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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS transmission, prevention and testing, HIV and AIDS, Children and young people

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  HIV prevalence and prevention among teenagers in Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This short article argues that prevalence rates for HIV have been overestimated in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that, since there is very little comprehensive data collection of rates of infection and that most estimates are derived from testing in ante-natal clinics, rates are bound to be skewed.
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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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  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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  Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This paper reports on a study that examines the impact of a health-focused literacy class in Nepal that combines reproductive health knowledge along with literacy training.
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  Pasteurized breastmilk as a replacement feed for babies of HIV-infected mothers

  ProNUTRITION, 2003

  This short report offers a guide for mothers demonstrating how they can use their own milk for their babies, while simultaneously avoiding any risk of post-partum transmission of the virus to their babies through breastfeeding. The two methods shown are flash-boiling and pretoria pasteurization
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  A review of current literature of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in sub-Saharan Africa

  US Agency for International Development, 2001

  This paper reviews epidemiological characteristics of children affected by HIV/AIDS, coping mechanisms and current knowledge of the impact of HIV on children.
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  Reaching the poor: the ‘costs’ of sending children to school: a six country comparative study

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This comparative research study focuses on the main barriers to education for the poorest households in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. Although the study set out primarily to look at the burden of education costs on the poorest households, other barriers to education (e.g. physical access, quality of education, vulnerability/poverty, and health,) are also discussed.
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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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  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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