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    National HIV/Aids policy: a call for renewed action

    Malawi National AIDS Commission, 2003
    Malawi has been severely affected by HIV/AIDS. The first case of AIDS in the country was diagnosed in 1985. Since then, epidemiological data show an escalating epidemic. In a sample of pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in urban Blantyre, HIV seroprevalence rose from 2.6% in 1986 to over 30% in 1998, decreasing only slightly to 28.5% in 2001.
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    Report of the Malawi triangulation project

    Malawi National AIDS Commission, 2006
    Triangulation is the synthesis of data from multiple sources to strengthen understanding of complex health issues and make evidence-based public health decisions. Triangulation was applied to data from Malawi to answer two over-arching questions:
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    National HIV/AIDS Action Framework 2005 to 2009

    Malawi National AIDS Commission, 2005
    The National HIV/AIDS Action Framework (NAF) for Malawi was developed to cover the period 2005-2009 and it is based on the findings of the End of Term (ETR) review of the National Strategic Framework (NSF) for HIV/AIDS that guided the response from 2000-2004.
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    Effective HIV/AIDS and reproductive health information to people with disabilities

    Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2004
    This study is designed to explore and understand the sexual and reproductive health needs and experiences of people with disabilities, their perceptions about HIV/AIDS and how best information on HIV/AIDS can be communicated to people with various forms of disabilities.
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    Fertility in African communities affected by HIV

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
    This "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 examination
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    Effects of a mass media intervention on HIV-related stigma: ‘Radio Diaries’ program in Malawi

    Health Education Research, 2011
    HIV-related stigma has been recognised as a significant public health issue, yet gaps remain in development and evaluation of mass media interventions to reduce stigma. The Malawi ‘Radio Diaries’ (RD) programme features people with HIV telling stories about their everyday lives. This study evaluates the programme's effects on stigma and the additional effects of group discussion.
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    Resource flows and levels of spending for the response to HIV and AIDS in Belarus

    BioMed Central, 2011
    Whereas Belarus has a focused HIV epidemic concentrated among injecting drug users, female sex workers and men who have sex with men, this paper argues that, until 2008, Belarus had no way of evaluating HIV spending priorities. This comprehensive National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) analyses HIV spending priorities.
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    Why bother? Global health and AIDS: fighting for justice and equity

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
    33 million people are living with HIV, close to 9 million children die every year, and hundreds of thousands of women die of pregnancy-related complications. This report drawn from seminar-discussions argues that while we have made some progress, we need to redouble our efforts to increase health equity, alleviate suffering, and promote healthy people and communities.
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    Men having sex with men in Eastern Europe: implications of a hidden HIV epidemic

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2010
    This report, published by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, contends that in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as in many parts of the world, the HIV epidemic among men having sex with men (MSM) is underreported and under‐acknowledged. It identifies gaps in data and the need for developing programmes for MSM. Key findings include:
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    The status of HIV in the Caribbean

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2010
    This paper, published by UNAIDS, posits that  after almost thirty years years the HIV epidemic is still largely affecting most-at-risk populations in the Caribbean. Key issues raised in the paper include:

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