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  Home-Based Care Alliance policy brief: debunking myths

  Home-Based Care Alliance, 2013

  The Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA) represents more than 30,000 caregivers organised into multi-district HBCAs in twelve African countries, caring for over 200,000 neighbours and friends, and with a history of organising around HIV/AIDS and its effects.
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  Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA)
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  Claims on health care: a decision-making framework for equity, with application to treatment for HIV/AIDS in South Africa

  Health Policy and Planning, 2011

  Trying to determine how best to allocate resources in health care is especially difficult when resources are severely constrained, as is the case in all developing countries.
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  Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study

  The Lancet, 2010

  Research linking gender inequity and gender-based violence to HIV is limited. This paper assess whether intimate partner violence (IPV) and relationship power inequity increase risk of incident HIV infection in South African women. Some of the important points demonstrated in the paper are as follows: 
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  Collaboration between traditional practitioners and primary health care staff in South Africa: developing a workable partnership for community mental health services

  Transcultural Psychiatry, 2010

  This paper posits that the majority of the black African population in South Africa utilise both traditional and public sector Western systems of healing for mental health care. As such, the authors argue that there is a need to develop models of collaboration that promote a workable relationship between the two healing systems.
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  Getting research into policy and practice

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009

  The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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  Strengthening the research to policy and practice interface: exploring strategies used by research organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011

  As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy.
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  ICT applications as e-health solutions in rural healthcare in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

  Health Information Management Journal, 2010

  This paper describes a study which focused on factors perceived to influence the uptake and use of Information and Communication Technology solutions (ICTs) as e-health solutions in selected rural Eastern Cape healthcare centres (South Africa), and on structural variables relating to these facilities and processes.
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  Research Network on AIDS and Older Persons in Africa and Asia

  The goal this network is to bring together active researchers who study the consequences for and contributions of older persons in Africa and Asia in relation to the AIDS epidemic in order to promote
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  Using TRIPS flexibilities to improve 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 opportunities for World Trade Organization (WTO) Members to reduce prices and expand access to HIV medicines.

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