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  An unlikely couple? Linking private and public sectors in TB control

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Private practitioners treat up to half of tuberculosis (TB) patients in urban Nepal, even though free treatment is available in the public sector. Quality of TB care by private practitioners is inconsistent. What is the best way to improve TB control through the private sector?
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  Case studies of private sector programmes to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

  Global Health Initiative, 2002

  Series of papers and background materials on private sector efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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  Public private partnerships

  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001

  This draft working paper of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) focuses on the role of public-private partnerships (PPP) as an approach to the provision of drugs and vaccines for less developed countries. It explores a set of challenges to PPPs – including governance, funding, and Intellectual Property strategies.
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  Impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector in Swaziland: the demographic, social and economicimpact on subsistence agriculture, commercial agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives and business

  TAT Health Services, Swaziland, 2002

  This study attempts to determine the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector, obtain vital information on vulnerability of agriculture and the private sector to HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality; and identify strategies that can be implemented to prevent and control the epidemic. A key finding of the paper is that HIV/AIDS has not affected the profitability and product
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  Private sector response to HIV/AIDS in Swaziland: impact, response, vulnerability and barriers to implementation of workplace HIV/AIDS prevention programmes

  Global Development Network, 2001

  This report presents a detailed analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the private sector, by focusing on costs imposed on the private sector as a result of increased illness and deaths from AIDS. The report also discusses the knowledge, attitudes and practices of businesses in the area of HIV/AIDS at the workplace.
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  Globalisation, privatisation and healthcare: a preliminary report

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2001

  The paper discusses the effects that globalisation and privatisation may have on public health care systems. Threats to public health care include:the WTO provides two kinds of threat to health services. The first is the potential threat of GATS, which could force more privatisation in future.

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