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    Saving children, enhancing lives: combating HIV and AIDS in South Africa, 2nd edition

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2006
    This document provides an overview of the burden and impact of HIV and AIDS in South African children and reviews the progress made in preventing HIV and mitigating its impacts on children and affected families.
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    Children and AIDS: a stocktaking report. Actions and progress during the first year of 'Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS'

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2007
    This briefing paper provides an overview of the achievements of the 'Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS initiative' in improving prevention of and treatment for HIV and AIDS among children.Topics addressed include:coverage of access to antiretroviral treatments and counselling servicesefforts to prevent infection through education of children and adolescentspreventing mother
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    HIV/AIDS and work: global estimates, impact on children and youth, and response

    International Labour Organization, 2006
    This report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) provides estimates on the impact of HIV and AIDS on the global labour force. It gives the most recent figures on the numbers of people living with HIV active in the workforce and assesses the impact of HIV and AIDS on employment and poverty reduction.
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    Antiretroviral roll-out in South Africa: where do children feature?

    Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2004
    This paper explores whether children’s health needs are adequately addressed in South Africa's national plan for comprehensive care and treatment for HIV and AIDS.
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    Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: a training manual

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2003
    This training manual, produced by the FANTA (Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance) project, is designed to enable African institutions of higher learning to integrate nutrition and HIV and AIDS into their training programmes.
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    AIDS Epidemic Update 2004

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004
    This joint UNAIDS/WHO report outlines the most recent trends in the global AIDS epidemic. Women are increasingly affected by HIV and make up nearly half of the 37.2 million living with HIV world wide. In sub-Saharan Africa, almost 60 percent of adults living with HIV are women. The report identifies Southern Africa as the worst-hit region with HIV prevalence rates surpassing 25 percent.
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    Co-trimoxazole as prophylaxis against opportunistic infections in HIV-infected Zambian children (CHAP): a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial

    The Lancet, 2004
    Trials of a low-cost antibiotic drug with HIV infected children in Zambia have been stopped early when it became clear that the drug nearly halved the mortality rate compared with placebo. The researchers argue that the co-trimoxazole drug should be given to all children with HIV in developing countries to help reduce illness and death from opportunistic infections such as pneumonia. The tr
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    Accelerating action against AIDS in Africa

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003
    This report, presented at ICASA 2003 in Nairobi, assesses current global commitments to addressing HIV/AIDS. It states that, despite the fact that the pandemic has recently reached the top of the African and international agenda, resources are still nowhere near sufficient.
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    USAID report to Congress: care, treatment and support of persons living with AIDS

    US Agency for International Development, 2002
    This paper states the areas of commitment, and reports on the work of USAID in treating and caring for patients with HIV/AIDS.The paper offers examples of USAID work in the following areas:antiretroviral therapyhome-based caretuberculosisopportunistic Infectionschildren affected by AIDSpsycho-social supportnutrition and food aidmicrofinanceIt also det
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    AIDS, public policy and child well-being

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001
    This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children.

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