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  HIV/AIDS as a security issue in Africa: lessons from Uganda

  International Crisis Group, 2004

  This report is the third in a series on HIV/AIDS as a security issue from the International Crisis Group (ICG), and draws on the policy experience of Uganda. The report asserts that HIV/AIDS prevention and conflict prevention should go hand in hand: evidence suggests that war can lead to increased risks of HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS can make conflicts worse.
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  HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in India: modeling the cost and consequences

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2004

  The report from the World Bank analyses three alternative plans for using and financing antiretroviral therapy (ART) in India: a minimally interventionist plan to strengthen the private sector’s ability to manage ART; a moderately interventionist plan to provide free ART to HIV-positive pregnant women; and a more generous plan to finance ART for the poorest 40 percent of all Indians with HIV infec
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  Breaking down barriers: lessons on providing HIV treatment to injection drug users

  International Harm Reduction Development program, OSI, 2004

  This report, prepared by the International Harm Reduction Development (IHRD) program, is a collection of cases demonstrating that well-designed, supportive programmes, which address the needs of injecting drug users can help all individuals adhere to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and take advantage of appropriate harm reduction services.
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  Women's reasons for not participating in follow up visits before starting short course antiretroviral prophylaxis for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: qualitative interview study

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This publication aims find out why pregnant women attending a public antenatal clinic in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire do not participate in necessary follow up visits before starting antiretroviral prophylaxis.
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  Manual for reducing drug-related harm in Asia

  Centre for Harm Reduction, Melbourne, 2003

  This updated edition of the 1999 manual from The Centre for Harm Reduction provides a comprehensive guide to HIV/AIDS programming for injecting drug users (IDUs) in Asia. Following an overview of the HIV epidemic among IDUs in Asia, the manual details the rationale for harm reduction, and examines how this can be balanced and integrated with supply and demand reduction approaches.
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  Future forsaken: abuses against children affected by HIV/AIDS in India

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This Human Rights Watch report documents discrimination against HIV/AIDS affected children and highlights the failure of the Indian government to protect such children from abuses. The report finds that widespread discrimination in education, health and care is increasingly pushing children affected by HIV/AIDS onto the streets and into the worst forms of child labour.
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  The Zambia HIV/AIDS workforce study: preparing for scale-up

  US Agency for International Development, 2004

  Anticipating significant scale-up of its current HIV/AIDS services, the Zambian Central Board of Health commissioned this study of the human resource implications. The study collected data at 16 government, NGO, and private for-profit sites across Zambia that currently provide VCT, P-MTCT, and ART services.
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  Evidence assessment: strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care

  Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS, 2004

  This paper, prepared by the Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS, assesses of the effectiveness of intervention programmes for HIV prevention, treatment and care.
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  Young people - we care! A book of ideas to help young people supporting each other in their communities in Zimbabwe

  John Snow International UK, 2003

  This book from John Snow International UK has been designed to encourage young people to support either younger children or their peers who are living in communities in Zimbabwe affected by HIV/AIDS. It is also envisaged it will be used by home-based care organisations to involve young people in their activities.
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  Mapping HIV vulnerability along Kampong Thom, Cambodia

  UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development, 2004

  This report is based on a mapping of HIV vulnerability along selected sections of secondary and tertiary feeder roads along National Road Number Six. The World Bank is currently sponsoring road and infrastructure development in the Asia and Pacific region in order to achieve regional economic development.

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