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  Human resource management rapid assessment tool for HIV/AIDS environments: a guide for strengthening HRM systems

  Management Sciences for Health, 2003

  This document, produced by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), is a rapid assessment tool to identify strengths and weaknesses of Human Resource Management (HRM) systems. It is a self-evaluation tool aiming to help non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and public health institutions form strategies to improve themselves.
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  Responding to HIV/AIDS in Africa: a comparative analysis of responses to the Abuja Declaration in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Zimbabwe

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This ActionAid publication compares the achievements and challenges of four African countries – Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Zimbabwe – in relation to the 2001 Abuja Declaration. The primary goal of the Abuja Declaration was to reverse the rate of HIV infection, TB and other related infectious diseases.
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  Human resources for health exist in communities

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2005

  This paper, from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, calls for an expanded definition of health systems that includes, values and resources work carried out by communities in the frontline in responding to HIV and AIDS. The paper describes three examples of human resource development in community-driven HIV and AIDS programmes in Zambia, Burkina Faso and Ukraine.
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  Attitude of nursing students of Kolkata towards caring for HIV/AIDS patients

  Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2004

  This study, from the Indian Journal of Community Medicine, examines the attitudes of nursing students towards caring for patients with HIV and AIDS, as well as their knowledge and perceptions of the disease. Contrary to previous studies, this study found a very positive outlook of nursing students towards patients with HIV and AIDS.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on the education sector in Uganda: examining the impact of HIV/AIDS on governance in the education sector

  Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2004

  This study examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on governance in the education sector.
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  Estimating the cost of providing home-based care for HIV/AIDS in Rwanda

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  This paper from Partners for Health Reformplus estimated the cost of home-based care for HIV in Rwanda based on a comparison of facility- and community-based programmes offering care in early 2004.
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  The Zambia HIV/AIDS workforce study: preparing for scale-up

  US Agency for International Development, 2004

  Anticipating significant scale-up of its current HIV/AIDS services, the Zambian Central Board of Health commissioned this study of the human resource implications. The study collected data at 16 government, NGO, and private for-profit sites across Zambia that currently provide VCT, P-MTCT, and ART services.
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  Women, HIV/AIDS and the world of work

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  About half those living with HIV are women, but women are now becoming infected at a faster rate than men. Many women experience sexual and economic subordination in their personal relationships and at work, and so cannot negotiate safe sex or refuse unsafe sex.
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  Teacher training: essential for school-based reproductive health and HIV/AIDS education: focus on sub-saharan Africa

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2004

  For teaching information and skills related to HIV/AIDS, teacher training is essential, and complex. In sub-Saharan Africa, up to half of all new HIV infections are occurring among youth under age 25. Since most youth attend school at least for primary education, school-based programmes are a logical place to reach young people.
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  Framework for thinking about workplace interventions in response to HIV/AIDS in southern Africa

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2000

  Labour force participation is high in Sub-Saharan Africa and most people are actively employed in some form of production. Economic losses incurred from HIV and AIDS are substantial but difficult to quantify. For example, an individual’s economic behaviour can be expected to pay less heed to a long run that the person may not live to see. Likely results are decreased work effort and savings.

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