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  Patents, access to medicines and the role of non-governmental organisations

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004

  This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paper looks at how patents adversely affect access to affordable medicines. Although effective medicine is available to treat many global diseases, one-third of the world’s population lacks access to these basic, but expensive drugs as a result of patent rights.
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  Measuring and monitoring poverty: the case of Kenya

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper describes Kenya's experience in measuring and monitoring poverty using a range of qualitative and quantitative tools, that feeding into Poverty Reduction Strategy consultation processes.
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  Participating for a change: how Plan is responding to children’s views and involving them in development

  Plan, 2003

  Plan has consulted with children in China, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines and Tanzania to identify the issues that children themselves feel are having a negative impact on their education and well-being. This document briefly reports the main findings in each country, and outlines the changes made by Plan in response to their views.
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  Global survey on education in emergencies

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2004

  This report presents information gathered by the Global Survey on Education in Emergencies (Global Survey). It attempts to fill a gap in information about how many refugee, displaced and returnee children and youth globally have access to education and the nature of the education they receive.The report consists of three parts.
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  Teacher training: essential for school-based reproductive health and HIV/AIDS education: focus on sub-saharan Africa

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2004

  For teaching information and skills related to HIV/AIDS, teacher training is essential, and complex. In sub-Saharan Africa, up to half of all new HIV infections are occurring among youth under age 25. Since most youth attend school at least for primary education, school-based programmes are a logical place to reach young people.
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  Signs of illness in Kenyan infants aged less than 60 days

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This research paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, reports on a study into the characteristics of ill infants aged less than sixty days old presenting for hospital care in rural Kenya.
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  Building on success in African agriculture: are Kenya's horticultural exports a replicable success story?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  Summarising a background paper presented at the 'Successes in African Agriculture: Building for the Future' conference, this brief examines some of the factors that have contributed to the over six percent growth in Kenyan horticulture exports over the last 30 years.
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  Malaria and agriculture in Kenya: a new perspective on the links between health and ecosystems

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This article, produced by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, highlights research on the link between irrigated tropical agriculture and malaria, in particular findings which have shown that certain species of malaria-bearing mosquitoes prefer the blood of cattle to that of humans.
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  Report of the FAO/OXFAM GB workshop on women's land rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This document reports on a workshop held in South Africa in June 2003 to address continuing insecurity of women's land rights. It brought together a broad group of participants covering NGO, grassroots, government, UN agency staff, researchers, activists, lawyers, and women living with HIV/AIDS.
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  Innovation and policy process: case of transgenic sweet potato in Kenya

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  Biotechnology is being integrated into the existing science and technology policy process in Kenya. This process is embedded in the country's history of agricultural development, characterised by conventional technology, public goods research and centralised and hierarchical organisation.

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