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Making a difference for children affected by AIDS: baseline findings from operations research in Uganda
Population Council, USA, 2001Many organisations have begun to provide services to support AIDS orphans in East and southern Africa however, few have undergone any process of systematic evaluation.This report is a result of collaboration with PLAN International, Makerere University, and the Horizons Program to assess: the impact of an orphan support program physical, educational, and emotional wellbeing of childrenDocumentNational policy on HIV/AIDS: Tanzania
Tanzania Online, 2001Offical government or Tanzania review on the status and impact of HIV/AIDS, and an outline of intended interventionsDocumentReducing heterosexual transmission of HIV in poor countries
British Medical Journal, 2002Short review of statistics, impacts and intervention startegies.DocumentThe evidence base for interventions in the care and management of AIDS in Low and Middle Income countries
Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001Describes the clinical stages of HIV/AIDS, the scope of the problem of care, potential interventions and evidence of their effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and constraints to scaling up the effective interventions.DocumentThe impact of HIV and AIDS on Africa's economic development
British Medical Journal, 2002Reviews the evidence for the economic impacts of AIDS in Africa and considers how economic theory can contribute to an effective response to the pandemic.Argues that: Economic research helps to estimate the effects of HIV/AIDS on the African economy and the cost effectiveness of prevention and treatment programmesEconomic theory predicts that HIV/AIDS reduces labour supply and prodDocumentThe search for an HIV vaccine
British Medical Journal, 2002Short paper argues that an effective, affordable, and accessible HIV vaccine is within reach . Equitable public-private partnerships between researchers, manufacturers, and distributors and partnerships between rich and poor countries are the best strategy for the development of the vaccine.DocumentFirst trial of the HIV-1 vaccine in Africa: Ugandan experience
British Medical Journal, 2002The first trial of a candidate HIV-1 vaccine in Africa was completed in Uganda in 2001. It involved a randomised, placebo controlled trial of a vaccine in healthy volunteers at low risk of HIV infection.DocumentThe evidence base for interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Low and Middle-Income countries
Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001Reviews the scale of maternal and neonatal mortality and serious morbidity in low and middle income countries, and the factors that account for the huge discrepancies in the rates of these poor outcomes compared with high income countries.DocumentModelling the HIV/AIDS epidemics in India and Botswana: the effect of interventions
Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001In order to identify best strategies for HIV/AIDS control in two different countries, India and Botswana, the authors developed a dynamic compartmental simulation model.Several interventions were considered: a sex worker (CSW) focussed behavioural interventiona Mwanza-style conventional STI (sexually transmitted infections) treatment programmeA mother-to-child transmission prevDocumentPrivate sector response to HIV/AIDS in Swaziland: impact, response, vulnerability and barriers to implementation of workplace HIV/AIDS prevention programmes
Global Development Network, 2001This report presents a detailed analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the private sector, by focusing on costs imposed on the private sector as a result of increased illness and deaths from AIDS. The report also discusses the knowledge, attitudes and practices of businesses in the area of HIV/AIDS at the workplace.Pages