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The Institutionalization of Global AIDS and the Creation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

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In this paper, the authors focus on the creation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and how this new formation set about institutionalizing a global AIDS perspective.
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This chapter focuses on the creation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and how this new formation set about institutionalizing a global AIDS perspective. The chapter considers the main motivations behind this creation, which included the need to create a coherent and shared understanding of HIV, together with a coordinated policy framework to bring together different technical and political capacities for coherent policy intervention in multiple country contexts. The chapter argues that this process of creating a shared understanding of expected outcomes led to a shared understanding of the disease laying the foundations for the politics of Global AIDS.

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Knowledge and attitudes about HIV infection and prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in an urban, low income community in Durban, South Africa: Perspectives of residents and health care volunteers

TL;DR: It is important that the community understands how transmission occurs so that prevention can follow, and innovative ways to impart knowledge particularly of PMTCT and updated standards of practice are essential.
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HIV vulnerability among adolescent girls and young women: a multi-country latent class analysis approach

TL;DR: Out-of-school AGYW with a high-vulnerability profile had significantly higher odds of HIV-related outcomes (e.g., very early sexual debut, transactional sex, sexual violence from partners) and interventions should focus on reaching AGyW in the high HIV vulnerability profiles.
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Trends and emerging directions in HIV risk and prevention research in the Philippines: A systematic review of the literature.

TL;DR: Most studies were focused on examining condom use-related outcomes and STI history, few had biomarkers for HIV, and none addressed biomedical HIV prevention strategies.
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HIV prevalence, risky behaviors, and discrimination experiences among transgender women in Cambodia: descriptive findings from a national integrated biological and behavioral survey

TL;DR: The high prevalence of HIV, STI, and related risk behaviors among transgender women in Cambodia is of great concern, suggesting an urgent need to further expand tailored prevention interventions for this key population focusing on individual, social, and structural drivers of HIV.
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Piecing together the stunting puzzle: a framework for attributable factors of child stunting

TL;DR: A qualitative and a quantitative framework of the primary drivers of stunting in low-resource settings were developed and found that infectious diseases were responsible for large attributable fractions in all settings, and a combination of dietary indicators also comprised a large fraction in Africa.
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An overview on the 2008 UNAIDS Report on the 2008 UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic.

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The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order

TL;DR: Gusfield as mentioned in this paper argues that the "myth of the killer drunk" is a creation of the public culture of law and that the public law strengthens the illusion of moral consensus in American society and celebrates the virtues of a sober and orderly world.
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