The global HIV and AIDS epidemic has affected sub-Saharan Africa more than any other region in the world. AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa account for 72% of AIDS deaths worldwide.

The papers explore some of the factors that are driving the current epidemic in southern Africa. These include the practice of age disparate and intergenerational sex; biological vulnerability of young women; economic empowerment; education and gender-based violence.

A study conducted in KwaZulu Natal suggests that utilizing trained youth caregivers is a feasible approach for reaching orphans and vulnerable children with HIV prevention education and support.

This publication from Pathfinder International outlines the specific reproductive health needs of this cadre of adolescents and the programmatic responses that can be used to reach them.

Much is going well with the effort to provide universal primary education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer aproximaciones conceptuales respecto a la situación de los Hombres que tienen Sexo con otros hombres (HSH) y determinar criterios que permitan la creación de las políticas públicas para la prevención de la discriminación de los HSH en dos municipios de Chiap

In South Africa HIV and Aids threaten the world of education if one only looks at prevalence rates. Approximately 5,41 million people in the country are living with HIV and Aids, of whom 257900 are children up to the age of 14.

The process of linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS needs to work in both directions: this means that traditional sexual and reproductive health services need to integrate HIV/AIDS interventions, and also that programmes set up to address the AIDS epidemic need to integrate more ge

Número dedicado a niños y niñas con VIH/SIDA en América Latina y el Caribe. Descripción general de la situación de este grupo en la región, testimonios, estudio sobre mujeres embarazadas y transmisión vertical. Incluye a modo de ejemplo el caso de la respuesta al sida en la Amazonía peruana.

Informe detallado sobre las personas que viven con VIH en Argentina. Sus condiciones de vida, sexualidad, acceso al tratamiento y adherencia, problemas de discriminación.