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56 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,716 HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Field research study of HIV/AIDS action in Uganda contributes unexpected insights regarding collaborative governance in an institution context under-explored in public administration and organization studies, the developing non-democracy.

    Collaborative Governance in a Developing Non-Democracy: Uganda's Organizational Success Fighting HIV/AIDS · 2021 · DOI

  • Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programs in high HIV prevalence contexts are shifting toward ‘graduation’ approaches to facilitate outcome-focused programming, but little is known about the sustainability of participant outcomes post-graduation.

    Realistic expectations: exploring the sustainability of graduation outcomes in a program for children affected by HIV in Kenya’s Northern Arid Lands · 2020 · DOI

  • </ns5:p> <ns5:p> <ns5:bold>Results:</ns5:bold> Of the 314 documents analysed, 35 mention language or translation, but the majority of the mentions are made in passing or in the context of providing background socio-cultural information, the implications of which are not explored.

    Multilingualism and strategic planning for HIV/AIDS-related health care and communication · 2019 · DOI

  • Little is known about the impact of HIV/AIDS on people who acquired the virus through former commercial plasma donations in the mid-1990s in rural Central China.

    Impacts of HIV/AIDS on poor and socially marginalised former commercial plasma donors in rural central China: social work implications · 2017 · DOI

  • Future research should investigate the roles and interactions of different types and sources of support, specifically as they relate to interventions aiming to ameliorate the experiences of youth newly diagnosed with HIV.

    “When we are together I feel at home.” Types and sources of social support among youth newly diagnosed with HIV in Kenya: implications for intervention · 2015 · DOI

  • In so doing, it also examines a central tension within human rights discourse, namely between the construal of rights as shared and universally applicable to all human beings, while being created in and limited by the location in which they were elaborated, as well as by the language used to formulate them.

    The unfinished nature of rights-informed HIV- and AIDS-related education: an analysis of three school-based initiatives · 2014 · DOI

  • Understanding of the effects of formal education on HIV/AIDS infection in South Saharan Africa (SSA) has been a complex task because consecutive waves of research offer different, seemingly contradictory results and explanations of what exactly are the schooling effects on HIV/AIDS and the causal mechanisms driving those effects.

    Multiple Effects of Education on Disease: The Intriguing Case of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa · 2012 · DOI

  • BACKGROUND: Intergenerational transfer patterns in sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood, despite the alleged importance of support networks to ameliorate the complex implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic for families.

    Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Rural Malawi · 2012 · DOI

  • Thus, in a country where resources are scarce and where early intervention starts too late and ends too early for most children, it is vital that protective factors at various levels of the ecology be mobilized at the earliest opportunity to prevent the accumulation of risk factors as well as balance inequalities where risks are already established.

    Early Childhood Intervention in South Africa in Relation to the Developmental Systems Model · 2012 · DOI

  • Since empirical evidence on the socioeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS on households with older persons is lacking, this paper attempts to fill this gap, using data from a household-based survey conducted in Bhambayi, a mixed formal and informal settlement north of eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal.

    Poverty, HIV/AIDS and the old age pension in Bhambayi, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa · 2011 · DOI

  • Overall, the adolescents appeared to have insufficient information about HIV transmission and did not appear to fully understand the consequences of infection.

    HIV/AIDS knowledge among adolescent sign-language users in South Africa · 2010 · DOI

  • HIV/AIDS has been mentioned in this literature as a biosecurity issue, but despite its importance as a major global health problem, the ways in which HIV/AIDS might be considered a matter of biosecurity have not been explored in depth.

    Biosecurity and the international response to HIV/AIDS: governmentality, globalisation and security · 2009 · DOI

  • Few studies have considered how the HIV epidemic's outcomes are interacting with other societal processes, such as globalisation and urbanisation, or how these processes collectively converge with place-specific conditions to expose, drive and compound vulnerabilities to HIV and AIDS.

    The making of vulnerabilities: understanding the differentiated effects of HIV and AIDS among street traders in Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa · 2007 · DOI

  • Although a lot of research has been conducted on the role of good nutrition in mitigating the effects of HIV/AIDS, little is known about the health and nutritional status of HIV/AIDS orphaned children who mostly live with their elderly grand parents.

    Nutritional status of HIV/AIDS orphaned children in households headed by the elderly in Rakai District, South Western Uganda · 2006 · DOI

  • Although some scholars have identified religion as a possible protective factor in the AIDS pandemic in sub‐Saharan Africa, evidence concerning the relationship between religion and AIDS behavior there remains sparse.

    Religion and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Married Men: Initial Results from a Study in Rural Sub‐Saharan Africa · 2006 · DOI

  • Health care workers are expected to educate their clients, especially those at risk of infection, on how to prevent HIV, care for and support persons already infected, yet little is known about Nigerian health care workers' knowledge and attitude towards the disease.

    Knowledge and attitude of physicians and nurses about AIDS in Sokoto, Nigeria · 1998 · DOI

  • Globally, HIV programs face pressure to document their accountability and achievements using “evidence-based” criteria or “monitoring and evaluation” (“M&E”), yet little is known about how M&E occurs on the ground or its social and political effects.

    Burden of Proof: Documentation of an HIV Prevention Program in Ghana · 1969 · DOI

  • Regardless of the tremendous growth of combination social protection as a human immunodeficiency virus prevention mechanism in South Africa, little is known about the ways in which combination social protection improves prevention outcomes for youths.

    Combination Social Protection Programme as an HIV Prevention Mechanism: Experiences of Youths in Resource-Constrained Settings of Gauteng Province, South Africa · 2024 · DOI

  • There are several programmes implemented with theaim to prevent teenage pregnancies, but, effective services, are lacking especiallyin rural areas for adolescents who already gave birth to their babies.

    needs of HIV-positive teenage mothers within a South African socio-cultural context · 2022 · DOI

  • Past studies on pediatric HIV disclosure have not investigated the variations across childcare settings.

    Variations in pediatric HIV status disclosure between the orphanage and the community in Ethiopia · 2017 · DOI

  • The article furthers limited research on the life projects and dilemmas of this HIV-positive adolescent cohort.

    Negotiations of Blame and Care among HIV‐positive Mothers and Daughters in South Africa's Eastern Cape · 2016 · DOI

  • Since learning opportunities in the townships are scarce, a system for e-learning has to be created in order to overcome the lack of experience with computers or the Internet and to enable them to implement a network of expertise.

    Organisational aspects and benchmarking of e-learning initiatives: a case study with South African community health workers · 2015 · DOI

  • Examples show the remarkable ability of such youths to confront adversity by mobilising resources and exhibiting agency, although they may continue to experience suffering when support is lacking.

    Youths navigating social networks and social support systems in settings of chronic crisis: the case of youth-headed households in Rwanda · 2012 · DOI

  • Little is known about educational impacts of living in an AIDS-affected home, or of acting as a “young carer” in the context of AIDS.

    “I Can’t Go to School and Leave Her in So Much Pain” · 2011 · DOI

  • Unfortunately, there are very few studies on the psychosocial wellbeing of children orphaned by AIDS in Africa, and even fewer in Tanzania.

    Cross-cultural adaptation of the Child Depression Inventory for use in Tanzania with children affected by HIV · 2010 · DOI

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