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  Out of the reach of children? Young people’s health-seeking agency in Africa’s newly-emerging therapeutic landscapes

  University of Durham, 2011

  The dominant view within Western biomedicine is that children are vulnerable and in need of adult protection, while medicines are powerful, dangerous and should be controlled by experts, however, a growing literature suggests that children and adolescents (in both Western and developing-country contexts) often take active roles in health-seeking.
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  Vunja Ukimya, Zungumza na Mwenzio: a mass media campaign to motivate couples to communicate effectively for HIV-free households

  EngenderHealth, 2014

  Vunja Ukimya, Zungumza na Mwenzio: A Mass Media Campaign to Motivate Couples to Communicate Effectively for HIV-Free Households"As a result of the campaign, couples were motivated to communicate about health, and men and women were more likely to seek reproductive health services together."
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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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  Home-Based Care Alliance policy brief: debunking myths

  Home-Based Care Alliance, 2013

  The Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA) represents more than 30,000 caregivers organised into multi-district HBCAs in twelve African countries, caring for over 200,000 neighbours and friends, and with a history of organising around HIV/AIDS and its effects.
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  Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA)
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  Global Health Strategies (GHS)

  Global Health Strategies (GHS) is an international consulting company that works with clients to ensure development and worldwide delivery of health products, technologies and information.
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  The role of mhealth in the fight against tuberculosis

  mHealth Alliance, 2012

  New tools and simple, affordable innovations to better detect people suffering from tuberculosis (TB) are needed, and making health services available to the people most vulnerable to contracting it is deeply required. This paper argues that mobile phones can bring about such positive change.
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  Evaluation of a school-based HIV prevention intervention among Yemeni adolescents

  BioMed Central, 2011

  Yemeni youth are experiencing increased pre-marital sex, peer pressure to engage in risky behaviour, and changing lifestyle norms. This article describes an evaluation of a school-based peer education intervention for HIV prevention among students in 27 high schools in Aden, Yemen.
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  Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka

  Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is an increasingly powerful tool for participating in global markets, promoting political accountability, improving the delivery of basic services and e
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  Engaging media in communicating research on sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub- Saharan Africa: experiences and lessons learned

  PubMed Central, 2011

  This paper describes the experiences of the African Population and Health Research Center and its partners in cultivating the interest and building the capacity of the media in evidence-based reporting of reproductive health issues in sub-Saharan Africa.

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