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Searching with a thematic focus on Health, HIV and AIDS, HIV and AIDS treatment and care in South Africa

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  A comparative analysis of the financing of HIV/AIDS programmes in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003

  This comparative study assesses the readiness and ability of six African countries - Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe - to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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  The cost of treating HIV/AIDS with ARVs in South Africa: Who knows? Who cares?

  International AIDS Economics Network, 2002

  This paper reports on a survey conducted of completed studies and research in progress produced by public, private and non-government institutions that have estimated and documented the cost of treatment of HIV/AIDS with ARVs in South Africa.
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  Demystifying antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003

  This paper uses the example of a poor township 30 kilometres outside Cape Town to find out if antiretroviral therapy is possible in severely resource-constrained environments and to discover the best ways to deliver these drugs.Zidovudine (AZT), first became available in Khayelitsha township’s two maternity wards in early 1999, and the programme has subsequently become one of the continent’s bi
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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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  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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  Predicting the social consequences of orphanhood in South Africa

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2003

  This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in Southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic.Analysis of the logic underlying these predictions reveals four causal relationships necessary to fulfil such dramatic and apocalyptic predictions:high AIDS mortality rates wil
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  A review of the model implemented by the Hospice Association of South Africa Integrated Community-based Home Care (ICHC) in South Africa

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2002

  This report assesses the critical elements of a POLICY Project supported venture for seven hospices to incorporate the Integrated Community-based Home Care (ICHC) model into their operational activities, reflecting on the experiences of those working in the field.Objectives of the research were to:identify and discuss key similarities and differences between the hospice ICHC model and o
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  Hitting home: how households cope with the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a survey of households affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa

  Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002

  This report summarises the results of a survey of 771 AIDS-affected households in different parts of South Africa.It documents the impoverishing impact of HIV/AIDS on households and the inordinate burden of caring for AIDS-sick family members.
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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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  Social marketing for adolescent sexual health: results of operations research projects in Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, and South Africa

  Population Services International, 2000

  This report, produced by Population Services International (PSI), describes a project that tested the impact of youth-oriented social marketing techniques on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Interventions and communications strategies included promotion through mass media, brand names such as ‘Youth Horizon’, and condom distribution through peer educators and youth-friendly outlets.

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