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    The impact of voluntary counselling and testing: a global review of the benefits and challenges

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Many approaches to HIV prevention and care require people to know their HIV status. The importance of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) has brought about the wider promotion and development of VCT services.
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    Guidelines for sexually transmitted infections surveillance

    WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 1999
    This is a technical document intended primarily for health ministries.Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major global cause of acute illness, infertility, long-term disability and death, with severe medical and psychological consequences for millions of men, women and infants. The impact of these diseases is magnified by their potential to facilitate the spread of HIV infection.
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    China's HIV Crisis

    Brookings Institution, 2002
    Although China enjoys growing wealth, increasing per capita incomes, and rising living standards, it also suffers from environmental degradation and a host of social ills including political unrest, increased crime, and a fraying social safety net.
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    Gender and AIDS almanac

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    This documents provides an overview of the impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic by gender and considers prevention and care issues, especially as they relate to women.The document also discusses societal issues as they affect women and the impact of HIV/AIDS.
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    Impact of patents on access to HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002
    This paper uses sales data on HIV/AIDS drugs in a sample of 34 low and middle income countries between 1995 and 1999 to assess empirically the impact of patents on unsubsidized access to a new drug therapy.There can be two possible effects of patents on access to new drugs in developing countries.
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    Synergy Project APDIME Toolkit

    Synergy Project, USAID, 2001
    Toolkit for managers and technical specialists who are responsible for planning, designing, and managing HIV/AIDS programmes in resource poor countries.Toolkit organises materials and resources into five interrelated modules that represent the five phases of the programming cycle:Assessment: What is the nature of the HIV/AIDS problem?Planning: What objectives should we pursue to add
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    Gender-based violence and reproductive health & HIV/AIDS

    Population Reference Bureau, 2002
    This paper provides a summary of a day long technical update on gender-based violence (GBV) and reproductive health (RH) /HIV (HIV). The objective of the meeting was to: 1) launch a process for considering GBV in relation to RH and HIV in USAID'S population, health, and nutrition portfolio; and 2) explore ways of integrating GBV into RH/HIV programs.
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    Reproductive choice and women living with HIV/AIDS

    IPAS, 2002
    One area in which stigma and discrimination affect women living with HIV/AIDS (WHA) is reproductive health. This report summarizes available information concerning barriers and discrimination that WHA face in exercising their full sexual and reproductive rights concerning pregnancy.
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    Implications of WTO/TRIPS in East Africa : with special emphasis on pharmaceutical patents

    Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2002
    What has the impact of the TRIPs agreement been in East Africa? This study examines how patent protection relates to the overall promotion and protection of human rights, and socio-economic rights, in particular. The author concentrates on pharmaceutical patent protection and the new life saving drugs that should be available for treatment of HIV/AIDS in the region.
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    Collaboration with traditional healers in HIV/AIDS prevention and care in sub-Saharan Africa

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2002
    This is one of UNAIDS' key documents in their best practice series, and therefore explores a number of initiatives in order to make recommendations for future best practice in the field.A background is given to the role that traditional medicine plays in HIV and health care generally in the region.

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