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  Preventing HIV/AIDS among adolescents through integrated communication programming

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  This manual is designed to assist national UNFPA officers in planning, designing, implementing and evaluating communication interventions for HIV prevention among adolescents that integrate advocacy, behaviour change communication and education with other policy and service components.The manual provides a series of checklists to guide the programme or project officer in addressing key question
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  HIV prevalence and prevention among teenagers in Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This short article argues that prevalence rates for HIV have been overestimated in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that, since there is very little comprehensive data collection of rates of infection and that most estimates are derived from testing in ante-natal clinics, rates are bound to be skewed.
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  How many orphans are there in sub-Saharan Africa?

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This article questions the standard statistics used by policy makers and others to asses the issue and response of children who lose one or more of their parents to HIV/AIDS. The author compares statistics cited by the two main sources of orphan data, and finds that they differ widely.
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  Expanded response guide to core indicators for monitoring and reporting on HIV/AIDS programs

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This guide is the second in the series of two monitoring and evaluation handbooks which focuses on the new areas of USAID's Expanded Response to HIV/AIDS including care, support, and treatment for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS with a special focus on women and children.The paper offers a rationale for the expanded response monitoring and reporting system; targets for the expanded res
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  Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This paper reports on a study that examines the impact of a health-focused literacy class in Nepal that combines reproductive health knowledge along with literacy training.
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  Pasteurized breastmilk as a replacement feed for babies of HIV-infected mothers

  ProNUTRITION, 2003

  This short report offers a guide for mothers demonstrating how they can use their own milk for their babies, while simultaneously avoiding any risk of post-partum transmission of the virus to their babies through breastfeeding. The two methods shown are flash-boiling and pretoria pasteurization
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  A review of current literature of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in sub-Saharan Africa

  US Agency for International Development, 2001

  This paper reviews epidemiological characteristics of children affected by HIV/AIDS, coping mechanisms and current knowledge of the impact of HIV on children.
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  Learning to live: monitoring and evaluating HIV/AIDS programmes for young people

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This paper addresses the lack of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) procedures within HIV/AIDS programme design. It argues that this has lead to experiences being shared in an unsystematic manner, with information varying in content and method of generation.
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  Assessment and improvement of care for AIDS-affected children under age 5

  ProNUTRITION, 2000

  Very little is known specifically about the 0-4 AIDS affected age group, since most orphan assessments treat the 0-15 (or 0-18) year age span only as a whole. Because of their nutritional, health and psycho-social needs, children under age 5 represent a group that demands special attention.
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  Reaching the poor: the ‘costs’ of sending children to school: a six country comparative study

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This comparative research study focuses on the main barriers to education for the poorest households in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. Although the study set out primarily to look at the burden of education costs on the poorest households, other barriers to education (e.g. physical access, quality of education, vulnerability/poverty, and health,) are also discussed.

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