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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Global Report: UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic 2013, UNAIDS, Geneva, 2013, p. 38.
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Ibid.
33
UNICEF analysis of UNAIDS 2012 HIV and AIDS estimates.
34
Ibid.
35
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38
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39
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41
Newell, Marie Louise, et al., ‘Mortality of Infected and Uninfected Infants Born to HIV-Infected Mothers in Africa: A pooled analysis’, The Lancet, vol. 364, no. 9441, 2 October 2004, pp. 1236–1243.
42
World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Global Update on HIV Treatment 2013: Results, impact and opportunities, WHO, Geneva, June 2013, p. 13.
43
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Global Report: UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic 2013, UNAIDS, Geneva, 2013, pp. A87, A94.
44
UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO, 2013 Global AIDS Response Progress Reporting and UNAIDS 2012 HIV and AIDS estimates.
45
UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO, 2013 Global AIDS Response Progress Reporting and UNAIDS 2012 HIV and AIDS estimates.
46
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2013 Progress Report on the Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive, UNAIDS, Geneva, June 2013. See country annexes.
47
World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Global Update on HIV Treatment 2013: Results, impact and opportunities, WHO, Geneva, June 2013, p. 60.
48
Ibid., p. 30.
49
World Health Organization, WHO Recommendations on the Diagnosis of HIV Infection in Infants and Children, WHO, Geneva, 2010.
50
UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO, 2013 Global AIDS Response Progress Reporting, and UNAIDS 2012 HIV and AIDS estimates.
51
Ibid.
52
Lesotho data are for 2011; 2012 data were unavailable.
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54
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Global Report: UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic 2013, UNAIDS, Geneva, 2013, pp. 48, A94.
55
The World Health Organization defines task shifting or task sharing as “the rational re-distribution of tasks among health workforce teams. Specific tasks are moved, where appropriate, from highly qualified health workers to health workers who have fewer qualifications in order to make more efficient use of the available human resources for health.” World Health Organization, Task Shifting: Rational redistribution of tasks among health workforce teams – Global recommendations and guidelines, WHO, Geneva, 2008.
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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2013 Progress Report on the Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive, UNAIDS, Geneva, June 2013, p. 9.
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