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    Turning the tide: CEDAW and the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002
    This document considers the relevance of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to women as they are affected by HIV/AIDS.It covers the reasons for women's particular vulnerability to HIV infection and as main care givers.
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    Adolescent sexuality, gender and the HIV epidemic

    HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1999
    Young people have been found to be especially vulnerable to HIV infection through lack of knowledge, access to treatment and prevention methods like condoms.Stereotypical gender roles place young women, and to a lesser extent young men, at heightened risk of HIV infection. Young women in many parts of the developing world have little control over how, when and where sex takes place.
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    Suffering in silence: the links between human rights abuses and HIV transmission to girls in Zambia

    Human Rights Watch, 2002
    This document reports on high rates of sexual violence and coercion against girls in Zambia as a significant causal factor in the extremely high rates of HIV infection among that group.The report documents girls' testimonies of several categories of abuse that heighten girls’ risk of HIV infection, includingsexual assault of girls by family members, particularly the shocking and all too
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    Second generation surveillance for HIV: the next decade

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000
    The diversity of HIV epidemics around the world is becoming ever more apparent. Existing HIV surveillance systems are ill-equipped to capture this diversity, or to explain changes over time in mature epidemics.
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    Initiating second generation HIV surveillance systems: practical guidelines

    WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2002
    These guidelines, produced by the WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HSI), are designed to assist National AIDS Programmes (NAPs) and Ministries of Health in implementing second generation HIV surveillance systems through a logical and standardised process.
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    Impact of patents on access to HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002
    This paper uses sales data on HIV/AIDS drugs in a sample of 34 low and middle income countries between 1995 and 1999 to assess empirically the impact of patents on unsubsidized access to a new drug therapy.There can be two possible effects of patents on access to new drugs in developing countries.
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    Gender-based violence and reproductive health & HIV/AIDS

    Population Reference Bureau, 2002
    This paper provides a summary of a day long technical update on gender-based violence (GBV) and reproductive health (RH) /HIV (HIV). The objective of the meeting was to: 1) launch a process for considering GBV in relation to RH and HIV in USAID'S population, health, and nutrition portfolio; and 2) explore ways of integrating GBV into RH/HIV programs.
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    Implications of WTO/TRIPS in East Africa : with special emphasis on pharmaceutical patents

    Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2002
    What has the impact of the TRIPs agreement been in East Africa? This study examines how patent protection relates to the overall promotion and protection of human rights, and socio-economic rights, in particular. The author concentrates on pharmaceutical patent protection and the new life saving drugs that should be available for treatment of HIV/AIDS in the region.
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    HIV/AIDS: who suffers in Namibia?

    Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2002
    Who suffers when a household member dies from AIDS? This paper attempts to answer this question, as the author maintains that unlike deaths from other causes, deaths from HIV/AIDS have greater effects. The global, regional and national status of HIV/AIDS is outlined briefly, and then demographic projections for HIV/AIDS are run for Namibia.
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    The challenge of HIV/AIDS for food security and nutrition

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2002
    This paper, published by the University of East Anglia School of Development Studies, describes the main results of a number of studies in sub-Saharan Africa which have explored agricultural production, food security, labour shortages and agricultural knowledge systems as they are affected by HIV and AIDS.

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