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  Delivering the 2010 target: financing universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment

  ActionAid International, 2006

  This paper looks at the current funding gap in the global response to HIV and AIDS and calls on the UK to work with other G8 countries to galvanise sufficient funding. It also calls on Gordon Brown to build on the UK’s political leadership in 2005 and push for G8 countries to agree on an international funding, focusing on the urgent delivery of existing financial commitments.
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  The impact of AIDS on early childhood care and education

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2003

  This UNESCO policy brief examines the impact of the AIDS on early childhood care and education, focusing on the results of a study in Botswana. Parents who had to give care to children or adults with HIV were significantly more likely to report that they were worried about the quality of child care their children receive, than other parents.
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  For goodness sake!: Asia-Pacific faith-based organizations battle HIV/AIDS

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2003

  This chapter, from the book HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support: Stories from the Community, examines the response to HIV and AIDS of faith-based organisations in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper explores the range of activities these organisations have undertaken.
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  Missing the target: off target for 2010: how to avoid breaking the promise of universal access

  International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, 2006

  This report, from the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), follows on from a 2005 study that explored specific barriers and potential solutions to AIDS treatment delivery in six countries. This report finds some progress but argues that a lack of national leadership and slow implementation of reforms continues to prevent treatment delivery.
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  Girl power: the impact of girls’ education on HIV and sexual behaviour

  ActionAid International, 2006

  This document addresses the feminisation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. The report asserts that HIV prevention campaigns often do not address the increased vulnerability of young women because they fail to deal with limited power to determine who to have sex with, or when and how to have sex.
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  AIDS: from crisis management to sustained strategic response

  The Lancet, 2006

  This viewpoint, from a special “AIDS” edition of the Lancet, argues that an exceptional response to AIDS is necessary and must be at the core of social and economic development. The author outlines how the response to AIDS over the last 25 years has changed from crisis management to a sustained response.
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  HIV prevention with especially vulnerable young people: case studies of success and innovation

  Safe Passages to Adulthood, 2006

  This publication, produced by the Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme, examines case studies that demonstrate innovation in HIV prevention programmes that work with especially vulnerable young people. The Safe Passages programme has developed a framework of action, which incorporates five core principles that should underpin effective HIV prevention programming with young people.
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  Sexual and reproductive health of women living with HIV/AIDS: guidelines on care, treatment and support for women living with HIV/AIDS and their children in resource-constrained settings

  World Health Organization, 2006

  This publication, produced by UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) and the WHO (World Health Organization), addresses the specific sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of women living with HIV and AIDS. It includes recommendations for counselling, antiretroviral therapy (ART), care and other interventions.
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  The potential impact of male circumcision on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

  Public Library of Science Medicine, 2006

  This article, from Plos medicine, considers the findings that male circumcision (MC) reduces sexual transmission of HIV from women to men and explores the implications of this finding for the promotion of MC as a public health intervention to control HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  First aid for women and newborns: where home birth is necessary or common

  MAQWeb Global Health Technical Briefs, 2006

  This technical brief, published by MAQWeb, outlines a first aid approach to emergency care during home births called Home Based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS). HBLSS is promoted through a training strategy in which a trainer teaches selected community members, who then teach home birth teams in the community as they were taught.

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