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  Public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.
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  Syndromic management of sexually-transmitted infections and behaviour change interventions on transmission of HIV-1 in rural Uganda: a community randomised trial

  The Lancet, 2003

  Treatment of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) and behavioural interventions are the main methods to prevent HIV in developing countries.
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  Malaria and poverty: opportunities to address malaria through debt relief and poverty reduction strategies

  Malaria Consortium, 2001

  This background paper, produced by the Malaria Consortium, investigates how Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) can support country plans to Roll Back Malaria (RBM). It makes particular reference to case studies in three countries at different stages in the preparation of PRSPs: Cameroon, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Implications of WTO/TRIPS in East Africa : with special emphasis on pharmaceutical patents

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2002

  What has the impact of the TRIPs agreement been in East Africa? This study examines how patent protection relates to the overall promotion and protection of human rights, and socio-economic rights, in particular. The author concentrates on pharmaceutical patent protection and the new life saving drugs that should be available for treatment of HIV/AIDS in the region.
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  Women connect! The power of communications to improve women’s lives

  Pacific Institute for Women's Health, 2002

  This document reports on the findings of a 3 year program designed to strengthen the ability of women’s NGOs in Africa to communicate more effectively.
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  AIDS, public policy and child well-being

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001

  This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
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  Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

  Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001

  Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
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  'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda.
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  Health as an informational good: the determinants of child nutrition and mortality during political and economic recovery in Uganda

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The paper uses data from the 1992 Integrated Household Survey to model the determinants of child mortality and malnutrition. Parental beliefs about health have a strong and very highly significant influence on child mortality. Education and income also play a role, partly coming through its effect on beliefs, but early primary education seems to have little effect.
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  Increasing the nutritional impacts of agricultural interventions

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 1999

  Study provides information on program and policy options. The findings and recommendations are based on an extensive review of the literature as well as interviews with researchers, USAID managers and other development and donor organizations.

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