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    Gender, women and HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Pan American Health Organization, 2002
    In the context of the 2001 UNGASS commitments to address gender issues of HIV/AIDS, this paper discusses the effect of female and male gender roles, power relations and sexual behaviour on the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latin American and Caribbean Region (LAC), specifically exploring women’s vulnerability to the epidemic.The authors begin by discussing gender and sexuality and LAC social const
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    HIV/AIDS, economics and governance in South Africa: key issues in understanding response. A literature review

    Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002
    This review of economic research on HIV/AIDS in South Africa states that its aims were: to identify completed and ongoing research conducted on the economic aspects of HIV/AIDS and its implications for governance in South Africaprovide a comprehensive bibliography of literature in the areamake a preliminary assessment of the quality of the existing research, to identify trends and
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    Measuring impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods and food security

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2003
    The main purpose of this paper is to examine general patterns of the impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihood assets and to propose a set of indicators to measure these impacts. A related objective is to identify indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of mitigation efforts.
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    Addressing the general and reproductive health of women in global supply chains

    Business for Social Responsibility, 2002
    Women comprise a majority of the workforce in labor-intensive manufacturing industries such as apparel, footwear, toys, electronics, food processing and house-wares. They also work extensively in the informal sector, including in agriculture and handicrafts. The working environment in these industries can present health hazards to both male and female workers.
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    Examining HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa through the eyes of ordinary Southern Africans

    Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002
    This paper compares public opinion survey data from the Afrobarometer with epidemiological data about the HIV/AIDS pandemic in seven Southern African countries. The authors use this data to examine the degree to which people are aware of the pandemic, and are willing to speak about it.
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    Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS: a conceptual framework and implementing principles

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2002
    Mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS is an essential approach for expanding multi-sectoral responses to HIV/AIDS. Mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS is not an intervention per se.
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    HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support across faith-based communities: an annotated bibliography of resources

    Family Health International, 2002
    The purpose of this bibliography is to describe and review resources that have proven useful to faith-based organizations addressing the HIV crisis in Africa. The authors state that there are two criteria for selection of materials reviewed here. The first is that they promote dignity and respect for people living with HIV. The second is that they provide correct HIV information.
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    AIDS in Ethiopia: fourth edition

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2002
    This update on HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia is based on double the amount of data previously used to estimate prevalence in the country.
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    Children, HIV/AIDS and communication in South Africa: a literature review

    Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002
    This commissioned report aimed to to provide insight into issues related to communication of HIV/AIDS to children in the 3-12 year age group, with an emphasis on South Africa.
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    National AIDS councils monitoring and evaluation operations manual

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
    This is a fairly technical manual providing an overview of monitoring and evaluation (M and E) and how to implement it.The document describes a new approach to HIV/AIDS programming that implements immediate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of programmes to determine which activities are efficient and effective and should be expanded further and which are not and should be stopped or would benefi

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