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    Helping women with HIV decide about breastfeeding: what family planning programs can do

    MAQWeb Global Health Technical Briefs, 2006
    This technical brief, published by MAQWeb, outlines some key facts about HIV and breastfeeding, and looks at how family planning programmes can help women with HIV weigh the various risks in deciding whether to breastfeed. It notes that a focus on HIV transmission through breastfeeding has tended to draw attention away from the risks to infant health of not breastfeeding.
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    The female condom: a powerful tool for protection

    United Nations Population Fund, 2006
    This report emphasises the potential of the female condom as a strategy for women to gain control over their lives and their bodies, by preventing unwanted pregnancies and lowering their susceptibility to the HIV infection.
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    Quality education and HIV and AIDS

    UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education, 2006
    This report presents a framework for quality education that demonstrates how education systems can and must change in their analysis and conduct in relation to HIV and AIDS.It summarises the 10 dimensions of the framework, and considers how HIV and AIDS manifests itself in relation to these quality dimensions.
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    Evaluating Stepping Stones: a review of existing evaluations and ideas for future M&E work

    ActionAid International, 2006
    This report, published by ActionAid International, reviews monitoring and evaluation (M&E) data on "Stepping Stones" – a participatory training package designed to address the prevention of HIV, and care for people living with HIV and AIDS, by promoting communication and relationship skills within households and communities.
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    2006 report on the global AIDS epidemic

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2006
    This UNAIDS report provides comprehensive data on country responses to the AIDS epidemic. It reveals that important progress has been made since the UN’s 2001 Special Session on HIV/AIDS, but that the response to HIV has varied widely between counties and regions.
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    Using global media to reach youth: the 2002 MTV Staying Alive campaign

    YouthNet, Family Health International, 2006
    This paper, published by YouthNet, examines the effects of a 2002 media campaign aiming to increase awareness of HIV and AIDS, encourage prevention behaviour, reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination, and to empower young people to take action. The campaign was conducted using the international television network MTV.
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    The impact on condom use of the “100% Jeune” social marketing program in Cameroon

    Journal of Adolescent Health, 2004
    This article, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, examines the impact of a social marketing programme designed to improve sexual and reproductive health amongst young people in two cities in Cameroon. The programme aimed to promote consistent condom use and encourage discussion about sexual health issues through both mass media and interpersonal communication.
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    Public choices, private decisions: sexual and reproductive health and the Millennium Development Goals

    Millennium Project, 2006
    This report, published by the UN Millennium Project, examines the global burden of diseases and risks related to sexual and reproductive health (SRH), analyses the implications for the Millennium Development Goals, and asks what needs to be done. Key findings include that millions of women lack access to family planning services they need and want.
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    Addressing stigma in implementing HIV/AIDS workplace policy: the ACORD experience in Uganda

    International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2006
    This Intrac Praxis Note describes the experience of ACORD Uganda in their efforts to implement an effective HIV and AIDS workplace policy. It focuses on the importance of addressing stigma within the organisation - both as an objective of the policy itself and as a prerequisite of its effective implementation.
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    HIV/AIDS prevention and care among especially vulnerable young people: a framework for action

    Safe Passages to Adulthood, 2004
    This guide, published jointly by Safe Passages to Adulthood and the World Health Organization, reviews the evidence and identifies priority issues surrounding prevention and care of HIV and AIDS amongst especially vulnerable young people including migrants and refugees, homeless people, injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, and girls forced to have sex.The authors highl

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