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Searching with a thematic focus on Health, Poverty in South Africa

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  Geographic patterns of deprivation and health inequities in South Africa: informing public resource allocation strategies

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2000

  This research project explores the potential use of small geographic areas as a unit of analysis for identifying communities with high levels of deprivation or relative disadvantage.
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  The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

  Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000

  This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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  Get Ahead Foundation [NGO credit in South Africa]

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998

  Briefly outlines some of GAF’s numerous activities during the past decade. These diverse projects reflect a donor-driven approach to development that was common among South African NGOs during apartheid. The end of apartheid in 1994 precipitated changes in donor priorities, and indirectly caused Get Ahead to change its methods.
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  Grandmothers and granddaughters: old age pension and intra-household allocation in South Africa

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000

  This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded for the black population.

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