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Lessons for addressing HIV and AIDS: M. Sidibè;S. Reddy;M. Were / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; 33 million people are living with HIV, close to 9 million children die every year, and hundreds of thousands of women die of pregnancy-related complications. This report drawn from seminar-discussi...
Gender relations in southern Mozambique: I. Tvedten;M. Paulo;M. Tuominen / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2010; This study examines the variations and complexity of gender relations in southern Mozambique. It notes that the region recently witnessed profound processes of socio-economic change, including an e...
How sustainable is Community-Led Total Sanitation?: S. Movik;L. Mehta / STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2010; Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) represents a radical alternative to conventional top-down approaches to sanitation, and offers hope of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This ...
Final review of the Haydom Lutheran Hospital project, Tanzania: O. Maestad;A. Mwisongo / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009; Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH) is a first level referral hospital located in Tanzania. It has been receiving substantial financial support from the Norwegian government through a Block Grant. This rep...
How helath systems can contribute to peace: J. Pedersen / Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2009; The four horsemen of the Apocalypse – Pestilence, Famine, War and Death –illustrate in many ways obvious connection between health and armed conflict. The purpose of this paper is to show ...
Reasons behind varying stunting outcomes between families in the Lake Victoria region, Kenya: J. Priebe (ed);J. Grab / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009; The combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores th...
Gender and AIDS mainstreaming in Zambia: opportunities for better synergies: V. Halvorsen;D. Hamuwele;A. Skjelmerud / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009; This report is a joint gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming review, produced upon a request from the Norwegian Embassy in Lusaka. The target of the report is to see how gender and AIDS concerns could be ...
The ethics of pharmaceutical trials in developing countries: E. Hagen / NorWatch, 2009; In Norway there have been two Norwegian companies that have tested their products in developing countries. A-Viral tested AIDS medications in 300 HIV/AIDS-positive persons in Uganda in 1997-1998 and i...
Health worker labour shortages and quality of health services: O. Maestad;G. Torsvik / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008; This paper studies how health workers’ choices of labour supply and work effort impact on the quality of health services when health workers are in short supply. The authors analyse how policy m...
A review of Tanzanian citizens' perceptions of the quality of service delivery: O.-H. Fjeldstad;L. Katera;E. Ngalewa / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008; This brief compares Tanzanian citizens' perceptions of service delivery by local government authorities between 2003 and 2006; summarising their perceptions of the overall quality of local services, a...