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  Pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS: protecting human rights in programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2005

  This briefing paper from the Centre for Reproductive Rights examines how women’s human rights need to be central to the development of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) programmes.
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  Modeling the effects of different infant feeding strategies on infant survival and mother-to-child transmission of HIV

  American Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This article, published by the American Journal of Public Health, investigates how the risk of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV through breastfeeding compares with the risk of death from artificial feeding.
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  First aid for women and newborns: where home birth is necessary or common

  MAQWeb Global Health Technical Briefs, 2006

  This technical brief, published by MAQWeb, outlines a first aid approach to emergency care during home births called Home Based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS). HBLSS is promoted through a training strategy in which a trainer teaches selected community members, who then teach home birth teams in the community as they were taught.
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  Helping women with HIV decide about breastfeeding: what family planning programs can do

  MAQWeb Global Health Technical Briefs, 2006

  This technical brief, published by MAQWeb, outlines some key facts about HIV and breastfeeding, and looks at how family planning programmes can help women with HIV weigh the various risks in deciding whether to breastfeed. It notes that a focus on HIV transmission through breastfeeding has tended to draw attention away from the risks to infant health of not breastfeeding.
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  Transition to replacement feeding by HIV-positive women who breastfeed

  LINKAGES Project, 2004

  This document, published by the Linkages Project, provides guidelines for HIV-positive women who choose to transition from breastfeeding to replacement feeding at about six months.
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  HIV and infant feeding: a compilation of programmatic evidence

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2004

  Published by UNICEF, this review brings together the available evidence on infant feeding and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV.
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  HIV risk exposure in young children: a study of 2-9 year olds served by public health facilities in the Free State, South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2005

  This study, produced by the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, sets out to investigate all possible routes of HIV transmission among 2 – 9 year old children in the Free State of South Africa. The aim of the study is to identify risk factors among children in this age group, other than those factors associated with transmission from their mothers.
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  HIV prevention in maternal health services: programming guide

  EngenderHealth, 2004

  This guide, produced by EngenderHealth and UNFPA, aims to help public health policymakers, programme managers, and trainers address programming gaps in the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in maternal health services.
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  UNICEF and WHO joint statement on HIV and infant feeding

  World Health Organization, 2004

  In this joint statement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF advocate stronger support for the UN joint framework on HIV and infant feeding. They highlight the framework’s five priority areas for action.
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  Scaling up prevention and treatment for TB and HIV: report of the 4th TB/HIV global working group meeting

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This document reports on the fourth TB/HIV global working group meeting held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in September 2004, which focused on scaling up collaborative prevention and treatment efforts to address the growing pandemic of both diseases.

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