Latin America and Caribbean
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- Legal frameworks affecting PLHIV in the Caribbean
- ( Caribbean Community Secretariat , 2010)
- This publication, commissioned by CARICOM, is a desk review report of existing legislative frameworks affecting people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families in eleven countries in the Caribbean.&...
- Haiti's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic
- ( Koenig S;Ivers L;Pace S / PubMed Central , 2010)
- This paper reports on the successes and challenges facing Partners In Health and the Haitian Study Group on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO), two non governmental organisations ...
- The Peruvian road traffic injury surveillance system
- ( Rojas Medina Y;Espitia-Hardeman V;Dellinger AM / Pan American Journal of Public Health , 2011)
- This paper describes a national hospital-based non fatal road traffic injury surveillance system that was established at sentinel units across Peru in 2007 under the leadership of the Ministry of Heal...
- How to address the distinct health needs of gay men and other MSM in Latin America and the Caribbean
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This publication, published by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), is a guide for clinicians and health administrators in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region countries, in both th...
- A review of the HIV prevalence among female sex workers, drug users and men who have sex with men in Brazil
- ( Monica Malta;Monica MF Magnanini;Maeve B Mello / BioMed Central , 2010)
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This paper notes that whereas the Brazilian response towards the AIDS epidemic is well known, the absence of a systematic review of vulnerable populations ─ men who have sex with men (MSM), female ...
- Barriers to quality health care for HIV-positive women in Chile
- ( Center for Reproductive Rights , 2010)
- This report, published by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Vivo Positivo, describes the significant barriers to quality health care, including reproductive health care, that HIV-positive women i...
- The role of the private sector in the HIV and AIDS response
- ( Wenjuan Wang;Sara Sulzbach;Susna De / Social Science and Medicine , 2011)
- Increasing the participation of the private health sector in the AIDS response could help to achieve universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. This realisation not...
- Incorporating flexibilities of TRIPS to ensure better access to HIV treatment
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 2011)
- This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important oppo...
- The worldwide costs of dementia are set to soar
- ( A. Wimo;M. Prince / Alzheimer's Disease International , 2010)
- Aound 0.5% of the world’s total population currently live with dementia. The total estimated worldwide costs of dementia are US$604 billion in 2010. This report argues that these figures are a g...
- The social and economic benefits of postponing retirement age for 5 years in Caribbean countries
- ( J. Rawlins / Global Action on Aging , 2010)
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At the start of the 21st century, the Caribbean population of older persons - those 60 years and older - was larger than ever before in the history of the region.
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