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  Zambia sexual behaviour survey 2009

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2010

  This report reflects the results of Zambia Sexual Behaviour Survey (ZSBS) 2009. The survey aimed to obtain national estimates of a number of key indicators important to monitoring the progress of a national anti-AIDS programme.
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  Is intimate partner violence associated with HIV among women in Zimbabwe?

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010

  Intimate partner violence (IPV) is now recognised as a significant public health problem, particularly for the claimed association with the sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV. This study investigates the association between IPV and HIV status among Zimbabwean women. The document highlights the following conclusions: 
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  Gender differences in retention and survival on antiretroviral therapy of HIV-1 infected adults in Malawi

  Malawi Medical Journal, 2010

  This paper seeks to identify whether men and women benefit equally from antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi, and to ascertain the reasons underlying any difference. The paper aims at helping strategy-designers to address these differences and optimise ART delivery.
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  A comparative study of antiretroviral therapy assistance from parents and family members in Cambodia and Thailand

  Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2010

  In both Cambodia and Thailand, efforts to augment Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) treatment adherence are being made within a ‘continuum of care’ framework.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods, poverty and the economy of Malawi

  SIDA Studies, 2006

  In a number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, widespread HIV infection has already translated into full-blown AIDS epidemics. The effects of this disaster on lives and livelihoods are dramatic, yet the economic consequences are difficult to measure using conventional approaches.
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  Understanding and challenging TB stigma: toolkit for action

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009

  This toolkit, developed in response to the need to address TB stigma especially where TB and HIV co-infection rates are high, contains a range of participatory games, exercises and picture tools to help address TB stigma, suitable for a range of contexts and settings.
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  Older-age parents and the AIDS epidemic in Thailand: changing impacts in the era of antiretroviral therapy

  Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2010

  This report focuses on the implications of the AIDS epidemic on older aged parents, in particular in the context of the increasing availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART). The report examines the situation in Thailand and focuses on Thai parents of adults on ART.
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  The Grandmother Project

  The Grandmother Project (GMP) is an international development organisation working globally to improve the health and well being of women and children.Areas of focus:
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  Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis as a cause of death in patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in a rural area of South Africa

  The Lancet, 2006

  Tuberculosis is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV greatly increases the risk of active tuberculosis disease and about 80 per cent of patients presenting with active tuberculosis in the province of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, are co-infected with HIV.
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  Think TB in people with HIV: the Three I's for TB control in people with HIV

  Aidsmap, 2008

  Each year hundreds of thousands of people with HIV develop tuberculosis (TB), mostly in sub- Saharan Africa. Many of them will die from the illness. This publication argues that TB is both preventable and curable and does not have to be a death sentence for people with HIV.

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