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  Poor relations?: PRSPs and the response to HIV/AIDS and children

  Tearfund, 2004

  This Tearfund paper examines the use of the Poverty Reduction Strategy process (PRSP) in response to HIV/AIDS. It summarises the relationships between poverty and HIV/AIDS, highlights some of the key features of the PRSPs, and analyses the vision and reality of PRSPs in responding to HIV/AIDS. It then considers the future of PRSPs in increasing responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  Measuring HIV/AIDS related stigma: promising practice of stigma-mitigation from across South Africa

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004

  This report from the siyam’kela project looks at three focus areas that play a crucial role in stigma mitigation. The first section looks at how faith-based organisations (FBOs) are influential in shaping values and attitudes to vulnerable people in society as well as developing compassionate responses to social challenges.
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  Blocking progress: how the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are undermining the fight against HIV/AIDS

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This ActionAid briefing explores how International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan conditions to developing countries are undermining the fight against HIV/AIDS. The author argues that the global community is ready to scale-up levels of foreign aid to help poorer countries finance the much needed greater public spending to fight HIV/AIDS.
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  Addressing stigma and discrimination as a barrier to effective workplace interventions

  Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This document is the report from the ICASA (International Conference of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa) Skills Building Workshop held in Nairobi in September 2003.
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  UNAIDS at country level: progress report

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004

  This UNAIDS report summarises the achievements of the UNAIDS strategic framework for action - Directions for the Future - in facilitating better coordination and implementation of HIV/AIDS work at a country level. The report looks at the process of implementing the framework, the associated capacity strengthening of UNAIDS, and remaining challenges.
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  Tripartite interregional meeting on best practices in HIV/AIDS workplace policies and programmes: consensus statement

  ILOAIDS, International Labour Organization, 2003

  This ILOAIDS document is the consensus statement from an interregional meeting held in December 2003. The goal of the meeting was to analyse what makes good practice, to share lessons learned and to establish guidelines for actions based on experience. It was recognised that no single action is appropriate or possible in all settings.
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  Perceptions of employers about HIV/AIDS in micro and small enterprises employing women workers: a case study of Harare

  Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Ethiopia, 2002

  This study seeks to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on the micro and small enterprise (MSE) sector in Harare, Zimbabwe, by assessing the perceptions of employers and employees.The MSE sector provides employment for a large proportion of the Zimbabwean economically active population.
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  Political commitment, governance and HIV/AIDS

  Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2001

  Is the notion of political commitment useful for programming and advocacy? Is it more beneficial to focus on better governance rather than greater political commitment?
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  HIV/AIDS, state capacity, and political conflict in Zimbabwe

  United States Institute of Peace, 2004

  This study from the United States Institute of Peace traces the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the economy and the apparatus of governance in Zimbabwe. It begins by briefly chronicling the influence that epidemic disease has had on the stability of human societies throughout history.
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  HIV/AIDS, conflict and reconstruction in sub Saharan Africa

  International Centre for Migration and Health, 2001

  This document was written for a symposium on Preventing and Coping with HIV/AIDS in Post Conflict Societies: Gender-Based Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa. It outlines the problems chronicity of conflict poses many African countries, which need to find time and opportunity to go from instability to stability and then re-development.

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