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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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    Facilitating communications in response to HIV/AIDS in South-East Asia

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    UNAIDS has coordinated an infoDev project in South-East Asia which promotes innovative projects for the use of information technologies with a special emphasis on the needs of the poor in developing countries. This case study focuses on phase two of the project with particular reference to three countries: the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.
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    Behaviour and communication change in reducing HIV: is Uganda unique?

    Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2004
    In this paper from Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE), epidemiological and behavioural data from Uganda is assessed in comparison with other populations where HIV has declined. HIV prevalence declined from 21 percent to 9.8 percent in Uganda from 1991-98.
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    The impact of life skills education on adolescent sexual risk behaviours

    Population Council, USA, 2004
    This article, published in 'Horizons' by the Population Council, looks at the impact of a life skills programme in South Africa, which aimed to help youth protect themselves against HIV infection and safeguard their reproductive health. Findings showed an increase in exposure to life skills education among most students, particularly in African, Asian and mixed-race schools.
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    Declining HIV prevalence gives hope in Cambodia

    Population Services International, 2004
    This article by Population Services International (PSI) charts the significant decrease in HIV prevalence in Cambodia between 1998 and 2002, and outlines the key role that targeted condom promotion has played in this decline. Specifically, PSIs social marketing of condoms is discussed, including a variety of strategies used to target both high and low risk groups.
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    Dublin declaration on partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia

    European Union, 2004
    This declaration, of the 2004 conference "Breaking the Barriers: Partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia", reaffirms the commitment of European and Central Asian countries to act collectively in tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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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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    An analysis of family planning content in HIV/AIDS, VCT, and PMTCT policies in 16 countries

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004
    This working paper from the POLICY Project analyses how international guidelines and national policies on HIV/AIDS, voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) address family planning. Looking at 16 countries with high HIV prevalence, the study finds that more than three-quarters of the policies reviewed mention family planning.
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    MEMA kwa Vijana: randomised controlled trial of an adolescent sexual health programme in rural Mwanza, Tanzania

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2004
    This Briefing Note from DFID’s Knowledge Programme on HIV/AIDS and STIs looks at an innovative intervention programme on adolescent sexual and reproductive health implemented by AMREF, working together with the Tanzanian Government.
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    Knowledge of AIDS and HIV risk-related sexual behavior among Nigerian naval personnel

    Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004
    This study published in BMC Public Health describes current knowledge of AIDS, and HIV-risk sexual behaviour of naval personnel in Lagos, Nigeria. Personnel in the military are at increased risk of HIV infection. Although HIV-risk related sexual behaviour of Nigerian police officers has been studied, little is known about the sexual behaviour of their counterparts in the Navy.

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