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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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  What do Salvadoran teens think?: determining the feasibility of youth-friendly pharmacies: a focus group report

  Commercial Market Strategies: New Directions in Reproductive Health, 2003

  This paper reports on research findings from El Salvador into the feasibility of developing youth-friendly pharmacies.The data support implementation of the youthfriendly pharmacies concept.
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  Children's participation in HIV/AIDS programming

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2002

  This short article considers why children's participation is important in HIV/AIDS programming, the challenges that come with it and how it works in practice.The article argues that participation in decision making is inherent to children's rights but also that it is important for successful HIV/AIDS programming.
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  Sexually abused and sexually exploited children and youth in Pakistan: a qualitative assessment of their health needs and available services in selected provinces

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2001

  This paper collects and analyses existing information on Pakistan’s problems with child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation (trafficking, pornography and prostitution).
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  Condom use and abstinence among unmarried young people in Zimbabwe: Which strategy, whose agenda?

  Population Council, USA, 2003

  This paper compares the views about abstinence and condom use expressed by young people in Zimbabwe in focus-group discussions with the views underlying national policies and religious and traditional beliefs.Young people’s decisions to adopt one or the other of these risk-reduction strategies may not necessarily indicate genuine individual choices, but rather their deference to adults’ interes
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  AIDS in Africa during the nineties: young people in Kenya

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2003

  This summary report brings together and examine existing information about adolescent sex in Kenya during the nineties.The report examines evidence for the success of major prevention strategies: what do young people know about HIV and how to avoid it? What proportion of them are abstaining, and until what ages? Once they do start having sex, is it within marriage or outside it?
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  WABA/UNICEF Colloquium on HIV and breastfeeding

  World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, 2002

  This resource is a collection of conference presentations on breastfeeding and HIV transmission, includingthe role of breastfeeding-supportive NGOs in HIV and infant feedingHIV and infant feeding: a framework for priority actionsexperiences with early cessation of breast feeding among HIV infected women in Kampala, UgandaPMTCT, infant feeding: the Botswana experienceHIV and
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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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  Combating child labour and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of policies, programmes, and projects in South Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia to identify good practices

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This review of national HIV/AIDS and child labour policies and programmes, NGO projects, and community-based initiatives lluminates the harsh realities of the link between child labour and HIV/AIDS.

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