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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on adult mortality in South Africa

    Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2001
    Demographic projections of the epidemic indicate that HIV/AIDS will cause a rapid change the age and sex pattern of deaths in South Africa.A system to monitor the age pattern has been developed by the Medical Research Council.
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    Resource needs for HIV/AIDS

    International AIDS Economics Network, 2001
    This paper estimates the costs of of HIV/AIDS programmes by the year 2005, and how these might be met from domestic and international sources . The paper specifically looks at the costs of meeting the targets set by the General Assembly Special Session on AIDS in June 2001By 2005, programmes will require about US$9 billion annually, with half of these resources needed in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    HIV/AIDS and development in the education sector

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    The objective of this paper is to describe the underlying problem of HIV/AIDS in the context of education development in Southern Africa, and also to identify opportunities for remedial action and positive enablement.
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    The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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    Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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    Post-TRIPS options for access to patented medicines in developing countries

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    Since developing countries spend a large percentage of their private household health expenditures on drugs, affordability of patented medicines is particularly important.
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    Debt relief and health care in Kenya

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-related diseases.Conclusions: Kenya deals with external debt together with regular servicing at the expense of such vital life programmes as health care,
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    AIDS in the developing world (CARE)

    CARE International, 1999
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    Poverty and human development: UNDP Human Development Report 1997 (highlights)

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
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    Fighting AIDS together [children and AIDS]

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
    The world's children are benefiting from several decades of unprecedented health progress. Child-killing diseases are succumbing to vaccination campaigns and low-cost remedies, reducing death rates and improving the quality of young lives. But in about 30 developing countries, HIV/AIDS is threatening and even reversing these strides.

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