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Searching with a thematic focus on Social determinants of health, Health, HIV and AIDS, Gender and HIV AIDS, Women and girls

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  Summary report: national HIV and syphilis antenatal sero-prevalence survey in South Africa 2002

  HIV/AIDS and STD Directorate, Department of Health, South Africa, 2003

  This report is the 13th in a series of studies on HIV and syphilis prevalence conducted among pregnant women attending antenatal care in the public sector.
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  Haiti family planning and AIDS prevention survey, 1998

  Population Services International, 1999

  This report describes the main findings from the 1998 Haiti Family Planning and AIDS Prevention Survey (HFAPS-98).
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  Expanded response guide to core indicators for monitoring and reporting on HIV/AIDS programs

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This guide is the second in the series of two monitoring and evaluation handbooks which focuses on the new areas of USAID's Expanded Response to HIV/AIDS including care, support, and treatment for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS with a special focus on women and children.The paper offers a rationale for the expanded response monitoring and reporting system; targets for the expanded res
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  Voices and choices: speaking-up for HIV- positive women in Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Women with AIDS face neglect and prejudice all over the world.  Many are denied healthcare during pregnancy or forced to have abortions.  Some are sent away by their husband’s family to their parents’ home.  How can their situation be improved?  The International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS set up a research project to find out the needs of HIV-positive women in Zimbabwe.  Women with t
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  Surviving the strain: HIV mortality rates in the Gambia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  What are the chances of surviving AIDS? Do different strains of the HIV virus have different mortality rates?  The Medical Research Council, together with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looked at the mortality rates of patients in The Gambia with HIV-1, HIV-2 and of patients with both infections. 
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  Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This paper reports on a study that examines the impact of a health-focused literacy class in Nepal that combines reproductive health knowledge along with literacy training.
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  Accelerating action against AIDS in Africa

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This report, presented at ICASA 2003 in Nairobi, assesses current global commitments to addressing HIV/AIDS. It states that, despite the fact that the pandemic has recently reached the top of the African and international agenda, resources are still nowhere near sufficient.
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  Just die quietly: domestic violence and women’s vulnerability to HIV in Uganda

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This paper argues that women are becoming infected with HIV because the state is failing to protect them from domestic violence. It bases the report on 120 interviews with Ugandan women.The paper argues that many women are victims of marital rape.
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  A review of current literature of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in sub-Saharan Africa

  US Agency for International Development, 2001

  This paper reviews epidemiological characteristics of children affected by HIV/AIDS, coping mechanisms and current knowledge of the impact of HIV on children.
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  Health & sexuality: microbicides

  Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, 2003

  This special edition of Health and Sexuality magazine, published by the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, focuses on microbicides and the female condom.

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