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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"UNAIDS"”.
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Ursachen von HIV/AIDS Epidemien im subsaharischen Afrika aus systemischer Sicht. Bewältigungsstrategien von UNAIDS.
… werden die Bewältigungsstratgien von UNAIDS (als zentraler Akteur der internationalen HIV/AIDS-Politik) im Hinblick auf die erarbeitete systemische Konstellation der Ursachen von HIV/AIDS-Epidemien analysiert.
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Refugee HIV/AIDS program in Cape Town: Comparison with the UNAIDS Best Practice Guidelines (BPGS).
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-75).
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Economic impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households in KwaDlangezwa
… epidemic slows down the pace of economic growth. UNAIDS (2009) estimated that the number of people living with HIV worldwide continued to grow in 2008, reaching an estimated 33.4 million (31.1 million–35.8 million). The total number of people living with the virus in 2008 was more than 20% higher …
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HIV prevalence estimates and their use in regression models: cautionary evidence from Zimbabwe and studies of the relationship between armed conflict and HIV
… points. The HIV prevalence rates published by UNAIDS are estimates derived from epidemiological modelling (using EPP and Spectrum) in which data from antenatal clinics (sometimes supplemented by population survey data) are translated into adult HIV prevalence estimates.
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Men's knowledge, understanding and factors influencing their beliefs about male circumcision in rural communities in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS as part of HIV prevention strategies in countries with heterosexually-driven HIV epidemics. This research project assesses men's knowledge, understanding and factors influencing their beliefs about male circumcision in rural communities in …
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Market orientation, donor relations, and performance of South African HIV/AIDS care providers
… (HIV) has reached pandemic proportions. In 2007, UNAIDS (2007) reported that 33.2 million people were living with HIV, 2.5 million were newly infected, and 2.1 million people died due to HIV and its associated disease, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Approximately two-thirds of these …
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HIV & AIDS stigma, Namibian newspapers and health policies, 2000 - 2012: An investigation of framing, priming and agenda-setting effects
… with HIV & AIDS organisations are aware of the UNAIDS Terminology Guidelines – UNAIDS needs to correct that; (6) UNAIDS’ advise that organisations should not use HIV/AIDS should also be subject to their own use of the words as in their various documents, they still use HIV/AIDS; (7) Specialised …
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Destabilizing science from the right : the rhetoric of heterosexual victimage in the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS controversy
… interrogating discourse surrounding the 2008 WHO/UNAIDS controversy, which both preceded and followed the publication of an article in the U.K. newspaper The Independent. The article reported that the head of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS initiative admitted that the threat of an AIDS …
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Evaluation of the Impact of the Provision of Triple Combination Antiretroviral Therapy to Employees Through the In-House Health Programme at a Large South African Mining Company
… total worldwide population by the same measure (UNAIDS, 2016; World Bank, 2016). Relative to its size, the epidemic has introduced disparately large economic strain due to the fact that the highest HIV prevalence rates coincide with the most productive years of people’s lives, with prevalence …
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Substitutions to initial anteretroviral therapy due to toxicity or contraindication among children in South Africa
… the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) South Africa 2010 Country Progress report, 81% of South African children in need of antiretroviral therapy (ART) were receiving treatment which is a 20% increment in treatment access from 2008 to 2009. With increase in access to treatment, …
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Outcomes and cost-effectiveness of different models of delivery of antiretroviral therapy
… with HIV/AIDS reside, according to the 2016 UNAIDS estimates. Data on the direct costs and outcomes of providing health care are important due to competing health needs and limited budgets in resource-limited settings, especially if we are to reach the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals. This thesis …
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Multiple Psychosocial Factors as Predictors in the Progression of HIV-1 to AIDS
… HIV (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AEDS (UNAIDS) and World Health Organization (WHO) 2002). Psychoneuroimmunology is a discipline that increases our understanding of the relationships between psychosocial factors, the central nervous system, the immune system, and disease. From this …
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Assessment of Male Circumcision Practice in Prevention of HIV/AIDS Infection” A Case of Bariadi Urban - Shinyanga Region, Tanzania
… is backed up by previous studies whereas WHO and UNAIDS recommended that Male Circumcision is an important practice for HIV/AIDS prevention. The study however, has encompassed five major chapters which together inform about the author’s study road map. The key information in chapter one are based …
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Assessment of Male Circumcision Practice in Prevention of HIV/AIDS Infection” A Case of Bariadi Urban - Shinyanga Region, Tanzania
… is backed up by previous studies whereas WHO and UNAIDS recommended that Male Circumcision is an important practice for HIV/AIDS prevention. The study however, has encompassed five major chapters which together inform about the author’s study road map. The key information in chapter one are based …
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Towards bettering HIV/AIDS understandings : A phenomenographic-comparison of the conceptions of HIV-positive university students in Finland and Nigeria
… are between the ages of 15 and 24 (UNICEF, UNAIDS and WHO 2002). The disease s challenge is not limited to students already diagnosed with the disease, but also to students in limbo (students who do not know their status), because about 50% of those living with HIV do not know their status …
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Perceptions of risk for HIV amongst South African university students: the impact of the MTV film “Shuga”
… in developing countries like South Africa (UNAIDS, 2010). South Africa has the largest percentage of people living with HIV & AIDS in the world, with AIDS continuing to be the leading cause of death(UNAIDS, 2010). Yet, as Svenson et al., (1997), Cain, (2005), Shisana et al., (2009) and …
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Transformation From Below?: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in the Global Governance of the Response to HIV/AIDS.
… focus here being on how they have done so within UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. However, rigid bureaucracies and dominant power relationships limit CSOs’ ability to transform these institutions to be more responsive to and representative of those affected by …
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Scaling up ART in Rwanda: the financial and economic costs
… US$9 million in 2003 to US$43 million in 2004 (UNAIDS, 2006b) and has continued to grow since this time given increased grants from GFATM and PEPFAR. Although international funding has been pivotal in the initiation of ART roll-out in resource poor settings, national programmes must look inwards …
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The inhibition of HIV-1 activity by crude mucus and purified mucin (mucous glycoproteins) from saliva, breast milk and the cervical tract of normal subjects, HIV positive individuals and patients with HIV-AIDS
… the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) worldwide an estimated 38.6 million people were living with HIV in 2005 with 401 million newly infected and 2.8 million deaths. It has been reported that an estimated 24.5 million of the HIV infected people of whom 60% females live in …
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HIV/AIDS education in Kenya: an evaluation of policy, provision and practice in secondary schools
… and hence a reduction in HIV incidence (UNAIDS, 1997). An important part of this process has been the development of an education sector policy on HIV and AIDS, aimed at implementing and effecting, among others, the policy goal of Prevention. This study, with the use of a systems theory …
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