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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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  “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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  Reproductive health interventions: which ones work and what do they cost?

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2000

  This paper, produced by the POLICY project, looks at the effectiveness and cost of different reproductive health care interventions, and asks what criteria governments can use to decide whether they will provide certain interventions.
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  Orphans and vulnerable children: technical consultation

  Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 2003

  This report presents the outcomes of a consultation with researchers, policy makers and development workers to discuss responses to the needs of vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS.
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  Waking up to risk: corporate responses to HIV/AIDS in the workplace

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2003

  This paper from the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) looks at the response of large corporations to HIV/AIDS. The paper presents results and analysis from the first global survey of transnational corporations responses to the pandemic. HIV/AIDS may pose significant risks to current and future corporate financial performance.
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  Rwanda: “Marked for Death”, rape survivors living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda

  Amnesty International, 2004

  This Amnesty International report explores the situation of rape survivors living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda.
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  The application of geographical information systems to important public health problems in Africa

  International Journal of Health Geographics, BioMed Central, 2002

  This article, published in the International Journal of Health Geographics by BioMed Central, considers the application of geographical information systems (GIS) technology to health research and planning in Africa.
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  Safeguarding investment in PMTCT programs by incorporating essential newborn care

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004

  This briefing paper, produced by Basics II, advocates integration of essential newborn care into programmes for the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS.
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  The agriculture, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS connections in developing countries

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This essay, invited by USAID, explores the connections between rural poverty, undernutrition, and HIV and AIDS in developing nations and aims to suggest specific cross-sector investment strategies that can be used more effectively to combat the three. It argues that poverty is principally a rural problem, and that undernutrition and HIV and AIDS are closely associated with rural poverty.
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  Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes: a review paper

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This review paper aims to provide background information and a suggested framework for considering the issues and challenges of integrating gender into programmatic and policy action. It also offers some programmatic examples of successful HIV/AIDS interventions that have addressed gender issues in a meaningful and significant way.

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