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    The status and trends of HIV/AIDS/STI epidemics in Asia and the Pacific

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Report looks at current statistics of AIDS/HIV/STI in Asia and the Pacific and discusses the trends behind population groups and country regions where infections are prevalent.It suggests that focused interventions can keep infection rates low in specific groups and reduce the risk of extensive HIV spread in the population at large.
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    HIV/AIDS and development in the education sector

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    The objective of this paper is to describe the underlying problem of HIV/AIDS in the context of education development in Southern Africa, and also to identify opportunities for remedial action and positive enablement.
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    Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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    HIV and Infant Feeding: A Chronology of Research and Policy Advances and their Implications for Programs

    Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997
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    Researchers identify a simple, inexpensive drug regimen that is highly effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission

    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA, 1999
    A joint Uganda-U.S. study has found a highly effective and safe drug regimen for preventing transmission of HIV from an infected mother to her newborn that is more affordable and practical than any other examined to date.
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    Literature Review on Adolescent Reproductive Health Studies Conducted in Tanzania 1988 - 1998

    Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1999
    Reviews all available adolescent reproductive health (ARH) documents and published articles on studies conducted or published in Tanzania in the past ten years (1988-1998). The study also includes as a background a review of some ARH studies carried out in Tanzania and Africa and in Tanzania before 1988.
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    Prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child: Strategic options

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
    Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is by far the largest source of HIV infection in children below the age of 15 years. In countries where blood products are regularly screened and clean syringes and needles are widely available, it is virtually the only source in young children.Paper reviews methods for forming a national policy on prevention and treatment.
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    Algorithms for purchasing AIDS vaccines

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Paper delineates two different algorithms for the purchase of AIDS vaccines, to show how differences in policy objectives can greatly affect projections of the number of courses of vaccine that will be needed.Authors consider a hypothetical vaccine costing $10 to produce, and offering 60 percent, 75 percent, and 90 percent reductions in the risk of HIV for 10 years.
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    Encouragement of new clinical drug development: the role of data exclusivity

    International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations, 2000
    Paper asserts that for the pharmaceutical industry to invest the billions of dollars, Euros, yen, etc. in these highly risky health care solutions, intellectual property protection is essential. However, patent and trade-mark protections are not the entire story.
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    Threats of AIDS and condom use in a Nigerian urban community: implications for fertility regulation in Nigeria

    Union for African Populations Studies / Union pour l’Etude de la Population Africaine, 1999
    Results of a study into condom use that aims to identify conditions that will increase acceptance of condom among couples of reproductives ages.

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