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    Painful tradeoffs: intimate-partner violence and sexual and reproductive health rights in Kenya

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Intimate-partner violence involves multiple violations of sexual and reproductive rights, with devastating impacts on the health and wellbeing of those affected. This paper from the Institute of Development Studies details the results of an action-research collaboration between a Kenyan gender-based violence rehabilitation NGO and a research programme.
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    Facilitator’s manual on planning for gender sensitive multi-sectoral response to HIV/AIDS initiatives

    National AIDS Council, Zambia, 2005
    This manual is a learning instrument and a reference tool for beginners. It is a step-by step handbook to guide the development of local HIV/AIDS action plans. It also details how to build the capacity of trainers in order for them to systematically integrate and mainstream HIV/AIDS into all developmental programmes.
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    Repositioning family planning: guidelines for advocacy action

    Africa's Health in 2010 (Academy for Education Development), 2008
    Provision of family planning services in Africa is hindered by poverty, poor access to services and commodities, poor coordination of the programmes, and dwindling donor funding. In addition, traditional beliefs favouring high fertility, religious barriers, and lack of make involvement have weakened family planning interventions.
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    PSM Toolbox: procurement and supply management toolbox

    AIDS medicines and diagnostics service, World Health Organization, 2009
    This toolbox has been developed as a central website repository for a wide range of health-related procurement & supply management (PSM) tools. It contains a search engine to facilitate quick tool selection. If a particular tool is available in the public domain, a link to the respective website has been provided to download the most recent version.
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    The Global Fund: managing great expectations

    The Lancet, 2004
    This paper published in the Lancet, tracks early implementation experiences of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four African countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Interim findings are based on interviews with 137 national-level respondents. The paper finds that: 
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    Lessons learned from complex emergencies over past decade

    The Lancet, 2004
    Major advances have been made during the past decade in the way the international community responds to the health and nutrition consequences of complex emergencies. The public health and clinical response to diseases of acute epidemic potential has improved, especially in camps. Case-fatality rates for severely malnourished children have plummeted because of better protocols and products.
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    Impact of Stepping Stones on incidence of HIV and HSV-2 and sexual behaviour in rural South Africa: cluster randomised controlled trial

    British Medical Journal, 2008
    Stepping Stones, a 50 hour programme, aims to improve sexual health by using participatory learning approaches to build knowledge, risk awareness, and communication skills and to stimulate critical reflection.
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    Biological and behavioural impact of an adolescent sexual health intervention in Tanzania: a community-randomized trial

    International AIDS Society, 2007
    Young people in the rural African population are at high risk of adolescent pregnancy and STIs, with a low incidence of condom use and a high proportion entering into sexual activity. This report in the official journal of the International AIDS Society shows how the impact of a multicomponent intervention programme on the sexual health of adolescents was assessed in rural Tanzania.
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    When asked, community answer!

    Health and Development Networks, 2009
    The Commission on AIDS in Asia (CAA) was an independent body established in 2006. Over a period of 18 months, the Commission conducted a thorough analysis of the developmental consequences of the AIDS epidemic in the region, and its medium- to long-term implications on the socio-economic environment.
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    The double burden of human resource and HIV crises: a case study of Malawi

    Human Resources for Health, 2008
    This paper published in Human Resources for Health examines the two crises that dominate the health sectors of sub-Saharan African countries: those of human resources and of HIV.

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