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Girl power: the impact of girls' education on HIV and sexual behaviour
Girl Power shows that, early in the epidemic (before 1995), more highly educated women were more vulnerable to HIV than women who were less well educated.
HIV/AIDS and school children in post emergency situations in primary schools in Uganda
This paper was presented at the Plan - Waro colloquium on education, violence, conflict and peace perspectives in Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroun 6-10 March 2006. The paper outlines a Plan Uganda project on training teachers as Reproductive Health Educators and psycho-social counselors.
Literature review on the impact of education levels on HIV/AIDS prevalence rates
Education has been cited by several well-respected sources, including the World Bank, as one of the most important factors in helping to prevent this group from contracting HIV and AIDS.
HIV prevention with especially vulnerable young people: case studies of success and innovation
In 2004, the World Health Organisation's Department of HIV/AIDS and the UK Department for International Development (DfID) supported the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme to develop a joint publication entitled HIV/AIDS prevention and care for especially vulnerable young people: a framewo
The long-term impacts of orphanhood on education attainment and land inheritance among adults in rural Kenya
The long-term economic impacts of the AIDS epidemic on orphans have been major concerns in countries hit by the epidemic. Responding to these concerns, previous studies have investigated the schooling of orphans. Yet, few studies have investigated the impacts of orphan status into adulthood.
Ghana's HIV/AIDS sectoral work plan: 2006-2010
The pillars of this plan are the following: 1. Policy, Advocacy and Enabling Environment, 2. Coordination and Management of the Decentralized response, 3. Mitigating the Social, Cultural, Legal and Economic Impacts, 4. Prevention and Behaviour Change Communication, 5.
Integration of sexual and reproductive health into HIV/AIDS programming: guide for submitting HIV/AIDS component proposals to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Round 6 and beyond
This guide responds to the low number of SRH-related proposals in Country Coordinated Proposals in previous Global Fund funding rounds, and to the expressed need of Member Associations of the International Planned Parenthood Federation to learn more about the nexus of SRH and HIV and about ways i
Análisis de la situación epidemiológica del VIH/sida en el Perú: bases epidemiológicas para la prevención y control
Este documento ha sido preparado por la Dirección General de Epidemiología del Ministerio de Salud, como información que permita conocer y comprender la magnitud y la tendencia de la epidemia del VIH/sida en el país.
Decisiones reproductivas y mujeres que viven con VIH/SIDA
En este documento se resume la información disponible concerniente a la discriminación que afrontan las mujeres al ejercer sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos en relación con el embarazo.