Expanding the Care Continuum for HIV/AIDS: Bringing Carers into Focus
Explores the specific issues that cluster around the provision of "care" in the context of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Explores the specific issues that cluster around the provision of "care" in the context of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Summarizes findings from an intervention study to increase use of and satisfaction with VCT services among youth.
The Ministry of Education (MINED) held a national seminar from 9-13th February 2004, in Maputo, at Joaquim Chissano Conference Center, with the objective of accelerating the sector's response to HIV/AIDS.
This paper presents the work of Choose Life, a Zimbabwean NGO that works with young people in schools. Choose Life utilizes the power that HIV positive youth have in preventing further infections in their peers.
This report presents the findings of research proposed and implemented by a team of Shan and Karen researchers regarding girls and women who have migrated from Burma into domestic work in Thailand.
This paper summarizes the extensive body of research on the state of girls' education in the developing world today; the impact of educating girls on families, economies, and nations; and the most promising approaches to increasing girls' enrollment and educational quality.
The catastrophe of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in Africa, which has already claimed over 18 million lives on that continent, has hit girls and women harder than boys and men.
This article, based on empirical qualitative data gained from a survey and interviews with a group of early childhood educators, argues for the inclusion of sexual differences, or more specifically, gay and lesbian equity issues, in approaches to anti-bias.
This chapter analyses the socio-economic impacts of HIV/AIDS on children in Senegal as well as the response policies implemented by the different actors. Data were collected at seven research sites across the country and complemented by a review of available reports and articles.
The overall purpose of the rapid assessment and response (RAR) is to improve health of vulnerable young people (10-24 years, in particular drug users, sex workers and mobile population), reduce vulnerability and strengthen prevention, through targeted interventions that will aim to minimise the i