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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS, HIV and AIDS citizenship and rights, Stigma and discrimination, HIV and AIDS treatment and care

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  Understanding and challenging HIV stigma: toolkit for action

  The Change Project, 2003

  This toolkit, developed for NGOs, community groups and HIV educators, is aimed at raising awareness and promoting actions to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination through participatory learning.
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  One step further: responses to HIV/AIDS

  SIDA Studies, 2002

  This collection of articles produced by UNRISD and SIDA enable different authors to address various issues in relation to HIV/AIDS.
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  Misconceptions, denial and folk beliefs - obscuring the risk perceptions among young Zambians

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Worldwide, an estimated 11.8 million people aged 15 to 24 are infected with HIV, most of whom (77%) live in sub-Saharan Africa. In Zambia, 21% of the population fall within this age group. How much do young Zambians know about HIV and how does it affect their behaviour? Researchers from Population Services International put these questions to young men in Lusaka, Zambia.
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  Expanded response guide to core indicators for monitoring and reporting on HIV/AIDS programs

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This guide is the second in the series of two monitoring and evaluation handbooks which focuses on the new areas of USAID's Expanded Response to HIV/AIDS including care, support, and treatment for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS with a special focus on women and children.The paper offers a rationale for the expanded response monitoring and reporting system; targets for the expanded res
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  Saving mothers, saving families: the MTCT-plus initiative (Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral Treatment)

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This paper assesses the degree of success of the MTCT-Plus Initiative in providing lifelong care and treatment for HIV/AIDS to families in resource-limited settings.
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  HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: a conceptual framework and an agenda for action

  Horizons, 2002

  The purpose of this paper is to propose a new conceptual framework to help inform thinking about the processes of stigma and discrimination (S&D) about the way these processes relate to HIV/AIDS, and about potential interventions to address S&D and minimise their impact.This paper analyses the sources of S&D, the ways in which HIV/AIDS-related S&D manifests itself, and the contexts in which HIV
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  Fanning the flames: how human rights abuses are fueling the AIDS epidemic in Kazakhstan

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report presents research conducted in Kazakhstan in 2002 to demonstrate that officials routinely harass and discriminate against injection drug users and sex workers, compounding their already marginalised status and reinforcing their reluctance to use AIDS-related health services, including needle exchangeThe paper argues that while on the one hand, some state health facilities have attem
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  Attitudes towards HIV/AIDS in China: research on public knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in cities and towns

  Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2003

  This short paper begins by providing a background to HIV/AIDS and its prevalence in China.
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  Advocacy for action on stigma and HIV/AIDS in Africa

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001

  As a result of a major consultation on HIV/AIDS related stigma held in Tanzania, the participants collaborated to produce this advocacy for action plan. The plan was drawn up in recognition of the fact that all are affected by HIV/AIDS and stigma - characterised by silence, fear, discrimination and denial - fuels the epidemic.
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  Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Africa: setting the operational research agenda

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001

  This report provides an account of the deliberations that took place during the regional consultation meeting Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Africa: Setting the Operational Research Agenda, that took place in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania from 4-6 June 2001.

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