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  Potential impact of adjustment policies on vulnerability of women and children to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2005

  This article evaluates the potential impact of the IMF and WB adjustment policies on women's and children’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa through connecting changes at the macro level with effects at the meso and micro levels.The study finds that adjustment policies may inadvertently produce conditions facilitating women's and children’s exposure to HIV/AIDS.
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  Pukaar: the journal of Naz Foundation International, April 2005

  Naz Foundation International, 2005

  This quarterly newsletter from the Naz Foundation International (NFI) provides a forum for discussion, information and advice regarding sexual health and HIV and AIDS, focusing on South Asian masculinities and sexualities.
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  Family Health International network newsletter: nonconsensual sex

  Network, 2005

  This issue of Family Health International’s newsletter Network examines the key issues in nonconsensual sex and the impacts of this on sexual and reproductive health.
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  Re-sexualising the epidemic

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This article, from Development Update, argues that there is a need to pay more attention to sex and desire in the design of HIV prevention programmes. The paper highlights how perceived "dirty" issues, such as sex between men and anal intercourse between men and women, are often overlooked by HIV prevention programmes.
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  Women’s sexual control within conjugal union: Implications for HIV/AIDS infection and control in a metropolitan city

  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2005

  This study, published in Demographic Research, examines the extent to which women have control over their sexuality within marriage in Lagos, Nigeria, and its implications for the spread of HIV. Findings from the study show that women have some control over their sexuality, such as during menstruation, breastfeeding, pregnancy and sickness.
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  Kenya AIDS Watch: how twelve urban and rural communities across Kenya are managing the HIV/AIDS pandemic

  Huairou Commission, 2005

  This report, from the Huairou Commission, documents the home-based care (HBC) work of GROOTS Kenya, a network of grassroots organisations. The report focuses on urban and rural communities across Kenya, including Mathare, Korogocho Kisumu, Siaya, Tetu, Kitui, Nanyuki, Limuru, and Kiamora.
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  Gender, HIV/AIDS and food security: linkage and integration into development interventions

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2004

  This paper looks at the links between gender and HIV/AIDS and food security.
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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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  Randomised trial of effects of vitamin supplements on pregnancy outcomes and T cell counts in HIV-1 infected women in Tanzania

  The Lancet, 1998

  This article, published in The Lancet, reports on a study that assessed the effects of vitamin A and multivitamins on disease progression and birth outcomes in HIV-1 infected women. Among the 1075 women involved in the trial, 30 foetal deaths occurred among women assigned multivitamins compared with 49 among those not on multivitamins.
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  Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: a training manual

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2003

  This training manual, produced by the FANTA (Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance) project, is designed to enable African institutions of higher learning to integrate nutrition and HIV and AIDS into their training programmes.

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