AIDS on the Agenda is written for policymakers, managers, and program staff in development and humanitarian agencies, to promote debate about the challenges that confront them in a world which has been changed for ever by the pandemic of AIDS.

The book considers three possible responses to the problem:
* Do nothing.
* Try to specialize in direct AIDS work.
* Adapt core programs and internal systems to respond to the impact of AIDS.
The author argues for the third approach as the essential initial response. She shows how mainstream work in a wide range of...

Sue Holden has adapted the text of her previous book AIDS on the Agenda to meet the needs of non-specialist staff who work with communities on the ground, and for middle managers in Human Resources departments who support program staff. As with the longer book, Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Development and Humanitarian Programmes has two main aims:
? to show how agencies can adapt their external programs to reduce susceptibility to HIV infection and vulnerability to the impacts of AIDS;
? to demonstrate how they can modify their internal policies and systems to protect the interests...