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  The socio-economic impact of HIV and AIDS on rural families in Uganda: an emphasis on youth

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1994

  While youths are among the most vulnerable groups to HIV infection, they are also the most promising agents of behaviour change. Young men and women are vulnerable to HIV infection because they begin sexual activity at an increasingly younger age, tend to have multiple partners and have restricted access to information on safer sexual practices.
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  The impact of HIV and AIDS on children, families and communities: risks and realities of childhood during the HIV epidemic

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998

  The impact of HIV/AIDS extends beyond those living with the virus, as each infection produces consequences which affect the lives of the family, friends and communities surrounding an infected person. The overall impact of the epidemic encompasses effects on the lives of multiples of the millions of people living with HIV/AIDS or of those who have died.
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  HIV and Infant Feeding: A Chronology of Research and Policy Advances and their Implications for Programs

  Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997
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  Researchers identify a simple, inexpensive drug regimen that is highly effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission

  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA, 1999

  A joint Uganda-U.S. study has found a highly effective and safe drug regimen for preventing transmission of HIV from an infected mother to her newborn that is more affordable and practical than any other examined to date.
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  Literature Review on Adolescent Reproductive Health Studies Conducted in Tanzania 1988 - 1998

  Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1999

  Reviews all available adolescent reproductive health (ARH) documents and published articles on studies conducted or published in Tanzania in the past ten years (1988-1998). The study also includes as a background a review of some ARH studies carried out in Tanzania and Africa and in Tanzania before 1988.
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  Prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child: Strategic options

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999

  Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is by far the largest source of HIV infection in children below the age of 15 years. In countries where blood products are regularly screened and clean syringes and needles are widely available, it is virtually the only source in young children.Paper reviews methods for forming a national policy on prevention and treatment.
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  The impact of adult deaths on children's health in northwestern Tanzania

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  The AIDS epidemic is dramatically increasing mortality of adults in many Sub-Saharan African countries, with potentially severe consequences for surviving family members.
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  In the shadow of death: HIV/AIDS and children's rights in Kenya

  Human Rights Watch, 2001

  This article explores the problem of HIV/AIDS among the childhood population in Kenya.The article finds that:HIV prevalence in the population of Kenya increased steadily and consistently by about 1 percentage point a year from 1990 to 1999.
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  The impact of armed conflict on children

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  This document reviews the wide-ranging series of actions taken in response to the recommendations of the 1996 Machel Report. Many of the significant achievements are woven into this text, which constitutes an early summary of a book that will be published in early 2001.
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  Mother-to-child transmission of HIV

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000

  Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is the overwhelming source of HIV infection in young children. Of the 3 million infants infected with HIV since the beginning of the pandemic, about 90% have been born in Africa. However, the number of cases in India and South-East Asia appears to be rising rapidly.

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