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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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  What do Salvadoran teens think?: determining the feasibility of youth-friendly pharmacies: a focus group report

  Commercial Market Strategies: New Directions in Reproductive Health, 2003

  This paper reports on research findings from El Salvador into the feasibility of developing youth-friendly pharmacies.The data support implementation of the youthfriendly pharmacies concept.
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  The tip of the iceberg: the global impact of HIV/AIDS on youth

  Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002

  This issue brief provides an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on young people around the world, generally defined as those between the ages of 10 and 24. Because of its focus on young people, this brief does not discuss mother-to-child transmission (MTCT).The brief addresses the issues of prevalence and incidence worldwide and examines nations with young populations hard hit.
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  Condom use and abstinence among unmarried young people in Zimbabwe: Which strategy, whose agenda?

  Population Council, USA, 2003

  This paper compares the views about abstinence and condom use expressed by young people in Zimbabwe in focus-group discussions with the views underlying national policies and religious and traditional beliefs.Young people’s decisions to adopt one or the other of these risk-reduction strategies may not necessarily indicate genuine individual choices, but rather their deference to adults’ interes
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  AIDS in Africa during the nineties: young people in Kenya

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2003

  This summary report brings together and examine existing information about adolescent sex in Kenya during the nineties.The report examines evidence for the success of major prevention strategies: what do young people know about HIV and how to avoid it? What proportion of them are abstaining, and until what ages? Once they do start having sex, is it within marriage or outside it?
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  Social marketing for adolescent sexual health: results of operations research projects in Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, and South Africa

  Population Services International, 2000

  This report, produced by Population Services International (PSI), describes a project that tested the impact of youth-oriented social marketing techniques on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Interventions and communications strategies included promotion through mass media, brand names such as ‘Youth Horizon’, and condom distribution through peer educators and youth-friendly outlets.
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  Sexual health experiences of adolescents in three Ghanaian towns

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2003

  The authors of this report state that much of the programmatic literature on adolescents has focused somewhat narrowly on knowledge, attitudes and practices related to contraceptive use. National population policy has placed a heavy emphasis on lowering the fertility rate through increased access to modern contraceptives.
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  Children, HIV/AIDS and communication in South Africa: a literature review

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002

  This commissioned report aimed to to provide insight into issues related to communication of HIV/AIDS to children in the 3-12 year age group, with an emphasis on South Africa.
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  Ignorance only: HIV/AIDS, human rights and federally funded abstinence only programs in the United States. Texas case study

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This document reports on research carried out in a number of Texas schools and with HIV/AIDS educators in that state. It reports on the messages that educators and other sexual health messages targeted at teens no longer promote condom use and often the message that condoms are unsafe is instead promoted, leading, evidence suggests to teens having sex without condoms.
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  The sexual and reproductive health of young people in Latin America and the Caribbean

  Advocates for Youth, 2002

  This summary of research from different organisations brings together facts and figures on a range of sexual and reproductive issues regarding young people in the region.Information is included on:age at initiation of sexual intercourseknowledge about contraceptives and rates of usepregnancy and abortion ratesprevalence of HIV/AIDSThe paper concludes with brief examp
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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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