South Africa and Health systems
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Wider access to social security could mitigate impact of HIV/AIDS
- F. le R. Booysen; M. Bachmann / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002
- This paper from the Centre for Study of African Economies (CSAE) reports on a study to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on households. It finds that many affected households in South Africa rely heavily on social welfare grants. This imp...
- Guide to implementing gender-responsive budgets
- D. Budlender; G. Hewitt / Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003
- This guide, from the Commonwealth Secretariat, is intended to help practitioners design and implement gender-responsive budgets (GRB). The first part of the guide provides background information on GRBs. Part two outlines how to imple...
- Exploring the high cost of patented medicine as a barrier to treating illness
- N. Ford / Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004
- This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paper looks at how patents adversely affect access to affordable medicines. Although effective medicine is available to treat many global diseases, one-third of the world’s popula...
- Special issue of Essential Drugs Monitor
- Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003
- The historic first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs took place in Geneva in 1977. Today, more than 150 countries have adopted the concept and developed their own natio...
- Who infects whom? Migration and the HIV epidemic in South Africa
- Mark Lurie / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- High rates of population movement fuel the spread of HIV in Southern Africa. Urban migrants returning home to their rural communities can help drive the epidemic. However, is this migration pattern the main cause of the spread of infe...
- Accelerating progress on access to antiretrovirals in Botswana, South Africa and Uganda
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003
- This Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) ‘Best Practice Collection’ describes who is taking the initiative on better access to antiretrovirals at grass-roots level and how they are doing it. The report offers...
- Médecins sans Frontières’ experience of procuring antiretrovirals in ten developing countries
- Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003
- As the price of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in low- and middle-income countries has fallen in recent years, governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations have been able to start developing treatment programmes for ...
- Doha Declaration does not provide a solution to all of the problems associated with access to medicines
- H. ‘t Hoen / Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003
- Public health advocates welcomed the Doha Declaration as an important achievement because it gave primacy to public health over private intellectual property, and clarified World Trade Organization (WTO) Members' rights to use trade-r...
- Impact on developing countries due to the mass migration of their health professionals to richer countries
- T. Martineau; K. Decker; P. Bundred / Health Sector Reform Research Work Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2002
- The international movement of labour is greatest amongst those with a high level of skill. Health professionals form the biggest group of skilled migrants. This is facilitated by the fact that within the profession there is a globally...
- Overview of South Africa’s health care system
- D. Johnson / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2001
- From the early 1960s due to its apartheid policies, South Africa became increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. With the collapse of the Rand in 1989, repeal of the apartheid laws started, culminating in the free elections o...
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