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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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  Risky sex, addictions, and communicable diseases in India: implications for health, development, and security

  Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2004

  This paper, produced by the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, looks at alcohol and drug abuse, as well as risky sexual behaviour - seen as the leading risk factors for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, other STIs - and how they could potentially impact on India’s national stability and security.
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  Assessing the vulnerability of women street traders to HIV/AIDS: a comparative analysis of Uganda and South Africa

  Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2004

  This HEARD study examines women street traders' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Uganda. The paper examines how conditions of employment in the informal economy influence women’s social and economic marginalisation. It then goes on to explore how this is linked to the social and behavioural dynamics that influence HIV/AIDS.
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  Issues in brief : the role of reproductive health providers in preventing HIV

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004

  This ‘Issues in Brief’, produced in collaboration with UNAIDS, Alan Guttmacher Institute, IPPF and UNFPA, discusses the capacity of reproductive health service providers to fully integrate HIV-related activities into their services. The report outlines how providers of reproductive health services have the knowledge and skills that would enable stepped-up interventions for HIV prevention.
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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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  HIV-positive women report more lifetime partner violence: findings from a voluntary counseling and testing clinic in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  American Journal of Public Health, 2002

  This study explores the link between HIV and violence against women (VAW) by comparing the experiences of partner violence between HIV-positive and HIV-negative women in Tanzania. The study found that the odds of reporting at least one violent event were significantly higher among HIV-positive women than among HIV-negative women.
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  Gender-based violence, relationship power, and risk of HIV infection in women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa

  The Lancet, 2004

  This article, published in the Lancet, reports on one of the few empirical studies examining the connections between women’s HIV risk and gender-based violence.
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  2003 National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey (NARHS), Nigeria

  HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse, 2003

  This National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey for Nigeria was conducted in 2003 and consulted over 10 000 people, aged 15 – 64.
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  The war within the war: sexual violence against women and girls in eastern Congo

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This Human Rights Watch report examines sexual violence against women and girls in the context of the ongoing conflict in eastern Congo. The report finds that sexual violence is an integral part of the conflict and has been used as a weapon of war by most of the forces involved.

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