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  Database of malaria control in complex emergencies, 2000

  Malaria Consortium, 2000

  This database presents the results of a questionnaire, developed and sent to agencies involved in malaria control in countries in complex emergency situations, together with literature reviews.
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  Reproductive health during conflict and displacement

  Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization (WHO), 2000

  This Guide aims to provide a brief analysis of the impact of conflict and displacement on the provision of health services and on the reproductive health of individuals and communities.
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  Public health and humanitarian interventions: developing the evidence base

  British Medical Journal, 2000

  During an emergency response, there is a tension between saving lives in the short term and promoting longer-lasting health systems development. An article in the British Medical Journal makes the case for expanding the evidence base underlying humanitarian aid.
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  Is the UNHCR doing its job?: Combining refugee relief with local development in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Food and water deprivation, inadequate health and education facilities, prison-like restrictions on freedom of movement, ethnic and gender violence, ad-hoc justice and collective punishment: this is how Cairo- based refugee scholar Barbara Harrell-Bond recently described the plight of many refugees in UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) camps in Africa.
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  The situation of children in Iraq

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This report describes the political and socio-economic context of Iraq, the causes of increased infant mortality since the end of the 1980s, and the efforts made by UNICEF to improve child and maternal nutrition, health and sanitation.
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  Forced migration and transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections: policy and programmatic responses

  HIV Insite, 2001

  Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS have become urgent concerns for populations affected by armed conflict and migration (both forced and voluntary). Poverty, powerlessness, and social instability affect the spread of STIs and HIV.
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  Inequality of child mortality among ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000

  Accounts by journalists of wars in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s have raised concern that ethnic cleavages and overlapping religious and racial affiliations may widen the inequalities in health and survival among ethnic groups throughout the region, particularly among children.
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  The global infectious disease threat and its implications for the United States

  Central Intelligence Agency, 2000

  The authors of this paper state that new and reemerging infectious diseases will pose a rising global health threat and will complicate US and global security over the next 20 years.
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  A new security threat: HIV/AIDS in the military

  Worldwatch Institute, 2003

  This paper describes the possible extent and consequences of HIV/AIDS prevalence among military personnel worldwide.
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  Precious resources: adolescents in the reconstruction of Sierra Leone

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2002

  This paper reports the findings of over 600 interviews with adolescents and youth in Sierra Leone in April and May 2002. Many of the interviews were conducted by the young people themselves. The perception of Sierra Leone's youth is that to achieve peace, degradation and instability must be eliminated from their communities and their everyday lives.

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