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    Does male circumcision prevent HIV infection?

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005
    Given the devastating mortality and morbidity associated with HIV and AIDS, many potential prevention measures against HIV infection have been explored. Male circumcision is one of these. This short article from the Public Library of Science report results from the first completed trial of male circumcision for reducing HIV infection in South African heterosexual men.
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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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    Painful tradeoffs: intimate-partner violence and sexual and reproductive health rights in Kenya

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Intimate-partner violence involves multiple violations of sexual and reproductive rights, with devastating impacts on the health and wellbeing of those affected. This paper from the Institute of Development Studies details the results of an action-research collaboration between a Kenyan gender-based violence rehabilitation NGO and a research programme.
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    "Routinizing" HIV testing in low- and middle-income countries

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2007
    This discussion paper from the Public Health Programme of the Open Society Institute (OSI) examines the issues associated with scaling up access to HIV testing.
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    Acceptability of routine HIV testing ("Opt-Out") in antenatal services in two rural districts of Zimbabwe

    Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006
    This article from the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) argues that routine HIV testing on an opt-out basis would be widely acceptable among pregnant women. Introducing this approach to testing could contribute significantly to improving uptake of services for the prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) in developing countries.
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    YouthLens No. 21: Integrating reproductive health and HIV services for youth

    YouthNet, Family Health International, 2007
    Often health services for young people address contraception or prevention of HIV/STIs, but not both. Would an integrated approach to sexual health services reduce unwanted pregnancies and HIV/STIs among young people? This briefing paper reports on the findings of a series of studies that examined this question.
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    Study of the integration of family planning and VCT/PMTCT/ART programs in Uganda

    Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda, 2005
    This paper examines the integration of family planning (FP) services with HIV and AIDS services (voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) and anti-retroviral therapy (ART)) in Uganda.
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    AIDS discrimination in Asia

    Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, 2004
    This report by the Asia Pacific Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (APN+) documents a peer-led study on AIDS-related stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in Asia. Findings show that over 80 per cent of respondents experienced some form of discrimination in the health sector, the community, the family and the workplace.
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    Scaling up prevention and treatment for TB and HIV: report of the 4th TB/HIV global working group meeting

    World Health Organization, 2004
    This document reports on the fourth TB/HIV global working group meeting held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in September 2004, which focused on scaling up collaborative prevention and treatment efforts to address the growing pandemic of both diseases.

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