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    Contextual barriers, motivations, and coping strategies in the uptake of HCT and condoms among truckers and female sex workers in Busia Township, Busia District

    Family Health International, 2015
    Truckers and female sex workers who effectively use condoms and regularly check their HIV status were motivated by a responsibility to their families, as well as their personal safety. This is one of the key findings resulting from a rapid qualitative study conducted among 40 female sex workers (FSW) and 25 truck drivers in Busia, Uganda.
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    Visions, voices and priorities of young people living with and most affected by HIV

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2015
    This report shares perspectives and insights from young people from around the world living with and affected by HIV, who share their visions for realising and claiming their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and for setting priorities for HIV and SRHR integration.
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    VSO Regional Health and AIDS Initiative for Southern Africa (RHAISA): Towards improving the health outcomes and realizing the rights of the disadvantaged

    Voluntary Service Overseas, 2014
    The Regional Health and AIDS Initiative for Southern Africa (RHAISA), is Voluntary Service Overseas’ (VSO’s) flagship programme championing VSO's regional response to HIV and AIDS in southern Africa.
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    HIV prevention, treatment and care in prisons and other closed settings: a comprehensive package of interventions

    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2014
    This briefing paper is designed to support countries in implementing an effective response to HIV and AIDS in prisons and other closed settings. It takes into consideration principles of international law, including international rules, guidelines, declarations and covenants governing prison health, international standards of medical ethics and international labour standards.
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    The Gap Report 2014: Prisoners

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2014
    How do we close the gap between the people moving forward and the people being left behind? The UNAIDS Gap Report aims to answer this question, provide data, and give information and analysis on the people being left behind. Specifically, this document is one chapter of the UNAIDS Gap Report focusing on one of the groups being left behind, namely prisoners.
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    Survey of barriers to HIV testing among people who inject drugs

    Curatio International Foundation, 2013
    HIV testing is an important preventive measure to avoid the HIV epidemics spread. Along with other measures implemented with the Government and donor organizations support in Georgia HIV testing is offered to the representatives of high-risk groups, including PWIDs.
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    Population size estimation of female sex workers In Tbilisi and Batumi, Georgia

    Curatio International Foundation, 2014
    Georgia is among the countries with low HIV/AIDS prevalence, but with a high potential for the development of a widespread epidemic. From the early years of epidemic injecting drug use was the main route of HIV transmission, however, for the last two years heterosexual transmission is prevailing.
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    HIV risk and prevention behavior among female sex workers in two cities of Georgia

    Curatio International Foundation, 2014
    Currently Georgia belongs to the groups of countries with concentrated HIV epidemics. According to the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health 4,131 People living with HIV (PLWH) were officially registered by the end of 2013. The number of newly registered cases is about 500 per year.
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    Helpdesk Report: Women, harm reduction practices, HIV/AIDS and women as injecting drug users

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unable or unwilling to stop. The defining features are the focus on the prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of drug use itself, and the focus on people who continue to use drugs.
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    Helpdesk Report: Nutrition for under 2s

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    Nutrition and nurturing during the first years of life are both crucial for life-long health and well-being. Malnutrition is responsible, directly or indirectly for about one third of deaths among children under five. Well above two thirds of these deaths, often associated with inappropriate feeding practices, occur during the first year of life.

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