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    Why are we addressing gender issues in vision loss?

    Community Eye Health Journal, 2009
    Increasingly it is evident that women are affected by blindness and visual impairment to a much greater degree than men. In 1980 a systematic review of global population-based blindness surveys carried out showed that blindness is about 40 per cent more common in women compared to men. This short article from the Community Eye Health Journal explores the gender dimensions of vision loss.
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    Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina (CPC, UNC)

    The Carolina Population Center is a community of scholars and professionals collaborating on interdisciplinary research and methods that advance understanding of population issues.
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    Health and conflict: a review of the links

    Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2009
    The four horsemen of the Apocalypse – Pestilence, Famine, War and Death –illustrate in many ways obvious connection between health and armed conflict. The purpose of this paper is to show how these four horsemen work together, and particularly, how pestilence, famine and death interact with war.
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    Guidelines for occupational safety and health, including HIV in the health services sector

    US Agency for International Development, 2008
    These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors argue that the health sector is loaded with a wide variety of situations where health and safety issues are crucial.
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    Challenges and priorities for global mental health research in low- and middle-income countries: symposium report

    The Academy of Medical Sciences, 2008
    With mental disorders constituting a significant proportion of the global health burden, there is a pressing need for co-ordinated efforts in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) to address their impacts.
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    Setting priorities for global mental health research

    World Health Organization, 2009
    With about 14 percent of the global burden of disease attributable to mental disorders, investment in mental health research is pertinent.
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    The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: evidence from demographic and health surveys

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009
    This paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, documents the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. The authors, using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunisation for children born between 1988 and 2005.
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    Facilitator’s manual on planning for gender sensitive multi-sectoral response to HIV/AIDS initiatives

    National AIDS Council, Zambia, 2005
    This manual is a learning instrument and a reference tool for beginners. It is a step-by step handbook to guide the development of local HIV/AIDS action plans. It also details how to build the capacity of trainers in order for them to systematically integrate and mainstream HIV/AIDS into all developmental programmes.
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    Repositioning family planning: guidelines for advocacy action

    Africa's Health in 2010 (Academy for Education Development), 2008
    Provision of family planning services in Africa is hindered by poverty, poor access to services and commodities, poor coordination of the programmes, and dwindling donor funding. In addition, traditional beliefs favouring high fertility, religious barriers, and lack of make involvement have weakened family planning interventions.
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    Health of women after severe obstetric complications in Burkina Faso: a longitudinal study

    The Lancet, 2007
    Although maternal mortality is widely used as an indicator of development, the many pathways that link maternal health and illness to long-term economic and developmental indicators are under-explored. This article in The Lancet investigates how severe obstetric complications affect a range of health and other outcomes in the year after the end of pregnancy in hospitals in Burkina Faso.

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