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    Human Rights and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2011
    With respect to rights-based programming, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria faces an inherent dilemma: it explicitly espouses human rights-centered approaches to HIV, yet it also claims as a central principle of its work that the programs it funds should result from “country-driven” processes.
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    The Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS (JLICA)

    Launched in 2006, the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS (JLICA) was a time-limited network of policy-makers, practitioners, community leaders, researchers, and people living with HIV
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    Patient- and delivery-system factors related to acceptance of HIV counseling and testing services among tuberculosis patients in South Africa: a qualitative study with community health workers and program managers | Implementation Science

    2011
    South Africa has a high tuberculosis (TB)-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection rate of 73%, yet only 46% of TB patients are tested for HIV. To date, relatively little work has focused on understanding why TB patients may not accept effective services or participate in programs that are readily available in healthcare delivery systems.
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    Integrating Family Planning and HIV Services - Programs in Kenya & Ethiopia Lead the Way

    US Agency for International Development, 2011
    In regions of high fertility and HIV prevalence, integration of family planning and HIV services has emerged as a promising strategy to prevent transmission of HIV, particularly from mother to child. This case study explores different models of integration and how they have been realised in Kenya and Ethiopia, two pioneers in family planning and HIV service integration
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    Guideline on HIV disclosure counselling for children up to 12 years of age

    World Health Organization, 2011
    This document provides guidance for health care workers (HCWs) on how to support children up to 12 years of age and their caregivers with disclosure of HIV status. This guidance is intended as part of a comprehensive approach to ensuring child wellbeing following the child’s own diagnoses of HIV or that of a parent/caregiver. Key findings include: 
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    Good practice guide: family-centred HIV programming for children

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2012
    This guide contains information, strategies and resources to help HIV programmers implement family-centred HIV programming for children. Historically, programmes working to meet the needs of children affected by HIV have targeted individual children to provide direct support, sometimes bypassing their family.
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    Children and AIDS fifth stocktaking report, 2010

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
    This report argues that the elimination of AIDS-related deaths in children is possible, but it will require vision, leadership and system-wide improvements in health-care delivery, as well as deep-seated social change. The paper finds that:
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    Home truths: facing the facts on children, AIDS, and poverty

    The Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS, 2009
    This report summarises the findings and recommendations of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS (JLICA). It argues that the global aids response has neglected “home truths” about children, AIDS, and poverty.
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    Clinical Profile of HIV/AIDS-infected Patients Admitted to a New Specialist Unit in Dhaka, Bangladesh — A Low-prevalence Country for HIV

    International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 2011
    This paper describes the clinical features of a series of patients admitted to the specialist HIV/AIDS unit (Jagori) of the Dhaka Hospital, ICDDR,B (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) during May 2008–February 2010. Data were collected from a review of documents and electronic case-records and collation of laboratory results with respect to CD4 counts.
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    Mines, migration and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa

    World Bank, 2012
    Swaziland and Lesotho have the highest HIV prevalence in the world. They also, during the last century, sent large numbers of migrant workers to South African mines. This paper examines whether participation in mining in a bordering country affects HIV infection rate. A job in the mines means leaving for long periods away from their families and living in an area with an active sex industry.

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