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  Designing and operating a site-tailored HIV/AIDS programme to succeed in a decentralized company

  World Economic Forum, 2002

  This document describes the HIV programme created by Anglovaal Mining Limited (Avmin), a South Africa-based mining company, in order to address the high level of HIV prevalence among its employees.Key facts and characteristics of the programme include:in 2002 HIV prevalence among Avmin's employees was 14%Avmin's future HIV related expenses associated with this level of HIV prevalenc
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  Men and reproductive health programs: influencing gender norms

  Synergy Project, USAID, 2003

  This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achieve this goal and presents findings from evaluations conducted to assess their efficacy.
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  One step further: responses to HIV/AIDS

  SIDA Studies, 2002

  This collection of articles produced by UNRISD and SIDA enable different authors to address various issues in relation to HIV/AIDS.
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  Where there's a will there's a way: nursing and midwifery champions in HIV/AIDS care in Southern Africa

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  Commissioned by the SADC (Southern African Development Community) AIDS Network of Nurses and Midwives (SANNAM) in collaboration with UNAIDS, this report summarises the results of a month of field research in five countries in Southern Africa – Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia.
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  Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002

  This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.
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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.
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  Demystifying antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003

  This paper uses the example of a poor township 30 kilometres outside Cape Town to find out if antiretroviral therapy is possible in severely resource-constrained environments and to discover the best ways to deliver these drugs.Zidovudine (AZT), first became available in Khayelitsha township’s two maternity wards in early 1999, and the programme has subsequently become one of the continent’s bi
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  Summary report: national HIV and syphilis antenatal sero-prevalence survey in South Africa 2002

  HIV/AIDS and STD Directorate, Department of Health, South Africa, 2003

  This report is the 13th in a series of studies on HIV and syphilis prevalence conducted among pregnant women attending antenatal care in the public sector.
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  Unhappy alliance – does integrated reproductive healthcare work?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What are the best strategies to tackle the spread of HIV and improve women’s reproductive health? Since 1994, the international approach has been to integrate sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV services with primary healthcare and family planning programmes. But how successful has this been?

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