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    South African child gauge 2005

    Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2005
    This publication examines the links between the practical situation of children in South Africa, South Africa’s commitments to child rights, and society’s progress in this regard.
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    From medical miracles to normal(ised) medicine: AIDS treatment, activism and citizenship in the UK and South Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This paper compares and contrasts the cultures of activism and illness and treatment experiences of UK and South African AIDS activists. By the 1990s AIDS public health discourse in the UK, and elsewhere in the West, was reconfiguring AIDS as a manageable chronic illness that could be treated much like diabetes.
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    Antiretroviral roll-out in South Africa: where do children feature?

    Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2004
    This paper explores whether children’s health needs are adequately addressed in South Africa's national plan for comprehensive care and treatment for HIV and AIDS.
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    The Department of Social Development (DoSD) as a national structure to addressHIV/AIDS

    Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005
    This brief note outlines how the South African Department for Social Development (DoSD) plan to address HIV and AIDS.
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    Men as partners: South African men respond to violence against women and HIV/AIDS

    EngenderHealth, 2002
    This report by EngenderHealth discusses the shift within the field of sexual and reproductive health towards seeing men as an important part of the solution to HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence. It describes the Men as Partners (MAP) programme in South Africa, which developed as a collaboration between EngenderHealth and the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa (PPASA).
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    Scaling up access to antiretroviral treatment in southern Africa: who will do the job?

    The Lancet, 2005
    This paper, published in the Lancet, examines plans for scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-positive people in Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa. It reports that a lack of human resources for health, rather than financial resources, is regarded as the main obstacle to implementing national treatment plans in these countries.
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    Rethinking rights and responsibilities in a time of AIDS

    Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005
    This article, written for a South African newspaper, explores the debates over rights and responsibilities for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA). Many public health practitioners have called for compulsory AIDS testing, citing the rights and responsibilities of citizens when it comes to health matters.
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    Scaling-up anti-retroviral treatment (ART) and the health system in southern Africa

    Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005
    This note, prepared for a UNAIDS workshop on Vulnerability and AIDS, provides a number of observations and opinions on the feasibility of scaling up anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. The document reviews lessons learned from various hospitals and health centres delivering ART in southern Africa, and highlights considerable human resource constraints.
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    Rights passages from "near death" to "new life": AIDS activism and treatment testimonies in South Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This IDS working paper explores how the combination of illness experiences and involvement in treatment programmes has dramatically altered the lives, identities and futures of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in South Africa.
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    Exchange on HIV/AIDS, sexuality and gender: internal HIV/AIDS mainstreaming

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2005
    This is the first issue of Exchange, previously Sexual Health Exchange, produced by the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands in collaboration with Novib (Oxfam Netherlands). The main focus of this edition is mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in civil society organisations (CSOs).

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