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  Understanding HIV-related stigma and resulting discrimination in Sub-Saharan Africa: emerging themes from early data collection in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2002

  Describes research that is underway in three African countries and Vietnam to investigate the causes, manifestations, and consequences of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and subsequent discriminatory acts. The basis for analysis is the community and its institutions (health facilities, the workplace, schools, and religious group)s.
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  Cross-generational and transactional sexual relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: prevalence of behavior and implications for negotiating safer sexual practices

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2002

  This literature review assesses the extent of sexual relations between adolescent girls and older male partners (cross-generational sex) in sub-Saharan Africa; the extent of transactional sex; and the behavioral dynamics of girls and men involved in these sexual relations.
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  Turning the tide: CEDAW and the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002

  This document considers the relevance of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to women as they are affected by HIV/AIDS.It covers the reasons for women's particular vulnerability to HIV infection and as main care givers.
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  Adolescent sexuality, gender and the HIV epidemic

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1999

  Young people have been found to be especially vulnerable to HIV infection through lack of knowledge, access to treatment and prevention methods like condoms.Stereotypical gender roles place young women, and to a lesser extent young men, at heightened risk of HIV infection. Young women in many parts of the developing world have little control over how, when and where sex takes place.
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  The impact of Thailand's AIDS epidemic on older persons: quantitative evidence from a survey of key informants

  Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2000

  This report assesses the involvement of parents in Thailand in the caregiving and living arrangements of adult AIDS cases and the economic impact on the families and parents through expenditures on treatments and other routes.
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  The economic consequences for parents of losing an adult child to AIDS: evidence from Thailand

  Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2002

  This report examines the economic consequences for parents of losing an adult child to AIDS in Thailand with emphasis on the effects of parental caregiving.
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  Suffering in silence: the links between human rights abuses and HIV transmission to girls in Zambia

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This document reports on high rates of sexual violence and coercion against girls in Zambia as a significant causal factor in the extremely high rates of HIV infection among that group.The report documents girls' testimonies of several categories of abuse that heighten girls’ risk of HIV infection, includingsexual assault of girls by family members, particularly the shocking and all too
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  Meeting the behavioural data collection needs of national HIV/AIDS and STD programmes

  Family Health International, 1998

  Changes in HIV infection rates over time have been hard to interpret in many contexts because programmes frequently lack complementary information on changes in behaviour. National prevention programmes are sometimes designed with only limited understanding of the size of various populations vulnerable to HIV and the nature and determinants of risk among them.
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  Second generation surveillance for HIV: the next decade

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000

  The diversity of HIV epidemics around the world is becoming ever more apparent. Existing HIV surveillance systems are ill-equipped to capture this diversity, or to explain changes over time in mature epidemics.
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  Initiating second generation HIV surveillance systems: practical guidelines

  WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2002

  These guidelines, produced by the WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HSI), are designed to assist National AIDS Programmes (NAPs) and Ministries of Health in implementing second generation HIV surveillance systems through a logical and standardised process.

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