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    Teacher training: essential for school-based reproductive health and HIV/AIDS education: focus on sub-saharan Africa

    YouthNet, Family Health International, 2004
    For teaching information and skills related to HIV/AIDS, teacher training is essential, and complex. In sub-Saharan Africa, up to half of all new HIV infections are occurring among youth under age 25. Since most youth attend school at least for primary education, school-based programmes are a logical place to reach young people.
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    Effectiveness of condoms in preventing sexually transmitted infections

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004
    Published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, this article reports on a review of scientific evidence for the effectiveness of condoms in preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), focusing on prospective studies published since June 2000.
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    Impact of the HEART campaign: findings from the youth surveys, 1999 and 2000

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2000
    The Helping Each other Act Responsibly Together (HEART) campaign, designed for youth by youth, informs young people about HIV/AIDS, promotes abstinence and condom use. The Campaign was designed to provide a social context in which prevailing social norms are discussed, questioned and reassessed.
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    Long-term outcomes of an abstinence-based, small-group pregnancy prevention program in New York City schools

    International Family Planning Perspectives, 2000
    Despite drops in U.S. teenage birthrates, questions continue to arise about how best to reduce the country’s adolescent birthrate. School-based programmes are considered one of the best ways to reach adolescents at risk of early sexual activity.
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    “Hulle kan nie hulle hormone intoom hou nie”: a study on gender, adolescents and sexual behaviour in relation to HIV in South Africa

    Centre for International Development Issues, University of Nijmegen, 2002
    This paper from the Centre for International Development Issues presents the results of research conducted among young people in South Africa, aiming to gain a better understanding of the sexual context of adolescents in the country. It looks at the question of how gender constructions influence risk-related sexual behaviour among adolescents.
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    African higher education institutions responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic

    Association of African Universities, 2003
    Up to recently higher education institutions had done very little in terms of response to the AIDS pandemic. The central message of this paper presented at the AAU Conference of Rectors, Vice Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities is that higher education institutions must develop a comprehensive HIV prevention programme.
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    Where are the gaps?: the effects of HIV-prevention interventions on behavioural change

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004
    As more funding becomes available for HIV/AIDS programmes in developing countries, an understanding of how prevention interventions lead to behavioural change and how behavioural change leads to reductions in HIV prevalence is crucial.
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    The role of behavior change in the decline in HIV prevalence in Uganda

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2002
    Accumulating evidence supports the conclusion that HIV prevalence has declined significantly in Uganda during the 1990s, probably accompanied by a somewhat smaller decline in HIV incidence. However, the magnitude of the change at national level is likely to have been smaller than reported in some sources.
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    Stop AIDS love life in Ghana “shatters the silence”

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2003
    The primary theme of the initial phase of the Stop AIDS Love Life campaign in Ghana was to “Shatter the Silence” surrounding HIV/AIDS. It integrated mass media and community-level interventions to slow the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ghana by promoting greater use of HIV-protective behaviors – abstinence, faithfulness, and condoms.
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    Young people and risk-taking in sexual relations

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
    This study in the UNAIDS publication Sex and youth: contextual factors affecting risk for HIV/AIDS presents a comparative analysis of data collected in interviews and discussions with nearly 3000 young people in 7 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas.

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