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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS in South Africa

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  Carework and caring: A path to gender equitable practices among men in South Africa?

  International Journal for Equity in Health, 2011

  To what degree can carework help men to foster gender equitable attitudes and p
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  Claims on health care: a decision-making framework for equity, with application to treatment for HIV/AIDS in South Africa

  Health Policy and Planning, 2011

  Trying to determine how best to allocate resources in health care is especially difficult when resources are severely constrained, as is the case in all developing countries.
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  ‘Our lives matter: sex workers unite for health and rights’

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2008

  This report highlights the creative ways in which sex workers in eight countries have organised to defend their human rights and health. The groups featured in this report include:
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  An exploratory study of the social contexts, practices and risks of men who sell sex in southern and eastern Africa

  Oxfam, 2011

  This research presented explored the social contexts, life experiences, vulnerabilities and sexual risks experienced by men who sell sex in Southern and Eastern Africa, with a focus on five countries; Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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  “I expect to be abused and I have fear”: sex workers’ experiences of human rights violations and barriers to accessing healthcare in four African countries

  African Sex Worker Alliance, 2011

  This report documents human rights violations experienced by female, male and transgender sex workers in four African countries (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe), and describes barriers they face to accessing health services.
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  Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study

  The Lancet, 2010

  Research linking gender inequity and gender-based violence to HIV is limited. This paper assess whether intimate partner violence (IPV) and relationship power inequity increase risk of incident HIV infection in South African women. Some of the important points demonstrated in the paper are as follows: 
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  Getting research into policy and practice

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009

  The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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  Strengthening the research to policy and practice interface: exploring strategies used by research organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011

  As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy.
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  Circumcision, information, and HIV prevention

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010

  Despite the substantial effort in the past decade by multi-national organizations, governments and non- governmental organization, HIV/AIDS continues to spread (USAID 2005). Recently, attention has been placed on male circumcision as a potential HIV prevention strategy.
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  Research Network on AIDS and Older Persons in Africa and Asia

  The goal this network is to bring together active researchers who study the consequences for and contributions of older persons in Africa and Asia in relation to the AIDS epidemic in order to promote

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