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For over a decade, many businesses have experienced increased costs and reduced productivity as a result of HIV/AIDS. Many companies are responding to the HIV/AIDS crisis through investment in prevention programs, especially in employee education and condom distribution. A smaller, but increasing number have supported a range of care and treatment services for employees and their families. However, not enough is known about the factors that influence the choices companies make in HIV/AIDS servic more...
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The UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly will convene a High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals at UN Headquarters in New York on 25 September 2008. At the halfway point towards 2015, while significant progress has been made, accelerated efforts are needed by all stakeholders to meet the goals. The High-level Event will be a forum for world leaders to review progress, identify gaps, and commit to concrete plans and resources. By asking world leaders to a more...
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Author: D. Walter. Publisher: Gender and Media Diversity Centre, 2008. This section of the fourth edition of the Gender and Media Diversity Journal contains a selection of articles exploring youth, children, and the media. Specifially, it looks at issues including the participation of youth and children in creating programmes, learning media literacy, and bringing children's issues into the public eye for dialogue.
It consists of four articles, including: * 'Celebrating youth media and prop more...
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Authors: ; United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Publisher: World Health Organization , 2008. This United Nations report shows progress in treating children with AIDS and preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, but urges greater efforts to stem the tide of the global epidemic. The report examines progress and challenges in four key areas, known as the '4 Ps': Prevent mother-to-children transmission of HIV, provide paediatric treatment, prevent infection among adolescents and more...
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Publisher: HIV/AIDS Department, WHO, 2008.
Despite progress made in scaling up the response over the last decade, the HIV pandemic remains the most serious infectious disease challenge to global public health. This guide provides the 'how-to' for scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support interventions in the health sector. It is intended for use by public health decision makers, national AIDS programme managers, health care providers and workers (governmental, non-governmenta more...
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Authors: ; International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Publisher: International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2006.
This workshop report from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance examines how to develop polices and programmes which promote condom use as an HIV prevention strategy. The report contains presentations and discussions from the workshop held in 2006, The topics explored include: the relationship between sexuality, gender and condom use; attempting to understand and work with the diverse personal and cultu more...
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