Bibliography on HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia and Ethiopians in the Diaspora: The 2009 Update

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Introduction
This is the seventh update of the bibliography on HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia and Ethiopians in the Diaspora, which was originally published in this journal in 2003. That bibliography covered published and unpublished work on HIV/AIDS and related health conditions (e.g., other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis) for the period 1972 to 2002. Six subsequent updates were published in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. The present update extends the bibliography to cover references not listed in previous updates and those recent publications or presentations that appeared in 2009. As in the previous bibliographies, this update includes references to biomedical, epidemiological, clinical, psychosocial, socio-economic, cultural, behavioral, impact, intervention, health services, health policy, health informatics, and evaluation studies on HIV/AIDS and relevant research on sexually transmitted infections (STIs), tuberculosis, and other co-infections in Ethiopia and among Ethiopians in the Diaspora. Also included are studies dealing with sexual and contraceptive behaviors, and socio-cultural practices or conditions that increase the vulnerability of Ethiopians to HIV and associated opportunistic infections, including research on conditions of street and orphan children, sexual harassment and violence on women, and traditional practices (e.g., early marriage, female genital cutting) and their consequences