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    Trends in HIV incidence and prevalence: natural course of the epidemic or results of behavioural change?

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
    It is important to understand changes in the incidence and prevalence of HIV in order to plan for the scale of future problems and to evaluate the effectiveness of current national strategies to limit the spread of infection.
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    Family Influences on Zimbabwean Women’ s Reproductive Decisions and their Participation in the Wider Society

    Family Health International, 1999
    Explores the roles of husbands and mothers-in-law in reproductive decision-making and women’s participation in development. It addresses the question of whether women and their families believe lower fertility should enable young mothers to engage in activity outside the domestic sphere.
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    A review of household and community responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000
    Reviews the literature on household and community coping responses to HIV/AIDS and makes policy recommendations. Includes recommendations for successful government/NGO interactions
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    Dying of Sadness: Gender, Sexual Violence and the HIV Epidemic

    Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
    UNAIDS estimates that by December 1997, 30.6 million people around the world had been infected with HIV, with more than 70% of these infections occurring through unprotected sexual intercourse.The proportion of these infections which is attributable, directly or indirectly, to sexual violence is unknown.
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    Gender, HIV and human rights: a training manual

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000
    Manual for training on the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS.
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    Community-level interventions against HIV/AIDS from a gender perspective

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2000
    This paper deliberately avoids dwelling on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, its impact on women, families, communities and on development. The author chooses rather to focus on some salient issues pertaining to Community Level Health Interventions Against HIV/AIDS from a Gender Perspective.The paper outlines policy recommendations and potential interventions in the short/medium and long-term.
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    The gender aspects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2000
    Gender analysis is crucial to understanding HIV/AIDS transmission and initiating appropriate programmes of action.
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    Gender and HIV/AIDS: taking stock of research and programmes

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
    This paper examines research on gender as it relates to women’s and men’s different vulnerabilities to HIV infection, and their different abilities to access resources for care and support in order to cope with the impact of the epidemic.In most societies gender influences individual and societal risk of HIV/AIDS.
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    A media handbook for HIV vaccine trials for Africa

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    This handbook aims to to equip scientists with ideas, skills, and knowledge on how to relate to the media and thereby reach the general public and some specific groups.While focused in HIV vaccine trials, the advice on how to relate the media may be of interest to researchers in other subjectsThere are two major rules with regard to communicating about vaccine trials effectively and maintain
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    AIDS and agriculture in Africa: can agricultural policy make a difference?

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2000
    Focussing on sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV/AIDS epidemic has spread rapidly over the past 15 years, this article highlights the effects of the pandemic on farm households and discusses some policy issues arising from it.Effects of HIV/AIDS infection on agriculture:Reduction in area of land under cultivation, as land is often allocated by community authorities to families on the basi

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