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  Starting from strengths: community care for orphaned children in Malawi

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2011

  The Starting from Strengths: Community Care for Orphaned Children research project was initiated in 1995 as a partnership project linking universities, NGO’s, government ministries and UN Agencies in Canada and Malawi.
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  Getting research into policy, or out of practice, in HIV?

  The Lancet, 2010

  Globally, health policy has been dominated by calls for getting research into practice. This notwithstanding, this paper argues that many health interventions are based on hypotheses that are best guesses or gut feelings.
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  People who use drugs, HIV, and human rights

  The Lancet, 2010

  This paper reviews evidence from more than 900 studies and reports on the link between human rights abuses experienced by people who use drugs and vulnerability to HIV infection and access to services.Key findings of the study are:
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  Advancing human rights: responding to HIV

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2010

  This paper presents results from a survey undertaken by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance on human rights and HIV responses.Key findings of the survey are:
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  Human rights count!: Key findings of the pilot studies in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia

  Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, 2010

  This multi-country study documents HIV related human rights violations against people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia.
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  Legal environments, human rights and HIV responses among men who have sex with men and transgender people in Asia and the Pacific: an agenda for action

  United Nations Development Programme, 2010

  This study, commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM), posits that some 19 of 48 countries in the Asia Pacific region continue to criminalise male-to-male sex.
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  System-wide effects of the Global Fund in Malawi: baseline study report

  2005

  In January 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF) was established as an additional financial instrument to address these three diseases. Malawi has so far received a substantial GF grant for HIV/AIDS, and another grant for malaria has been approved, although the grant agreement with the GF has not yet been signed.
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  Integrating HIV and sexual and reproductive health: A pacific specific mapping

  Family Planning International, 2010

  This report identifies linkage and integration activity around HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in the Pacific region. Using a review of existing literature and interviews from Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Kiribati, the report outlines barriers to, and entry points for, advancing HIV and SRH linkages and integration in the Pacific region.
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  Chronic care of HIV and noncommunicable diseases: How to leverage the HIV experience

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011

  This report, published by UNAIDS, explores options for leveraging the HIV experience to inform chronic care for people living with HIV and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Key findings include:
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  Central Asia: hotspot in the worldwide HIV epidemic

  The Lancet, 2010

  This paper, published in the Lancet, posits that the HIV epidemic in central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) has accelerated since 2000. The authors argue that this expansion in the epidemic is largely attributable to escalating injection drug use, reflecting central Asia's geographic position along major drug trafficking routes.

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