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  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a strategic framework

  Family Health International, 2001

  This report outlines the scale and nature of the problem of mother to child transmission (MTCT) and FHI's strategy to address it.The document describes the main prevention methods and then describes FHI's goals and approaches.
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  Evidence of iatrogenic HIV transmission in children in South Africa

  British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2003

  This paper is the latest in a series arguing that HIV transmission in Africa is attributable to unsafe medical practices in far more cases than have been previously believed.
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  Choices in family planning: informed and voluntary decision making

  EngenderHealth, 2003

  Despite the affirmation of sexual and reproductive health rights (SRH) by a number of conferences and conventions, this manual argues that reality has not caught up with rhetoric and that many reproductive health care clients still face barriers to informed voluntary decision making.This tool kit therefore aims to respond to the need for SRH services to address these barriers by providing a fra
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  Social marketing for adolescent sexual health: results of operations research projects in Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, and South Africa

  Population Services International, 2000

  This report, produced by Population Services International (PSI), describes a project that tested the impact of youth-oriented social marketing techniques on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Interventions and communications strategies included promotion through mass media, brand names such as ‘Youth Horizon’, and condom distribution through peer educators and youth-friendly outlets.
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  Gender and HIV/AIDS: an analysis of Zimbabwe's national policies and programs on HIV/AIDS/STIs

  Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network, 2003

  This report analyses the major Zimbabwean AIDS policies for their take on gender equity and equality.
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  Preventing HIV/AIDS and promoting sexual health among especially vulnerable young people

  Safe Passages to Adulthood, 2002

  This document reports on an expert group meeting on young people's sexual health. The good practice guide introduces practitioners, policy-makers and researchers to two distinct but related concepts - risk and vulnerability.
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  Developing materials on HIV/AIDS/STIs for low-literate audiences

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  This long document details experience and methods for working with low-literate people to communicate complex messages about STIs. The document provides a methodology for development materials for a behaviour change communication programme. It discusses qualitative research for learning about target populations and using those populations' input to develop effective visual messages.
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  The science of HIV/AIDS vaccines: an introduction for community groups

  International Council of AIDS Services Organsiations, 2003

  This is a layman's guide to the science behind attempts to find a vaccine for the HIV virus. It begins by describing the immune system and how it works. It then describes the HIV virus and the effect it has on the immune system.The guide describes the general concept of vaccines and the different types of vaccine and how they work.
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  Women and health: mainstreaming the gender perspective into the health sector

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 1998

  An Expert Group Meeting on "Women and Health – Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector" was organised in Tunisia in 1998, in preparation for the forty-third session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1999 which considered "Women and Health" as a priority theme.
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  Pushing and pulling HIV/AIDS vaccines

  International AIDS Economics Network, 2000

  Market forces drive technology research and development (R&D). Demands for high return on investment result in a lack of investment capital for technologies for the poor such as an HIV/AIDS vaccine.

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