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  Changing course: alternative approaches to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and fight HIV/AIDS

  ActionAid International, 2005

  This report details how the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and fight against HIV and AIDS can never succeed whilst the International Monetary Fund (IMF) continues to bind growth and sovereignty of developing nations.
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  Committing to results: improving the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS assistance

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2005

  This World Bank evaluation assesses the effectiveness of its country-level HIV and AIDS assistance. Findings show that political commitment is needed from all levels and efforts are needed to expand this commitment beyond top levels.
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  HIV/AIDS and human resources

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This editorial, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), explores how the AIDS epidemic is impacting on human resources within health systems. HIV and AIDS have been described as a triple threat to human resources for health (HRH). Firstly, they increase the burden of disease, imposing heavier workloads.
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  Human resources for health and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic

  Physicians for Human Rights, 2005

  This testimony to the United States (US) House International Relations Committee by Physicians for Human Rights, outlines the impact of HIV and AIDS on human resources for health (HRH) in Africa and suggests how the US government could help to address these issues. The author outlines the health worker shortage in Africa due to lack of funding for public health and the brain drain.
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  Role of traditional birth attendants in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV

  British Medical Journal, 2002

  This article, from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) explores how traditional birth attendants could be involved in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV. Rich nations have been able to keep these rates low with the use of anti-retroviral drugs, elective caesarean sections and avoidance of breastfeeding.
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  Scaling-up anti-retroviral treatment and human resources for health: what are the challenges in sub-Saharan Africa?

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  This document, commissioned by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), assesses human resources for health (HRH) constraints for scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) and identifies strategies for overcoming them. The paper also includes a case study of scaling up a project in Tanzania.
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  Human resources for health and ART scale-up in sub-Saharan Africa: A background paper for the MSF Access to Essential Drugs Campaign

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2005

  This report, prepared as a background paper for the MSF Access to Essential Drugs Campaign, examines how the current human resources for health (HRH) situation in sub-Saharan Africa will affect attempts to scale up ART (anti-retroviral therapy) delivery. The current HRH crisis is characterised by workforce shortages, poor distribution of workers, and migration of skilled staff to other countries.
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  Human resource management rapid assessment tool for HIV/AIDS environments: a guide for strengthening HRM systems

  Management Sciences for Health, 2003

  This document, produced by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), is a rapid assessment tool to identify strengths and weaknesses of Human Resource Management (HRM) systems. It is a self-evaluation tool aiming to help non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and public health institutions form strategies to improve themselves.
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  Responding to HIV/AIDS in Africa: a comparative analysis of responses to the Abuja Declaration in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Zimbabwe

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This ActionAid publication compares the achievements and challenges of four African countries – Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Zimbabwe – in relation to the 2001 Abuja Declaration. The primary goal of the Abuja Declaration was to reverse the rate of HIV infection, TB and other related infectious diseases.
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  Reproductive rights for women affected by HIV/AIDS? A project to monitor Millennium Development Goals 5 and 6

  IPAS, 2005

  This document reports on how six organisations in Argentina, Mexico and Poland, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland tried out a monitoring tool as a data collection method to assess steps along the path toward achieving MDGs 5 and 6.This report is a synthesis of each organisation’s own project report, describes how the monitoring tool was used and outlines the main findings presented by

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