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Setting the scene: assessing and planning with harm reduction partners
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2013
Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) is an project spanning China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia that aims to expand coverage to more than 230,000 people who inject drugs, their partners and children, with a wide range of ...
How effective are different interventions to prevent transmission of HIV amongst injecting drug users?
L. Degenhardt; B. Mathers; P. Vickerman / The Lancet, 2010
HIV can spread rapidly between people who inject drugs (through injections and sexual transmission), and potentially the virus can pass to the wider community (by sexual transmission). The authors of this article: summarise ...
Analysing interventions for PMTCT in proposals approved by the Global Fund
M. Lusti-Narasimhan; R. Bright; F. Ndowa / Journal of Women's Health Care, 2012
This article aims to to analyse interventions for the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV (PMTCT) included in HIV proposals approved for funding by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund). ...
No association between sexual violence and HIV-status in Zimbabwe
T. Ngwaru / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is now recognised as a significant public health problem, particularly for the claimed association with the sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV. This study investigates the association between IPV...
The global production and consumption of illicit drugs is shrinking
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2009
This annual report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) analyses market trends, and compiles detailed statistics on illicit drug markets for cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines, and opiates among others. The re...
Health and human rights legal framework for law on drug use and HIV/AIDS
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2009
Many countries with injection-driven HIV and AIDS epidemics continue to emphasise criminal enforcement of drug laws over public health approaches, thereby missing or even hindering effective responses to HIV and AIDS. This online reso...
The future for male circumcision as an HIV preventative measure
I. T. Katz; A. A. Wright / New England Journal of Medicine, 2008
Public health officials are now arguing that circumcision of men should be a key weapon in the fight against infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Africa. Recent studies have shown that circumcision reduces infectio...
Male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa
World Health Organization, 2007
There is conclusive evidence from observational data and three randomised controlled trials that circumcised men have a significantly lower risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This report from the Wo...
Can male circumcision reduce HIV infection?
R. H. Gray; M. J. Wawer; D. Serwadda; G. Kigozi / Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2008
Two articles in this issue of the Journal of Infection Diseases add to the growing body of evidence that male circumcision may reduce carriage of penile human papillomavirus (HPV). The first article is a secondary analysis from a rand...
Trial results of male circumcision for the prevention of HIV
N. Siegfried / Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005
Given the devastating mortality and morbidity associated with HIV and AIDS, many potential prevention measures against HIV infection have been explored. Male circumcision is one of these. This short article from the Public Library of ...
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Setting the scene: assessing and planning with harm reduction partners
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2013
Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) is an project spanning China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia that aims to expand coverage to more than 230,000 people who inject drugs, their partners and children, with a wide range of ...
How effective are different interventions to prevent transmission of HIV amongst injecting drug users?
L. Degenhardt; B. Mathers; P. Vickerman / The Lancet, 2010
HIV can spread rapidly between people who inject drugs (through injections and sexual transmission), and potentially the virus can pass to the wider community (by sexual transmission). The authors of this article: summarise ...
Analysing interventions for PMTCT in proposals approved by the Global Fund
M. Lusti-Narasimhan; R. Bright; F. Ndowa / Journal of Women's Health Care, 2012
This article aims to to analyse interventions for the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV (PMTCT) included in HIV proposals approved for funding by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund). ...
No association between sexual violence and HIV-status in Zimbabwe
T. Ngwaru / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is now recognised as a significant public health problem, particularly for the claimed association with the sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV. This study investigates the association between IPV...
The global production and consumption of illicit drugs is shrinking
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2009
This annual report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) analyses market trends, and compiles detailed statistics on illicit drug markets for cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines, and opiates among others. The re...
Health and human rights legal framework for law on drug use and HIV/AIDS
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2009
Many countries with injection-driven HIV and AIDS epidemics continue to emphasise criminal enforcement of drug laws over public health approaches, thereby missing or even hindering effective responses to HIV and AIDS. This online reso...
The future for male circumcision as an HIV preventative measure
I. T. Katz; A. A. Wright / New England Journal of Medicine, 2008
Public health officials are now arguing that circumcision of men should be a key weapon in the fight against infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Africa. Recent studies have shown that circumcision reduces infectio...
Male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa
World Health Organization, 2007
There is conclusive evidence from observational data and three randomised controlled trials that circumcised men have a significantly lower risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This report from the Wo...
Can male circumcision reduce HIV infection?
R. H. Gray; M. J. Wawer; D. Serwadda; G. Kigozi / Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2008
Two articles in this issue of the Journal of Infection Diseases add to the growing body of evidence that male circumcision may reduce carriage of penile human papillomavirus (HPV). The first article is a secondary analysis from a rand...
Trial results of male circumcision for the prevention of HIV
N. Siegfried / Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005
Given the devastating mortality and morbidity associated with HIV and AIDS, many potential prevention measures against HIV infection have been explored. Male circumcision is one of these. This short article from the Public Library of ...
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SciDev Net Dossier on HIV/AIDS
Dossier on HIV and AIDS
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