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  Finding a way forward: principles and strategies to reduce the impacts of AIDS on children and families

  Displaced Children and Orphans Fund & Patrick J. Leahy War Victims Fund, USAID, 2000

  As programs to date have reached only a small fraction of the most vulnerable children in the countries hardest hit by AIDS, the fundamental challenge is to develop interventions that make a difference over the long haul in the lives of the children and families affected by HIV/AIDS at a scale that approaches the magnitude of their needs.By itself, the paper argues, no single intervention will
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  Guidelines for children's participation in HIV/AIDS programs

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999

  These guidelines provide a framework for local projects to develop ways of working with children and young people that respect their rights and enable their voices to be heard. The question that has been addressed in this booklet is:how can children and young people participate in AIDS campaigns and programmes in ethical and appropriate ways?The report states that programmes ne
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  Children and young people in a world of AIDS

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001

  Young people are particularly susceptible to HIV infection and they also carry the burden of caring for family members living with HIV/AIDS. Around the world HIV/AIDS is shattering young people's opportunities for healthy adult lives.
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  An aging world 2001

  International Programs Center, Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2001

  The world's population age 65 and older is growing by an unprecedented 800,000 people a month, and according to this report this phenomenon of global aging will continue well into the 21st century, with the numbers and proportions of older people continuing to rise in both developed and developing worlds. The pace of population aging, the report finds, varies widely among countries.
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  Guide to European population assistance

  European NGOs for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Population and Development, 2003

  Directory of funding from all major European budget lines in the field of sustainable development.The Guide is a reference work for development organisations and provides an overview of available public funding from 15 European countries and the European Community (amounting to over Euro 33 billion of funds available for development work, including SRH, HIV/AIDS etc.).
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  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the Americas

  Pan American Health Organization, 2001

  This document: outlines the current epidemiological situation in the Americasdetails progress in preventionprogress being made in national, subregional and regional responsesoutlines future challenges and opportunities such asthe need to continue strengthening the capacity for monitoring and surveillance of the HIV/AIDS/STI situation at the national and regional level
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  Resolution on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the Americas

  Pan American Health Organization, 2001

  This paper outlines the resolutions taken at the meeting of the 43rd Directive Council on AIDS in the Americas held in Washington DC between the 24 and the 28th of September 2001Considering the trends in the HIV/AIDS/STI epidemic in the Americas and their present and future impact, and recognising the need for a commitment by governments and society to respond effectively and with solidarity t
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  IFAD strategy paper on HIV/AIDS for East and Southern Africa: October 2001

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2001

  This strategy paper delineates IFAD's role in helping to stem the spread of the epidemic and in addressing its effects on the rural poor and on agricultural and rural development. It describes the approach the Fund will use to achieve these objectives:adapting existing agricultural and rural development strategies and programmes to the challenges of HIV/AIDSintroducing new component
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  Youth and HIV/AIDS: can we avoid catastrophe?

  Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2001

  To stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic from becoming a catastrophe, prevention strategies must do much more to reach young people right away. Of the over 60 million people who have been infected with HIV in the past 20 years, about half became infected between the ages of 15 and 24. Today, nearly 12 million young people are living with HIV/AIDS.
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  Children on the brink: strategies to support children isolated by HIV/AIDS

  Synergy Project, USAID, 2000

  In the countries most affected by HIV/AIDS, there has been growing concern over the number of orphans, a problem that has increased largely as a result of the pandemic. This report was developed by two independent researchers contracted by USAID to review the situation of AIDS orphans.

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