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Guideline on HIV disclosure counselling for children up to 12 years of age
World Health Organization, 2011This document provides guidance for health care workers (HCWs) on how to support children up to 12 years of age and their caregivers with disclosure of HIV status. This guidance is intended as part of a comprehensive approach to ensuring child wellbeing following the child’s own diagnoses of HIV or that of a parent/caregiver. Key findings include:DocumentSocial inequality and HIV-testing: comparing home- and clinic-based testing in rural Malawi
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2009The plan to increase HIV testing is a cornerstone of the international health strategy against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Using material form ongoing demographic research project conducted in three rural areas of Malawi, this paper highlights a problematic aspect of that plan: the reliance on clinic- rather than home-based testing.DocumentDeterminants of knowledge of HIV status in South Africa: results from a population-based HIV survey
BioMed Central, 2009With over 30% of women and men in the South Africa's 2005 national HIV household survey indicating that they had previously been tested for HIV (of which 91% were aware of their test results), this paper published by BioMed Central seeks to describe the associations between socio-demographic, behavioural and social characteristics and knowledge of HIV status among a nationally representatiDocumentA basic package of health services for Afghanistan, 2005/1384
Management Sciences for Health, 2005Since the creation of the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) in Afghanistan in 2003 the country has seen many positive changes in its health care system. This document from the Ministry of Public Health defines the key elements of the health system being built in the country.DocumentDoes male circumcision prevent HIV infection?
Public Library of Science Medicine, 2005Given 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.DocumentNurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment at the primary health care level in rural Lesotho: 2006-2008 programme report
Médecins Sans Frontières, 2009Lesotho 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.DocumentTowards universal access: scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2008
World Health Organization, 2008This 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.DocumentLegislating for health and human rights: model law on drug use and HIV/AIDS – module 5: prisons
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2006UNAIDS suggests that approximately 30 percent of new HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa are due to contaminated injection equipment. This model-law resource by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network is the fifth module of a larger eight module law resource.DocumentHIV/AIDS in prison: problems, policies and potential
Institute for Security Studies, 2003This document from the Institute of Security Studies in South Africa examines the situation in prisons and argues that the issue of prevention of HIV transmission in prison has more to do with improving prison conditions in general than with specifically addressing HIV.