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    ‘Dip-it-yourself’ kits: re-treating mosquito nets at home in Tanzania

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets can reduce malaria incidence in African children. However, to remain effective nets have to be re-treated every 6-12 months or after washing. Can a ‘dip-it-yourself’ kit improve rates of insecticide re-treatment of mosquito nets at the household level?
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    Nature or nurture? Child survival after the death of a sibling

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why do children have a lower chance of survival if one of their brothers or sisters has died? Are biological or cultural factors responsible for this phenomenon? Research by Macro International, USA and the UK University of Southampton compared the incidence and causes of infant deaths in Bolivia, Kenya, Peru and Tanzania.
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    Home help – how communities cope with HIV

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do households and communities respond to HIV and AIDS? A study by the UK Institute of Education examined the beliefs and social structures that influence the way people cope, and help others to cope, with HIV.
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    African timber: is demand outstripping sustainable supply?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Rapid urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa has generated increasing demand for timber from traders with links to processors and extractors in rural areas. But how sustainable is the supply of wood?
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    Mwanza revisited – lessons for STI treatment in rural areas

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    An influential study in Mwanza, Tanzania, showed that effective treatment of sexually- transmitted infections (STIs) could prevent around forty percent of new HIV infections. This 1995 study heavily influenced global policy on HIV prevention, and STI treatment programmes are being restructured in many countries. But what are the essential elements of a successful STI treatment strategy?
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    Catalyst for local democracy? Land reform in Eastern and Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    From Eritrea to South Africa land tenure laws are in a state of flux. In every nation in eastern and southern Africa, apart from those wracked by conflict, tenure reform is either under discussion or coming on stream. What is driving this change? What are the consequences for landholders, for democratization and the nature of state power? Who are the potential winners and losers?
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    Co-operation or competition? Microfinance developments in Southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Microfinance institutions (MFIs) began as community-based savings and credit organisations: working practices were defined by local needs. What has changed? Microfinance now focuses on financial sustainability and some MFIs have become banks - of a sort. Others have developed cooperative linkages with commercial banks. What are the long-term implications of these changes?
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    Preferential credit? Ethnic and indigenous firms vie for equal access

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Ethnic groups often remain segregated long after emigrating to a new area. Why, for example, do the Chinese in Southeast Asia and Africa or the Armenians in Russia remain excluded from mainstream business activities? However, ethnic enclaves, perhaps due to business skills passed down from older members of the community, run successful businesses.
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    It’s not what you know - it’s who you know! Economic analysis of social capital

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Treating social relationships as a form of capital acknowledges that they are capable of changing economic and political performance, for better or worse. This simple idea has provoked an outpouring of new research in recent years. Some of the research is unrelated to development and focuses on the alleged decline in civic culture in the United States.
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    Read all about it! Getting books to pupils in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do pupils in Africa gain access to books? Which methods of getting books to students and teachers work best? Recent research in Ghana, Tanzania, Mali, South Africa, Mozambique and Kenya, examined different approaches to book provision including school or classroom-based libraries, teacher support centres and mobile libraries.

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