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  The potential impact of microbicides in Johannesburg, South Africa: model projections and implications for product promotion

  International Family Health, UK, 2004

  This briefing note, produced by International Family Health and the Global Campaign for Microbicides, summarises key findings from a modelling exercise that estimates the impact of a partially effective microbicide in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.
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  HIV/AIDS, conflict and reconstruction in sub Saharan Africa

  International Centre for Migration and Health, 2001

  This document was written for a symposium on Preventing and Coping with HIV/AIDS in Post Conflict Societies: Gender-Based Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa. It outlines the problems chronicity of conflict poses many African countries, which need to find time and opportunity to go from instability to stability and then re-development.
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  United Nations faces challenges in responding to the impact of HIV/AIDS on peacekeeping operations

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2001

  This report looks at the effectiveness of activities aimed at reducing risky behaviours among United Nations (UN) peacekeepers.
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  Risk and protection: youth and HIV/AIDS in sub-saharan Africa

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004

  This report draws on data for 24 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa which shows that large proportions of adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have inadequate information on how to protect themselves against HIV, and substantial proportions are sexually active and engage in behaviors that place them at risk of becoming infected.It argues that any effort to curb HIV/AIDS requires changes in sociocultu
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  Determinants of personal demand for an AIDS vaccine in Uganda: contingent valuation survey

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This study focuses on two issues concerning the introduction of a preventative HIV/AIDS vaccine in Uganda: what are the key factors that will lead adults to accept a vaccine; and what are possible behavioural responses to being vaccinated?
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  Women's reasons for not participating in follow up visits before starting short course antiretroviral prophylaxis for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: qualitative interview study

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This publication aims find out why pregnant women attending a public antenatal clinic in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire do not participate in necessary follow up visits before starting antiretroviral prophylaxis.
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  To have and to hold: women’s property and inheritance rights in the context of HIV/AIDS

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2004

  Produced by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) in collaboration with UNAIDS, this paper seeks to examine the link between HIV/AIDS and women’s property rights.
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  Facing the future together: report of the Secretary-General's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004

  This UNAIDS report, from the Secretary-General’s Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa, presents empirical data on the scale and character of the pandemic in nine countries in Southern Africa with the highest HIV prevalence rates.
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  AIDS in Asia: face the facts

  Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic Network, 2004

  This report, produced by the Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network, offers a comprehensive review of the latest HIV/AIDS data in Asia. It examines the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Asia, and identifies and explores behaviours which have resulted in the highest rates of HIV transmission: commercial sex, drug injecting, male-male sex and combinations of these behaviours.
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  Manual for reducing drug-related harm in Asia

  Centre for Harm Reduction, Melbourne, 2003

  This updated edition of the 1999 manual from The Centre for Harm Reduction provides a comprehensive guide to HIV/AIDS programming for injecting drug users (IDUs) in Asia. Following an overview of the HIV epidemic among IDUs in Asia, the manual details the rationale for harm reduction, and examines how this can be balanced and integrated with supply and demand reduction approaches.

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