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    Stigma, HIV/AIDS and prevention of mother-to-child transmission: a pilot study in Zambia, India, Ukraine and Burkina Faso

    Panos AIDS Programme, 2001
    Aims to assess and provide an initial analysis of the extent of perceived and enacted stigma, consider stigma in general and, more specifically, that surrounding mother-to-child transmission, and to explore what steps might be taken to alleviate it.Piolot research was conducted in India (South Asia), Ukraine (Eastern Europe), Burkina Faso (Francophone West Africa) and Zambia (Anglophone South
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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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    HIV/AIDS and development in the education sector

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    The objective of this paper is to describe the underlying problem of HIV/AIDS in the context of education development in Southern Africa, and also to identify opportunities for remedial action and positive enablement.
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    Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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    Impact of HIV and sexual health education on the sexual behaviour of young people: a review update

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1998
    To assess the effects of HIV/AIDS and sexual health education on young people’s sexual behaviour, a comprehensive literature review was commissioned by the Department of Policy, Strategy, and Research of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Sixty-eight reports were reviewed.
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    HIV and Infant Feeding: A Chronology of Research and Policy Advances and their Implications for Programs

    Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997
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    Researchers identify a simple, inexpensive drug regimen that is highly effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission

    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA, 1999
    A joint Uganda-U.S. study has found a highly effective and safe drug regimen for preventing transmission of HIV from an infected mother to her newborn that is more affordable and practical than any other examined to date.
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    Literature Review on Adolescent Reproductive Health Studies Conducted in Tanzania 1988 - 1998

    Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1999
    Reviews all available adolescent reproductive health (ARH) documents and published articles on studies conducted or published in Tanzania in the past ten years (1988-1998). The study also includes as a background a review of some ARH studies carried out in Tanzania and Africa and in Tanzania before 1988.
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    Prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child: Strategic options

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999
    Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is by far the largest source of HIV infection in children below the age of 15 years. In countries where blood products are regularly screened and clean syringes and needles are widely available, it is virtually the only source in young children.Paper reviews methods for forming a national policy on prevention and treatment.
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    Mother-to-child transmission of HIV

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000
    Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is the overwhelming source of HIV infection in young children. Of the 3 million infants infected with HIV since the beginning of the pandemic, about 90% have been born in Africa. However, the number of cases in India and South-East Asia appears to be rising rapidly.

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