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            <title>Horizons Report Newsletter, June 2006: Service Delivery</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/hrptjun06.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[bi-annual report]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:34:58 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Horizons Report Newsletter, December 2006: HIV Testing</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/hrptdec06.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Bi-annual report]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:33:35 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Social relationships and adolescents’ HIV counseling and testing decisions in Zambia</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/zambvctyth.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Research Summary: Research conducted by Horizons and partners (2001) revealed that social relationships, including family interactions, may influence
young people’s decisions regarding HIV testing. The Young Voices of Hope (YVH) research study builds upon these findings by examining how individual, relational, and environmental factors influence adolescents’ demands for
and experiences with VCT. Such information is important in order to identify strategies for increasing the uptake of VCT by youth so that they can take advantage of the prevention and
care benefits of knowing their HIV status.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:30:46 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Teachers matter: Baseline findings on the HIV-related needs of Kenyan teachers</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/ketchrsbslnru.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Research Update: Most school-based HIV interventions in sub-Saharan Africa rely on teachers as behaviorformation
and behavior-change agents to deliver prevention messages to children. Few
target teachers as the direct beneficiaries even though teachers themselves are at risk of HIV infection. In a study of primary school teachers in Rachuonyo District in Nyanza
Province, Kenya, Mumah et al. (2003) found that 36 percent of married respondents had sex with more than one partner in the year preceding the survey. There is therefore an urgent need to understand the dynamics of risk-taking behavior among this population in order to develop appropriate interventions. This is particularly crucial in Kenya because teachers represent the country’s single largest workforce, comprising 240,000 professionals.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:27:19 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Expanding pediatric access to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/sapedssasum.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Research Summary]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:22:46 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Exploring current practices in pediatric ARV rollout and integration with early childhood ...</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/sapedssa.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Final Report]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:20:42 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Strengthening care and support services in the era of treatment: Symposium report, 22–23 ...</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/sacssymp.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In response to a growing call from program managers and researchers in South Africa to engage in a dialogue with policymakers and donors about strengthening care and support services in the era of treatment, the Horizons Program organized a one-and-a-half day symposium on 22-23 November 2005 in Johannesburg. The symposium was designed to review current research and field experiences in order to identify ways to strengthen care and support programs, and to link them with treatment services. It also aimed to identify research, program, and policy gaps and priorities.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:18:11 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Reducing stigma and discrimination in hospitals: Positive findings from India</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/inplhafrndlysum.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[AIDS-related stigma and discrimination is a pervasive problem worldwide. People
living with HIV in India, as elsewhere,
face stigma and discrimination in a variety of contexts, including the household, community, workplace, and health care setting. Research in
India has shown that stigma and discrimination against HIV-positive people and those perceived to be infected are common in hospitals and act as barriers to seeking and receiving critical treatment and care services (UNAIDS 2001).]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:15:05 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Understanding the HIV/STI prevention needs of men who have sex with men in Kenya</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/msmkenyasum.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Despite increasing awareness of the role men who have sex with men can play in the dynamics of HIV transmission in Africa, research on this group in Kenya has been limited. In response to this gap, researchers from the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Nairobi and the Horizons and FRONTIERS Programs of the Population Council undertook a study of men who have sex with men in Nairobi. The overall goals of the study were to understand the extent to which men who
have sex with men are at risk of HIV
and other STIs, identify the factors
associated with risk behaviors, and
determine their sexual health needs in order to develop appropriate interventions.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:12:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Reducing AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in Indian hospitals</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/inplhafriendly.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[AIDS-related stigma and discrimination is a pervasive problem worldwide. People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) in India, as elsewhere, face stigma and discrimination in a variety of contexts, including the household, community, workplace, and health care setting. Research in India has shown that stigma and discrimination against HIV-positive people and those perceived to be infected are common in hospitals
and act as barriers to seeking and receiving critical treatment and care services (UNAIDS 2001).
Recognizing the need to move beyond documentation of the problem, three New Delhi hospitals; SHARAN, an Indian NGO; and the Horizons Program, with support from the National AIDS Control
Organisation (NACO), carried out an operations research project to develop and test responses to hospital-based stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:08:26 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Addressing the HIV prevention, testing, and treatment needs of mobile populations: Focus on ...</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/brtruckersru.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Horizons Program/Population Council, with additional support from the USAID Mission in Brazil and the Municipal Secretariat of Health of Foz do Iguaçu, conducted operation research to examine the feasibility and impact of an intervention for truckers 
crossing the southern border of Brazil. The intervention included HIV/STI prevention activities, voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), and general health services. This research 
update summarizes the formative research and preliminary results of the intervention.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:03:41 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Promoting more gender-equitable norms and behaviors among young men as an HIV/AIDS prevention ...</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/brgendernorms.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Few interventions to promote gender-equitable behavior among young men have been systematically implemented or evaluated, and relatively little is known about how best to measure changes in gender norms and their effect on HIV/STI protective and risk behaviors. To address these gaps, the Horizons
Program and Instituto Promundo, with support from USAID, SSL International, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and JohnSnowBrasil, examined the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve young men’s attitudes toward gender norms and to reduce HIV/STI risk.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:23:58 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Orphans and vulnerable youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: An exploratory study of psychosocial ...</title>
            <link>http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/zimorphans.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This report presents findings from an exploratory study by the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative
(REPSSI) and Catholic Relief Services’ Support to Replicable, Innovative Village/Community-level Efforts (STRIVE) Program of vulnerable youth living in and around Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. It describes their demographic characteristics, exposure to stress and trauma, and psychosocial well-being. The report also highlights the relationships between psychosocial well-being outcomes and exposure to stress and trauma, and the differences in psychosocial well-being between males and females, orphaned and nonorphaned youth, and younger and older adolescents. In addition, the report explores the relationships
between exposure to different psychosocial support programs and measures of psychosocial well-being
and distress. The report concludes with program and research implications.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:18:53 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Does being treated with HAART affect the sexual risk behavior of people living with HIV/AIDS? ...</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/3665_Mombasa_Sexual_Behavior_RU_no_border.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[As a result of the success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in dramatically decreasing morbidity and mortality from HIV disease, many HIV-infected persons are now living
longer, healthier, and more sexually active lives. However, unprotected sex by people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) is an area of concern because they risk transmitting HIV to serodiscordant
partners and reinfecting themselves with new, drug-resistant strains of the virus.
Also of concern is that recent research has found a reduction in protective and preventive behaviors among HIV-positive persons once their physical condition improved in response to antiretroviral therapy (Chen et al. 2002; Katz et al. 2002; Van der Ven et al. 2002). Although
these findings come largely from studies conducted on Western gay men, other research has documented the challenges associated with the consistent practice of HIV/STI-related protective and preventive behaviors among HIV-positive persons. A review of studies on sexual risk behavior among PLHA by Crepaz and Marks (2002) shows that a considerable percentage (between
10 and 60 percent, depending on the specific sex act) of seropositive individuals continue to engage in unprotected sexual behaviors that place their partners at risk for infection and
place themselves at risk for contracting secondary infections (e.g., syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes).
However, a second, more recent meta-analytic review of studies by Crepaz, Hart, and Marks (2004) finds that HIV-positive persons receiving HAART did not exhibit increased sexual risk
behavior, even when therapy achieved undetectable viral loads.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:06:16 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Promoting adherence to antiretroviral therapy through a directly administered antiretroviral ...</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/3663_mombdaart24wks.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A principal concern of antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs is the ability of patients to maintain a high level of adherence to the medication regimen. Based on formative research conducted on HIV-infected clients and health workers in Mombasa, Kenya, and lessons learned from directly observed therapy (DOT) strategies to encourage adherence to treatment for tuberculosis, a DAART strategy was developed to promote adherence to ART. This study examines
whether the DAART intervention is more effective in fostering adherence than standard follow-up strategies among people living with HIV/AIDS in Mombasa.]]></description>
            <author>horizons@pcdc.org (Horizons Program)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:50:10 +0100</pubDate>
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