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ADF 2000 - AIDS: The Greatest Leadership Challenge
The African Development Forum, 2000Web site for 2000 meeting of the African Development Forum. Includes online discussion forum.DocumentThe Progress of Nations Report 2000
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 2000Concentrates on the effects of AIDS/HIV, especially on the young. Also discusses the power of immunization and sets out a new agenda for vaccines.DocumentIn the shadow of death: HIV/AIDS and children's rights in Kenya
Human Rights Watch, 2001This article explores the problem of HIV/AIDS among the childhood population in Kenya.The article finds that:HIV prevalence in the population of Kenya increased steadily and consistently by about 1 percentage point a year from 1990 to 1999.DocumentThe impact of armed conflict on children
United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000This document reviews the wide-ranging series of actions taken in response to the recommendations of the 1996 Machel Report. Many of the significant achievements are woven into this text, which constitutes an early summary of a book that will be published in early 2001.DocumentWorking Document on Health and Family Planning Indicators: A Tool for Results Frameworks
Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1999Draws on technical reviews of USAID mission documents, with the aim of providing an introduction to the results framework (a hierarchical model consisting of strategic objective, supporting intermediate results, and key performance indicators; presenting and defining key indicators; and offering guidance on difficulties in collecting and interpreting data for these indicators.DocumentImproving Reproductive Health: The Role of the World Bank
Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1999Reproductive health is not merely the absence of disease or disability. It is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters related to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. Reproductive health therefore implies that women and men have a right to a safe sex life, and to reproduce if and when they wish.DocumentMortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study
The Lancet, 1997Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury. Medically certified information is available for less than 30 percent of the estimated 50.5 million deaths that occur each year worldwide. This paper, from The Lancet, reports on the five-year Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD).DocumentMother-to-child transmission of HIV
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is the overwhelming source of HIV infection in young children. Of the 3 million infants infected with HIV since the beginning of the pandemic, about 90% have been born in Africa. However, the number of cases in India and South-East Asia appears to be rising rapidly.