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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"HIV/AIDS Epidemic"”.
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Modelling HIV/AIDS epidemic in Nigeria
… is one of the countries most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, third only to India and South Africa. With about 10% of the global HIV/AIDS cases estimated to be in the country, the public health and socio-economic implications are enormous. This thesis has two broad aims: the first is to …
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Exploring the Contributing Factors to Achieving HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Malawi
… the United Nations 95-95-95 goals to achieve HIV/AIDS epidemic control. One factor scholars suggest made this possible is the diplomatic leadership approach employed by The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The diplomatic leadership approach is Ambassador-to-Ambassador …
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Governing mother-child communication about sex in HIV/AIDS epidemic : positioning Lovelines
… people to inoculate them against the risk of HIV/Aids. My reading of this media discourse, and mothers' appropriation of it, sought to examine how the primary target audience of middle classed mothers were persuaded to adopt particular communicative positions. Foucault's normative apparatus of …
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Mathematical modelling of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the effect of public health education
HIV/AIDS is nowadays considered as the greatest public health disaster of modern time. Its progression has challenged the global population for decades. Through mathematical modelling, researchers have studied different interventions on the HIV pandemic, such as treatment, education, condom use, …
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The impact of foreign aid on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-saharan Africa
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-79).
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HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Perceptions and Responses of Individuals Regarding HIV Infection and Prevention in Rural Uganda
… increase condom use and possibly decrease new HIV infection cases.
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An agent-based approach to HIV/AIDS epidemic modeling : a case study of Papua New Guinea
Since AIDS was first discovered, mathematical models of the transmission dynamics of HIV have been developed to determine the drivers of the epidemic. It has become apparent that the most profound factor in the proliferation of this disease is the aggregate effects of individual behavior and …
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Health Beliefs, Self-Efficacy and Condom Use: How College Students Respond to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
… and perceived susceptibility and severity of HIV/AIDS. Correlation and regression analysis was conducted to test the relationship between these variables and condom use. The results show that certain dimensions of self-efficacy were positively related to condom use. Measures assessing …
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An exploratory analysis of HIV/AIDS epidemic risk-factors among Aboriginal people in Canada and African South Africans
When addressing the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, it is necessary to identify risk factors which are shared by populations, as well as those which may place populations uniquely at risk. Although Canada is a developed country, its Aboriginal population shares socio-economic characteristics with the …
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Situating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in a historical context : a case study of orphans in Nguludi Mission Community, Malawi
… Malawi, in 2000. The thesis argues that although HIV/AIDS is a relatively recent phenomenon, any contemporary understanding of the epidemic must be informed by an understanding of the past. The impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the "orphan problem" at the local level, is, therefore, situated …
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Situating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in a historical context : a case study of orphans in Nguludi Mission Community, Malawi
… Malawi, in 2000. The thesis argues that although HIV/AIDS is a relatively recent phenomenon, any contemporary understanding of the epidemic must be informed by an understanding of the past. The impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the "orphan problem" at the local level, is, therefore, situated …
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Trends and content of media coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa by three influential U.S. newspapers, 1983-2008
As a news topic, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is not a just health story. It is an amalgamation of complex triggers, effects and implications at multiple scales. Moreover, overreliance on bio-medical and epidemiological models often results in an HIV/AIDS geography that tends to reduce …
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Exploring the role of traditional healers can play in minimizing the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in South Central District of KwaZulu-Natal region
… traditional healers can play in minimizing the HIV/AIDS epidemics in the North South Central district of KwaZulu-Natal region. The aim of the study is to explore the role that can be played by traditional healers with an aim of reducing HIV/AIDS to a minimum through development of partnership …
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Patriarchy, Christianity, and the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Rethinking Christian Marriage in Light of the Experiences of HIV Positive Women in Tanzania
… girls carry the heaviest burdens of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic, their lived experiences should be the starting point for any pedagogy of prevention. In light of this claim, this dissertation project uses qualitative fieldwork with HIV positive women living in Mwanza, Tanzania to ask why …
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The impact of a pro-male circumcision (MC) approach towards an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy in Botswana
… of male circumcision (MC) as part of a broader HIV prevention strategy will impact on Botswana's HIV/AIDS epidemic. Although is [sic] been more then two decades since Botswana's first case of HIV was diagnosed, HIV/AIDS is still the country's major development challenge. The government has …
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Developing an Adapted HIV/AIDS Training Programme for Church Leaders in Limpopo Province, South Africa
The HIV/AIDS is a global epidemic which affects all people, regardless of their religion, race, age, ethnicity or geographic location. The church of Africa, which hosts the largest numbers of infected and affected people, is also challenged to be involved in the response against HIV/AIDS epidemic. …
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An exploration of the perceptions about being thin, HIV/AIDS and body image in black South African women
… residing in Khayelitsha, Site B, about thinness, HIV/AIDS and body image. Obesity is a major public health problem in developed as well as developing countries. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been escalating in Sub-Saharan Africa and has been said to be the leading cause of death in South Africa.
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A cross-country analysis of the determinants of antiretroviral drug coverage
… an integral part of asuccessful response to the HIV / AIDS epidemic. Governments play an important role indetermining the level ofHAART and MTCTP coverage in a country.
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The economics of HIV testing in Africa
… of resource allocation in Africa to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It focuses on the use of one specific technology, the anti-HIV antibody test. After describing the characteristics of the epidemic, the special problems that accompany the allocation of health resources in Africa are explored. A …
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HIV/AIDS activism in England, c. 1982-1997.
… and individuals who responded politically to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in England. It spans the years of the first confirmed AIDS-related death in the UK, that of Terry Higgins in 1982, until 1997. This was the year after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) transformed the …
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