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  Alcohol use: summary of the findings from the Third National HIV Communication Survey

  Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa, 2012

  Alcohol use and abuse is an important risk factor for HIV infection in southern Africa. A number of studies have found a relationship between alcohol and HIV seropositivity. Alcohol is increasingly being recognised as an indirect contributor to the transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa as it is a key determinant of risky sexual behaviour.
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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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  Effectiveness of an integrated intimate partner violence and HIV prevention intervention in Rakai, Uganda: analysis of an intervention in an existing cluster randomised cohort

  The Lancet, 2015

  Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with HIV infection. This article aimed to assess whether provision of a combination of IPV prevention and HIV services would reduce IPV and HIV incidence in individuals enrolled in the Rakai Community Cohort Study (RCCS), Rakai, Uganda.
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  HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, discrimination, and service accessibility among Africa’s youth: insights from a multi-country study

  Population Council, USA, 2015

  At the individual level, youth lack access to appropriate SRH [sexual and reproductive health] information and confidential, low-cost, and stigma-free SRH services.
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  VSO Regional Health and AIDS Initiative for Southern Africa (RHAISA): Towards improving the health outcomes and realizing the rights of the disadvantaged

  Voluntary Service Overseas, 2014

  The Regional Health and AIDS Initiative for Southern Africa (RHAISA), is Voluntary Service Overseas’ (VSO’s) flagship programme championing VSO's regional response to HIV and AIDS in southern Africa.
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  Helpdesk Report: Nutrition for under 2s

  Department for International Development, UK, 2010

  Nutrition and nurturing during the first years of life are both crucial for life-long health and well-being. Malnutrition is responsible, directly or indirectly for about one third of deaths among children under five. Well above two thirds of these deaths, often associated with inappropriate feeding practices, occur during the first year of life.
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  First to go: how communities are being affected by the Global Fund crisis

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012

  In November 2011, facing a deficit of about half a billion dollars due to unfulfilled donor pledges, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria was forced to cancel Round 11 of its funding.
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  Eliminating mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV in Uganda by 2015: what will it take?

  HIV/AIDS Knowledge Management and Communication Capacity, 2014

  Attaining Elimination of Mother‐to‐Child Transmission (EMTCT) targets in Uganda by 2015 requires increased funding to the response from both the Government and international agencies, investment in health systems strengthening, and investment in gender sensitive, family centred community engagement.
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  Transitions to adulthood in a high fertility context: the case of Sub-Saharan Africa

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2013

  This paper describes the challenges and opportunities of transitions to adulthood in high fertility settings, focusing on the case of sub-Saharan Africa, which has the most youthful population in the world. Current challenges in the region are high levels of youth unemployment and under-employment and low levels of education in terms of quality of education and access to education.
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  The correlates of HIV testing and impacts on sexual behavior: evidence from a life history study of young people in Kisumu, Kenya

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010

  HIV counseling and testing is considered an important component of HIV preven

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