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Alternative, complementary and traditional medicine and HIV
Alternative and complementary medicine is quite popular among people living with HIV. Many HIV positive people say they feel better after using alternative and complementary medicine, and it is likely that some of these treatments ...
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Campaign of "Catholics for a free choice"
Condoms4Life is an unprecedented worldwide public education effort to raise public awareness about the devastating effect of the bishops’ ban on condoms. The campaign was launched on World AIDS Day 2001 with the display of ...
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Collaborating with traditional healers for HIV: Suggestions for programme managers and fieldworkers
African traditional medicine is often the primary, and frequently the only, accessible health-care option for many people living in sub-Saharan Africa. Early attempts to combine the best of the traditional and the modern ...
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Culture matters
This publication maps partnerships between UNFPA and faith-based organizations in the areas of population and development, including human rights, reproductive health, women's empowerment, adolescents and youth, humanitarian ...
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Food by prescription: A landscape paper from GAIN
In many parts of the world, lack of food security and poor nutrition are worsening the effects of the HIV epidemic. Although HIV testing is increasingly available and efforts to support the nutritional needs of people living ...
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HIV and People on the Move: Risk and vulnerabilities of migrants and mobile populations in Southern Africa
The overall aim of this project was to share experiences and raise awareness about the issues of HIV, population mobility and migration in the Southern African region. This publication of the ‘Speak Your World Primer’ series ...
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HIV and refugees. Policy Brief
In order to reduce the risk of HIV infection and improve access to HIV-related prevention, treatment, care and support of refugees, UNAIDS in collaboration with one of its Cosponsors, UNHCR, has developed a new policy brief ...
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HIV-related Public-Private Partnerships and Health Systems strengthening
“Phones for Health” is a partnership between a healthcare software provider Voxiva, a phone producer Motorola, a telecom company MTN, the GSMA Development Fund, PEPFAR, CDC Foundation, Accenture Development Partnerships and ...
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HIV/AIDS, Security and Conflict: New Realities, New Responses
The report published by the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI) provides new evidence and outlines recommendation for actions on the links between security, conflict, peacebuilding and HIV. It is the result of a ...
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Integrating maternal, newborn and child health into community-based HIV programmes
This HIV update by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance was developed in response to the increasing attention and calls for greater integration of HIV with reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). The ...
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Linking migration, HIV/AIDS and urban food security in Southern and Eastern Africa
This paper from the Regional Network on HIV/AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL) reviews the literature on migration, HIV and urban food security. The paper draws links between these three factors in the context ...
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Making sense: AIDS and the Health Workforce in Africa
"Our ambition is then not to present a state of the art, but rather to offer some ‘other’ ways of looking at the dynamic interplay between the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the health workforce in the hope that this may lead to better ...
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Multidrug and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB)
Up to a quarter of people with tuberculosis in some regions can no longer be treated with standard drug regimens. This is the stark finding of a new World Health Organization report which estimates that 440,000 people had ...
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Reaching common ground: Culture, gender and Human rights
Cultural sensitivity is critical for the success of development strategies according to the report produced by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The State of World Population 2008 report affirms that development ...
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The impact of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods, poverty and the economy of Malawi
The reinforcing nature of HIV and poverty: In a number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, widespread HIV infection has already translated into full-blown AIDS epidemics. The effects of this disaster on lives and livelihoods ...
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UNAIDS policy on HIV, food security and nutrition
In many parts of the world, lack of food security and poor nutrition are worsening the effects of the HIV epidemic. Food insecurity and poor nutrition can hasten the progression of AIDS related illnesses, while the virus ...
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UNESCO: L’approche culturelle de la prévention et du traitement du VIH/sida
Le projet conjoint UNESCO/ONUSIDA L'approche culturelle de la prévention et du traitement du VIH/sida a été lancé en mai 1998. Son objectif est de stimuler la réflexion et l'action pour une nouvelle approche de la lutte contre ...
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What's culture got to do with HIV and AIDS?
Developing creative cultural approaches to HIV prevention work. This paper from Healthlink Worldwide argues that developing more effective cultural approaches to HIV prevention should be a priority. The paper draws on the ...
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“Securing Our Future”
The report of the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA) calls for serious “discussion and action” on cultural issues which many societies find uncomfortable and challenging, but which determine the spread ...
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Conference 2008: AIDS and Livelihoods – Securing property and inheritance rights
Children who lose their parents, widows and grandmothers left to take care of children and grandchildren often face serious challenges in securing their livelihoods. The reasons for this have socio-economic and cultural dimensions, ...

Conference 2009: Culture and condoms - Integrating approaches to HIV and AIDS
“Sometimes I get the feeling that I talk past people”, says a disillusioned development officer involved in the international response to HIV and AIDS. He is not alone in the feeling expressed in this statement. Many actors ...