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    The impact of adult deaths on children's health in northwestern Tanzania

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    The AIDS epidemic is dramatically increasing mortality of adults in many Sub-Saharan African countries, with potentially severe consequences for surviving family members.
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    Algorithms for purchasing AIDS vaccines

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Paper delineates two different algorithms for the purchase of AIDS vaccines, to show how differences in policy objectives can greatly affect projections of the number of courses of vaccine that will be needed.Authors consider a hypothetical vaccine costing $10 to produce, and offering 60 percent, 75 percent, and 90 percent reductions in the risk of HIV for 10 years.
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    ADF 2000 - AIDS: The Greatest Leadership Challenge

    The African Development Forum, 2000
    Web site for 2000 meeting of the African Development Forum. Includes online discussion forum.
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    The Progress of Nations Report 2000

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 2000
    Concentrates on the effects of AIDS/HIV, especially on the young. Also discusses the power of immunization and sets out a new agenda for vaccines.
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    Access to essential medicines in developing countries: does the WTO TRIPS agreement hinder it?

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
    Argues that TRIPS could, in certain cases, lead to higher prices for patented medicines, including for important diseases such as HIV/AIDS. However, policy instruments available under TRIPS, such as compulsory licenses or government use, parallel imports and price controls, if designed with care, could attenuate such adverse effects on the affordable access to medicines considered essential.
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    Sexually transmitted diseases hamper development efforts

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1998
    Examines the incidence and consequences of STDs in developing countries, and describes why a strengthened U.S. commitment to the prevention and treatment of these diseases is needed.
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    Illicit drugs in Southern Africa: the facts

    Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, 1999
    This report reveals that the Official Statistics about the drug control situation in southern Africa have been far from conclusive regarding the actual scope of production, trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs. Alcohol is found to be the most abused drug as well as the drug that causes the most social problems in all but two SADC countries, with Cannabis being ranked as the second.
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    AIDS, poverty reduction and debt relief: a toolkit for mainstreaming HIV/AIDS programmes into development instruments

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    Argues that the potential benefits of giving HIV/AIDS a prominent place in PRSPs and HIPC agreements are substantial. They include greater political attention to and increased domestic funding for the national HIV/AIDS programme,as well as a focus on achieving results in implementing a national HIV/AIDS programme.
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    Implausible denial: why the drug giants' arguments on patents don't stack up

    Oxfam, 2001
    This paper sets out the counter-arguments to Oxfam’s demand that patent protection should take into account national economic and health circumstances, and explains why Oxfam believes they are unconvincing.Criticisms and recommendations:Whilst patents play an important role in generating incentives for research and development (R&D), the super-profits which patents generate are c
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    Ageing in India

    Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 1999
    With no nation-wide registry of older people and community based data on morbidity not readily available, the absence of reliable and continuous sources of data on India makes the task of researchers difficult.Paper gives overview of issues of ageing population, coveringDemographic transition in IndiaDefining ageing in IndiaCurrent scenario and future projectionsAlso

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