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  The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

  Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000

  This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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  Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

  Panos Institute, London, 2001

  This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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  Poverty and human development: UNDP Human Development Report 1997 (highlights)

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
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  Fighting AIDS together [children and AIDS]

  The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999

  The world's children are benefiting from several decades of unprecedented health progress. Child-killing diseases are succumbing to vaccination campaigns and low-cost remedies, reducing death rates and improving the quality of young lives. But in about 30 developing countries, HIV/AIDS is threatening and even reversing these strides.
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  Impact of HIV and sexual health education on the sexual behaviour of young people: a review update

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1998

  To assess the effects of HIV/AIDS and sexual health education on young people’s sexual behaviour, a comprehensive literature review was commissioned by the Department of Policy, Strategy, and Research of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Sixty-eight reports were reviewed.
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  The socio-economic impact of HIV and AIDS on rural families in Uganda: an emphasis on youth

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1994

  While youths are among the most vulnerable groups to HIV infection, they are also the most promising agents of behaviour change. Young men and women are vulnerable to HIV infection because they begin sexual activity at an increasingly younger age, tend to have multiple partners and have restricted access to information on safer sexual practices.
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  The impact of HIV and AIDS on children, families and communities: risks and realities of childhood during the HIV epidemic

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998

  The impact of HIV/AIDS extends beyond those living with the virus, as each infection produces consequences which affect the lives of the family, friends and communities surrounding an infected person. The overall impact of the epidemic encompasses effects on the lives of multiples of the millions of people living with HIV/AIDS or of those who have died.
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  HIV and Infant Feeding: A Chronology of Research and Policy Advances and their Implications for Programs

  Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997
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  Researchers identify a simple, inexpensive drug regimen that is highly effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission

  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA, 1999

  A joint Uganda-U.S. study has found a highly effective and safe drug regimen for preventing transmission of HIV from an infected mother to her newborn that is more affordable and practical than any other examined to date.
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  Literature Review on Adolescent Reproductive Health Studies Conducted in Tanzania 1988 - 1998

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1999

  Reviews all available adolescent reproductive health (ARH) documents and published articles on studies conducted or published in Tanzania in the past ten years (1988-1998). The study also includes as a background a review of some ARH studies carried out in Tanzania and Africa and in Tanzania before 1988.

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