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Mandatory Premarital Hiv Testing: a Bibliography MANDATORY PREMARITAL HIV TESTING: A BIBLIOGRAPHY Journal Articles, Legal Documents, Reports, Report Chapters and Conference Proceedings Ahmed, Kabir. 2006. Goa proposes mandatory HIV tests before marriage, Lancet, 6 (5): 267. Akani, C.I., O. Erhabor, and S. Babatunde. 2005. Pre-marital HIV testing in couples from faith-based organizations: experience in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Nigerian Journal of Medicine, January-March, 14 (1): 39-44. Al-Arrayed, S.S. 2005. Campaign to Control Genetic Blood Diseases in Bahrain, Community Genetics 8, 52-55. Allen, S., Meinzer-Derr, J., Kautzman, M., Zulu, I., Trask S., Fideli, U., Musonda R. Kasolo F., Goa F., Haworth A. 2003. Sexual behavior of HIV discordant couples after HIV counseling and testing, AIDS, 17: 733-740. Allen, S., Tice, J., Van de Perre, P., Serufilira, A., Hudes, E., Nsengumuremyi, F., et al. 1992. Effects of serotesting and counselling on condom use and serocoversion among HIV discordant couples in Africa, British Medical Journal, 304: 1605-1609. American Civil Liberties Union. 1998. Mandatory Pre-Marital HIV Testing: A Record of Failure, March. Amnesty International. 2004. Albania: Disability and the Right to Marry, Press Release, http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR11/005/2004/en/dom- EUR110052004en.html Asante, A.D. (National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). 2007. Scaling up HIV prevention: why routine or mandatory testing is not feasible for sub-Saharan Africa, Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Perspectives section) 85 (8) August, 644-646. Altman R, Shahied SI, Pizzuti W, Brandon DN, Anderson L, Freud C. 1992. Premarital HIV-testing in New Jersey, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 5 p.7-11. Atack, Chris. 2008. Researchers are looking to sociology, education and social policy to help slow the spread of AIDS among young people in southern Africa, McGill Special Report, http://www.mcgill.ca/headway/spring2008/specialreport3/ Beckwith, Curt G., Timothy P. Flanigan, Carlos del Rio, Emma Simmons, Edward J. Wing, Charles C. J. Carpenter, and John G. Bartlett. 2005. It is time to implement routine, not risk-based, HIV testing, Clinical Infectious Diseases 40 number S4 April 1, pp. 1037-1040. Bunnell R.E., Nassozi J., Marum E., Mubangizi J., Malamba S., Dillon B., Kalule J., Bahizi J., Musoke N., and Mermin J.H. 2005. Living with discordance: knowledge, challenges and prevention strategies of HIV-discordant couples in Uganda. AIDS Care, 17:999–1012. 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