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    <title>Characterizing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa</title>
    <subTitle>time for strategic action</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Abu-Raddad, Laith J.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1970-</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>World Bank</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>World Bank</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2010</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxii, 282 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Characterizing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa : why and how? -- Injecting drug users and HIV -- Men who have sex with men and HIV -- Commercial sex and HIV -- Potential bridging populations and HIV -- General population and HIV -- Further evidence related to HIV epidemiology in MENA -- Condom knowledge and use and HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes -- HIV/AIDS and vulnerability settings -- Proxy biological markers of sexual risk behavior -- Analytical insights into HIV transmission dynamics and epidemic potential in MENA -- Snapshot on response to HIV epidemic in MENA : linking evidence with policy and programmatic action to avert the epidemic -- Summary of recommendations.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Laith J. Abu-Raddad ... [et al.].</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-263) and index.</note>
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    <topic>AIDS (Disease)</topic>
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>AIDS (Disease)</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, North</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome</topic>
    <topic>epidemiology</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, Northern</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome</topic>
    <topic>epidemiology</topic>
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>HIV Infections</topic>
    <topic>epidemiology</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, Northern</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>HIV Infections</topic>
    <topic>epidemiology</topic>
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>HIV Infections</topic>
    <topic>transmission</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, Northern</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>HIV Infections</topic>
    <topic>transmission</topic>
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Health Planning</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, Northern</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Health Planning</topic>
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Risk Factors</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, Northern</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Risk Factors</topic>
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
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