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Girls’ Success
2009 — Families and communities are important for helping women realize their full potential and securing a better future. Each mentoring guide discusses a different approach to helping young women succeed: school-to-work transitions, learning about and preventing HIV/AIDS and obtaining life skills.
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Girls Getting to Secondary School Safely: Combating Gender-Based Violence in the Transportation Sector in Tanzania
2009 — This study highlights a small but crucial aspect to the challenges girls face while getting an education: access to school. Girls are determined to go to school and are creative in finding alternative ways to get to and from school. They face challenges with transportation that have an impact on their attendance and negatively…
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Progress Report on Kenya’s Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program, 2008-2010
December 2011 — This report from Kenya’s National AIDS and STI Control Programme (NASCOP) describes the challenges, achievements and lessons learned from the country’s experience in expanding access to male circumcision for HIV prevention. It was written and produced for NASCOP by the Male Circumcision Consortium.
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Gender Norms and Family Planning Decision-Making in Tanzania: A Qualitative Study
October 2009 — Research in Tanzania examined the role of gender norms in decision making among young married women and men on issues of family planning and contraceptive use. Findings point to the need to address gender norms and misinformation about modern contraceptives when designing interventions. Intervention activities must engage both men and women, encourage equitable…
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Building Bridges: Effective Post-Secondary Transitions for Girls in Developing Countries
June 2010 — Transitions between education cycles represent one of the greatest hazards for the continuing education of girls in the developing world.
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Thai Adaptation of the Voluntary Counseling and Testing for Most-at-Risk Populations Resource Training Package
2009 — This Thai adaptation of a training package for regional voluntary counseling and testing for most-at-risk populations consists of an HIV counseling handbook, an HIV counseling trainer’s manual and tools for HIV counseling. The package — a partnership among FHI 360, the World Health Organization and UNICEF — was developed to equip counselors with skills…
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Training of Trainers Manual on HIV Prevention and Care in Closed Settings: Basic Level
September 2008 — The level of HIV/AIDS infection among prison populations continues to present a significant public health challenge in Thailand. To uncover the risks of HIV transmission and the feasibility of interventions in Thai prisons, FHI 360 partnered with the Thai Department of Corrections (DOC) to conduct an assessment survey. Based on the findings from…
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Ambassadors’ Girls’ Scholarship Program: Girls’ Mentoring Resource Guide
2008 — Girls account for more than half of the 33 million children in Africa who do not attend school due to economic hardship or other circumstances. To address this gap in girls’ education, the Africa Education Initiative–Ambassadors’ Girls’ Scholarship Program (AEI–AGSP) was launched to provide scholarships and mentoring to girls in sub-Saharan Africa. AGSP provides…
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The Asian Epidemic Model Projections for HIV/AIDS in Thailand: 2005-2025
2008 — The prevalence of HIV remains a significant public health challenge in Thailand. Using the Asian Epidemic Model and epidemiological and behavioral data inputs, the Analysis and Advocacy Project and the Thai Working Group on HIV/AIDS Projections — with technical support from FHI 360 — developed national projections for HIV/AIDS over a 20-year period. This report…
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ASHA Project Reports and Studies
2011 — Under the ASHA project (2006–2011), funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, FHI 360 and its implementing partners worked to contain and mitigate the effects of HIV/AIDS through the increased use of HIV prevention and care services for the most at-risk populations. Across Nepal, ASHA supported 33 integrated health service (IHS) centers, provided…