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    Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

    Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
    Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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    Child survival, poverty and policy options from DHS surveys in Kenya: 1993-2003

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2008
    Will Kenya achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on child survival by 2015? While child and infant mortality rates declined massively following Kenyan independence, progress since 1990 has slowed down – particularly on infant mortality - making it seem increasingly unlikely. This is the conclusion of new report brought out by the Poverty and Economic Policy Network (PEP).
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    Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: introduction to a special issue

    Journal of Development Studies, 2006
    This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies that explores persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers aim to break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty. The articles integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis using longitudinal data and country case studies.
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    Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY): providing social support, savings, and microcredit opportunities for young women in areas with high HIV prevalence

    Population Council, USA, 2006
    Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY) is a multiphase initiative whose overall aim is to reduce adolescents' vulnerabilities to adverse social and reproductive health outcomes, including HIV infection, by improving their livelihoods options. The project operates in low-income and slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya, where rates of HIV infection are high and where young women are disproportionately affected.
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    The triad of poverty, environment and child health in Nairobi informal settlements

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2002
    This paper explores how community members from Nairobi’s informal settlements understand the linkages between urban poor environments and childhood illnesses.Key findings include: children’s illnesses is mainly due to their impoverished status and environment rather than mothers’ lack of biomedical conceptualization of disease processescommunity’s knowledge of their children’s illne
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    Population and health dynamics in Nairobi’s informal settlements

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2002
    This report documents demographic characteristics of health conditions of the slum residents of Nairobi City, Kenya, based on a representative sample survey of informal settlement residents carried out during February–June 2000.
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    Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
    This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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    Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
    Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access.It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines.
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    The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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    Debt relief and health care in Kenya

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-related diseases.Conclusions: Kenya deals with external debt together with regular servicing at the expense of such vital life programmes as health care,

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