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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS transmission, prevention and testing, HIV and AIDS, Adolescents, HIV and AIDS vulnerable groups

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    Preventing HIV/AIDS among adolescents through integrated communication programming

    United Nations Population Fund, 2003
    This manual is designed to assist national UNFPA officers in planning, designing, implementing and evaluating communication interventions for HIV prevention among adolescents that integrate advocacy, behaviour change communication and education with other policy and service components.The manual provides a series of checklists to guide the programme or project officer in addressing key question
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    HIV prevalence and prevention among teenagers in Africa

    Eldis Document Store, 2003
    This short article argues that prevalence rates for HIV have been overestimated in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that, since there is very little comprehensive data collection of rates of infection and that most estimates are derived from testing in ante-natal clinics, rates are bound to be skewed.
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    Ask your aunty:  sex education in rural Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Developing sex education for young people in sub-Saharan Africa is essential if the battle against HIV is to be won. Information about sex and marriage has traditionally been passed on to young girls by the 'senga', their father’s sister, in rural Uganda.  The UK's Medical Research Council carried out a pilot study which adapted this traditional institution in an attempt to combat AIDS.
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    Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

    Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003
    This paper reports on a study that examines the impact of a health-focused literacy class in Nepal that combines reproductive health knowledge along with literacy training.
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    Teaching AIDS: student teachers learn about HIV in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Teachers are in an excellent position to pass information about HIV on to their pupils. In 1994, the Zimbabwean Ministry of Higher Education and Technology introduced a nationwide programme to train teachers in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. Four years later, researchers evaluated the programme’s success, on behalf of UNICEF.
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    Clearing up confusion: peer-led AIDS education in Zambia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do African adolescents know enough about AIDS to protect themselves against infection? What is the best way to educate them about the risks of HIV? A report from Population Services International evaluates a peer-led HIV prevention programme in a secondary school in Zambia.
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    Selling safe sex to young people - does youth-targeted social marketing work?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Young people in sub-Saharan Africa often lack accurate information about sexuality and reproductive health. Social attitudes towards sex make it difficult for them to protect themselves against pregnancy and HIV. How can health promotion programmes increase young people’s self-confidence in their ability to obtain and use contraceptives?
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    What’s the use? Condom use among youth in urban Cameroon

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In Cameroon, as in many sub-Saharan African countries, high-risk sexual activity is common among young people. A third of women aged 15-19 are pregnant or have had children, and a similar fraction of both sexes have had a sexually transmitted infection (STI). How can young people be encouraged to use condoms? Who influences their decisions most: their peers or parents?
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    Friends in deed – preventing HIV through peer education in South African schools

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    HIV is rampant among young people in South Africa, despite sound knowledge about sexual health risks. Levels of perceived vulnerability among this group are low and unprotected sex is common. Researchers from the London School of Economics studied a participatory programme seeking to empower young people to change gender norms as an HIV prevention strategy.
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    Getting it right: a new tool for monitoring evaluating sexual and reproductive health programmes

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes ensure that they are in tune with community needs? Researchers from the Centre for Development Studies, University of Wales have developed an innovative new monitoring technique: the ‘Peer Ethnographic Tool’. They field-tested the method in Lusaka, Zambia.

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