Churches,mosques, and condoms: understanding successful HIV and AIDS interventions by faith-based organisations

There are an estimated 33 million people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) worldwide. While national education campaigns have been successful in providing a broad platform of awareness of HIV and AIDS, within some countries faith-based organisations (FBOs) have assumed an important role in educating and supporting local communities to reduce HIV transmission. This article conceptualises the successful characteristics of a Christian organisation in West Papua and a Muslim organisation in Thailand. The ability of both these FBOs to engage successfully with their communities on issues of sexual practice provides important lessons for other FBOs seeking to reduce HIV transmission.     

Publishing for social change

This is the text of a talk given at a conference for Publishing for Social Change in Oxford. It explores the effect of literature on political consciousness.     

Palestinian youth and non-formal service-learning: a model for personal development,long-term engagement,and peace building

Palestinian youth face developmental, cultural, and political barriers that impede them from fully engaging in civic life. Non-traditional, youth-centred pedagogies of engagement, like community-based service-learning, have shown their potential to motivate marginalised populations and provide space and roles for them to form individual identities while developing civic skills. Using data collected through focus-group interviews, this article considers the impact on West Bank youth who participated in an NGO's community-based service-learning leadership programme. Six themed findings are discussed, and the author suggests that non-school-based service-learning may have a central role to play in the civic-identity development of Palestine's most populous group of citizens.     

European national news

The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications - co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe. This column provides a concise alerting service of important national developments in key European countries. Part of its purpose is to compliment the Journal’s feature articles and briefing notes by keeping readers abreast of what is currently happening "on the ground" at a national level in implementing EU level legislation and international conventions and treaties. Where an item of European National News is of particular significance, CLSR may also cover it in more detail in the current or a subsequent edition.     

刍议我国中医药专利保护制度

本文阐述了我国中医药专利保护制度的现状,分析了我国中医药专利保护制度存在的问题,如法律法规不健全、专利申请和保护意识淡薄等,从构建专门专利法律保护体系、建立数据库、提高专利意识和加速国际化进程等角度,提出了完善我国中医药专利保护制度的政策建议。     

论政府对社会组织管理的机制创新——“民办非企业单位”引发的行政法思考

"民办非企业单位"是现行法的一个称谓,属于社会组织的范畴。政府对民办非企业单位实行双重许可,体现了管制的社会管理理念。顺应行政社会化趋势,国家应当鼓励和扶持社会组织的发展,实现管理体制、方式和理念的创新,建立起合作伙伴关系,充分发挥社会组织在社会管理中的协同作用。     

Class voting, social changes and political changes in the Netherlands 1971–2006

To what extent can the decline of class voting in the Netherlands be explained by sociological factors (compositional changes, the evolution of the class structure and economic progressivism) and political factors (a party-merger and changing party positions)? Multinomial logit (MNP) and conditional logit (CL) are employed using the Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies (1971–2006) and data of the Comparative Manifesto Project. We find that the rise of the class of social-cultural specialists is important for understanding changes in the class–vote relationship. Surprisingly, the impact of economic progressivism became more important for left-wing voting. Finally, although there seems to be a clear relation between party positions and the strength of class-based voting, the party positions hardly explain the assumed linear decline in class-based voting.     

论患者知情同意权的行使与紧急救治的关系

随着公众观念的转变和法律意识的增强,医患之间的冲突已成为当今社会的一个突出矛盾。医疗纠纷多与患者知情同意权有关,在对患者知情同意权详细了解的基础上,重点分析紧急情况下患者的知情同意权与医生紧急救治措施实施之间的冲突,以期寻找到合理解决之道。     

大学生自杀的社会因素分析——以涂尔干的自杀社会因素理论为视角

大学生自杀目前已经成为一个共同关心的社会问题。基于涂尔干的自杀理论,可以从社会转型期的文化繁杂、外来文化因素的影响、长期的应试教育、共同信仰的缺乏等方面分析当代大学生自杀的社会原因。为减少和预防大学生自杀,需要学校、学生自身和社会分别承担起一定的责任。