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  Valuing and compensating caregivers for their contributions to community health and development in the context of HIV and AIDS: an agenda for action

  Huairou Commission, 2010

  This paper concerns the valuation and compensation of caregivers for their ongoing contribution to community health and development in the context of HIV and AIDS.
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  Regional policy and model legislation to address HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination

  Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2010

  This publication, commissioned by CARICOM, is a desk review report of existing legislative frameworks affecting people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families in eleven countries in the Caribbean.  The study highlights findings around stigma and discrimination and the legal frameworks as presented below:
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  Treatment 2.0: is this the future of treatment?

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2010

  This publication presents 'the Treatment 2.0 platform', a simplified HIV treatment approach to scale up efforts around global coverage of HIV antiretroviral therapy and achieve the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, care and support. 
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  Coverage of selected services for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment in low-and middle-income countries in 2005

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2005

  This report from Constella Futures Policy Project presents the results of an assessment of the coverage of several key services for the prevention, care and treatment of HIV and AIDS in 2005. It updates similar reports on coverage in 2001 and 2003.
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  A handbook for network support agents and other community workers supporting HIV prevention, care support and treatment

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009

  Uganda like many other developing countries, suffers from inequitable distribution of health workers between rural and urban areas and between public and private sectors. To strengthen the referral systems, people living with HIV have been trained as Network Support Agents (NSA) to work alongside health care workers in health facilities.
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  Guidelines for occupational safety and health, including HIV in the health services sector

  US Agency for International Development, 2008

  These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors argue that the health sector is loaded with a wide variety of situations where health and safety issues are crucial.
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  Acceptability and accessibility of HIV testing and treatment services in Bembeyi, Bunia, North Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo – A Participatory Reflection and Action (PRA) Project Report

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009

  This paper explores the challenges in ensuring equitable access to HIV and AIDS services for persons in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The HIV and AIDS prevalence rate is reported as five percent, with a disproportionate number of people from rural communities being infected.
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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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  Operations manual for delivery of HIV prevention, care and treatment at primary health centres in high-prevalence, resource-constrained settings: edition 1 for fieldtesting and country adaptation

  World Health Organization, 2008

  This operations manual, published by the World Health Organization, provides guidance on planning and delivering HIV prevention, care, and treatment services at health centres in countries with high HIV prevalence. It provides an operational framework to ensure that HIV services can be provided in an integrated, efficient and quality-assured manner.
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  Orientation on Harm Reduction - a training course (Participant manual)

  WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2007

  This training course has been produced for audiences unfamiliar with harm reduction for injecting drug users. Produced as a participant manual (see Furtherin Information on the right hand side for the Trainer manual) , it provides an introduction to important concepts in HIV prevention for injecting drug users.

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