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  Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  In 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.
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  HIV/AIDS and child labour in Zambia: a rapid assessment on the case of the Lusaka, Copperbelt and Eastern Provinces

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This rapid assessment examined correlations between the HIV/AIDS pandemic and child labour in Zambia, and subsequently on the welfare of children in terms of their health, education, etc.
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  The state of world population 2003 – making 1 billion count: investing in adolescents’ health and rights.

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  The 2003 UNFPA report on world population focuses on the need for greater efforts to protect the human rights and well-being of young people. These include greater investments in education and in health, including sexual and reproductive health.
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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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  The impact of the AIDS epidemic on teacher mortality in sub-Saharan Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This article discusses the commonly stated belief that teachers in Africa are among the groups most affected by HIV/AIDS and that their death rate is disproportionately high compared with the populations as a whole.
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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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  Ask your aunty:  sex education in rural Uganda

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Developing sex education for young people in sub-Saharan Africa is essential if the battle against HIV is to be won. Information about sex and marriage has traditionally been passed on to young girls by the 'senga', their father’s sister, in rural Uganda.  The UK's Medical Research Council carried out a pilot study which adapted this traditional institution in an attempt to combat AIDS.
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  Deadly silence: barriers to communicating HIV/AIDS in schools

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  An estimated 11.8 million 15 to 24-year-olds are living with HIV worldwide. Schools are the obvious place to teach young people about the risks of infection. But what is the best way to do this? Research by ActionAid identifies a number of silences in communication which are hindering efforts in the classroom.
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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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  Accelerating action against AIDS in Africa

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This report, presented at ICASA 2003 in Nairobi, assesses current global commitments to addressing HIV/AIDS. It states that, despite the fact that the pandemic has recently reached the top of the African and international agenda, resources are still nowhere near sufficient.

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