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  The impact of the AIDS epidemic on teacher mortality in sub-Saharan Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This article discusses the commonly stated belief that teachers in Africa are among the groups most affected by HIV/AIDS and that their death rate is disproportionately high compared with the populations as a whole.
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  Summary report: national HIV and syphilis antenatal sero-prevalence survey in South Africa 2002

  HIV/AIDS and STD Directorate, Department of Health, South Africa, 2003

  This report is the 13th in a series of studies on HIV and syphilis prevalence conducted among pregnant women attending antenatal care in the public sector.
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  Population report: the reproductive revolution continues

  The Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health Project, 2003

  This paper synthesises the findings and conclusions from more than 100 surveys conducted since 1990 into family planning and reproductive health. It demonstrates that contraceptive use and fertility rates vary substantially among developing countries.
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  Haiti family planning and AIDS prevention survey, 1998

  Population Services International, 1999

  This report describes the main findings from the 1998 Haiti Family Planning and AIDS Prevention Survey (HFAPS-98).
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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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  Fighting AIDS: HIV/AIDS prevention and care among armed forces and UN peacekeepers: the case of Eritrea

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This paper is part of a series entitled ‘Engaging uniformed services in the fight against AIDS’.
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  The impact of the Global Gag Rule in Zambia

  Access denied: impacts of the global gag rule, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact that the Global Gag Rule has had on Zambia’s reproductive health situation. The Global Gag Rule prohibits US assistance to foreign NGOs that use funding from any other source to fund abortions in cases other than exceptional.The paper demonstrates that Zambia has a relatively liberal abortion law, but in practice access to abortion is heavily restricted.
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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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  Voices and choices: speaking-up for HIV- positive women in Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Women with AIDS face neglect and prejudice all over the world.  Many are denied healthcare during pregnancy or forced to have abortions.  Some are sent away by their husband’s family to their parents’ home.  How can their situation be improved?  The International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS set up a research project to find out the needs of HIV-positive women in Zimbabwe.  Women with t
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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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