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Economic Evaluation of Drug Abuse Treatment and HIV Prevention Programs in Pregnant Women : A Systematic Review

Lazar, Christina M.; Prah Ruger, Jennifer - 2012

Drug abuse and transmission of HIV during pregnancy are public health problems that adversely affect pregnant women, their children and surrounding communities. Programs that address this vulnerable population have the ability to be cost-effective due to resulting cost savings for mother, child...

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Can at Scale Drug Provision Improve the Health of the Targeted in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Lucas, Adrienne M. - 2017

treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected …

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Health, Human Capital and Domestic Violence

Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2016

We study the impact of health shocks on domestic violence and illicit drug use. We argue that health is a form of human capital that shifts incentives for risky behaviors, such as drug use, and also changes options outside of violent relationships. To estimate causal effects, we examine...

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Focus on Women : Linking HIV Care and Treatment with Reproductive Health Services in the Mtct-Plus Initiative

El-Sadr, Wafaa M.; Myer, Landon; Rabkin, Miriam; … - 2005

Despite important advances in expanding access to antiretroviral therapy in the countries most heavily affected by HIV/AIDS … services of people with HIV and AIDS …

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The Paradigm Shift in Medicaid : Women with Hiv Under Managed Care

Marconi, Katherine; Singer, Barney; Fahrer, Marsha - 2010

primary health care and related specialty care. This article addresses three issues of importance to the HIV/AIDS care of … services. It then describes the HIV/AIDS epidemic in women in the United States and summarizes findings from the research … other HIV/AIDS Federal funding streams, such as The Ryan White CARE Act, to understand how such programs should interact …

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Feminism, Power, and Sex Work in the Context of HIV/AIDS : Consequences for Women's Health

Ahmed, Aziza - 2011

This paper examines the involvement of feminists in approaches to sex work in the context of HIV/AIDS. The paper … is the "anti-prostitution pledge" found in the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. This article also examines the …

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The Impact of HIV AIDS on Women Care Givers in Situations of Poverty : Policy Issues

Mehta, Aasha Kapur; Gupta, Sreoshi - 2018

Despite the renewed commitment over the past 15 years to poverty reduction as the core objective of international development discourses and policies, progress to this end remains disappointing. This is particularly evident in the extent to which the world is off track to achieve most of the...

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Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and HIV Testing : Perspectives and Experiences of Women and Men Living With HIV and AIDS

Bell, Emma; Mthembu, Promise; O'Sullivan, Sue; Moody, Kevin - 2007

All over the world HIV has been stigmatised, making it difficult for people living with HIV to access testing, treatment, care and counselling or even to act on a diagnosis or get advice and treatment, for fear of being judged. Prejudice in society has also often been reflected and reproduced by...

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Reproductive Choice for Women and Men Living With HIV : Contraception, Abortion and Fertility

Delvaux, Therese; Nostlinger, Christiana - 2007

From a policy and programmatic point of view, this paper reviews the literature on the fertility-related needs of women and men living with HIV and how the entry points represented by family planning, sexually transmitted infection and HIV-related services can ensure access to contraception,...

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Rights of HIV Positive People to Sexual and Reproductive Health : Parenthood

Cotrim Segurado, Aluisio; Paiva, Vera - 2007

breastfeeding, raising the need for sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS initiatives to be mutually reinforcing. Many people … men living with AIDS the possibility of envisaging new life projects such as parenthood, because of a return to health … and programmes that integrate sexual and reproductive health interventions with HIV/AIDS care in order to support …

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