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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS transmission, prevention and testing, HIV and AIDS, Voluntary counselling and testing

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    Women, HIV and human rights: the crisis of criminalization

    All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, UK, 2009
    This document outlines a presentation given by the Salamander Trust at a meeting on women and AIDS at the House of Commons in Westminster. The presenter details how, because of global attitudes, women with HIV/AIDS have seen their reproductive health rights and rights to liberty systematically and institutionally eroded.
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    Painful tradeoffs: intimate-partner violence and sexual and reproductive health rights in Kenya

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Intimate-partner violence involves multiple violations of sexual and reproductive rights, with devastating impacts on the health and wellbeing of those affected. This paper from the Institute of Development Studies details the results of an action-research collaboration between a Kenyan gender-based violence rehabilitation NGO and a research programme.
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    Universal HIV testing and counselling in Africa

    The Lancet, 2008
    This comment piece in The Lancet emphasises the importance of voluntary counselling and testing as part of the HIV prevention, treatment and care package. Nearly 80 percent of HIV-infected adults in sub-Saharan Africa are unaware of their HIV status and more than 90 percent are unaware of their partner’s status.
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    Ten myths and one truth about generalised HIV epidemics

    The Lancet, 2007
    This editorial from the Lancet outlines ten commonly held misconceptions about HIV epidemics that impede prevention efforts.
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    School as a workplace in Kenya: evaluation of the teachers matter HIV/AIDS project

    Population Council, USA, 2007
    This report looks at how teachers in Kenya deliver HIV prevention messages in school. Many HIV/AIDS interventions rely on teachers to deliver vital prevention messages to their students but do not target the teachers as direct beneficiaries, even though the teachers themselves are at risk of HIV infection.
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    Acceptability of routine HIV counselling and testing, and HIV seroprevalence in Ugandan hospitals

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2008
    This report published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization examines the uptake of free HIV counselling and testing programmes in two large Ugandan hospitals. The report finds that of those offered HIV testing, 98 percent accepted. In those who had not previously tested HIV-positive, the overall HIV prevalence was 25 percent, with 81 percent being tested for the first time.
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    The 100% condom use program: a demonstration in Wuhan, China

    Evaluation and program planning, 2007
    This research article reports the results of an evaluation of the 100% Condom Use Program (CUP) in Wuhan, China. The programme focused on commercial sex workers (CSWs) and sought to increase their knowledge of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV transmission, increase their condom use rates, and reduce the STI prevalence.
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    Outputs, cost and efficiency of public sector centres for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in Andhra Pradesh, India

    BioMed Central, 2008
    Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) is an important part of the effort to control HIV. PMTCT services are mostly provided at public sector government hospitals in India and systematic data is not readily available. This report by Biomed Central looks as 16 PMTCT centres in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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    HIV/AIDS on the campus: universities and the threat of an epidemic

    African Higher Education Research Online, 2006
    Many sub Saharan African universities have been slow to respond to HIV/AIDS pandemic. This report from African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) analyses why universities respond the way that they do and in particular focuses on developments in Ugandan universities, a country known for its forward looking approach to HIV/AIDS.
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    Ndola demonstration project: A midterm analysis of lessons learned

    2002
    This report from the Population Council summarises baseline and midterm findings of an intervention pilot study conducted by a team of researchers in Ndola District, Zambia.

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