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  HIV/AIDS and children’s migration: a training manual for community workers

  Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University, 2004

  This manual for community workers aims to help families and communities make informed decisions regarding children’s migration as a result of HIV/AIDS and to provide support.
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  Senegal Youth Assessment Report: the informal sector and HIV/AIDS: prevention practices and strategies

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This study outlines strategies currently in use in Senegal for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS in youth. It identifies the most efficient strategies regarding adolescent reproductive health (ARH) with an emphasis on STI/HIV/AIDS, as a preliminary step in developing CEDPA’s Youth and HIV/AIDS Initiative.
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  Childhood pesticide poisoning: information for advocacy and action

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This report is intended as a campaigning tool directed at reducing pesticide poisoning and addressing its effects on children and women.
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  Recognizing childhood illnesses and their traditional explanations: exploring options for care-seeking interventions in the context of the IMCI strategy in rural Ghana

  Medline, 2003

  This paper, published in Tropical Medicine and International Health, examines the importance of poor illness recognition as a barrier to care-seeking for severely ill children in Ghana. Research showed that several danger signs were not recognised by caregivers. These included symptoms of acute lower respiratory infections, dehydration and malnutrition.
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  Commitments: youth reproductive health, the World Bank, and the Millennium Development Goals

  The Global Health Council, 2004

  This report from the Global Health Council argues that improving the reproductive health of youth is key to achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and reducing poverty. It also highlights the World Bank’s vital role in these efforts. Links are made between each youth reproductive health issue and the goal or goals which it affects.
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  Sexual and reproductive health education and services for adolescents

  Action Canada for Population and Development, 2001

  This fact sheet, produced by Action Canada for Population and Development, outlines why sexual and reproductive health education and services are required for adolescents, and suggests ways in which international commitments to provide them can be achieved.
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  Getting to scale in young adults reproductive health programs

  Pathfinder International, 2000

  This tool is produced by FOCUS on young adults (a programme led by Pathfinder International) and aims to improve programme leaders’ and policymakers’ understanding of scaling up, and to help them plan for scaling up their own young adult reproductive health (YARH) programmes.
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  Formulating and implementing national youth policy: lessons from Bolivia and the Dominican Republic

  Pathfinder International, 2000

  This report from FOCUS on Young Adults (a programme led by Pathfinder International) describes the formulation and implementation of national youth policies in Bolivia and the Dominican Republic, and draws lessons that can be applied in other countries with a particular emphasis on reproductive health.
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  Barriers to adolescents’ use of reproductive health services in three Bolivian cities

  Pathfinder International, 2000

  This study, produced by Pathfinder International, assesses the role of physical, economic, administrative/process, and psychological barriers in contributing to the low-level use of reproductive health services by adolescents in three large Bolivian cities.
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  Advocating for adolescent reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa

  Advocates for Youth, 1998

  This guide, produced by Advocates for Adolescents, is designed to help advocates in sub-Saharan Africa develop the skills to advocate for young people’s reproductive health education and services. It describes the main steps of an advocacy campaign and provides information on developing, implementing and evaluating a successful advocacy strategy.

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