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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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  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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  Ten myths and one truth about generalised HIV epidemics

  The Lancet, 2007

  This editorial from the Lancet outlines ten commonly held misconceptions about HIV epidemics that impede prevention efforts.
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  Positive prevention: HIV prevention with people living with HIV

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2007

  This document from the International AIDS Alliance is intended as a resource to help NGOs and HIV service providers working across the spectrum of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to take steps towards integrating HIV prevention for, by and with people living with HIV (PLWHA).
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  Guidance on provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling in health facilities

  World Health Organization, 2007

  These guidelines from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS outline an opt-out approach to provider-initiated HIV testing. Following this approach, healthcare staff would routinely recommend that certain types of patient should take a HIV test.
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  Desperately seeking targets: the ethics of routine HIV testing in low-income countries

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2006

  This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), considers the ethical challenges of massive scale-up of HIV testing required in order to achieve ART (antiretroviral therapy) targets. The article outlines how the success of increasing access to ART is dependent on the identification of people who need treatment.
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  Community care, change, and hope: local responses to HIV in Zambia

  Synergy Project, USAID, 2004

  This case study from The Synergy Project documents a successful model for facilitating a strong community response to HIV and AIDS. The model was used in the Salvation Army Change programme in the Ndola and Choma districts of Zambia. It aims to build on local strengths and resources which enable ordinary people to address barriers to using HIV and AIDS information and services.
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  Scaling up HIV voluntary counseling and testing in Africa: what can evaluation studies tell us about potential prevention impacts?

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2004

  This study, published by Cornell University, explores the impact of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) on risk behaviour in Africa by applying new questions and theoretical frameworks to existing evidence. The paper examines the claim that scaling up HIV VCT programmes in Africa will have major prevention benefits through reduction in risk behaviours.
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  Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in the poorest communities

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This article from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) asserts that current safe motherhood and newborn care programmes, which emphasise skilled attendance and institutional delivery, are failing to reach the poorest populations. This is because the poorest mothers are more likely to deliver at home than in a health facility.
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  HIV/AIDS as a security issue in Africa: lessons from Uganda

  International Crisis Group, 2004

  This report is the third in a series on HIV/AIDS as a security issue from the International Crisis Group (ICG), and draws on the policy experience of Uganda. The report asserts that HIV/AIDS prevention and conflict prevention should go hand in hand: evidence suggests that war can lead to increased risks of HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS can make conflicts worse.

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