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  Advocacy, communication and social mobilization for TB control: collection of country-level good practices

  World Health Organization, 2010

  This document - born out of the need for practical examples of the fifth component of the Stop TB Strategy: “Empower people with TB, and communities through partnership” - contains good practice examples of country-level Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilisation (ACSM).
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  Falling short: ensuring access to simple, safe and effective first-line medicines for tuberculosis

  Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, 2010

  This report presents evidence to document the challenges hindering effective first-line TB treatment worldwide. Many TB patients around the world are at risk because: they are not receiving the medicines they need, whether because of poor quality, interruptions in the drug supply known as stock-outs
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  South African Medical Journal (SAMJ)

  The South African Medical Journal is a monthly peer reviewed, internationally indexed, general medical journal.
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  Approaches to TB/HIV Integration

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2011

  This paper explains the close linkages between TB and HIV, and why there is an urgent need to put into place rigorous measures to integrate TB and HIV responses globally.
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  Tuberculosis control has failed in South Africa: time to reappraise strategy

  South African Medical Journal, 2011

  This article looks at the reasons for the failure of South Africa’s current tuberculosis (TB) control programme by looking at the major drivers of the TB epidemic. The authors also identify new control strategies that they argue must be accompanied by novel TB control targets.
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  Guidelines for intensified tuberculosis case-finding and isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV in resource constrained settings

  World Health Organization, 2011

  These World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines provide guidance for national TB and AIDS programmes by updating existing WHO recommendations with new evidence, taking into consideration the changing context of HIV and TB prevention, treatment and care. The new guidelines focus on facilitating the implementation of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) and intensified case-finding (ICF).
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  Supporting community based responses to AIDS, TB and malaria: a guidance tool for including Community Systems Strengthening in Global Fund proposals

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2010

  This tool seeks to increase understanding about the benefits Community Systems Strengthening (CSS) can bring at the national, district and local levels, and to support advocacy and technical support efforts around CSS.
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  Dealing with HIV and AIDS: id21 insights, issue 64

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Twenty-five years of knowingly living with HIV, the global community is still falling behind the virus in its alarming, complex and often hidden progress. Despite many diverse and creative successes in committed peoples’ responses and many lessons drawn along the way, few have been widely adopted. What can we learn from this diversity of response?
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  Traditional leaders wield the power, and they are almost all men: the importance of involving traditional leaders in gender transformation

  Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2010

  How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tackle social issues such as HIV, gender equality and violence in rural African communities? A number of them, including South African Sonke Gender Justice network, Ubuntu Institute, CARE International and Zambian Women for Change (WFC) are working with traditional leaders as a gateway to reach the people in communities they are targeting.
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  Empowering young sex workers for safer sex in Dowa and Lilongwe districts of Malawi

  Malawi Medical Journal, 2010

  Sex work has increasingly become a popular means of making money for young girls in the urban areas in Malawi. This article makes reference to an intervention project in Malawi that was implemented in 2004 and sought to empower sex workers and to encourage them to insist on consistent use of condoms.

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