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    Renewing our voice: code of good practice for NGOs responding to HIV/AIDS

    Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS, 2004
    HIV/AIDS is recognised as an unprecedented global development challenge. This code sets out a number of guiding principles which apply a human rights approach to the range of HIV/AIDS-specific health, development and humanitarian work undertaken by NGOs responding to HIV/AIDS.
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    Expanding contraceptive choice: an Africa study of emergency contraception

    Reproductive Health Research Unit, 2003
    This study explores the need for and use of emergency contraception in South Africa. It was undertaken in response to the lack of information on the availability, provision and use of emergency contraception in South Africa.
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    Working towards greater equity in the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis

    Rockefeller Foundation, 2001
    This workshop statement from the Rockefeller Foundation calls for more determined efforts to address inequity in patterns of disease risks and consequences, and in the distribution of benefits from programmes to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB).
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    A public health approach for scaling up antiretroviral (ARV) treatment: a toolkit for programme managers

    HIV/AIDS Department, WHO, 2003
    This toolkit addresses the fact that lack of access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has perpetuated HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in many countries.
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    The burden of co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and malaria in pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa

    American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2004
    This American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene report reviews information collected over the last 15 years which explores the connections between HIV and malaria in pregnant women. The article examines the effect of maternal HIV on malaria during pregnancy, as well as the effect of maternal malaria on HIV.
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    AIDS Epidemic Update 2004

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004
    This joint UNAIDS/WHO report outlines the most recent trends in the global AIDS epidemic. Women are increasingly affected by HIV and make up nearly half of the 37.2 million living with HIV world wide. In sub-Saharan Africa, almost 60 percent of adults living with HIV are women. The report identifies Southern Africa as the worst-hit region with HIV prevalence rates surpassing 25 percent.
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    Barriers to better care for people with AIDS in developing countries

    British Medical Journal, 2004
    This British Medical Journal article examines the challenges faced in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “3 by 5” initiative, which aims to deliver anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to 3 million people by 2005. It highlights that the focus on delivering ARVs distracts resources and attention from a broader model of health care.
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    The PIH guide to the community-based treatment of HIV in resource-poor settings

    Partners in Health, 2004
    This document is a treatment guide for HIV/AIDS in resource poor areas. It is intended to complement existing treatment guides, and aims to help non-specialists manage commonly encountered problems. Chapter one outlines the experience of HIV/AIDS treatment in Haiti, looking at care and prevention in rural areas, health workers and social support, and scaling up HIV programmes.
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    Rapid appraisal of primary level health care services for HIV-positive children at public sector clinics in South Africa

    Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2002
    South Africa has a large and growing number of HIV-infected children. While no policy exists to provide anti-retroviral therapy to these children, several other effective health and social interventions are available which have been shown to improve life expectancy and quality of life in HIV-infected children.
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    Interim policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities

    World Health Organization, 2004
    The HIV pandemic presents a massive challenge to the control of tuberculosis (TB) at all levels. Tuberculosis is one of the most common causes of morbidity and one of the leading causes of mortality in people living with HIV/AIDS.

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