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struggling with an HIV/AIDS epidemic. The relationship between shocks to teachers and student learning suggests that households …
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Government of Zambia by the World Bank and the University of New South Wales. It uses Optima, a mathematical model of HIV …
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Zambia is among countries with high HIV/AIDS prevalence, 16 percent among adult population aged 15 to 49 years … other African countries, youth and women are the groups highly infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. As part of the scaling up … working on youth-focused HIV/AIDS initiatives. In this exercise young people and youth organizations were targeted as key …
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This book constitutes one of the main outputs of the School Fee Abolition Initiative (SFAI). The initiative, launched in 2005 by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, was designed to support countries in maintaining and accelerating progress toward universal primary...
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paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two … surprising findings about the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which have important implications for policy. First, at least two …
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female genital mutilation are often associated with sexual behaviors, practices, and knowledge related to AIDS. This might …
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populations) with HIV prevention efforts', with an ultimate goal of helping Kenya make more effective HIV/AIDS-related decisions … ongoing efforts to understand the epidemic and response in Kenya and thus help the country improve the scope (doing the right … directed. This study describes the epidemiology of HIV in Kenya over time: trends in HIV prevalence and incidence, magnitude …
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The paper highlights that the education of children, and youth merits the highest priority in a world afflicted by HIV/AIDS … education is a major engine of economic, and social development, and, because education is a proven means to prevent HIV/AIDS …
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To gather information on special population groups pregnant women, military men, truck drivers, sex workers through testing for common STDs and making inquiries regarding sexual practices and attitudes using a rapid assessment methodology. The studies: (i) are the first ever reliable source of...
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