HIV in the Middle East and North Africa: Policy Lessons for Low-Prevalence Scenarios (Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Volume 51, Supplement 3, 2009)
• HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa (AIDS, Vol 24, Suppl 5, November 2010)

UN Agencies

• ILO Regional Office for the Arab States, HIV/AIDS and the world of work
• UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States, HIV / AIDS
• UNAIDS - Middle East and North Africa
• UNESCO HIV and AIDS Education Clearinghouse - Arab States

WHO Collaborating Centres

• WHO Collaborating Centre for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Egypt)
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (Kuwait)
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (Sudan)