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  Access, Services and Knowledge (ASK) Programme - essential packages manual

  Youth Empowerment Alliance, 2014

  The Essential Packages Manual was produced as part of the "Access, Services and Knowledge" (ASK) programme of the Youth Empowerment Alliance, which seeks to improve the sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) of young people (15-24 years) by increasing their uptake of SRH services in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, Pakistan, and Indonesia.
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  A doctor in your pocket

  The Economist, 2009

  This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors demonstrate how new technologies help to tackle the health problems of the world’s poorest.
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  How to end child marriage: action strategies for prevention and protection

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007

  Girls who marry as children (younger than 18 years of age) are often more susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and obstetric fistula. Lacking status and power, these girls are often subjected to domestic violence, sexual abuse and social isolation.
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  Protecting the next generation in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from adolescents to prevent HIV and unintended pregnancy

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2007

  This report from the Guttmacher Institute presents key findings from nationally representative surveys conducted in 2004 among 12–19-year-olds in four African countries—Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda—with the goal of guiding programmes, policies and investments aimed at improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
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  The straight talk campaign in Uganda: impact of mass media initiatives

  Population Council, 2007

  This study, published by the Population Council, looks at the impact of Straight Talk (ST), a mass media initiative focused on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) in Uganda.
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  Internet use among Ugandan adolescents: implications for HIV intervention

  Public Library of Science Medicine, 2006

  This article from PLoS Med surveys internet use among adolescents in Mbarara, Uganda. Out of 500 students questioned, 45 per cent had used the internet, out of whom 78 per cent had gone online in the previous week. The authors found that, as maternal education increased, so did the odds of adolescent internet use.
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  The less they know, the better: abstinence-only HIV/AIDS programs in Uganda

  Human Rights Watch, 2005

  This Human Rights Watch report finds that United States (U.S.) funded organisations are scaling up programmes in Uganda that promote sexual abstinence and fidelity within heterosexual marriage to the exclusion of all other HIV prevention strategies. These programmes, the report argues, deprive young people of life-saving information.
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  Study of faith based organizations responses to orphans and vulnerable children

  Synergy Project, USAID, 2004

  This study reveals how faith based organisations (FBOs) are supporting orphans and vulnerable children.
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  Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002

  This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.
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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.