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  One step further: responses to HIV/AIDS

  SIDA Studies, 2002

  This collection of articles produced by UNRISD and SIDA enable different authors to address various issues in relation to HIV/AIDS.
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  Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.
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  Misconceptions, denial and folk beliefs - obscuring the risk perceptions among young Zambians

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Worldwide, an estimated 11.8 million people aged 15 to 24 are infected with HIV, most of whom (77%) live in sub-Saharan Africa. In Zambia, 21% of the population fall within this age group. How much do young Zambians know about HIV and how does it affect their behaviour? Researchers from Population Services International put these questions to young men in Lusaka, Zambia.
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  The potential demand for and strategic use of an HIV-1 vaccine in Southern India

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper assesses the potential demand for and strategic use of an HIV- 1 vaccine in southern India. It assesses the size of potential high- and low-risk target groups for an HIV-1 vaccine in the 117 districts of Andhra Pradesh, Maharasthra, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.
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  Dangerous liaisons: people in cross-generational relationships underestimate risk

  Population Services International, 2003

  This paper presents a study of Kenyan women’s and men’s motivations for entering into cross-generational relationships and their risk perceptions of such relationships. Eight focus groups were conducted with women aged 15-19 and 28 in-depth interviews were carried out with men aged 30 years and older in Nairobi, Mombassa, Kisumu and Meru.
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  Between men: HIV/STI prevention for men who have sex with men

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003

  This booklet presents the main issues around HIV/STI prevention for NGOs and CBOs, either currently working with men who have sex with men, or who are considering doing so.
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  Demystifying antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003

  This paper uses the example of a poor township 30 kilometres outside Cape Town to find out if antiretroviral therapy is possible in severely resource-constrained environments and to discover the best ways to deliver these drugs.Zidovudine (AZT), first became available in Khayelitsha township’s two maternity wards in early 1999, and the programme has subsequently become one of the continent’s bi
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  The increasing importance of sexually transmitted diseases in HIV-infected persons

  International AIDS Society-USA, 2003

  This Guide presents detailed medical recommendations screening, diagnosis, and management of:genital herpes simplex virus infectionchlamydial and gonococcal infectionssyphilishuman papillomavirus–associated neoplasia in HIV-infected patientsThe article summarises a presentation given by the author at the March 2003 International AIDS Society - USA course in Los Angeles.

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