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    Cracking down on the HIV/AIDS crisis: can global targets work?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Globally, 40 million people live with HIV/AIDS; 5 million people were infected with HIV in 2001. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 to halt and reverse the spread of the disease is critical to other aspects of human development. However, this goal must consider how the disease develops in different regional and national contexts.
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    Water and sanitation for all: where are we now?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    In 2000, over a billion people lacked access to safe water and 2.4 billion lacked access to adequate sanitation facilities. Although most developing countries are moving in the right direction, many are lagging.
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    The role of education in promoting young people’s sexual and reproductive health

    Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002
    This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as the possible changes needed to enable the education system to respond more adequately.
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    Bt cotton: benefits for poor farmers?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    This paper questions whether, on the basis of a few favourable studies and a few years' experience, Bt cotton (cotton genetically engineered to express the insecticidal toxin Bacillus Thuringiensis) can be relied upon to produce benefits for poor farmers.The paper identifies a number of implications:the positive results shown by Bt cotton in the first few years are likely to be highly c
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    Conference news: ageing, development and social protection

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
    The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems.In Session One, participants considered the dynamics and challenges of population ageing in countries experiencing different development trajectories.
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    Gender and sustainable development in drylands: an analysis of field experiences

    Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003
    With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland management based on an analysis of field experiences in Africa and Asia.
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    Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

    UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002
    This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.
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    South-South collaboration picks up steam

    SciDev.Net, 2003
    Nations such as Brazil, India, South Africa and China are increasingly acknowledging that they share not only common social and economic challenges, but also common goals in international trade negotiations.
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    e-Governance: can it lead to better government?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is e-governance? Can information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to the achievement of good governance goals? What are the implications for development? Why, when there is so much promise, do many e- governance initiatives go wrong? Can the gulf between the connected and the un-connected be bridged?
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    On trial - house spraying versus treated bednets for malaria control

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Insecticide-treated mosquito nets have replaced house spraying as the preferred method for preventing malaria in many endemic areas. But which is most effective? Entomologists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the South African Medical Research Council reviewed trials of the two strategies in Africa, Asia and Melanesia.

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