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    Evaluation of Season Two of the television drama series, Intersexions

    2015
    Intersexions I was a multi-award winning series, receiving eleven South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA), the Screen Excellence Award for best drama, the AfricommNet award for best mass media and the internationally acclaimed Peabody Award.
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    Sex workers and sex work in South Africa: a guide for journalists and writers

    2014
    It is important that journalists and writers write about sex work and sex workers in South Africa to raise awareness of these issues. Yet, regrettably, some publications have reported on sex work inaccurately or have compounded the stigma or stereotypes that attach to sex work.
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    Ageing in emerging markets: Emerging Markets Symposium

    The Emerging Markets Symposium, 2015
    The rise of emerging markets in the last half century has been associated with violent shifts in the tectonic plates of demography, economics and geography. There will be larger shifts in the next half century as emerging markets are transformed by the megatrends of globalisation, urbanisation, digitisation, climatisation, ideological conflict... and longevity.
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    Extension of social security long - term care protection for older persons: a review of coverage deficits in 46 countries

    International Labour Organization, 2015
    Due to the global demographic ageing, all countries are challenged by growing long-term care (LTC) needs for older persons. However, these needs are largely ignored and range very low on the policy agendas of most countries.
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    Preliminary observations on social security and health care systems of the BRICS

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015
    This summary provides some preliminary findings of research on social security and health care policies in the BRICS countries. Thus far, our research demonstrates some basic institutional information about the social security and health care policies of the BRICS countries, as well as about their complementary policy aims. Social security (old-age pensions):
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    mHealth and Gender: Making the Connection

    Research in Gender and Ethics, 2015
    The use of mHealth interventions withinin health systems research is increasing, with few taking into account the connections between gender and mHealth. This policy brief attempts to fill this gap by exploring key connections between mHealth and gender that need to be taken into account when conducting or implementing mHealth research and interventions.&nbs
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    Raising domestic resources for health: can tax revenue help fund Universal Health Coverage?

    Resilient and Responsive Health Systems, 2015
    For countries that aspire to achieve the goal of Universal Health Coverage, the question of how to increase funding for health is of fundamental importance. One way of increasing revenue is through improved tax collection and larger total government budgets.
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    Legislation on the for-profit private health sector in east and southern Africa

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2013
    International evidence shows that, if left unregulated, the for-profit sector may lead to distortions in the quantity, distribution and quality of health services, as well as anti-competitive behaviour (Marriott 2009).
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    African participation and partnership in performance-based financing: A case study in global health policy

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2014
    Participation is a key policy concept in global health, and relates to the ability of stakeholders to engage with and shape health policy at four intersecting levels: local, national, regional and global.
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    BRICS: emergence of health agenda

    International Organisations Research Institute, 2014
    Health is an indispensable public good. At the national level, it has been manifested in the commitment of the BRICS members of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to scale up health financing. At the global level, it is evidenced by the international community progress on the three health-related Millennium Development Goals.

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