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25 years of essential medicines progress
Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003
The historic first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs took place in Geneva in 1977. Today, more than 150 countries have adopted the concept and developed their own national lists of essential medicines.This special issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor, produced by the WHO, celebrates 25 years of the essential medicines concept.
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Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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Health and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
Poverty and ill health are intimately linked, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where public health services are severely strained.
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The bitterest pill of all: the collapse of Africa's health system
Save the Children Fund, 2001
World leaders are discussing a multi-billion dollar package of initiatives aimed at tackling major diseases in poor countries. However, economic crisis and unsuccessful reforms in the past two decades have left many nations with failing health systems. What groundwork is needed before such vast resources are committed?