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    HIV/AIDS in Asia: human rights and the education sector

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2005
    This paper examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on education from a human rights perspective. It offers a conceptual framework to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on human rights and the education sector, and discusses directions for future response.
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    Vulnerability, risk and sexual rights

    Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005
    This think piece, prepared for a UNAIDS workshop on Vulnerability and AIDS, suggests how sexual rights and sexual pleasure could play a role in bridging the gaps in HIV strategies. The author outlines how the UNAIDS strategy framework for intensifying HIV prevention is based on three interrelated factors: risk reduction, vulnerability and impact reduction.
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on children and young people: reviewing research conducted and distilling implications for the education sector in Asia

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2005
    This paper examines the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on children (0-18 years old) in Asia, and also looks at the implications of HIV and AIDS for the education sector.The main impact of HIV and AIDS on children are summarised into three main areas: loss of social and/or family support: children will also lose their economic, social and emotional safety net.
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    The pleasure project: global mapping of pleasure

    The Pleasure Project, 2004
    The Pleasure Project mapped initiatives taken around the world which use pleasure as a primary motivation for promoting sexual health.
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    Exchange on HIV/AIDS, sexuality and gender: internal HIV/AIDS mainstreaming

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2005
    This is the first issue of Exchange, previously Sexual Health Exchange, produced by the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands in collaboration with Novib (Oxfam Netherlands). The main focus of this edition is mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in civil society organisations (CSOs).
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    The impact of the AIDS epidemic on teachers in South Africa

    Eldis Document Store, 2005
    This note briefly reviews the development of the knowledge base concerning the impact of the AIDS epidemic on teachers in South Africa.A summary of some of the findings reveal that:HIV prevalence among teachers was 12.7 percent in 2004 - prevalence rates among female and male teachers in South Africa are almost identical, and there is no difference in overall prevalence rates among prim
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    Scaling up youth HIV/AIDS prevention: the experience of Pathfinder International and the Foundation for Community Development in Inhambane Province, Mozambique

    Pathfinder International, 2004
    This paper documents the Pathfinder/FDC project in Inhambane, Mozambique, which focused on increasing the adoption of safer sexual decision making strategies among youth through increased demand and access to information and services and to further develop the capacity of NGOs, youth associations and communities to undertake STI/HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.The project took a peer education appr
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    AIDS in Africa: three scenarios for the education sector

    Eldis Document Store, 2004
    This report presents three distinct scenarios of how the AIDS epidemic could impact on the education sector in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades and, in particular, the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals for education.The first scenario suggests that the impact of the epidemic on education will be much less than is anticipated mainly because the country projections of HIV
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    Sexual and reproductive health & HIV/AIDS: a framework for priority linkages

    International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2005
    This document, produced jointly by IPPF, UNFPA, UNAIDS, and the WHO, proposes a set of key policy and programme actions to strengthen linkages between SRH (sexual and reproductive health) and HIV and AIDS programmes. Key linkages include: learning HIV status, promoting safer sex, optimising connections between the two programmes, and integrating HIV and AIDS with maternal and infant health.
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    AIDS epidemic update: special report on HIV prevention

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2005
    This report, produced by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) provides the most recent updates on the AIDS epidemic. Findings show that there are currently over 40 million people living with HIV worldwide, with almost 5 million newly infected in 2005 and over 3 million deaths as a result of AIDS. The report details regional statistics and trends.

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