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Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries
US Agency for International Development, 2003In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.DocumentA comparative analysis of the financing of HIV/AIDS programmes in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe
Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003This comparative study assesses the readiness and ability of six African countries - Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe - to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.DocumentSurmounting challenges: procurement of antiretroviral medicines in low- and middle-income countries
Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003As the price of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in low- and middle-income countries has fallen in recent years, governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations have been able to start developing treatment programmes for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).DocumentThe cost of treating HIV/AIDS with ARVs in South Africa: Who knows? Who cares?
International AIDS Economics Network, 2002This paper reports on a survey conducted of completed studies and research in progress produced by public, private and non-government institutions that have estimated and documented the cost of treatment of HIV/AIDS with ARVs in South Africa.DocumentDemystifying antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings
Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003This paper uses the example of a poor township 30 kilometres outside Cape Town to find out if antiretroviral therapy is possible in severely resource-constrained environments and to discover the best ways to deliver these drugs.Zidovudine (AZT), first became available in Khayelitsha township’s two maternity wards in early 1999, and the programme has subsequently become one of the continent’s biDocumentSummary report: national HIV and syphilis antenatal sero-prevalence survey in South Africa 2002
HIV/AIDS and STD Directorate, Department of Health, South Africa, 2003This report is the 13th in a series of studies on HIV and syphilis prevalence conducted among pregnant women attending antenatal care in the public sector.DocumentThe impact of HIV/AIDS on land: case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa
Oxfam, 2002The paper presents case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa in order to examine the impact of HIV/AIDS upon land, and present preliminary policy recommendations.DocumentReport of the scientific meeting on the empirical evidence for the demographic and socio-economic impact of AIDS
Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2003‘A lot of projections, but little data’, is a common complaint amongst HIV/AIDS researchers and policy makers in Africa.DocumentUnhappy alliance – does integrated reproductive healthcare work?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002What are the best strategies to tackle the spread of HIV and improve women’s reproductive health? Since 1994, the international approach has been to integrate sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV services with primary healthcare and family planning programmes. But how successful has this been?DocumentMeeting their needs? Discussing young people’s sexual health
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002More than six thousand people aged 16-25 become infected with HIV every day worldwide. But the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young people are often neglected. The Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme, funded by DFID, held a meeting of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from many countries. They considered the potential of education to protect young people against HIV.Pages