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Overcoming AIDS : lessons learned from Uganda / edited by Donald E. Morisky [and others]

As a result of the AIDS epidemic, many nations around the world have faced the demands of caring for a particularly vulnerable population of children, the orphans of parents who have died of AIDS or whose caregivers are terminally ill from the disease. Overcoming AIDS: Lessons Learned from Uganda of...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Morisky, Donald E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Greenwich, Conn. : IAP-Information Age Pub., ©2006.
Series:Research in global child advocacy (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) in children > Uganda > Prevention.
AIDS (Disease) in adolescence > Uganda > Prevention.
AIDS (Disease) > Study and teaching > Uganda.
AIDS (Disease) in adolescence > Prevention.
AIDS (Disease) in children > Prevention.
AIDS (Disease) > Study and teaching.
Uganda.
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the contextual stage of HIV/AIDS in Uganda
  • A multisectoral strategy for overcoming aids in Uganda / Yusuf K. Nsubuga and W. James Jacob
  • Fighting stigma and discrimination as a strategy for HIV/AIDS prevention and control / Yusuf K. Nsubuga and W. James Jacob
  • HIV/AIDS education programs in the formal education sector
  • Evaluation of HIV/AIDS education programs in Uganda / W. James Jacob, Donald E. Morisky, Yusuf K. Nsubuga, and Steven J. Hite
  • Preparing a generation of teachers for educating youth in Uganda / Rosemary Nabadda and Albert James Lutalo-Bosa
  • Nonformal youth and child HIV/AIDS education programs
  • Social and behavioral determinants of HIV education programs among Ugandan youth / Delius Asiimwe and Richard Kibombo
  • The AIDS support organisation (TASO): issues and potential for developing countries / Alex Coutinho . [and others]
  • Equipping youth with prevention and treatment strategies: literacy and HIV/AIDS initiatives in Uganda and five other African nations / Lynn R. Curtis
  • Successful strategies in HIV/AIDS prevention: the case of the Uganda Youth Anti-AIDS Association, 1992-2004 / Sande Ndimwibo and Julie M. Hite
  • Maximizing HIV/AIDS prevention through the media: an analysis of the Straight Talk Foundation / Catharine Watson, Betty Kagoro, and Beatrice Bainomugisha.
  • The role of religion in educating Ugandan youth about HIV/AIDS / Jeremy Liebowitz and Stephen F. Noll
  • The family, youth, and AIDS: hope and heartbreak for Africa / Terry D. Olson and Richard G. Wilkins
  • Dealing with AIDS orphans and street children
  • Poverty, AIDS, and street children in Uganda / Troy D. Smith and Acou Sam Ogojoi
  • From recovery to catastrophe: a comparative look at the orphan crises in Uganda and South Africa / Christopher B. Meek and W. Joshua Rew.

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