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Women and AIDS
24 November 1997
Women continue to make strides towards equality with men. Wherever they are educated, able to generate income, and enjoy equal protection under the law, they are in a position to have some control over their economic, social and personal life. Yet for millions of women, these goals are still remote. These are the women who are the most vulnerable to infection with HIV, the virus that results in AIDS.
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Tuberculosis and AIDS
25 November 1997
The growing epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has breathed new life into an old enemy – tuberculosis. The HIV epidemic spurs the spread of TB and increases the tuberculosis risk for the whole population. For those who are HIV-positive, the TB risk is especially great and the outcome often fatal.
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HIV in Pregnancy : a review
01 January 1998
The first section of the review consists of a summary of what is known about HIV in pregnancy, transmission of HIV from mother-to-child, and interventions to prevent transmission. The second part of the review provides some suggestions on the appropriate management of HIV-positive women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum, and the third section lists guidelines for infection control and safe working conditions with regard to HIV in pregnancy.
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Counselling and HIV/AIDS
18 March 1998
HIV counselling has been proved effective in various ways. An evaluation of The AIDS Service Organisation (TASO) in Uganda has shown that it helps people accept and cope with the knowledge of being HIV-positive, and furthermore encourages acceptance from families and communities. A Rwandan study has proved that HIV counselling can help people make decisions about HIV testing, as well as reduce HIV transmission. Yet there is a reluctance among some policy-makers and service managers to give counselling its proper due as a discipline in which trained practitioners can produce measurable, useful results. For this reason it is under-resourced and not fully appreciated.
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Impact of HIV and sexual health education on the sexual behaviour of young people: a review update
21 April 1998
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Reaching regional consensus on improved behavioural and sero-surveillance for HIV Report from a regional conference in East Africa
30 May 1998
This report documents a regional workshop on surveillance systems for HIV held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 10-13 February 1997. The UNAIDS-funded workshop gathered government epidemiologists, AIDS programme managers, and social scientists from Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe as well as specialists from UNAIDS and other partner institutions. The group aimed to present current data and to work together to suggest practical guidelines for improving HIV surveillance systems in a maturing epidemic.
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A measure of success in Uganda: The value of monitoring both HIV prevalence and sexual behaviour
30 May 1998
This 1998 report from the UNAIDS Best Practice Collection demonstrates the importance of collecting adequate data and undertaking efforts to monitor risk behaviour and HIV prevalence can help make the response to the AIDS epidemic within a country more effective. In Uganda the impact of the epidemic was recognized early and the government and all civil society partners reacted effectively to reduce its impact.
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AIDS and the Military
19 June 1998
Military personnel are a population group at special risk of exposure to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV. In peace time, STD infection rates among armed forces are generally 2 to 5 times higher than in civilian populations; in time of conflict the difference can be 50 times higher or more.