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    Pushing and pulling HIV/AIDS vaccines

    International AIDS Economics Network, 2000
    Market forces drive technology research and development (R&D). Demands for high return on investment result in a lack of investment capital for technologies for the poor such as an HIV/AIDS vaccine.
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    The sound of silence: difficulties in communicating on HIV/AIDS in schools

    ActionAid International, 2003
    One of the key responses to the AIDS crisis has been the provision of school–based HIV/AIDS education. However, this work has often been led by those specialising in HIV and has not sufficiently drawn upon sound pedagogic practice.
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    Potential barriers to demand for an AIDS/HIV vaccine in developing countries

    International AIDS Economics Network, 2000
    In many studies, it has been assumed that everyone would demand access to an AIDS vaccine if it was available. Yet in reality, there are significant barriers to the consumer in demanding an AIDS vaccine, as has been observed with other vaccines.
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    HIV/AIDS and food security in Africa

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003
    This paper from the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) summarises existing evidence and experience concerning HIV and AIDS and food security in Africa.
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    HIV/AIDS, agriculture and food security in Malawi: background to action

    Regional Network on HIV/AIDS, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security, 2001
    The Malawi National HIV/AIDS Strategic Framework 2000-2004 calls for “an expanded, multi-sectoral national response to the epidemic.” However, this paper states that the capacity to respond to these calls lags behind. In many sectors, policy making still proceeds as if HIV/AIDS never happened.
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    HIV transmission in the medical setting

    Physicians for Human Rights, 2003
    This paper calls for human rights law to be applied equally across developed and developing nations, which means that people in poorer countries should be able to access safe health care.
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    Effective food and nutrition policy responses to HIV/AIDS: what we know and what we need to know

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute reviews the ways in which HIV and AIDS impact on assets and institutions generally, as well as agriculture, natural resource management, food security, and nutrition. The authors argue that the role of the food and nutrition sectors is in mitigation, which is also an effective form of prevention.
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    Measuring the impact of prime-age adult death on rural households in Kenya

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2002
    This paper describes two year study of Kenyan households where a 'prime age' member had died.
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    Attitudes towards HIV/AIDS in China: research on public knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in cities and towns

    Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2003
    This short paper begins by providing a background to HIV/AIDS and its prevalence in China.
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    Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    This is a policy paper based on a symposium held in 2001. It transcribes the speeches made and the discussions that followed them. Speakers talked aboutnutritional impacts of HIV/AIDSnutrition and care programmesmothers with HIV feeding infants (impacts on both infants and mothers)a success story from Uganda

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