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..In particular, whether the introduction of IPTi negatively affects community attitudes to, or use of, EPI; or, conversely, whether and if so how, the concurrent delivery of IPTi and immunization influences perceptions of IPTi...

..Male partners will also need to be involved...

..Not only behaviour change, but also the maintenance of safe behaviour is important. Also, understanding reasons for change and extent and consistency of change are important when planning and evaluating interventions...

..This paper reports on the reception of IPTi during the first implementation study of IPTi in southern Tanzania...

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..Whilst preferences relating to product characteristics are largely individual, use itself is dependent on partnership dynamics and the broader social context in which sexual risk management occurs...

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..Shifting the source of interventions from adults to the adolescents themselves, encouraging girls to try other means of earning money and debunking the idea that having many partners is sophisticated may be productive alternatives...

..Community sensitisation will be necessary and male partners will have to be involved if interventions are to be acceptable...

..Adolescent girls in the intervention group showed improved knowledge, attitudes and practices related to HIV and STDs. This promising intervention warrants further testing in larger studies and other settings...

..This would require teachers to be trained in participatory teaching methods while still at training college...

..We discuss the implications of this 'passive' form of compliance for the acceptability and sustainability of malaria control and other public health programmes...

..We now need to move beyond limited notions of acceptability and consider how microbicides fit into a more holistic picture of women's and men's sexuality and sexual health...

..The performance of coital diaries (CDs) and clinic-based interviews to measure sexual behavior was compared during a pilot study for a Phase III microbicide trial...

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..The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a continuous informed consent process adopted during the MDP301 phase III vaginal microbicide trial in Mwanza, Tanzania...

..Ultimately, the ethics of global science can rely neither on principles nor trust but requires citizenship and democratic government...

..We examine the knowledge and power dynamics of provider-patient interactions and the implications for malaria treatment of educating mothers during consultations...

..Distribution of socially marketed pre-packaged treatment for male urethritis should be expanded in sub-Saharan Africa. Consideration should be given to developing similar kits for women...

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..Little is known of the social and cultural issues influencing the uptake of and attitudes to tuberculosis (TB) care by people of African extraction living in the UK...

..This has implications for interventions, and part of the longer-term solution should lie in improving the economic position of women vis-à-vis men...

..PRO2000 vaginal gel was efficacious against HIV-1 transmission in studies in macaques; we aimed to assess efficacy and safety of 2% and 0·5% PRO2000 gels against vaginal HIV-1 transmission in women in sub-Saharan Africa...

..The Microbicides Development Programme has developed a mixed method/triangulation model for generating more accurate data on adherence and sexual behaviour...

..In a companion paper some of the results from this model are presented [1]...

..This implies that it is feasible for couples to use women-initiated and controlled methods of HIV prevention...

..CONCLUSION: Quality of STD management by private providers is poor. Improvement should occur concurrently at public and private facilities. Possible strategies include training and social marketing of prepackaged treatment for STDs...

..Discussion of anal sex among those who had heard about it linked it to socially marginal groups and asymmetrical power relations...