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  Health communication insights: information and communication technologies for the developing world

  Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2004

  Published by the Center for Communication Programs (CCP), this report is the first in a new series entitled “Health and Communication Insights”.
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  Women's reasons for not participating in follow up visits before starting short course antiretroviral prophylaxis for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: qualitative interview study

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This publication aims find out why pregnant women attending a public antenatal clinic in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire do not participate in necessary follow up visits before starting antiretroviral prophylaxis.
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  Culturally appropriate information, education and communication strategies for improving adolescent reproductive health in Cusco, Peru

  Population Council, USA, 2004

  This report from the Population Council documents a study by Comunicación Andina in rural Peru. Researchers surveyed adolescents living within the broadcast range of an educational radio series on their knowledge and attitudes relating to sexual and reproductive health. At the same time, they identified and trained adolescents as peer promoters for the radio series in local schools.
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  Manual for reducing drug-related harm in Asia

  Centre for Harm Reduction, Melbourne, 2003

  This updated edition of the 1999 manual from The Centre for Harm Reduction provides a comprehensive guide to HIV/AIDS programming for injecting drug users (IDUs) in Asia. Following an overview of the HIV epidemic among IDUs in Asia, the manual details the rationale for harm reduction, and examines how this can be balanced and integrated with supply and demand reduction approaches.
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  Gender, sex and HIV: how to address issues that no-one wants to hear about

  Strategies for Hope, 2000

  This paper, commissioned for UNESCO, outlines the Stepping Stones training package which aims to enable discussion on difficult but important issues in HIV prevention.
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  Patents, access to medicines and the role of non-governmental organisations

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004

  This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paper looks at how patents adversely affect access to affordable medicines. Although effective medicine is available to treat many global diseases, one-third of the world’s population lacks access to these basic, but expensive drugs as a result of patent rights.
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  Reproductive health interventions: which ones work and what do they cost?

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2000

  This paper, produced by the POLICY project, looks at the effectiveness and cost of different reproductive health care interventions, and asks what criteria governments can use to decide whether they will provide certain interventions.
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  HIV/AIDS and TB in Central Asia: country profiles

  World Bank, 2004

  This report, published by the World Bank, looks at the growth of TB and HIV in Central Asia. It emphasises that although HIV levels in the region are currently low, policy makers urgently need to develop strategies for addressing the projected epidemic, based on international evidence on the growth of HIV infection.
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  The ICPD at ten

  World Health Organization, 2003

  Ten years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was held in Cairo, this issue of Entre Nous magazine, published by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, reviews progress made in implementing the programme of action adopted at the conference.
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  HIV/AIDS and humanitarian action

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2004

  Whether you label HIV/AIDS as an emergency or as a long-term crisis, it clearly requires both a humanitarian response to suffering and a long-term perspective. This research report, produced by the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute, examines the implications of HIV/AIDS in emergencies and of the role of humanitarian aid.

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