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  HIV/AIDS and older people: the African situation

  HelpAge International, 2002

  Leaflet explaining the situation and role of older people in the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.
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  Papers of FAO/SARPN Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Land, Pretoria

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002

  Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access, and rights) as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups.
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  Education as a vehicle for combating HIV/AIDS

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2001

  This essay explores the two sides of the relationship between education and HIV/AIDS.
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  Civil society and the invention of social policy: state, society and citizenship in the fight against AIDS

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  HIV/AIDS is an analytically useful policy domain because of the uncertain, complex and highly contested nature of the public health interventions that were needed. This article examines the role of New York City's AIDS community in the development of local and national HIV/AIDS policies.
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  Preventing HIV/AIDS in schools

  International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, 2002

  This document consists of ten chapters looking at the necessary components of effective education to help prevent HIV/AIDS.
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  Intensifying action against HIV/AIDS in Africa: responding to a development crisis

  World Bank, 1999

  Given the scale of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, it is no longer just a public health problem, it is a development crisis. This document introduces the Bank’s new strategy to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in partnership with African governments and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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  Rural workers’ contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS: a framework for district and community action

  Royal Tropical Institute and HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2001

  This paper describes an evaluation of a number of projects that form the African regional AIDS program, set up by the World Bank's rural sector.
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  Model-based estimates of risks of disease transmission and economic costs of seven injection devices in sub-Saharan Africa

  WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2002

  This paper describes the findings of research to investigate and compare seven types of injection devices for their risks of iatrogenic transmission of bloodborne pathogens and their economic costs in sub-Saharan Africa.Both financial costs and assessment of transmission risk were estimated for each device against the number of new hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
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  World Health Report 2002: reducing risks, promoting healthy life

  World Health Organization, 2002

  The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 2002 World Health Report describes the amount of disease, disability and death in the world today that can be attributed to a small number of health risks.
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  HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa not explained by sexual or vertical transmission

  International Journal of STD and AIDS, 2002

  An expanding body of evidence challenges the conventional hypothesis that sexual transmission is responsible for more than 90% of adult HIV infections in Africa.Differences in epidemic trajectories across Africa do not correspond to differences in sexual behaviour. Studies among African couples found low rates of heterosexual transmission, as in developed countries.

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