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    Social inequality and HIV-testing: comparing home- and clinic-based testing in rural Malawi

    Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2009
    The plan to increase HIV testing is a cornerstone of the international health strategy against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Using material form ongoing demographic research project conducted in three rural areas of Malawi, this paper highlights a problematic aspect of that plan: the reliance on clinic- rather than home-based testing.
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    STOP AIDS NOW!

    STOP AIDS NOW! is working towards a world without AIDS. Our work involves:
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    Country ownership and vertical programmes in health, health information and health research

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2008
    This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, argues that in most low- and middle-income countries, foreign-funded initiatives determine national health research agendas, even in countries in which governments contribute substantially to supporting national health research systems, institutions and personnel.
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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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    Coverage of selected services for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment in low-and middle-income countries in 2005

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2005
    This report from Constella Futures Policy Project presents the results of an assessment of the coverage of several key services for the prevention, care and treatment of HIV and AIDS in 2005. It updates similar reports on coverage in 2001 and 2003.
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    Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights

    World Health Organization, 2006
    This report, published by the World Health Organisation's Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health, considers the relationship between intellectual property rights, innovation and public health.
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    Not just a tragedy: Access to medication as a right under international law

    Boston University International Law Journal, 2004
    An estimated 29.4 million adults and children live with HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the fact that new combinations of antiretroviral therapy and other medications have enabled HIV-positive people in much of the developing world to live productive lives for many years, HIV and AIDS are now the largest contributor to mortality in several Sub-Saharan African countries.
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    US-Andean Free Trade Agreement: Impact on Access to Medicines and Health in Colombia

    Citizens Trade Campaign, 2005
    In Colombia there are about 20 million inhabitants who lack adequate access to medicines, either because they do not belong to any health insurance system or because if they do, they  cannot afford to pay out of their own pocket for the medicines the system does not supply to them, which represent about half of the prescription.
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    Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC)

    The Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) is a national coalition of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious, and other civil society groups founded in 1992 to improve the North American Free T
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    A handbook for network support agents and other community workers supporting HIV prevention, care support and treatment

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009
    Uganda like many other developing countries, suffers from inequitable distribution of health workers between rural and urban areas and between public and private sectors. To strengthen the referral systems, people living with HIV have been trained as Network Support Agents (NSA) to work alongside health care workers in health facilities.

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