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  WABA/UNICEF Colloquium on HIV and breastfeeding

  World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, 2002

  This resource is a collection of conference presentations on breastfeeding and HIV transmission, includingthe role of breastfeeding-supportive NGOs in HIV and infant feedingHIV and infant feeding: a framework for priority actionsexperiences with early cessation of breast feeding among HIV infected women in Kampala, UgandaPMTCT, infant feeding: the Botswana experienceHIV and
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  Primary education in Eastern and Southern Africa: increasing access for orphans and vulnerable children in AIDS-affected areas

  Global Health Department, USAID, 2001

  This paper investigates the national and community level interventions that offer promise for increasing primary education access for children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable in areas heavily affected by AIDS in the eastern and southern Africa region.The report examines thirteen initiatives that have potential to increase primary education access for such groups.
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  Education and HIV/AIDS: a sourcebook of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes

  School Health, 2003

  This sourcebook documents details of HIV prevention programmes for school age children in seven African countries: Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.Types of programme include both primary and secondary school based examples, use of the media, community based and peer education programmes and outreach for street children.The book provides:a prog
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  Combating child labour and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of policies, programmes, and projects in South Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia to identify good practices

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This review of national HIV/AIDS and child labour policies and programmes, NGO projects, and community-based initiatives lluminates the harsh realities of the link between child labour and HIV/AIDS.
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  Evidence of iatrogenic HIV transmission in children in South Africa

  British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2003

  This paper is the latest in a series arguing that HIV transmission in Africa is attributable to unsafe medical practices in far more cases than have been previously believed.
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  Social marketing for adolescent sexual health: results of operations research projects in Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, and South Africa

  Population Services International, 2000

  This report, produced by Population Services International (PSI), describes a project that tested the impact of youth-oriented social marketing techniques on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Interventions and communications strategies included promotion through mass media, brand names such as ‘Youth Horizon’, and condom distribution through peer educators and youth-friendly outlets.
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  Sexual health experiences of adolescents in three Ghanaian towns

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2003

  The authors of this report state that much of the programmatic literature on adolescents has focused somewhat narrowly on knowledge, attitudes and practices related to contraceptive use. National population policy has placed a heavy emphasis on lowering the fertility rate through increased access to modern contraceptives.
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  Preventing HIV/AIDS and promoting sexual health among especially vulnerable young people

  Safe Passages to Adulthood, 2002

  This document reports on an expert group meeting on young people's sexual health. The good practice guide introduces practitioners, policy-makers and researchers to two distinct but related concepts - risk and vulnerability.
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  Children, HIV/AIDS and communication in South Africa: a literature review

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002

  This commissioned report aimed to to provide insight into issues related to communication of HIV/AIDS to children in the 3-12 year age group, with an emphasis on South Africa.
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  Adolescent sexuality, gender and the HIV epidemic

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1999

  Young people have been found to be especially vulnerable to HIV infection through lack of knowledge, access to treatment and prevention methods like condoms.Stereotypical gender roles place young women, and to a lesser extent young men, at heightened risk of HIV infection. Young women in many parts of the developing world have little control over how, when and where sex takes place.

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