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  Rapid expansion, emerging challenges

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2004

  This MSF briefing document describes some of the progress on antiretroviral therapy (ART), as well as some of the emerging operational and clinical challenges. It presents this information from the perspective of a medical humanitarian organisation that provides treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS in resource poor settings.
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  Access to medicines and drug regulation in developing countries: a resource guide for DFID

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This HSRC paper is intended as an introduction to the key issues and debates in access to medicines (ATM) and drug regulation in developing countries. These countries face major challenges in ensuring greater access to medicines, while at the same time ensuring that those available are safe, of acceptable quality and effective. The focus of the guide is on improving access to essential medicines.
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  Inequities in health and health care in India: can the poor hope for a respite?

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2003

  The poor are both more likely to be affected by poor health, and more adversely affected by it, since they are less likely to have insurance against the loss of income that results from illness. This paper examines the problem of limited access of the poor to healthcare in India.
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  A contemporary approach to public expenditure management

  World Bank, 1999

  This paper is the basis for a course offered by the Economic Development Institute at the World Bank, which examines the major public management and budget reforms that have taken place over the last thirty years. Chapter One introduces the core elements of public expenditure management (PEM) and discusses the relationships between each of the elements.
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  Why budgets matter: the new agenda of public expenditure management

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This ODI briefing paper summarises the arguments for focusing on budgets and budget processes and highlights some of the main lessons from past CAPE (Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure) research. The shift from the "due process approaches" of conventional budgeting to wider public expenditure management incorporates a complex set of actors and institutions involved in the budget process.
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  Review of the national program to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Ukraine

  US Agency for International Development, 2004

  This paper reviews the Ukraine’s strategy of integrating prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) activities into existing health services.
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  Treating HIV/AIDS patients in India with antiretroviral therapy: a management challenge

  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2004

  Controlling spread of HIV in India is at a critical juncture, whereby ignoring this problem will lead millions of Indians into the grip of this pandemic. Ever since HIV/AIDS was acknowledged as a problem, the strategies to address the issue have focused on prevention, treatment and research.
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  The determinants of the health status in a developing country: results from the Columbian case

  Grupo de Investigaciones, Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, 2004

  This paper describes the health system of Colombia and attempts to analyse the determinants of ‘health capital’.
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  Access to medicines in under-served markets: what are the implications of changes in intellectual property rights, trade and drug registration policy?

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This research paper from the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre shows that the laws on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) are having a negative effect on health systems in developing countries.The report brings together findings from seven studies commissioned by DFID on the public health implications of TRIPS for developing countries and the effect it has on access to drug
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  Paying attention to gender and poverty in health research: content and process issues

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization highlights health inequities both between and within countries, and how this is reflected in research, focusing on poverty and gender. The authors argue that there has been little research into the social causes of ill-health among groups, or factors affecting health inequity that are beyond the control of the individual.

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