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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS transmission, prevention and testing, HIV and AIDS, Children and young people

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    AIDS, public policy and child well-being

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001
    This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
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    Young people and HIV/AIDS: responding to the new Asian crisis

    Save the Children Fund, 2001
    This report provides examples of a number of Save the Children projects in Asian countries where the focus has been on children affected by HIV/AIDS and/or prevention efforts focused on children and young people.The authors outline the organisation's policy and approach with regard to tackling issues such as stigma, the child sex trade and education.
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    Poverty, AIDS and children’s schooling: a targeting dilemma

    World Bank, 2002
    This paper analyzes the relationship between orphan status, household wealth, and child school enrollment using data collected in the 1990s from 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, with one country in Southeast Asia.The findings point to considerable diversity—so much so that generalizations are not possible:while there are some examples of large differenti
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    The impact of adult mortality on primary school enrollment in northwestern Tanzania

    Africa Region Human Development Department, World Bank, 2002
    The goal of this study is to measure the impact of adult deaths and orphan status on household decisions to enroll children in primary school.
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    The global impact of HIV/AIDS on youth

    Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002
    This fact sheet provides an overview of the impact of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic on young people, including data on prevalence and incidence, why adolescents are vulnerable to HIV, which young people are at particular risk, and the role of prevention.The document concludes that rates of infection amongst young people are set to increse and thus, prevention interventions directed at youth will
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    Children and young people in a world of AIDS

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Young people are particularly susceptible to HIV infection and they also carry the burden of caring for family members living with HIV/AIDS. Around the world HIV/AIDS is shattering young people's opportunities for healthy adult lives.
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    Youth and HIV/AIDS: can we avoid catastrophe?

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2001
    To stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic from becoming a catastrophe, prevention strategies must do much more to reach young people right away. Of the over 60 million people who have been infected with HIV in the past 20 years, about half became infected between the ages of 15 and 24. Today, nearly 12 million young people are living with HIV/AIDS.
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    The status and trends of HIV/AIDS/STI epidemics in Asia and the Pacific

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Report looks at current statistics of AIDS/HIV/STI in Asia and the Pacific and discusses the trends behind population groups and country regions where infections are prevalent.It suggests that focused interventions can keep infection rates low in specific groups and reduce the risk of extensive HIV spread in the population at large.
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    HIV/AIDS and development in the education sector

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    The objective of this paper is to describe the underlying problem of HIV/AIDS in the context of education development in Southern Africa, and also to identify opportunities for remedial action and positive enablement.
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    Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.

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