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  Guidelines for occupational safety and health, including HIV in the health services sector

  US Agency for International Development, 2008

  These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors argue that the health sector is loaded with a wide variety of situations where health and safety issues are crucial.
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  Indigenous health part 1: determinants and disease patterns

  The Lancet, 2009

  This article, published by The Lancet, notes that almost 400 million of the world's indigenous people have low standards of health. This poor health is associated with poverty, malnutrition, overcrowding, poor hygiene, environmental contamination, and prevalent infections.
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  Acceptability and accessibility of HIV testing and treatment services in Bembeyi, Bunia, North Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo – A Participatory Reflection and Action (PRA) Project Report

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009

  This paper explores the challenges in ensuring equitable access to HIV and AIDS services for persons in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The HIV and AIDS prevalence rate is reported as five percent, with a disproportionate number of people from rural communities being infected.
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  Nurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment at the primary health care level in rural Lesotho: 2006-2008 programme report

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2009

  Lesotho has the third highest HIV prevalence in the world, with an estimated 270,000 people living with HIV and AIDS in the country, and 18,000 deaths annually of AIDS-related complications.
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  Urban poverty and health in developing countries

  Population Reference Bureau, 2009

  This bulletin, published by the Population Reference Bureau, provides a sketch of urban health in developing countries, documenting the intra-urban differences in health for a number of countries and showing how the risks facing the urban poor compare with those facing rural villagers.
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  Hearing community voices: grassroots perceptions of an intervention to support health volunteers in South Africa

  Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, 2008

  With the scarcity of African health professionals, volunteers are earmarked for an increased role in HIV/AIDS management, with a growing number of projects relying on grassroots community members to provide home nursing care to those with AIDS – as part of the wider task-shifting agenda. Yet little is known about how best to facilitate such involvement.
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  Operations manual for delivery of HIV prevention, care and treatment at primary health centres in high-prevalence, resource-constrained settings: edition 1 for fieldtesting and country adaptation

  World Health Organization, 2008

  This operations manual, published by the World Health Organization, provides guidance on planning and delivering HIV prevention, care, and treatment services at health centres in countries with high HIV prevalence. It provides an operational framework to ensure that HIV services can be provided in an integrated, efficient and quality-assured manner.
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  The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: evidence from demographic and health surveys

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009

  This paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, documents the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. The authors, using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunisation for children born between 1988 and 2005.
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  HIV in Pakistan: preventing a future epidemic in most-at-risk groups

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2009

  Very low levels of HIV and AIDS awareness and condom use, together with high-risk sexual behaviours in vulnerable groups such as injecting drug-users and sex workers, make Pakistan a potentially high-risk country for HIV spread. Current HIV prevalence is generally low but STI levels are high in some at-risk groups.
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  Women, HIV and human rights: the crisis of criminalization

  All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, UK, 2009

  This document outlines a presentation given by the Salamander Trust at a meeting on women and AIDS at the House of Commons in Westminster. The presenter details how, because of global attitudes, women with HIV/AIDS have seen their reproductive health rights and rights to liberty systematically and institutionally eroded.

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