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  Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV within HIV proposals funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

  Journal of Women's Health Care, 2012

  This article aims to to analyse interventions for the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV (PMTCT) included in HIV proposals approved for funding by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund).PMTCT interventions are guided by a comprehensive strategic approach, which includes four components:
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  Children and AIDS fifth stocktaking report, 2010

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2010

  This report argues that the elimination of AIDS-related deaths in children is possible, but it will require vision, leadership and system-wide improvements in health-care delivery, as well as deep-seated social change. The paper finds that:
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  Nurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment at the primary health care level in rural Lesotho: 2006-2008 programme report

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2009

  Lesotho has the third highest HIV prevalence in the world, with an estimated 270,000 people living with HIV and AIDS in the country, and 18,000 deaths annually of AIDS-related complications.
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  Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: a training manual for nurses and midwives

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2008

  This training manual, published by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II (FANTA-2) Project, recognises that nutrition interventions are an important component of comprehensive care and support for people living with HIV (PLHIV). They help to manage symptoms, promote response to treatment and improving functioning and quality of life.
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  Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2008

  World Health Organization, 2008

  This progress report, published by the World Health Organization, finds that the combined efforts of countries and international partners have resulted in substantial, ongoing progress towards providing HIV interventions in low- and middle income countries.
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  Women, HIV and human rights: the crisis of criminalization

  All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, UK, 2009

  This document outlines a presentation given by the Salamander Trust at a meeting on women and AIDS at the House of Commons in Westminster. The presenter details how, because of global attitudes, women with HIV/AIDS have seen their reproductive health rights and rights to liberty systematically and institutionally eroded.
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  Outputs, cost and efficiency of public sector centres for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in Andhra Pradesh, India

  BioMed Central, 2008

  Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) is an important part of the effort to control HIV. PMTCT services are mostly provided at public sector government hospitals in India and systematic data is not readily available. This report by Biomed Central looks as 16 PMTCT centres in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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  HIV, nutrition, and food: a practical guide for technical staff and clinicians

  Family Health International, 2007

  The spread of HIV through many regions of the world is highlighting the complex and evolving relationship between food, HIV infection, and nutritional status. This guide is aimed at technical staff and clinicians providing concise practical information on HIV, nutrition and food by providing:
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  Monitoring effectiveness of programmes to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in lower-income countries

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2008

  This article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization proposes a new method for evaluating prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programmes. The authors suggest that HIV-free survival is the gold standard (or ideal measure) for settings with limited resources.
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  Early infant diagnosis of HIV through dried blood spot testing: Pathfinder International/Kenya’s prevention of mother to child transmission project

  Pathfinder International, 2007

  Unless an infant infected with HIV in Africa receives prophylactic antibiotics soon after birth and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) as soon as is medically indicated, it has a 35 per cent chance of dying by his first birthday and a 53 per cent chance of dying before the age of two.

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