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    Successes and challenges of HIV treatment programs in Haiti: aftermath of the earthquake

    PubMed Central, 2010
    This paper reports on the successes and challenges facing Partners In Health and the Haitian Study Group on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO), two non governmental organisations that work together with the Ministry of Health to provide and/or supervise treatment for nearly three-quarters of patients on HIV treatment in the country of Haiti.
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    Treatment 2.0: is this the future of treatment?

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2010
    This publication presents 'the Treatment 2.0 platform', a simplified HIV treatment approach to scale up efforts around global coverage of HIV antiretroviral therapy and achieve the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, care and support. 
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    A comparative study of antiretroviral therapy assistance from parents and family members in Cambodia and Thailand

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2010
    In both Cambodia and Thailand, efforts to augment Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) treatment adherence are being made within a ‘continuum of care’ framework.
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    Coverage of selected services for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment in low-and middle-income countries in 2005

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2005
    This report from Constella Futures Policy Project presents the results of an assessment of the coverage of several key services for the prevention, care and treatment of HIV and AIDS in 2005. It updates similar reports on coverage in 2001 and 2003.
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    Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights

    World Health Organization, 2006
    This report, published by the World Health Organisation's Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health, considers the relationship between intellectual property rights, innovation and public health.
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    US-Andean Free Trade Agreement: Impact on Access to Medicines and Health in Colombia

    Citizens Trade Campaign, 2005
    In Colombia there are about 20 million inhabitants who lack adequate access to medicines, either because they do not belong to any health insurance system or because if they do, they  cannot afford to pay out of their own pocket for the medicines the system does not supply to them, which represent about half of the prescription.
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    Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC)

    The Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) is a national coalition of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious, and other civil society groups founded in 1992 to improve the North American Free T
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    A handbook for network support agents and other community workers supporting HIV prevention, care support and treatment

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009
    Uganda like many other developing countries, suffers from inequitable distribution of health workers between rural and urban areas and between public and private sectors. To strengthen the referral systems, people living with HIV have been trained as Network Support Agents (NSA) to work alongside health care workers in health facilities.
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    Wireless technology for social change: trends in NGO mobile use

    United Nations Foundation, 2008
    This report, published by the UN Foundation, examines real life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. Largely using case studies, the authors find that NGOs’ use of mobile technology is very widespread and indispensable.
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    A doctor in your pocket

    The Economist, 2009
    This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors demonstrate how new technologies help to tackle the health problems of the world’s poorest.

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