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  The Progress of Nations Report, 1997

  The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999

  The Progress of Nations, an annual scorecard of the social health of nations, records achievements in the form of statistics that measure fulfilment of minimum human needs. The knowledge it unearths is fundamental to solving problems, because information is the first ingredient needed by those with the will and the means to make change.
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  An Overview of Selected Curable Sexually Transmitted Diseases

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999

  This document contains WHO estimates of the prevalence and incidence of some of the curable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), based on information published in the world scientific literature and in WHO archives.
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  Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study

  ProCor, 1997

  Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the public-health importance of these has been hampered by the lack of common methods to investigate the overall, world wide burden.
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  The socio-economic impact of HIV and AIDS on rural families in Uganda: an emphasis on youth

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1994

  While youths are among the most vulnerable groups to HIV infection, they are also the most promising agents of behaviour change. Young men and women are vulnerable to HIV infection because they begin sexual activity at an increasingly younger age, tend to have multiple partners and have restricted access to information on safer sexual practices.
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  The impact of HIV and AIDS on children, families and communities: risks and realities of childhood during the HIV epidemic

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998

  The impact of HIV/AIDS extends beyond those living with the virus, as each infection produces consequences which affect the lives of the family, friends and communities surrounding an infected person. The overall impact of the epidemic encompasses effects on the lives of multiples of the millions of people living with HIV/AIDS or of those who have died.
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  HIV and Infant Feeding: A Chronology of Research and Policy Advances and their Implications for Programs

  Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997
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  The Progress of Nations Report 1999

  The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999

  Focuses on the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on children, while celebrating the enormous strides that have brought the world so close to the eradication of polio.
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  Researchers identify a simple, inexpensive drug regimen that is highly effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission

  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA, 1999

  A joint Uganda-U.S. study has found a highly effective and safe drug regimen for preventing transmission of HIV from an infected mother to her newborn that is more affordable and practical than any other examined to date.
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  Literature Review on Adolescent Reproductive Health Studies Conducted in Tanzania 1988 - 1998

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1999

  Reviews all available adolescent reproductive health (ARH) documents and published articles on studies conducted or published in Tanzania in the past ten years (1988-1998). The study also includes as a background a review of some ARH studies carried out in Tanzania and Africa and in Tanzania before 1988.
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  Prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child: Strategic options

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999

  Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is by far the largest source of HIV infection in children below the age of 15 years. In countries where blood products are regularly screened and clean syringes and needles are widely available, it is virtually the only source in young children.Paper reviews methods for forming a national policy on prevention and treatment.

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