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Epidemiology
Impact
Prevention & strategies
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COUNTRY
South Africa
Uganda
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Epidemiology & statistics
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An interactive map (africa) that displays the most current levels of HIV prevalence by country in Africa. It also allows you to watch an animation showing HIV spread across the continent using real figures since 1970. |
| Euro HIV |
European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS. EuroHIV co-ordinates the surveillance of HIV/AIDS in the WHO European Region.
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| globalhealthreporting |
This site includes global data on HIV/AIDS |
| UNAIDS |
Epidemiological databases, including Global HIV/AIDS online database (WHO), World Population Prospects: (UNPD), HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Base (US Census Bureau), HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database (UNAIDS) etc. |
Impact of HIV/AIDS
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| AIDS Economics Network |
This library contains materials about the public economics and policies of HIV/AIDS in developing countries and is from a variety of sources. |
| Boston University School of Public Health |
The Program on the Social and Economic Impacts of the AIDS Epidemic is a multidisciplinary, applied research program of the Center for International Health and Development (CIHD) at the Boston University School of Public Health. Numerous reports available online. |
| HEARD |
Conducts research on the socio-economic aspects of public health, especially the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It is based in South Africa at the University of KwaZuku-Natal, but its operations are international in scope.
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| UNECO Clearinghouse |
The HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse, a platform for sharing knowledge and information on the impact of HIV/AIDS on education. This site is designed as a tool for you to disseminate your research and learn from the research of others.
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Prevention & strategies
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| CAPS |
The mission of CAPS ( Center forR AIDS Prevention Studies) is to conduct domestic and international research to prevent the acquisition of HIV and to optimize health outcomes among HIV-infected individuals. Most of the resources are public health related, but you will find also some social aspects.
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Best Practices Collection Archive
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Various research topics
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Abt Associates
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Abt Associates applies scientific research, consulting and technical assistance expertise to a wide range of issues in social, economic, and health policy; international development; clinical trials and registries....Since 1985, Abt Associates has worked to craft effective responses to the many challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Here you will find some reports and articles dealing with various topics.
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aidsinafrica.net research assistant
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The information presented through this research tool has been obtained by downloading bibliographical data from the PubMed website. PubMed was developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Pubmed provides access to citations from biomedical literature, including literature catalogued in MEDLINE, NLM's premier bibliographic database. The database contains more health related issues, but some social aspects can also be found. the categories are: treatment, prevention, political, epidemiology, by country, by demographic |
Kaiser Family Foundation
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The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. We serve as a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. Our product is information, always provided free of charge – from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers, to information young people can use to improve their health or elderly people can use to understand their Medicare benefits. You can easily sort the reports and studies listed below by topic or by date range to find the information you need.
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COUNTRIES
South Africa
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| CADRE |
The Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) is a South African non-profit organisation working in the area of HIV/AIDS research, programme development and communication. The articles are mainly related to South Africa. |
| HIVAN |
HIVAN’s primary purpose is to promote, conduct, and build capacity for research.Priority area is the province of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. Here you find articles of all disciplines. |
| HRSC-SAHA |
The Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health (SAHA) research programme has pioneered research on the social determinants of health, not only with regard to HIV/AIDS, but also for public health in general. This research goes beyond medical interventions and strives to address health problems at their source, namely at the social and population level. The articles are mainly related to South Africa. |
Uganda
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| Uganda AIDS Commission |
Official website of the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC). Go to 'HIV/AIDS in Uganda' for an overview and some links. especially in the future the 'Knowledge Sharing' could be interesting. This site promotes sharing of research findings and issues on the management of HIV/AIDS research. It is planned to host an online database of planned and completed research projects in the country. |
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