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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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Adapting an evidence-based intervention for HIV to avail access to testing and risk-reduction counseling for female victims of sexual violence in post-earthquake Haiti

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Traditional health practitioners' management of HIV/AIDS in rural South Africa in the era of widespread antiretroviral therapy.

TL;DR: Traditional health practitioners’ approaches to illness in PLHIV appear to be shifting in light of increasing exposure to HIV/AIDS-related information, and disclosure of HIV status plays a major role in THPs’ management of illness amongPLHIV, as well as linkage to HIV testing and care for their patients.
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Hospital admissions from a pediatric HIV care and treatment program in Malawi.

TL;DR: The high burden of admissions in children under 24 months and those newly enrolled in care suggests a need for continued improvement of early infant diagnosis and provider-initiated testing programs to link patients to care before they are symptomatic.
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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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