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    Making a difference for children affected by AIDS: baseline findings from operations research in Uganda

    Population Council, USA, 2001
    Many organisations have begun to provide services to support AIDS orphans in East and southern Africa however, few have undergone any process of systematic evaluation.This report is a result of collaboration with PLAN International, Makerere University, and the Horizons Program to assess: the impact of an orphan support program physical, educational, and emotional wellbeing of children
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    Combating trafficking [of women] in South-East Asia: a review of policy and programme responses

    International Organization for Migration, 2001
    At least 200-225,000 women and children from South-East Asia are trafficked annually, a figure representing nearly one-third of the global trafficking trade. Of the estimated 45-50,000 women and children estimated to be trafficked into the US each year, 30,000 are believed to come from South-East Asia.
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    Parental bereavement: heterogeneous impacts of AIDS in Thailand

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2001
    Over the coming decades in Thailand, ageing parents whose adult children sicken with AIDS will bear burdens of care giving and loss. Using demographic microsimulation, this paper shows that the new, lower projections of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic still imply that 8% of Thais over the age of 50 in 1995 will lose one or more children to AIDS before their own deaths.
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    Finding a way forward: principles and strategies to reduce the impacts of AIDS on children and families

    Displaced Children and Orphans Fund & Patrick J. Leahy War Victims Fund, USAID, 2000
    As programs to date have reached only a small fraction of the most vulnerable children in the countries hardest hit by AIDS, the fundamental challenge is to develop interventions that make a difference over the long haul in the lives of the children and families affected by HIV/AIDS at a scale that approaches the magnitude of their needs.By itself, the paper argues, no single intervention will
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    Guidelines for children's participation in HIV/AIDS programs

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
    These guidelines provide a framework for local projects to develop ways of working with children and young people that respect their rights and enable their voices to be heard. The question that has been addressed in this booklet is:how can children and young people participate in AIDS campaigns and programmes in ethical and appropriate ways?The report states that programmes ne
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    Children and young people in a world of AIDS

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Young people are particularly susceptible to HIV infection and they also carry the burden of caring for family members living with HIV/AIDS. Around the world HIV/AIDS is shattering young people's opportunities for healthy adult lives.
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    Review of the former Soviet embassy compound IDP camp: psychosocial support activities Kabul, Afghanistan

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2001
    This article investigates the psychosocial support activities in the Kabul camp for internally-displaced persons (IDPs).
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    Forced labour in the 21st century

    International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2001
    As we enter the 21st century, millions of people around the world are subject to forced labour.Where forced labour is used, a range of associated human rights abuses frequently take place, including slavery, rape, torture and murder.The aim of this booklet is to raise awareness of these facts and encourage trade unions, non-governmental organisations, policy makers and members of the public
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    Youth and HIV/AIDS: can we avoid catastrophe?

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2001
    To stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic from becoming a catastrophe, prevention strategies must do much more to reach young people right away. Of the over 60 million people who have been infected with HIV in the past 20 years, about half became infected between the ages of 15 and 24. Today, nearly 12 million young people are living with HIV/AIDS.
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    Children on the brink: strategies to support children isolated by HIV/AIDS

    Synergy Project, USAID, 2000
    In the countries most affected by HIV/AIDS, there has been growing concern over the number of orphans, a problem that has increased largely as a result of the pandemic. This report was developed by two independent researchers contracted by USAID to review the situation of AIDS orphans.

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