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  Guidelines for occupational safety and health, including HIV in the health services sector

  US Agency for International Development, 2008

  These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors argue that the health sector is loaded with a wide variety of situations where health and safety issues are crucial.
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  Acceptability and accessibility of HIV testing and treatment services in Bembeyi, Bunia, North Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo – A Participatory Reflection and Action (PRA) Project Report

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009

  This paper explores the challenges in ensuring equitable access to HIV and AIDS services for persons in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The HIV and AIDS prevalence rate is reported as five percent, with a disproportionate number of people from rural communities being infected.
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  Nurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment at the primary health care level in rural Lesotho: 2006-2008 programme report

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2009

  Lesotho has the third highest HIV prevalence in the world, with an estimated 270,000 people living with HIV and AIDS in the country, and 18,000 deaths annually of AIDS-related complications.
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  Hearing community voices: grassroots perceptions of an intervention to support health volunteers in South Africa

  Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, 2008

  With the scarcity of African health professionals, volunteers are earmarked for an increased role in HIV/AIDS management, with a growing number of projects relying on grassroots community members to provide home nursing care to those with AIDS – as part of the wider task-shifting agenda. Yet little is known about how best to facilitate such involvement.
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  Operations manual for delivery of HIV prevention, care and treatment at primary health centres in high-prevalence, resource-constrained settings: edition 1 for fieldtesting and country adaptation

  World Health Organization, 2008

  This operations manual, published by the World Health Organization, provides guidance on planning and delivering HIV prevention, care, and treatment services at health centres in countries with high HIV prevalence. It provides an operational framework to ensure that HIV services can be provided in an integrated, efficient and quality-assured manner.
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  The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: evidence from demographic and health surveys

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009

  This paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, documents the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. The authors, using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunisation for children born between 1988 and 2005.
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  Orientation on Harm Reduction - a training course (Participant manual)

  WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2007

  This training course has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. Produced as a participant manual (see Furtherin Information on the right hand side for the Trainer manual) , it provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users.
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  Orientation on Harm Reduction - a training course (Trainer Manual)

  Regional Office for the Western Pacific, World Health Organisation, 2007

  This training package has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. Produced as a trainer's manual, it provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users.
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  Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: a toolkit for service providers in the comprehensive care centres

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2007

  Comprehensive care for HIV/AIDS is a complete package of care for HIV infected people, which includes clinical, psychosocial, social, legal and nursing care.
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  A national survey of the impact of rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy on health-care workers in Malawi: effects on human resources and survival

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007

  This paper from the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to assess the human resources impact of Malawi’s rapidly growing antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme and balance this against the survival benefit of health-care workers who have accessed ART themselves.

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