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avahan hiv prevention programme

HIV

This paper demonstrates that certain notions of young people in the HIV and AIDS response reveal an overly generalised understanding of ‘youth’ that does not reflect a realistic view of young people’s identity and lives. Faulty stereotypes of ‘youth’ – such as the perceptions that young people are necessarily victims or risk-takers – result in many HIV programmes based on generalisations about young people, rather than their actual needs and realities. The expansion of access to antiretroviral therapy for millions of persons living with HIV in low-income countries has been lauded by many. However, the investment in such programs has

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Beyond accountability: learning from large-scale evaluations

An article in the Lancet published online, October 11, 2011, which provides a useful overview of the evaluation of the Avahan HIV prevention programme which was rolled out across six states in India. The authors explain the methodology behind the evaluation: “The investigators took a fairly simple approach, focusing on two variables: the amount of money disbursed to the districts that are part of Avahan, as an indicator of intervention intensity; and HIV prevalence among pregnant women attending antenatal care, as an indicator of population trends in HIV infection. Applying a range of analytical approaches to assess the association between

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