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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people, Health, HIV and AIDS in South Africa

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    “Hulle kan nie hulle hormone intoom hou nie”: a study on gender, adolescents and sexual behaviour in relation to HIV in South Africa

    Centre for International Development Issues, University of Nijmegen, 2002
    This paper from the Centre for International Development Issues presents the results of research conducted among young people in South Africa, aiming to gain a better understanding of the sexual context of adolescents in the country. It looks at the question of how gender constructions influence risk-related sexual behaviour among adolescents.
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    Predicting the social consequences of orphanhood in South Africa

    Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2003
    This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in Southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic.Analysis of the logic underlying these predictions reveals four causal relationships necessary to fulfil such dramatic and apocalyptic predictions:high AIDS mortality rates wil
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    Evidence of iatrogenic HIV transmission in children in South Africa

    British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2003
    This paper is the latest in a series arguing that HIV transmission in Africa is attributable to unsafe medical practices in far more cases than have been previously believed.
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    Social marketing for adolescent sexual health: results of operations research projects in Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, and South Africa

    Population Services International, 2000
    This report, produced by Population Services International (PSI), describes a project that tested the impact of youth-oriented social marketing techniques on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Interventions and communications strategies included promotion through mass media, brand names such as ‘Youth Horizon’, and condom distribution through peer educators and youth-friendly outlets.
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    Children, HIV/AIDS and communication in South Africa: a literature review

    Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002
    This commissioned report aimed to to provide insight into issues related to communication of HIV/AIDS to children in the 3-12 year age group, with an emphasis on South Africa.
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    AIDS, public policy and child well-being

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001
    This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
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    Childhood challenged: South Africa's children, HIV/AIDS and the corporate sector

    Save the Children Fund, 2002
    HIV/AIDS is now the greatest threat to child development in many parts of the world, including South Africa,and will continue to affect the lives of several generations of children.This report from Save the Children summarises research undertaken into the South African corporate sector's engagement with affected children in 2001.HIV/AIDS is a major challenge for business in South Africa,and
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on adult mortality in South Africa

    Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2001
    Demographic projections of the epidemic indicate that HIV/AIDS will cause a rapid change the age and sex pattern of deaths in South Africa.A system to monitor the age pattern has been developed by the Medical Research Council.
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    HIV/AIDS and development in the education sector

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    The objective of this paper is to describe the underlying problem of HIV/AIDS in the context of education development in Southern Africa, and also to identify opportunities for remedial action and positive enablement.
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    The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.

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