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    Evidence for action: effectiveness of community-based outreach in preventing HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users

    World Health Organization, 2004
    This World Health Organization (WHO) publication, from the Evidence for Action technical papers series, reviews the effectiveness of community-based outreach intervention programmes for HIV prevention in injecting drug users (IDUs) populations.
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    Help-seeking by substance abusers: the role of harm reduction and behavioral-economic approaches to facilitate treatment entry and retention

    National Insitute on Drug Abuse, 1997
    This chapter, from Beyond the Therapeutic Alliance: Keeping the Drug-Dependent Individual in Treatment, examines the role of harm reduction in the treatment of substance abusers.
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    Fact sheet: a global overview of HIV/AIDS and IDUs

    Centre for Harm Reduction, Melbourne, 2003
    This fact sheet, from the Centre for Harm Reduction, outlines the connections between the growing global epidemic of HIV and injecting drug users (IDUs). Globally, 5-10 per cent of all HIV infections result from injecting drug use. Some countries have managed to slow or prevent the spread of HIV among IDUs by adopting wide ranging harm reduction programmes.
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    Towards a gender-sensitive approach to drug demand reduction: a process within the United Nations system

    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 1995
    This Narcotics Bulletin article outlines how a coordinated analysis of gender resulted in international recognition of a need to address women in drug research and programmes.
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    A review of the evidence-base for harm reduction approaches to drug use

    Forward Thinking On Drugs, 2003
    This document, from Forward Thinking on Drugs, details the theory and practice of harm reduction and evaluates its effectiveness. The first section of the document outlines what harm reduction is, including its main principles, and addresses key criticisms.
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    Sexual behavioural change for HIV: Where have theories taken us?

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
    This UNAIDS report presents a review of models and theories of behaviour change through the analysis of case studies in HIV prevention. It presents an overview of theoretical models of behaviour change, a review of key approaches used to stem sexual transmission of HIV, and a summary of successful interventions targeting specific populations at risk.
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    Making prevention work: global lessons learned from the AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP) Project 1991-1997

    Family Health International, 1999
    This publication from Family Health International (FHI) documents the experience of the world's largest international HIV/AIDS prevention project the - AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP) Project - which was implemented by FHI and its partners in 45 countries.
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    UNESCO and education

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003
    This document sets out UNESCO’s priorities and key strategies on education. It outlines UNESCO’s three overarching strategic objectives: promoting education as a fundamental right, improving the quality of education, and stimulating experimentation, innovation and policy dialogue. It also looks at the role the Education for All movement will play in achieving these objectives.
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    Innovation: education and information, No 110

    International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, 2002
    This edition of the UNESCO Innovation newsletter looks at the role of education in HIV/AIDS prevention. It reviews the development of school-based and other educational responses to HIV/AIDS and discusses obstacles that exist to effective AIDS education for young people, such as negative parental attitudes towards education about AIDS.
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    AIDS education through Imams: a spiritually motivated community effort in Uganda

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1998
    This report, produced by the Islamic Medical Association of Uganda (IMAU) and published by UNAIDS, documents the experiences of IMAU in providing HIV/AIDS education in Uganda. It describes how over 8000 religious leaders and their teams of volunteers were trained and supervised over the course of an IMAU AIDS education project.

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