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  Summary report: national HIV and syphilis antenatal sero-prevalence survey in South Africa 2002

  HIV/AIDS and STD Directorate, Department of Health, South Africa, 2003

  This 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.
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  Progress report on the global response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, 2003

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This report assesses the current state of responses globally to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.Using the mandates of the UN General Assembly Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS in 2001, the UNAIDS Secretariat and Cosponsors collaboratively developed a series of global/regional and national indicators to measure the global community’s progress in reaching the Declaration’s targets in line with the Mill
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  Just die quietly: domestic violence and women’s vulnerability to HIV in Uganda

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This paper argues that women are becoming infected with HIV because the state is failing to protect them from domestic violence. It bases the report on 120 interviews with Ugandan women.The paper argues that many women are victims of marital rape.
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  Predicting the public health impact of antiretrovirals: preventing HIV in developing countries

  AIDScience, 2003

  The authors discuss the potential public health impact of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in developing countries. They use mathematical models to show that ARVs could prevent a substantial number of HIV infections, significantly reduce HIV prevalence, but would increase the transmission and prevalence of drug-resistant strains of HIV.
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  WABA/UNICEF Colloquium on HIV and breastfeeding

  World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, 2002

  This resource is a collection of conference presentations on breastfeeding and HIV transmission, includingthe role of breastfeeding-supportive NGOs in HIV and infant feedingHIV and infant feeding: a framework for priority actionsexperiences with early cessation of breast feeding among HIV infected women in Kampala, UgandaPMTCT, infant feeding: the Botswana experienceHIV and
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  Male circumcision: current epidemiological and field evidence

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This is the report of a conference held from September 18 and 19, 2002.
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  Under the surface: a critique of the HSRC HIV/AIDS survey

  AIDS Analysis Africa, 2003

  This paper analyses the methods and results of the South African national household HIV prevalence survey.The author outlines the results of the survey that seem surprising, especially when compared with other prevalence surveys in South Africa.The paper explores the potential biases that may have occurred in the
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  Evidence of iatrogenic HIV transmission in children in South Africa

  British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2003

  This paper is the latest in a series arguing that HIV transmission in Africa is attributable to unsafe medical practices in far more cases than have been previously believed.
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  Stigma, HIV/AIDS and prevention of mother-to-child transmission: a pilot study in Zambia, India, Ukraine and Burkina Faso

  Panos AIDS Programme, 2001

  Aims to assess and provide an initial analysis of the extent of perceived and enacted stigma, consider stigma in general and, more specifically, that surrounding mother-to-child transmission, and to explore what steps might be taken to alleviate it.Piolot research was conducted in India (South Asia), Ukraine (Eastern Europe), Burkina Faso (Francophone West Africa) and Zambia (Anglophone South
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  Reducing heterosexual transmission of HIV in poor countries

  British Medical Journal, 2002

  Short review of statistics, impacts and intervention startegies.

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