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  Health and human rights

  The Lancet, 2003

  This feature consists of three seperate articles that address issues around the rights of sex workers The first piece, 'Public health and the human rights of sex workers ' argues that sex workers are often seen as immoral people or as victims of unscrupulous traffickers who exploit the lack of opportunities of deprivileged inhabitants of mostly poor countries and that public he
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  Poverty reduction outcomes in education and health: public expenditure and aid

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at the role of public expenditure programmes in the health and education sectors and their impact on poverty. It argues for a closer donor involvement at the sector level.The evidence reviewed shows that progress towards the MDGs has slowed in some low income countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Economic development in Africa: from adjustment to poverty reduction: what is new?

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002

  This year’s "Economic development in Africa" report reviews the policy content of the poverty reduction programmes in Africa.
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  Achieving the right balance: the role of policy-making processes in managing human resources for health problems

  World Health Organization, 2000

  There is often a gap between health policy formulation and its practical implementation.
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  Fighting HIV/AIDS: progress, prospects and issues

  World Bank Publications, 2003

  This report discusses the status of the global fight against HIV/AIDS, region by region, charting progress to date and prospects for achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which includes to “have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS”. Following an overview of the state of the epidemic, the paper reviews the current financial commitments that international donors
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  Decentralization and equity of resource allocation: evidence from Colombia and Chile

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2003

  Health reformers have promoted decentralisation as a means of achieving multiple objectives, such as improved efficiency, better responsiveness to local conditions and local accountability to community priorities. Often, however, even advocates of decentralisation do not claim that it is likely to improve the equity of a health system.
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  Shadow on the continent: public health and HIV/AIDS in Africa in the 21st century

  The Lancet, 2002

  Approaches to the prevention and control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa have been heavily based on early experiences and policies from industrialised countries, where the disease affects specific risk groups. HIV/AIDS has been dealt with differently from other sexually transmitted or lethal infectious diseases, despite being Africa’s leading cause of death.
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  The role of local authorities in implementing health care with a gender perspective: the case of the Women's Total Health Care Program, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 1999

  In Brazil, relationships developed by public health providers with users are impregnated with a culture based on hierarchy between the genders both at decision-making and service provision levels. This paper discusses the role of local governments in introducing a gender perspective to the implementation of women’s health care policies and programs.
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  Social rights and economics: claims to health care and education in developing countries

  World Bank Publications, 2003

  The paper analyses contemporary rights-based and economic approaches to health care and education in developing countries.
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  African Summit on Roll Back Malaria: summary report

  World Health Organization, 2000

  The first African Summit on Roll Back Malaria (RBM), held in Abuja, Nigeria in 2000, may have reflected consensus between African states regarding strategies in the fight against malaria, but exactly what was agreed and what should follow?

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