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  Pushing the boundaries: health and the next round of PRSPs

  Working Group on Health and Development Issues, 2004

  This WEMOS report attempts to assess whether health has benefited from the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process launched in 1999 by the international community.
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  Human resources and health outcomes

  Global Health Trust, 2003

  This Joint Learning Initiative working paper examines the relationship between health outcomes and human resources for health (HRH). By taking into account the main social and economic determinants for health, the authors develop a more reliable and comprehensive dataset on human resources for health.
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  Going from bad to worse: Malawi’s maternal mortality

  Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2004

  This paper, from the Health Systems Trust, is an analysis of the clinical, health systems and underlying reasons for the drastic deterioration in maternal health in Malawi.
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  The free trade agreement between Australia and the United States

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This article, published in the British Medical Journal, examines the recently signed bilateral trade agreement between Australia and the United States (US) and explores the implications of the agreement for drug regulation, subsidy and supply.
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  Managing public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This ODI working paper is a survey of the practice of results-oriented – or performance-based – public expenditure management in low income developing countries.
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  Impact of public-private partnerships addressing access to pharmaceuticals in selected low and middle income countries: a synthesis report from studies in Botswana, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia

  Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health, 2004

  This research report outlines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) intended to provide HIV drugs in three African countries are having limited impact because of the way in which these drugs are priced and patented.The report examines evidence on the effectiveness of two different types of PPPs: those set up to provide treatments for tropical diseases (in Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia), and tho
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  Implementation of the WTO General Council Decision on Paragraph 6 of the DOHA Declaration on the Trips Agreement and Public Health

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) explains the compulsory licensing system through which developing countries can acquire cheap generic medicines to protect public health without breaking international trade laws.This system was established by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2003, in compliance with the 2001 Doha Declaration on the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intell
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  The impact of implementation of ICH guidelines in non-ICH countries: Report of a WHO Meeting, Geneva, 13-15 September 2001

  World Health Organization, 2002

  This World Health Organization (WHO) report considers issues arising in relation to the International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for the Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH). It sets out the benefits of the ICH process, as well as concerns about attempts to extend this process to non-ICH countries.
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  Marketing authorization of pharmaceutical products with special reference to multisource (generic) products: A manual for drug regulatory authorities

  World Health Organization, 1994

  This World Health Organization (WHO) manual provides detailed guidance for drug regulatory authorities (DRAs) on pre-market evaluation and marketing authorisation (drug registration).
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  WHO-PAHO: guidelines for the use of foreign field hospitals in the aftermath of sudden-impact disasters

  World Health Organization, 2003

  In complex disasters, field hospitals (civilian or military) have been used with notable success. However, the experience in the aftermath of natural disasters in developing countries has proven to be less satisfactory in terms of effectiveness and cost.

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