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  The potential demand for and strategic use of an HIV-1 vaccine in Southern India

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper assesses the potential demand for and strategic use of an HIV- 1 vaccine in southern India. It assesses the size of potential high- and low-risk target groups for an HIV-1 vaccine in the 117 districts of Andhra Pradesh, Maharasthra, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.
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  Dangerous liaisons: people in cross-generational relationships underestimate risk

  Population Services International, 2003

  This paper presents a study of Kenyan women’s and men’s motivations for entering into cross-generational relationships and their risk perceptions of such relationships. Eight focus groups were conducted with women aged 15-19 and 28 in-depth interviews were carried out with men aged 30 years and older in Nairobi, Mombassa, Kisumu and Meru.
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  Trust is principal barrier to condom use

  Population Services International, 2002

  The objective of the survey was to determine the barriers to condom use by sexually experienced males and females.
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  Expanding workplace HIV/AIDS prevention activities for a highly mobile population: construction workers in Ho Chi Minh city

  Population Council, USA, 2003

  This study addresses the HIV epidemic in Vietnam and assesses the increasingly critical promotion of prevention behaviour among vulnerable populations, such as migrant workers.
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  Locked doors: the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in China

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This paper highlights the importance of protecting the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and those at risk of contracting the disease in order to combat the epidemic.
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  Between men: HIV/STI prevention for men who have sex with men

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003

  This booklet presents the main issues around HIV/STI prevention for NGOs and CBOs, either currently working with men who have sex with men, or who are considering doing so.
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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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  Adolescent sexual and reproductive health behaviour in Dodowa, Ghana

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This report presents findings from a study of sexual and reproductive health status of in-school and out-of-school adolescents in Dodowa, Ghana, carried out in 2001. The research aim was to help design a program to address adolescents’ unmet needs and promote safer behaviours.
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  The increasing importance of sexually transmitted diseases in HIV-infected persons

  International AIDS Society-USA, 2003

  This Guide presents detailed medical recommendations screening, diagnosis, and management of:genital herpes simplex virus infectionchlamydial and gonococcal infectionssyphilishuman papillomavirus–associated neoplasia in HIV-infected patientsThe article summarises a presentation given by the author at the March 2003 International AIDS Society - USA course in Los Angeles.
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  HIV, breastfeeding, and infant mortality: weighing the impact of the non-evidenced-based WHO/UNAIDS recommendations in the low-income, low-resource countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

  African Networks for Health Research and Development, 2001

  This paper challenges the WHO/UNAIDS recommendations regarding breastfeeding and HIV positive mothers in low-income, low-resource countries.The paper shows that although almost all paediatric HIV is due to maternal to child transmission (MTCT), in 1992, WHO/UNAIDS recommended that breastfeeding should be advised for pregnant women, including those who are HIV+, in countries with high infant mor

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