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    Preventing HIV/AIDS in schools

    International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, 2002
    This document consists of ten chapters looking at the necessary components of effective education to help prevent HIV/AIDS.
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    Intensifying action against HIV/AIDS in Africa: responding to a development crisis

    World Bank, 1999
    Given the scale of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, it is no longer just a public health problem, it is a development crisis. This document introduces the Bank’s new strategy to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in partnership with African governments and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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    Rural workers’ contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS: a framework for district and community action

    Royal Tropical Institute and HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2001
    This paper describes an evaluation of a number of projects that form the African regional AIDS program, set up by the World Bank's rural sector.
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    Model-based estimates of risks of disease transmission and economic costs of seven injection devices in sub-Saharan Africa

    WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2002
    This paper describes the findings of research to investigate and compare seven types of injection devices for their risks of iatrogenic transmission of bloodborne pathogens and their economic costs in sub-Saharan Africa.Both financial costs and assessment of transmission risk were estimated for each device against the number of new hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
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    World Health Report 2002: reducing risks, promoting healthy life

    World Health Organization, 2002
    The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 2002 World Health Report describes the amount of disease, disability and death in the world today that can be attributed to a small number of health risks.
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    HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa not explained by sexual or vertical transmission

    International Journal of STD and AIDS, 2002
    An expanding body of evidence challenges the conventional hypothesis that sexual transmission is responsible for more than 90% of adult HIV infections in Africa.Differences in epidemic trajectories across Africa do not correspond to differences in sexual behaviour. Studies among African couples found low rates of heterosexual transmission, as in developed countries.
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    HIV/AIDS and its impacts on land tenure and livelihoods in Lesotho: comments on Lesotho country study

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002
    This paper addresses the amelioration of the impact of AIDS on land tenure and livelihoods. The author argues that, in Lesotho, land policy development should be informed by the status of community support and welfare for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
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    Better health for poor people: strategies for achieving the International Development Targets

    Department for International Development, UK, 2000
    Summary produced by the Governance Resource CentreWhile global health improves, inequalities in health remain and in many instances are increasing. In the last decade, the United Nations (UN) have agreed International Development Targets.
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    The FTAA, access to HIV/AIDS treatment, and human rights

    Human Rights Watch, 2002
    This briefing paper begins by giving an outline of the WTO’s Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Agreement (TRIPS) and of the Doha declaration by WTO members, which states that countries can bypass patents in medical emergencies.The paper argues that countries in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) should resist pressure from the Office of the United States Trade Representativ
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    Demographic impact of AIDS in a low-fertility urban African setting: projection for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2002
    The study estimated the potential demographic impact of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in a low-fertility urban setting in sub-Saharan Africa.The prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) projected using a deterministic mathematical model was put into the AIDS Impact Model (AIM)of the SPECTRUM Policy Modelling System to estimate the potential demographic impact of AIDS in Addi

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