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    Working with young men to promote sexual and reproductive health

    Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002
    Gender is increasingly acknowledged as central to understanding young people's experiences of sexual relationships and health.
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    Cutting the risk? Male circumcision and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    HIV prevalence varies both within and between countries in Africa. How can these differences be explained? Within Africa, male circumcision appears to be more common in regions with relatively low HIV rates. Does circumcision reduce the risk of HIV infection?
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    Unhappy alliance – does integrated reproductive healthcare work?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the best strategies to tackle the spread of HIV and improve women’s reproductive health? Since 1994, the international approach has been to integrate sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV services with primary healthcare and family planning programmes. But how successful has this been?
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    Injecting caution: re-thinking vaccination for HIV-positive Ugandans

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Infection with the bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, is a frequent and serious problem for HIV-infected adults. A polysaccharide vaccine is currently licensed and available, and is recommended in the USA and Europe. But should this be policy in sub-Saharan Africa?
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    Teaching AIDS: student teachers learn about HIV in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Teachers are in an excellent position to pass information about HIV on to their pupils. In 1994, the Zimbabwean Ministry of Higher Education and Technology introduced a nationwide programme to train teachers in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. Four years later, researchers evaluated the programme’s success, on behalf of UNICEF.
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    Education for survival: better health and HIV/AIDS education for schools in Africa and Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Since the late 1980s, interest has grown in the development of health education in schools. This interest has been spurred on by the AIDS pandemic. Health education, which focuses on trying to influence sexual behaviour and attitudes, has been seen as a key strategy in arresting the spread of the disease.
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    Meeting their needs? Discussing young people’s sexual health

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    More than six thousand people aged 16-25 become infected with HIV every day worldwide. But the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young people are often neglected. The Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme, funded by DFID, held a meeting of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers from many countries. They considered the potential of education to protect young people against HIV.
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    Clearing up confusion: peer-led AIDS education in Zambia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do African adolescents know enough about AIDS to protect themselves against infection? What is the best way to educate them about the risks of HIV? A report from Population Services International evaluates a peer-led HIV prevention programme in a secondary school in Zambia.
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    Knowledge is power: AIDS education for Ugandan schoolchildren

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Comprehensive AIDS education can make pupils aware of the need to protect themselves against infection. It can also bring about gradual changes in the wider social environment, making safer sex more acceptable. But what is the best way to introduce AIDS education to schools with scarce resources and a packed curriculum?
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    Conjugal risks - HIV transmission within marriage in Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In the developed world, the male-to-female HIV transmission rate appears to be higher than the female-to-male rate. Is this also true in sub-Saharan Africa? What is the best way to measure this? A study by the Medical Research Council Programme on AIDS addressed these questions in the rural district of Masaka, Uganda.

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