The paper on HIV-prevention presents the focus areas of German Development Cooperation in supporting its partners. It outlines the seven strategic starting points of cooperation to effectively tackle the challenges which go hand in hand with the epidemic.

The document describes the integration of Uruguay’s HIV/AIDS response into its national health system by using a triangulation approach: Horizontal knowledge transfer from Brazil regarding integrated health care networks is combined with knowledge of local contexts and needs from Uruguay and experience in facilitating, and the monitoring and evaluation of international cooperation processes (GIZ, Germany). The paper demonstrates that the approach of triangulation represents a cost-effective, sustainable and an extremely flexible tool which can be easily adapted and transferred.

Due to several factors, men’s life expectancy in Latin America is 7 years less than women’s. Capacity building workshops aim at the development of locally adapted solutions in the participating countries to decrease the impact of the gender-specific risk factors.

GIZ’s flyer describes the background, guiding principles, programs and implementing partners of the German-Brazilian cooperation in the fight against AIDS

The fact sheet of GIZ describes context, objective, approach and results of the multi-faceted prevention efforts in the Ukraine which range from workplace prevention programs to using sports as an educational measure for responsible action and healthy lifestyle.

The presentation summarizes at a glance the different measures of GIZ which as a comprehensive approach are used to prevent HIV in Ukraine. Among them are e.g. football to promote a healthy lifestyle or the join-in-circuit to foster education and information about HIV.

The fact sheet presents in brief the BACKUP initiative’s approach, services offered, benefits and examples from the field.

The manual aims to guide trained peer educators on how to effectively share health related information with their peers. It describes the purpose of an employee wellness programme and the peer educator’s role in this programme, highlights certain characteristics of good peer education, contains training material and interactive methods for each training session, and provides standardised monitoring and evaluation tools to follow up on expected outputs and outcomes.

The factsheet informs about current programme components and objectives of GIZ’s harm reduction project in Nepal one of whose primary aims is the scaling up of the national Opioid Substitution Therapy programme.

The HRP is complimentary to the activities planned in the field of the Opioid Substitution Therapy (scaling up of the Methadone Maintenance Programme (MMTP) to 9 (nine) sites, 1800 (one thousand eight hundred patients) under the GFATM grant Rd. 10 provided to Nepal.

This paper briefly introduces GIZ’s Regional Programme Health in Central Asia including country backgrounds, partners and key areas of commitment.

This publication describes the approaches of four initiatives to address sexual health and HIV in school in different epidemiological contexts in Africa which have been supported by German Development Cooperation.

This documentary about the innovative therapeutic approach of Body Mapping shows the processes involved and experiences gained by participants who have attended Body Mapping workshops organized by German Development Cooperation.

“Let’s do it together! Fair play” project is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in partnership with the State Service for Youth and Sports of Ukraine and the State Service of Ukraine on HIV/AIDS and Other Socially Dangerous Diseases. The project is an important part of the German-Ukrainian co-operation within the framework of 2012 European football event. “Fair play” project is financed by the German Government particularly by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The organizers promote healthy and responsible behavior among youth through the conduction of unusual and interesting trainings on the basis of fair play concept. The project seeks to reach up thousands of girls and boys in the age of 10-20 all over Ukraine. The football trainings are free of charge. Schools and other educational and sports establishments where the trainings take place will be provided with sport equipment. Children will get the necessary outfit. The trainings for trainers began in autumn 2011 and the project itself will last until the end of 2012.