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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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  The private sector role in HIV/AIDS in the context of an expanded global response: expenditure trends in five sub-Saharan African countries

  Oxford Journals, 2011

  A relatively unexamined aspect of the global HIV response is the role of the private sector in financing HIV/AIDS services. This paper examines trends in private sector financing, management and resource consumption related to HIV/AIDS in five sub-Saharan African countries: Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.
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  Timing and uptake of ART during treatment for active tuberculosis in HIV co-infected adults in Malawi

  Ingenta, 2011

  Malawian policy to invite patients co-infected with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) 2 months after initiating TB treatment changed recently; the new policy shortened the period to 2 weeks instead of 2 months.
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  Global health initiatives and delivery of health care: the case of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2009

  This study aims at assessing the impact of Global Fund-supported activities on the delivery of non-HIV services, health worker availability, workload, incentives and motivation and drug management, focussing on Malawi.
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  Equity in access to ARV drugs in Malawi

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2007

  This paper discusses the issue of equity in the distribution of ARV drugs in the Malawi health system. Malawi is one of the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. It is also one of the poorest countries in the world and it is estimated that every year, about 85 000 Malawians die from AIDS.
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  National HIV/Aids policy: a call for renewed action

  Malawi National AIDS Commission, 2003

  Malawi has been severely affected by HIV/AIDS. The first case of AIDS in the country was diagnosed in 1985. Since then, epidemiological data show an escalating epidemic. In a sample of pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in urban Blantyre, HIV seroprevalence rose from 2.6% in 1986 to over 30% in 1998, decreasing only slightly to 28.5% in 2001.
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  Fertility in African communities affected by HIV

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011

  This "Studies of HIV in African communities 'Highlights'", which was produced by IDS Knowledge Services with partners in the ALPHA Network, includes findings and recommendations around the topic of fertility in African communities affected by HIV.  This publication is based on the research which came out of the ALPHA Network's seventh workshop on 'HIV & Fertility: an examination
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  Effects of a mass media intervention on HIV-related stigma: ‘Radio Diaries’ program in Malawi

  Health Education Research, 2011

  HIV-related stigma has been recognised as a significant public health issue, yet gaps remain in development and evaluation of mass media interventions to reduce stigma. The Malawi ‘Radio Diaries’ (RD) programme features people with HIV telling stories about their everyday lives. This study evaluates the programme's effects on stigma and the additional effects of group discussion.

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