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  What do Salvadoran teens think?: determining the feasibility of youth-friendly pharmacies: a focus group report

  Commercial Market Strategies: New Directions in Reproductive Health, 2003

  This paper reports on research findings from El Salvador into the feasibility of developing youth-friendly pharmacies.The data support implementation of the youthfriendly pharmacies concept.
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  The tip of the iceberg: the global impact of HIV/AIDS on youth

  Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002

  This issue brief provides an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on young people around the world, generally defined as those between the ages of 10 and 24. Because of its focus on young people, this brief does not discuss mother-to-child transmission (MTCT).The brief addresses the issues of prevalence and incidence worldwide and examines nations with young populations hard hit.
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  Wasting sperm: the cultural context of condom use among the Maasai in Northern Tanzania

  Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, 2003

  This document reports data drawn from a study conducted in September 2002 that investigated the context of HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes among rural Tanzanian Maasai men and women. A primary focus of the work was exploration of the cultural context of condom knowledge and use.
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  Condom use and abstinence among unmarried young people in Zimbabwe: Which strategy, whose agenda?

  Population Council, USA, 2003

  This paper compares the views about abstinence and condom use expressed by young people in Zimbabwe in focus-group discussions with the views underlying national policies and religious and traditional beliefs.Young people’s decisions to adopt one or the other of these risk-reduction strategies may not necessarily indicate genuine individual choices, but rather their deference to adults’ interes
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  Postitive prevention: prevention strategies for people with HIV/AIDS (draft background paper)

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003

  This paper lays out in broad terms the rationale, context and options for prevention strategies for/by/with people with HIV.It concentrates mainly on strategies that prevent onward transmission from people living with HIV through sex. It also includes interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission (MTCT).
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  Social marketing models for product-based reproductive health programs: a comparative analysis

  Commercial Market Strategies: New Directions in Reproductive Health, 2003

  This paper explores the major differences and similarities between two classic social marketing models: the NGO and manufacturer’s models.
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  AIDS in Africa during the nineties: young people in Kenya

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2003

  This summary report brings together and examine existing information about adolescent sex in Kenya during the nineties.The report examines evidence for the success of major prevention strategies: what do young people know about HIV and how to avoid it? What proportion of them are abstaining, and until what ages? Once they do start having sex, is it within marriage or outside it?
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  What works: a policy and program guide to the evidence on family planning, safe motherhood, and STI/HIV/AIDS interventions: module 1: safe motherhood

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2003

  This module reviews the research that supports interventions in safe motherhood.
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  Advocacy guide for HIV/AIDS

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2001

  This Guide, which is intended to supplement IPPF’s Advocacy Guide, describes what advocacy can do, often at little cost, in the prevention of HIV/AIDS.The Guide deals with the issues of promoting male and female condoms; children and young people; advocacy for different groups of people at higher risk (e.g.
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  The strategic use and potential demand for an HIV vaccine in Southern Africa

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper investigates the issues around the targeting of an eventual HIV vaccine.The authors identify potential target groups for a vaccine, and estimate how many individuals would be in need of vaccination. They develop a method for estimating how many cases of HIV infection are likely to be avoided for each vaccinated individual.

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