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  Girl-Centered Program Design: A Toolkit to Develop, Strengthen, and Expand Adolescent Girls Programs

  Population Council, USA, 2010

  Adolescent girls face poorer health outcomes than boys, are more likely to become infected with HIV, are more socially isolated, are less likely to make the transition to secondary school or to complete it, and have fewer income-generating opportunities.
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  Opportunity in Crisis: Preventing HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2011

  At the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV and AIDS in 2001, the world made a promise to reduce the prevalence of HIV in young people globally by 25 per cent by the end of 2010 and to increase young people’s access to essential prevention information, skills and services so as to reach 95 per cent of those in need by the same date.
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  Diagnosing and preventing TB in children

  Aidsmap, 2012

  This document looks at efforts to improve tuberculosis (TB) case detection and prevention in children. It highlights that most children get TB from a family member, and families or households where HIV is present pose a particularly high risk of TB for children.
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  Adolescents Living with HIV (ALHIV)

  Knowledge for Health, 2011

  The resources in this toolkit cover a broad range of topics pertinent to the treatment, care and support of ALHIV including: 1. Training 2. Treatment Literacy & Adherence 3. Counseling & Disclosure 4. Life Skills, Prevention and Reproductive Health 5. Psychosocial Support 6. Human Rights & Advocacy 7. Peer Education 8. Adolescent Transitioning 9. Research, Policy and Promising Practices
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  Life skills education and reproductive health education: preliminary findings from the non-biomedical interventions into HIV and AIDS study

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2011

  According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), life skills are defined as the abilities for adaptive and positive behaviours that enable individuals to effectively deal with demands and challenges of everyday life (WHO, 1993).
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  Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Malawi: a synthesis of research evidence

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004

  Although the definition of adolescence varies across cultures and different studies use various age-groups, the common understanding of this concept is that it is a period in which children make the transition from childhood to adulthood. In Malawi, adolescence is typically defined to span the ages of 10 to 19.
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  What works for women and girls: evidence for HIV/AIDS interventions

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2010
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  Sexuality and life skills: participatory activities on sexual reproductive health with young people

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2008

  This toolkit is a result of team work between sexual and reproductive health practitioners working with young people in Zambia, Malawi Zimbabwe and Uganda. It is written for anyone who wants to facilitate participatory learning activities with young people to equip them with knowledge, positive attitudes and skills to grow up and enjoy sexual and reproductive health and well- being.
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  Global Health Promotion

  Global Health Promotion, is the official publication of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE).
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  Promoting and protecting the health of orphans and vulnerable children in Monkey Bay, Malawi

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009

  Malawi has had a rising population of orphans and vulnerable children who are reported to lack care, food, educational opportunities and adult role models.

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