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    It takes 2: partnering with men in reproductive and sexual health

    United Nations Population Fund, 2003
    This publication offers guidance on effective and gender-sensitive ways to engage men in the reproductive and sexual health of themselves and their partners. It includes examples of successful strategies and programming as well as lessons learned.A checklist summarising key points aims at creating a useful tool for designing and evaluating projects.
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    Strengthening partnerships among local FM radio networks and reproductive health agencies on HIV/AIDS

    United Nations Population Fund, 2002
    This paper provides an overview of how local FM radio has been used around the world to promote health and development goals. It is intended to inform UNFPA Country Representatives of the potential use of local and community radio to achieve UNFPA objectives worldwide, including HIV prevention.
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    Pasteurized breastmilk as a replacement feed for babies of HIV-infected mothers

    ProNUTRITION, 2003
    This short report offers a guide for mothers demonstrating how they can use their own milk for their babies, while simultaneously avoiding any risk of post-partum transmission of the virus to their babies through breastfeeding. The two methods shown are flash-boiling and pretoria pasteurization
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    Agrobiodiversity strategies to combat food insecurity and HIV/AIDS impact in rural Africa

    Development Gateway, 2003
    On the basis of participatory field research conducted in different rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper demonstrates that agrobiodiversity and the associated indigenous knowledge are relevant forces to combat food insecurity and the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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    A review of current literature of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in sub-Saharan Africa

    US Agency for International Development, 2001
    This paper reviews epidemiological characteristics of children affected by HIV/AIDS, coping mechanisms and current knowledge of the impact of HIV on children.
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    HIV among fishers: vulnerability of their partners

    The WorldFish Center, 2002
    This paper examines the impacts of HIV/AIDS on fishing populations and their partners. It begins by outlining the global impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and looking at the specific characteristics of fishing populations that may make them vulnerable to risk generally and to HIV specifically.
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    Assessment and improvement of care for AIDS-affected children under age 5

    ProNUTRITION, 2000
    Very little is known specifically about the 0-4 AIDS affected age group, since most orphan assessments treat the 0-15 (or 0-18) year age span only as a whole. Because of their nutritional, health and psycho-social needs, children under age 5 represent a group that demands special attention.
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    Advancing health communication: the PCS experience in the field

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2003
    The paper offers here some practical lessons as to what works, what works better, and what does not work in the rapidly evolving and advancing field of health communication. It proposes feasible actions that over the years helped Population Communication Services projects (PCS) resolve some of the problems facing health communication programs at different stages.
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    Working with young men to promote sexual and reproductive health

    Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002
    Gender is increasingly acknowledged as central to understanding young people's experiences of sexual relationships and health.
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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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