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  Sara, a role model for girls as they face HIV and AIDS in Africa: a review of the sara communication initiative for its introduction to Ghana

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  The Sara Communication Initiative (SCI) is a complementary regional project designed to support and reinforce on-going and future program activities supported by UNICEF, its partners and any organisation with similar goals.
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  Stop violence against women: it's in our hands

  Amnesty International, 2004

  This paper explores the definition and perpetration of violence against women around the world. The authors explore how the underlying cause of violence against women lies in discrimination which denies women equality with men in all areas of life. Violence is both rooted in discrimination and serves to reinforce discrimination.
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  Expanding contraceptive choice: an Africa study of emergency contraception

  Reproductive Health Research Unit, 2003

  This study explores the need for and use of emergency contraception in South Africa. It was undertaken in response to the lack of information on the availability, provision and use of emergency contraception in South Africa.
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  A decade after Cairo: women's health in a free market economy

  The Corner House, UK, 2004

  This briefing first summarises the actions of several women’s groups to influence the outcome of the 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development and evaluates with hindsight some of the successes and failures of the Programme of Action. The authors examine the history of the concept of "reproductive rights," and different general priorities for what this means by region.
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  Challenges in the social sector: confronting Caribbean SIDS

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004

  This paper identifies those areas which ECLAC believes lead to the most pressing social problems in the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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  AIDS Epidemic Update 2004

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004

  This joint UNAIDS/WHO report outlines the most recent trends in the global AIDS epidemic. Women are increasingly affected by HIV and make up nearly half of the 37.2 million living with HIV world wide. In sub-Saharan Africa, almost 60 percent of adults living with HIV are women. The report identifies Southern Africa as the worst-hit region with HIV prevalence rates surpassing 25 percent.
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  Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease: Part II: determinants operating at environmental and institutional level

  The Lancet, 2004

  This review, produced by The Lancet, looks at the various factors that influence vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS infection at environmental and institutional level. It identifies strategies to improve resilience to all three diseases simultaneously, stressing the importance of a cross-sectoral approach.
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  Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease: Part 1: determinants operating at individual and household level

  The Lancet, 2004

  This review assesses the various factors that affect vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS infection and disease at the individual and household levels. Produced by The Lancet, it examines in particular the influence that age, sex, and genetics have on the biological response to the three diseases and looks at what effect the three illnesses have on each other.
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  HIV prevention in maternal health services: a training guide

  EngenderHealth, 2004

  This training manual, produced by EngenderHealth, provides guidance on how to integrate prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) into maternal health services. Its objective is to build the capacity of programme managers and staff to meet the HIV and STI needs of women who are pregnant or who have given birth.
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  Sexual power and HIV risk, South Africa

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA, 2004

  This paper is a preliminary exploration into the effects of sexual power on both HIV status and condom use among young women in South Africa. The study estimated that a lack of sexual power would decrease the likelihood of consistent condom use and increase the risk for HIV infection among 15- to 24-year-old women.

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