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  Addressing HIV and AIDS in the workplace: lessons learnt from civil society organisations and donors

  STOP AIDS NOW!, 2009

  For a number of years, STOP AIDS NOW! and its partners have been investing in stimulating workplace responses among civil society organisations (CSOs) to HIV and AIDS. This report, published by STOP AIDS NOW!, summarises the lessons learnt, and draws on over 40 documents that have been produced detailing the work of STOP AIDS NOW! and its partners.
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  Guidelines for occupational safety and health, including HIV in the health services sector

  US Agency for International Development, 2008

  These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors argue that the health sector is loaded with a wide variety of situations where health and safety issues are crucial.
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  HIV and AIDS in places of detention: a toolkit for policymakers, programme managers, prison officers and health care providers in prison settings

  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2008

  In many countries, the groups most vulnerable to HIV are also groups at increased risk of criminalisation and incarceration, as many of the same social and economic conditions that increase vulnerability to HIV also increase vulnerability to imprisonment.
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  School as a workplace in Kenya: evaluation of the teachers matter HIV/AIDS project

  Population Council, USA, 2007

  This report looks at how teachers in Kenya deliver HIV prevention messages in school. Many HIV/AIDS interventions rely on teachers to deliver vital prevention messages to their students but do not target the teachers as direct beneficiaries, even though the teachers themselves are at risk of HIV infection.
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  HIV/AIDS on the campus: universities and the threat of an epidemic

  African Higher Education Research Online, 2006

  Many sub Saharan African universities have been slow to respond to HIV/AIDS pandemic. This report from African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) analyses why universities respond the way that they do and in particular focuses on developments in Ugandan universities, a country known for its forward looking approach to HIV/AIDS.
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  Knowledge about HIV/AIDS and policy knowledge in a South African state hospital

  Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, 2007

  This article published in the SAHARA Journal investigates what level of HIV/AIDS knowledge medical staff have in a state hospital in South Africa. In particular it looks at their knowledge about and practical use of current HIV/AIDS policy and counselling programmes within their hospital. The conclusions are applicable to other hospitals in South Africa.
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  Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in development and humanitarian programmes

  Oxfam, 2004

  This report from ActionAid, Oxfam GB and Save the Children UK explores mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS. Mainstreaming can be defined as the process of analysing the impact that HIV/AIDS has, and will have, on all sectors including but not limited to health. It is split into two types: external and internal.
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  Humanitarian programmes and HIV and AIDS: a practical approach to mainstreaming

  Oxfam, 2007

  This manual, produced by Oxfam, is intended to build staff skills in addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability to HIV infection and the consequences of AIDS, particularly in rapid-onset humanitarian emergencies. Although aimed at managers in the planning stage, it also suggests how to mainstream HIV throughout the emergency project cycle and specific sectoral responses.
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  The CHIETA national HIV/AIDS workplace programme

  Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority, South Africa, 2006

  This report from the Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority (CHIETA) in South Africa shows that many companies are not confronting the impact of HIV in the workplace in a coherent and systematic way.
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  Action on gender based violence and HIV/AIDS: bringing together research, policy, programming and advocacy

  2007

  At the 2006 International Aids Conference a meeting was convened to explore the linkages between gender based violence (GBV) and HIV. Its objective was to understand common challenges and to inform research, advocacy, policy and practice.

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