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    Helping children in the time of HIV and AIDS

    Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2004
    This booklet offers practical guidelines to individuals and organisations on what is needed most and how to go about helping the thousands of children who are rendered vulnerable in the context of HIV/AIDS.Suggestions include:finding out who is most in need of helpsupporting a community-based responsestrengthing essential services such as education and health facilitieslimit
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    Access commun: scaling up access to antiretrovirals in Africa with community based organizations

    Sidaction, 2004
    This report outlines the findings of Sidactions’s 2004 survey of community organisations working in HIV and AIDS and their role in providing anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to communities. The report outlines how a number of community organisations have been essential in establishing health care facilities run by people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) and in scaling up access to ARVs.
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    Moblization for community involvement in microbicide trials

    Global Campaign for Microbicides, 2004
    This report, from the Global Campaign for Microbicides, describes the challenges and strategies discussed during a 2003 meeting in South Africa on community involvement in microbicide trials. The report highlights the unique challenges in microbicides research that make community involvement both important and difficult to attain.
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    Integrating reproductive health: myth and ideology

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 1999
    This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, explores the gap between rhetoric on the integration of HIV and reproductive health services, and actual progress made. The paper compares the health systems of Ghana, Kenya and Zambia with that of South Africa to examine progress on integration since 1994.
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    Dreams & desires: sexual and reproductive health experiences of HIV positive women

    International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004
    This publication from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) explores the specific sexual and reproductive health issues facing HIV positive women.
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    Giving money to children: the state’s constitutional obligations to provide child support grants to child headed households

    Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), 2004
    One effect of the HIV epidemic in South Africa has been increasing numbers of orphans and of households headed by children. This article argues that laws which currently prevent child headed households from accessing benefits violate the country’s Constitution.
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    Antiretroviral therapy in primary healthcare: Experience of the Khayelitsha programme in South Africa

    World Health Organization, 2003
    This paper, published by the World Health Organization, discusses the experience of a Médecins Sans Frontières programme to offer antiretroviral (ARV) treatment within primary health care centres in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa.It provides an overview of the treatment programme, and outlines a range of positive outcomes.These include dramatic improvements in health a
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on humanitarian assistance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    HIV/AIDS and emergencies are now at the top of the humanitarian policy agenda. The combined effect of climatic, economic and social issues led to a crisis in several countries in southern Africa during 2002–2003. This crisis brought to the forefront the complex interactions between HIV/AIDS, food security, livelihoods and humanitarian action.
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    HIV/AIDS, poverty and growth: evidence from a household impact study conducted in the Free State province, South Africa

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002
    This paper from the Centre for Study of African Economies (CSAE) reports on a study to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on households. It finds that many affected households in South Africa rely heavily on social welfare grants. This implies that the government will in future years be faced with increasing claims.
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    Poverty and labour market markers of HIV+ households: an exploratory methodological analysis

    Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
    This study provides a tentative analysis of the relationship between HIV, poverty and labour markets. The author illustrates that the relationship between poverty, labour markets and HIV is not homogenous but multi-dimensional in character.

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