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  The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: evidence from demographic and health surveys

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009

  This paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, documents the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. The authors, using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunisation for children born between 1988 and 2005.
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  The WHO public-health approach to antiretroviral treatment against HIV in resource-limited settings

  The Lancet, 2006

  This journal article, published in The Lancet, reports on the World Health Organization proposed public-health approach to antiretroviral therapy (ART) to enable scaling up access to treatment for HIV-positive people in developing countries.
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  Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2008

  World Health Organization, 2008

  This progress report, published by the World Health Organization, finds that the combined efforts of countries and international partners have resulted in substantial, ongoing progress towards providing HIV interventions in low- and middle income countries.
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  Rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy at primary care sites in Zambia

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006

  This study, published by the American Medical Association, examines the feasibility and effect of HIV and AIDS care and treatment services at primary care clinics in Zambia, which has seen a rapid expansion of priority interventions using predominately non-physician clinicians.
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  A cluster-randomised trial to compare home-based with health facility-based antiretroviral treatment in Uganda: study design and baseline findings

  PubMed Central, 2007

  Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is being scaled up in Africa but the number of people receiving treatment remains far less than those needing it. In most countries, the scale up of ART is progressing rapidly but with a limited evidence-base.
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  HIV and AIDS in places of detention: a toolkit for policymakers, programme managers, prison officers and health care providers in prison settings

  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2008

  In many countries, the groups most vulnerable to HIV are also groups at increased risk of criminalisation and incarceration, as many of the same social and economic conditions that increase vulnerability to HIV also increase vulnerability to imprisonment.
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  Rethinking sexuality and policy

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  What do sexuality and policy have to do with each other? This issue of id21 insights considers the policies and politics that surround sexuality asking what enables sexual contact? What sets up the dynamics of relationships? And what will the consequences be?
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  Reducing the burden of HIV & AIDS care on women and girls

  Voluntary Service Overseas, 2006

  This policy brief from VSO highlights the crisis in delivering equitable health care for people living with HIV and AIDS, and the overwhelming burden it places on women and girls. It identifies changes that VSO is advocating for and provides recommendations to key stakeholders for policy and programme change.
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  The political and social economy of care in a development context: contextual issues, research questions, and policy options

  United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2007

  Historically and across a diverse range of countries, women from disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups have tended to provide care services to meet the needs of the more powerful social groups, while their own needs for care have been downplayed and neglected.
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  Gender and care cutting edge pack

  BRIDGE, 2009

  This Cutting Edge Pack from BRIDGE assesses how it might be possible to move towards a world in which individuals and society recognise and value the importance of different forms of care, but without reinforcing care work as something that only women can or should do.

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