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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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  Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS: Training Course and Handbook for Community Health Workers

  Pathfinder International, 2006

  This illustrated handbook, published by Pathfinder International, provides community health workers with a practical user-friendly tool that can be used as reference material, and also during skills transfer to clients and caregivers.
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  Legal Aspects of Palliative Care

  Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, 2009

  There is increasing recognition of the link between palliative care and human rights. This guide, published by the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, offers guidance on policy and ways to improve the identification and referral of legal problems, with the ultimate aim of integrating this knowledge into the practice of high-quality palliative care and legal services.
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  Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: a training manual for nurses and midwives

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2008

  This training manual, published by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II (FANTA-2) Project, recognises that nutrition interventions are an important component of comprehensive care and support for people living with HIV (PLHIV). They help to manage symptoms, promote response to treatment and improving functioning and quality of life.
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  Antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings: scaling up inequalities?

  International Journal of Epidemiology, 2005

  This editorial from the International Journal of Epidemiology questions the effect in equity of scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource poor settings.
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  Building Bridges: home-based care model for supporting older carers of people living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

  HelpAge International, 2007

  Research in 2006 by Helpage International and partners of Tanzania shows that 20-45 % of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and 25-75 % of vulnerable children are cared for in older headed households. Older people’s role of caring for their dependents is difficult in a complex environment.
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  Local voices: a community perspective on HIV and hunger in Zambia

  Action Against Hunger, 2008

  This report documents the findings of Local Voices, a six month qualitative research project that provided HIV orphans, vulnerable children and their carers with the opportunity to discuss and document the difficulties they face providing food, water and healthcare for their families.
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  Mortality in HIV-infected Ugandan adults receiving antiretroviral treatment and survival of their HIV-uninfected children: a prospective cohort study

  The Lancet, 2008

  Whilst antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the most effective clinical intervention for reduction of mortality in people with HIV-1 infection, access to ART in resource poor settings is very low. This article from the Lancet looks at whether home-based ART in Uganda is an effective way to reduce mortality, hospital admissions, and orphanhood in people with HIV-1 and their household members.
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  Civil society perspectives on HIV/AIDS policy in Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2007

  This report from the Open Society Institute examines groups that are excluded or marginalised from the design, implementation, and evaluation of national HIV/AIDS policies and programmes due to stigma. These groups such as injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, prisoners, and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by the epidemic.
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  I count myself as being in a different world: African gay and bisexual men living with HIV in London

  Homerton University Hospital, 2007

  This report from the Centre of Sexual Health and HIV at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust describes the challenges faced by gay and bisexual African men living with HIV in London. The report highlights that the additional stigma of being gay or bisexual and HIV positive is difficult for African men.

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