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Community Counselor Training Toolkit
September 2006 — FHI 360 has developed a novel, client-centered approach to training community counselors that enables them to focus on the whole person. This means that counselors put HIV infection in the context of clients’ lives, rather than isolating their sexual behaviors, risk patterns or treatment needs. This approach provides a universal framework that is…
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Communications Handbook for Clinical Trials: Strategies, Tips, and Tools to Manage Controversy, Convey Your Message, and Disseminate Results
2014 — First published in 2010, this handbook is now available online. With nine easy-to-navigate chapters plus videos, slide presentations and other resources not included in the original version, the online edition provides practical guidance to clinical trial staff and research partners on how to anticipate and respond to the special communications challenges posed by…
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Training Curriculum on Drug Addiction Counseling
2010 – This training curriculum is designed to provide drug counselors with the knowledge, basic counseling skills, and techniques needed to help both active and recovering drug users to minimize risk associated with drug use by reducing risky behaviors and reducing or stopping drug use.
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Building Novel Clinical Research Capacity in Resource-Limited Settings: Lessons Learned at Three Mozambique Sites
2012 — There are striking disparities in clinical research capabilities worldwide, particularly across regions of sub-Saharan Africa, where disease burden is high. Establishment of novel, indigenous research capabilities is difficult, and evaluations of capacity-building efforts remain scarce. We share our lessons learned from establishing three new clinical research sites in Mozambique.
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Behavior Change: A Summary of Four Major Theories
1996 — This document presents and explains four of the most commonly cited theories used in HIV/AIDS prevention on how behavior change is believed to occur.
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Success in First Grade
May 2009 — Nowhere is quality more important than in the design and delivery of education in the first grade. Success in First Grade — part of FHI 360’s Success in Schools series — illustrates four principles that we believe form the foundation for successful learning: maximize opportunities to learn, build multiple support structures, create learning…
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Success in Primary School
October 2010 — Success in Primary School — part of FHI 360’s Success in Schools series — explores challenges and diverse strategies used around the world, highlighting four principles that we observed at the heart of every effective primary school approach: focus on families, create learning outcomes that matter, develop leaders and engage with the world.
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Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Trends in School Access and Experience in Eastern and Southern Africa
A decade after the term “orphans and vulnerable children” entered the international development lexicon, FHI 360’s Education Policy and Data Center reflects on the “orphan crisis” and the policy response. This resource examines how “vulnerability” has shaped the educational outcomes and experiences of children in eastern and southern Africa.
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Most Vulnerable Children in Tanzania
This paper, produced by the Education Policy Data Center, analyzes the extent to which “child vulnerability” indicators identified by the government of Tanzania are associated with lower educational access and what additional indicators predict educational vulnerability.
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Child Vulnerability and Educational Disadvantage in Uganda: Patterns of School Attendance and Performance
Produced by FHI 360’s Education Policy Data Center, this paper analyzes the extent to which Uganda’s official government “child vulnerability” indicators are associated with two important components of educational disadvantage: school attendance and 6th-grade learning outcomes.