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  Eliminating mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV in Uganda by 2015: what will it take?

  HIV/AIDS Knowledge Management and Communication Capacity, 2014

  Attaining Elimination of Mother‐to‐Child Transmission (EMTCT) targets in Uganda by 2015 requires increased funding to the response from both the Government and international agencies, investment in health systems strengthening, and investment in gender sensitive, family centred community engagement.
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  Strong girls, powerful women: program planning and design for adolescent girls in humanitarian settings

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2014

  In collaboration with implementing partners, the Women’s Refugee Commission tested promising approaches in adolescent girls’ programming by applying the learning from development contexts in pilot programmes in three displacement settings.
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  Self-reported drunkenness among adolescents in four sub-Saharan African countries: associations with adverse childhood experiences

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010

  Consumption of alcohol is associated with acute and chronic adverse health outcomes. There is a paucity of studies that explore the determinants of alcohol use among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, that examine the effects of adverse childhood experiences on alcohol use.
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  Male youth and voluntary counseling and HIV-Testing (VCT): the case of Uganda and Malawi

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

  Voluntary Counseling and HIV-Testing (VCT) is defined as a process by which an individual undergoes counseling, enabling him or her to make an informed choice about being tested.
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  Urbanization and education in East Africa

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012

  The objective of this book is to pull together contributions on how education provision is affected by the rapid urbanization and to highlight the practice and policy gaps in the education of those who live in the urban areas.
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  East Africa Quality in Early Learning (EAQEL): impact evaluation report

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012

  This is an impact assessment report of an independent evaluation of the Aga Khan Foundation‘s (AKF) East African Quality in Early Learning (EAQEL) initiative to determine whether the initiative improves learning outcomes in the early grades (1-3) in two districts in Kenya and two districts in Uganda as was intended.
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  Social protection for the poorest in Africa compedium of papers presented during the International Conference on Social Protection, 2008

  2008

  Conference proceedings from the International Conference on Social Protection, Uganda, 8th-10th September 2008.  Papers cover: social protection design programmes social protection, vulnerability and rights social protection, growth and assets politics and financing social protection in Africa children and social protection
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  Changing Patterns of Access to Education in Anglophone and Francophone Countries in Sub Saharan Africa: Is Education for All Pro-Poor?

  Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2011

  This paper explores patterns of growth in participation in six Anglophone and seven Francophone countries in SSA with Universal Primary Education programmes. The results show that progress has been patchy and sometimes disappointing. Access remains strongly associated with household wealth despite commitments to pro-poor policies.
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  Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School-based Student Health Survey

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a sample of children in five African countries.
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  Market assessment toolkit for vocational training providers and youth linking vocational training programmes to market opportunities in Northern Uganda

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2008

  Vocational training is at the intersection of economic recovery, education and rehabilitation and reintegration. It is uniquely positioned to meet the demands of youth and broader goals of economic reconstruction in post-conflict areas. This three-part toolkit aims to help youth in Vocational Training (VT) programs to find employment/self-employment based on market demand.

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