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    The global impact of HIV/AIDS on youth

    Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002
    This fact sheet provides an overview of the impact of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic on young people, including data on prevalence and incidence, why adolescents are vulnerable to HIV, which young people are at particular risk, and the role of prevention.The document concludes that rates of infection amongst young people are set to increse and thus, prevention interventions directed at youth will
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    Reaching youth worldwide

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2002
    The United Nations estimates that one-half of all new HIV/AIDS cases are among 15- to 24-year-olds. Youth also face problems such as unemployment, adolescent pregnancy, and drug and alcohol abuse.
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    Rethinking differences and rights in sexual and reproductive health: a training manual for health care providers

    Family Health International, 2002
    The target audience for this guide is the men and women working in sexual and reproductive health who are interested in promoting training or reflections designed to improve gender and culturally sensitive care among their provider teams.
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    Stigma, HIV/AIDS and prevention of mother-to-child transmission: a pilot study in Zambia, India, Ukraine and Burkina Faso

    Panos AIDS Programme, 2001
    Aims to assess and provide an initial analysis of the extent of perceived and enacted stigma, consider stigma in general and, more specifically, that surrounding mother-to-child transmission, and to explore what steps might be taken to alleviate it.Piolot research was conducted in India (South Asia), Ukraine (Eastern Europe), Burkina Faso (Francophone West Africa) and Zambia (Anglophone South
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    The search for an HIV vaccine

    British Medical Journal, 2002
    Short paper argues that an effective, affordable, and accessible HIV vaccine is within reach . Equitable public-private partnerships between researchers, manufacturers, and distributors and partnerships between rich and poor countries are the best strategy for the development of the vaccine.
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    First trial of the HIV-1 vaccine in Africa: Ugandan experience

    British Medical Journal, 2002
    The first trial of a candidate HIV-1 vaccine in Africa was completed in Uganda in 2001. It involved a randomised, placebo controlled trial of a vaccine in healthy volunteers at low risk of HIV infection.
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    The evidence base for interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Low and Middle-Income countries

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    Reviews the scale of maternal and neonatal mortality and serious morbidity in low and middle income countries, and the factors that account for the huge discrepancies in the rates of these poor outcomes compared with high income countries.
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    Guide to European population assistance

    European NGOs for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Population and Development, 2003
    Directory of funding from all major European budget lines in the field of sustainable development.The Guide is a reference work for development organisations and provides an overview of available public funding from 15 European countries and the European Community (amounting to over Euro 33 billion of funds available for development work, including SRH, HIV/AIDS etc.).
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    Resolution on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the Americas

    Pan American Health Organization, 2001
    This paper outlines the resolutions taken at the meeting of the 43rd Directive Council on AIDS in the Americas held in Washington DC between the 24 and the 28th of September 2001Considering the trends in the HIV/AIDS/STI epidemic in the Americas and their present and future impact, and recognising the need for a commitment by governments and society to respond effectively and with solidarity t
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    Youth and HIV/AIDS: can we avoid catastrophe?

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2001
    To stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic from becoming a catastrophe, prevention strategies must do much more to reach young people right away. Of the over 60 million people who have been infected with HIV in the past 20 years, about half became infected between the ages of 15 and 24. Today, nearly 12 million young people are living with HIV/AIDS.

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