AVERT (formerly also known as the AIDS Education and Research Trust) is an international AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors. HIV is transmitted through direct charity A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . The term is relatively general and can technically refer to a public charity (also called "charitable foundation," "public foundation" or simply "foundation") or a private foundation. It differs from other types of NPOs in that its focus is centered based in Horsham Horsham is a market town situated on the upper reaches of the River Arun in the centre of the Weald, in the county of West Sussex, England with a population of 55,657 . It lies 31 miles (50 km) south southwest from London, 18.5 miles (30 km) northwest from Brighton and 26 miles (42 km) northeast from the county town of Chichester. Nearby towns, South East England South East England is one of the nine official regions of England, designated in 1994 and adopted for statistical purposes in 1999. Its boundaries include Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. In common usage, however, the area referred to as the 'south east' can vary.
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Early work
AVERT was founded in 1986 by Peter Kanabus and his wife Annabel, daughter of former Sainsbury's J. Sainsbury plc is the parent company of Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsbury's (also Sainsbury and JS), the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom with a share of the UK supermarket sector of 16.3%. The group's head office is in the Sainsbury's Store Support Centre in Holborn Circus, City of London. The chairman Robert Sainsbury.[1] In its first fifteen years the charity focused on producing educational publications and funding HIV-related educational, social and medical research.[2]
A number of AVERT's publications, such as the AIDS: Working With Young People (1993) teaching pack were based on substantial educational research.[3] In addition many thousands of AVERT's booklets were distributed in the UK each year, covering such topics as sex education, sexuality and HIV Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate, or.[4]
Medical research funded by AVERT included the first ever study of the effect of pregnancy on the progression of HIV disease,[4] and social research included studies of HIV and drug use Recreational drug use is the use of a psychoactive substance with the intention of creating or enhancing recreational experience. Such use is controversial, however, often being considered to be also drug abuse, and it is often illegal. Also, it may overlap with other uses, such as medicinal , performance enhancement, and entheogenic (spiritual) in UK prisons A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Other terms are penitentiary, correctional facility, and jail (or gaol), although in the United States "jail" and "prison" refer to different subtypes of correctional facility. Jails are conventionally.[5]
In 2001 the charity decided to cease funding research and producing printed publications, and instead to concentrate on its educational website and work outside the UK in countries with a particularly high or rapidly increasing rate of HIV infection and AIDS.
Avert.org
The charity's educational website avert.org, established in 1995, claims to be the world's most popular AIDS website, receiving a reported two million page views A page view or page impression is a request to load a single page of an Internet site. On the World Wide Web a page request would result from a web surfer clicking on a link on another HTML page pointing to the page in question. This should be contrasted with a hit, which refers to a request for a file from a web server. There may therefore be per month.[1] In 2005 the site won the British Medical Association The British Medical Association is the professional association and registered trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom. The association does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the General Medical Council. The association’s headquarters are located in BMA House, Tavistock Square, London. Additionally, the's Patient Information Award for Websites.[6]
Overseas projects
AVERT funds a range of projects in developing countries, predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is a geographical term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara, or those African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara. It contrasts with North Africa, which is considered a part of the Arab world, where the AIDS epidemic is most severe.[1] Organisations given money include Sangram in southwest India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the,[7] and Tholulwazi Uzivikele in KwaZulu Natal KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994 the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and all pieces of territory that made up the homeland of KwaZulu.[8]
The charity's work made headlines in 2008 when South African Coordinates: 29°02′46″S 25°03′47″E / 29.046°S 25.063°E The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent doctor Colin Pfaff was suspended from his post for supplying HIV positive, pregnant women with the antiretroviral drug AZT Zidovudine or azidothymidine (AZT) (also called ZDV) is a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI), a type of antiretroviral drug used for the treatment of HIV/AIDs. It is an analog of thymidine,[9] which had been paid for by AVERT.[10] At the time the South African government had not approved the use of AZT to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, even though it was recommended by the World Health Organisation The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the and was widely used in other developing countries. Rural doctors, scientists, AIDS activists and organisations rallied in support of Pfaff, and the charges were subsequently dropped.[11]
External links
References
- ^ a b c About AVERT
- ^ Berridge, Virginia (1996). AIDS in the UK. Oxford University Press. pp. 179, 181. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 0-19-820472-8.
- ^ "Register of educational research 1992-1995". http://www.books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0415132436.
- ^ a b AVERT - 24dr.com
- ^ Drug use in prison, BMJ 1994;308:1716 (25 June)
- ^ Patient Information Awards at the BMA Medical Book Competition 2005
- ^ AVERT’s HIV & AIDS Projects in India
- ^ AVERT’s HIV & AIDS Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
- ^ Clinicians Support South African Doctor in Dispute Over Providing AIDS Therapy for Pregnant Women, Fox News, February 18, 2008
- ^ AVERT Trustees Report and Accounts 2008
- ^ KZN doctor cleared on treatment charge, Mail & Guardian, February 21, 2008
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