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  Routine offer of antenatal HIV testing (“opt-out” approach) to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in urban Zimbabwe

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007

  This paper from the World Health Organization aims to assess the impact of routine antenatal HIV testing for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in urban Zimbabwe.
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  HIV risk exposure in young children: a study of 2-9 year olds served by public health facilities in the Free State, South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2005

  This study, produced by the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, sets out to investigate all possible routes of HIV transmission among 2 – 9 year old children in the Free State of South Africa. The aim of the study is to identify risk factors among children in this age group, other than those factors associated with transmission from their mothers.
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  Expanded response guide to core indicators for monitoring and reporting on HIV/AIDS programs

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This guide is the second in the series of two monitoring and evaluation handbooks which focuses on the new areas of USAID's Expanded Response to HIV/AIDS including care, support, and treatment for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS with a special focus on women and children.The paper offers a rationale for the expanded response monitoring and reporting system; targets for the expanded res
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  Pasteurized breastmilk as a replacement feed for babies of HIV-infected mothers

  ProNUTRITION, 2003

  This short report offers a guide for mothers demonstrating how they can use their own milk for their babies, while simultaneously avoiding any risk of post-partum transmission of the virus to their babies through breastfeeding. The two methods shown are flash-boiling and pretoria pasteurization
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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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  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a strategic framework

  Family Health International, 2001

  This report outlines the scale and nature of the problem of mother to child transmission (MTCT) and FHI's strategy to address it.The document describes the main prevention methods and then describes FHI's goals and approaches.
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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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  Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Asia: practical guidance for programs

  US Agency for International Development, 2002

  In most countries in Asia, pediatric incidences of HIV/AIDS are increasing.
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  Stigma, HIV/AIDS and prevention of mother-to-child transmission: a pilot study in Zambia, India, Ukraine and Burkina Faso

  Panos AIDS Programme, 2001

  Aims to assess and provide an initial analysis of the extent of perceived and enacted stigma, consider stigma in general and, more specifically, that surrounding mother-to-child transmission, and to explore what steps might be taken to alleviate it.Piolot research was conducted in India (South Asia), Ukraine (Eastern Europe), Burkina Faso (Francophone West Africa) and Zambia (Anglophone South
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  HIV and Infant Feeding: A Chronology of Research and Policy Advances and their Implications for Programs

  Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997

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