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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  Effective drug regulation: a multi-country study

  World Health Organization, 2002

  National medicines policy usually includes activities to ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of all medicines available in the country.
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  Just die quietly: domestic violence and women’s vulnerability to HIV in Uganda

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This paper argues that women are becoming infected with HIV because the state is failing to protect them from domestic violence. It bases the report on 120 interviews with Ugandan women.The paper argues that many women are victims of marital rape.
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  Injecting caution: re-thinking vaccination for HIV-positive Ugandans

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Infection with the bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, is a frequent and serious problem for HIV-infected adults. A polysaccharide vaccine is currently licensed and available, and is recommended in the USA and Europe. But should this be policy in sub-Saharan Africa?
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  Why wait for post-conflict reconstruction?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Conflict is a major source of poverty in many developing countries and it also affects neighbouring countries. Why not try and avoid the human and economic costs during conflict? What economic strategies would be most fruitful? Research from the University of Oxford examined how Afghanistan, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Uganda ran their economies during war.
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  Curbing mother to child transmission: testing pregnant women for HIV

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Testing and treating pregnant women for HIV reduces the likelihood of infecting the child. But do women want to know if they have HIV? Researchers with the Medical Research Council programme in Uganda investigated how rural women feel about counselling and testing for HIV during pregnancy.
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  Working for God?: evaluating service delivery of religious not-for-profit health care providers in Uganda

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper exploits a unique micro-level data set on primary health care facilities in Uganda to address the question: What motivates religious not-for-profit (RNP) health care providers?The literature provides two general explanations for what drives not-for-profit actors.
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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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  Case study of the SATELLIFE PDA Project

  Bridges.org, 2003

  The goal of the SATELLIFE Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) Project was to demonstrate the viability of handheld computers -- also called Personal Digital Assistants or PDAs -- for addressing the digital divide among health professionals working in Africa.The project was carried out in Uganda and Kenya, where ICT access is low and Personal Digital Assistants virtually unknown.
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  Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001

  This is a policy paper based on a symposium held in 2001. It transcribes the speeches made and the discussions that followed them. Speakers talked aboutnutritional impacts of HIV/AIDSnutrition and care programmesmothers with HIV feeding infants (impacts on both infants and mothers)a success story from Uganda

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