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   HIV risk after release from prison: a pilot case-control study in Canada, France, Ivory Coast and South Africa

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Evelyne Vallières --- LICEF, Canada Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Rémi Dongo Kouabenan --- Université Pierre Mendès France, France Denis Dagou Koménan --- Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Cocody, Ivory Coast Sid Abdellaoui --- Université de Paris, France François Joseph Azoh --- École normale supérieure, Ivory Coast Pierre McDuff --- Université de Montréal, Canada Jacques Bergeron --- Université de Montréal, Canada Safiétou MBaye --- Électricité de France (EDF), France

   This study aimed to assess HIV knowledge, risk perception and risk behaviour of ex-offenders at risk of new infection and to compare them with the general population. A case-control interview study was conducted with conveniently sampled ex-offenders and persons with...

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   Teaching Canadian Literature in the University of Nairobi

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Muchugu Kiiru --- , Kenya

   This paper discusses experiences of teaching Canadian literature in the Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, Kenya. For a long time, the University of Nairobi syllabus required that teaching Canadian literature, or any foreign literature for that matter, should be...

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   Building legitimacy and distinctiveness on Nigerian-Canadian transnational ventures’ websites

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Diane A. Isabelle --- , Canada Mika Westerlund --- , Canada Victoria Sajuyigbe --- ,

   Achieving legitimacy in several markets is crucial for transnational ventures. Moreover, the literature on competitive strategy suggests that distinctiveness from competitors is a major source of competitive advantage for ventures. Nevertheless, our knowledge is sparse on how transnational ventures use...

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   Third-world realities in a first-world setting: A study of the HIV/AIDS-related conditions and risk behaviors of sex trade workers in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Yelena Bird --- at the , Canada Mark Lemstra --- at the , Canada Marla Rogers --- at the , Canada John Moraros --- at the , Canada

   The transmission and prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) among those employed as sex trade workers (STW) is a major public health concern. The present study describes the self-reported responses of 340 STW, at-risk for contracting HIV. The participants were...

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   Review of Arctic and Pacific Marenzelleria (Annelida: Spionidae), with new records and comments on Spio gorbunovi Averincev, 1990

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Vasily I Radashevsky --- , Russia Victoria V Pankova --- , Russia

   Here we summarise and map available records of the spionid polychaetes Marenzelleria spp. from the Arctic and Pacific Oceans based on morphology and analysis of sequences of five gene fragments (COI, 16S, 18S, 28S and Histone 3). We define for...

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