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    Addressing stigma in implementing HIV/AIDS workplace policy: the ACORD experience in Uganda

    International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2006
    This Intrac Praxis Note describes the experience of ACORD Uganda in their efforts to implement an effective HIV and AIDS workplace policy. It focuses on the importance of addressing stigma within the organisation - both as an objective of the policy itself and as a prerequisite of its effective implementation.
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    Creating an enabling environment for the advancement of women and girls

    World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2006
    This publication is World Vision’s briefing paper to the 50th Commission on the Status of Women.
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    Teacher mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: an update

    Eldis Document Store, 2005
    This short article is divided into two sections, the first part focuses on the situation in South Africa where there good quality information on HIV prevalence and mortality among teachers; the second part briefly reviews the available evidence for the remaining countries.Key conclusions from the review include:teacher mortality rates (from all causes) did not exceed one percent in Sout
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    Letting them fail: government neglect and the right to education for children affected by AIDS

    Human Rights Watch, 2005
    This report examines the issues surrounding access to education for children affected by HIV and AIDS, looking in particular at the role of government.
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    HIV/AIDS: sex, abstinence, and behaviour change

    The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2005
    This opinion piece, published by Lancet Infectious Diseases, argues that an abstinence approach to HIV does not take into account the balance between contextual and environmental factors and individual choices in determining why and how people have sex.
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    Unravelling the dynamics of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: the role of community-based research

    Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2004
    This ACORD report features two country case studies (Uganda and Burundi) which explored the role of community-based research in responding to HIV stigma and discrimination.. The research found that issues of stigma and discrimination reached all spheres of life, including the home, family, the workplace, school, health settings and the larger community.
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    Violence against children affected by HIV/AIDS: a case study of Uganda

    World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2005
    Through participatory research this study examined the nature of violence, including psychological abuse, against orphans in parts of Uganda devastated by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.The report highlights the types, causes and psychological impact of stigmatisation of and discrimination against orphans; World Vision programme responses to orphans and vulnerable children; and recommendations for deali
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    Pukaar: the journal of Naz Foundation International, April 2005

    Naz Foundation International, 2005
    This quarterly newsletter from the Naz Foundation International (NFI) provides a forum for discussion, information and advice regarding sexual health and HIV and AIDS, focusing on South Asian masculinities and sexualities.
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    The less they know, the better: abstinence-only HIV/AIDS programs in Uganda

    Human Rights Watch, 2005
    This Human Rights Watch report finds that United States (U.S.) funded organisations are scaling up programmes in Uganda that promote sexual abstinence and fidelity within heterosexual marriage to the exclusion of all other HIV prevention strategies. These programmes, the report argues, deprive young people of life-saving information.
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    AIDS education through Imams: a spiritually motivated community effort in Uganda

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1998
    This report, produced by the Islamic Medical Association of Uganda (IMAU) and published by UNAIDS, documents the experiences of IMAU in providing HIV/AIDS education in Uganda. It describes how over 8000 religious leaders and their teams of volunteers were trained and supervised over the course of an IMAU AIDS education project.

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