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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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  Educational attainment and HIV-1 infection in developing countries: a systematic review

  HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse, 2001

  This paper conducts a systematic review of the published literature on the relationship between educational attainment and HIV-1 in developing countries.Findings:large studies in four areas in Africa showed an increased risk of HIV-1 infection among the more educated, whilst among 21-year old Thai army conscripts, greater duration of schooling was strongly protective against HIV infecti
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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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  Meeting their needs? Discussing young people’s sexual health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  More than six thousand people aged 16-25 become infected with HIV every day worldwide. But the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young people are often neglected. The Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme, funded by DFID, held a meeting of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from many countries. They considered the potential of education to protect young people against HIV.
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  Knowledge is power: AIDS education for Ugandan schoolchildren

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001

  Comprehensive AIDS education can make pupils aware of the need to protect themselves against infection. It can also bring about gradual changes in the wider social environment, making safer sex more acceptable. But what is the best way to introduce AIDS education to schools with scarce resources and a packed curriculum?
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  Mixed Messages

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Can education spearhead the fight against HIV/AIDS? In Uganda the government uses the national curriculum to promote sexual health in schools. Yet if school culture reinforces gender inequality - a fundamental cause of HIV spread - will government strategy work? Are schools a risk factor in the spread of this deadly virus?
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  Primary education in Eastern and Southern Africa: increasing access for orphans and vulnerable children in AIDS-affected areas

  Global Health Department, USAID, 2001

  This paper investigates the national and community level interventions that offer promise for increasing primary education access for children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable in areas heavily affected by AIDS in the eastern and southern Africa region.The report examines thirteen initiatives that have potential to increase primary education access for such groups.
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  Education and HIV/AIDS: a sourcebook of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes

  School Health, 2003

  This sourcebook documents details of HIV prevention programmes for school age children in seven African countries: Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.Types of programme include both primary and secondary school based examples, use of the media, community based and peer education programmes and outreach for street children.The book provides:a prog
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  Mobilising gender issues: report from the Living for Tomorrow project on youth, gender and HIV/AIDS prevention

  Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research, 2002

  This is an overview report of a three year project that took place in Estonia that aimed to combine gender theory and research with action implementation to approach youth, sexual safety and HIV prevention with a challenging focus on gender. The report describes the process of the project as well as its outcomes and the results of research undertaken to explore young people's attitudes.
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  Women and health: mainstreaming the gender perspective into the health sector

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 1998

  An Expert Group Meeting on "Women and Health – Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector" was organised in Tunisia in 1998, in preparation for the forty-third session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1999 which considered "Women and Health" as a priority theme.

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