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NACS Meeting Report 2011
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2011Ninety-eight participants from 18 countries met to share tools and experiences and to disseminate promising approaches in nutrition assessment, counseling, and support (NACS) programming. NACS is the primary model supported by the United States President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for integrating nutrition services into clinical HIV care and treatment services.DocumentUsing verbal autopsy to assess the prevalence of HIV infection among deaths in the ART period in rural Uganda: a prospective cohort study, 2006-2008
Population Health Metrics, 2011Verbal autopsy is important for detecting causes of death including HIV in areas with inadequate vital registration systems. This paper uses verbal autopsy to compare the proportion of HIV-positive adult deaths in rural Uganda in the periods before and after antiretroviral therapy (ART) introduction.DocumentGrassroots speakout on UN Women: outcome document
Huairou Commission, 2011On March 2nd, grassroots women leaders from around the world voiced their key recommendations and experiences to Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Dr. Michelle Bachelet, and other representatives of UN Women and governments. A supportive audience of leaders of the global women’s movement and gender advocates filled the room beyond capacity.DocumentAn exploratory study of the social contexts, practices and risks of men who sell sex in southern and eastern Africa
Oxfam, 2011This 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.Document“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, 2011This 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.DocumentFertility in African communities affected by HIV
Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011This "Studies of HIV in African communities 'Highlights'", which was produced by IDS Knowledge Services with partners in the ALPHA Network, includes findings and recommendations around the topic of fertility in African communities affected by HIV. This publication is based on the research which came out of the ALPHA Network's seventh workshop on 'HIV & Fertility: an examinationDocumentGetting research into policy and practice
Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009The 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.DocumentCircumcision, information, and HIV prevention
Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010Despite 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.DocumentDealing with HIV and AIDS: id21 insights, issue 64
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Twenty-five years of knowingly living with HIV, the global community is still falling behind the virus in its alarming, complex and often hidden progress. Despite many diverse and creative successes in committed peoples’ responses and many lessons drawn along the way, few have been widely adopted. What can we learn from this diversity of response?