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    South African Health Review 2000

    Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2000
    Annual report, providing a combination of detailed information on health status and health care coupled with in-depth analysis of policies and practices affecting the provision of health services in South Africa.
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on food security

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001
    This article begins by emphasising that HIV/AIDS cannot be considered solely as a health problem and sufficient efforts are needed to address its social, economic and institutional consequences. Indeed the report suggests that increasingly, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is having a major impact on nutrition, food security, agricultural production and rural societies in many countries.
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    Health and intellectual property rights

    World Health Organization, 2001
    Paper expresses concern that the TRIPS agreement was negotiated with little or no participation from public health authorities, and that WTO member countries are now bound to grant patents for pharmaceutical products.The paper asserts that is this respect TRIPS has caused special problems for developing countries:they are often excluded from the benefits of protection for inventions be
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    The global AIDS crisis and the first 100 days of George W. Bush’s Administration: a report card from the health gap coalition

    Global Treatment Access Campaign, 2001
    The article indicates that Bush's administration gained international attention with its decision to retain the Executive Order that affirmed the rights of sub-Saharan African countries to manufacture and import affordable generic medication without facing sanctions from the US, as they had in the past.The Health GAP coalition demands the Bush Administration:allocate $2 billion in new
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    Demobilization and its implications for HIV/AIDS

    Linking Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative, 2000
    Traditionally demobilization of military personnel has followed the signature of peace accords to facilitate the transition from war to peace and to preserve national and international security.
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    Women of the world: laws and policies affecting their reproductive lives

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2001
    This document is the product of a unique series of collaborative reports between the U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and national-level NGOs around the world. CRLP and NGOs in have surveyed laws and policies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe with respect to the following issues:governmental health and population policies with an e
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    Report of the workshop on differential pricing and financing of essential drugs

    World Trade Organization, 2001
    Differential pricing could, and should, play an important role in ensuring access to existing essential drugs at affordable prices, especially in poor countries, while allowing the patent system to continue to play its role of providing incentives for research and development into new drugs.
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    Formula for fairness: patient rights before patent rights

    Oxfam, 2001
    Paper offers a brief profile of Pfizer, and describes the depth of the divide between poor and rich countries in the incidence of disease and premature death and in levels of access to affordable life-saving medicines. It then outlines the TRIPS regime, which, they state, greatly strengthens drug companies 'patent protection in developing countries.
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    The State of the World’s Children 2001

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2001
    Drawing on reports from the world over, The State of the World’s Children 2001 details the daily lives of parents and other caregivers who are striving – in the face of war, poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic – to protect the rights and meet the needs of these young children.
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    AIDS Briefs

    US Agency for International Development, 1996
    Papers on how AIDS will affect particular sectors and how to plan for this. Aimed at administrators and managers, providing a set of checklists for integrating HIV/AIDS into their planning processes.Sectors covered (by separate papers) include: Commercial Agriculture; Subsistance Agriculture; Education; Health; Manufacturing; Mining; Tourism; Military Populations

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