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  Women's reasons for not participating in follow up visits before starting short course antiretroviral prophylaxis for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: qualitative interview study

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This publication aims find out why pregnant women attending a public antenatal clinic in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire do not participate in necessary follow up visits before starting antiretroviral prophylaxis.
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  Beyond the targets: ensuring children benefit from expanded access to HIV/AIDS treatment

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This report aims to examine the implications of expanded access to HIV/AIDS treatment, as exemplified by the 3 by 5 initiative, for prevention of HIV in children and young people, and expanding support and care for orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.Section One outlines the conceptual links between treatment of parents and child support, and in doing so demonstrates the myri
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  Manual for reducing drug-related harm in Asia

  Centre for Harm Reduction, Melbourne, 2003

  This updated edition of the 1999 manual from The Centre for Harm Reduction provides a comprehensive guide to HIV/AIDS programming for injecting drug users (IDUs) in Asia. Following an overview of the HIV epidemic among IDUs in Asia, the manual details the rationale for harm reduction, and examines how this can be balanced and integrated with supply and demand reduction approaches.
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  Future forsaken: abuses against children affected by HIV/AIDS in India

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This Human Rights Watch report documents discrimination against HIV/AIDS affected children and highlights the failure of the Indian government to protect such children from abuses. The report finds that widespread discrimination in education, health and care is increasingly pushing children affected by HIV/AIDS onto the streets and into the worst forms of child labour.
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  Expanding care and support in South India: scaling up YRG CARE’s patient-centered approach

  Population Council, USA, 2004

  This study, produced by The Population Council, examines the scaling up of a patient-centred approach to care and support services for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA) used at the Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education in Chennai, South India.
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  The Zambia HIV/AIDS workforce study: preparing for scale-up

  US Agency for International Development, 2004

  Anticipating significant scale-up of its current HIV/AIDS services, the Zambian Central Board of Health commissioned this study of the human resource implications. The study collected data at 16 government, NGO, and private for-profit sites across Zambia that currently provide VCT, P-MTCT, and ART services.
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  Scaling-up treatment for HIV/AIDS: lessons learned from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

  The Lancet, 2004

  This article, published in The Lancet, considers strategies for providing antiretroviral treatment to three million people with HIV/AIDS by 2005 (the ‘3 by 5’ target), drawing on lessons from the Green Light Committee’s expansion of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
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  Nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda: guidelines for service providers

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2004

  This document is a set of guidelines which outlines the nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), and includes the steps that service providers can take to help PLWHA manage symptoms and improve health through nutrition.
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  Evidence assessment: strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care

  Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS, 2004

  This paper, prepared by the Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS, assesses of the effectiveness of intervention programmes for HIV prevention, treatment and care.
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  Ensuring universal treatment access through sustainable public health systems

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2004

  This EQUINET article outlines a set of principles to make antiretroviral therapy (ART) available to southern Africans and to reinforce the long term goal of universal access to treatment. These principles were established at a joint meeting in February, 2004, with EQUINET, Oxfam GB in conjunction with SADC, as well as government, UN, health sector and international agency partners.

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