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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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    Motherhood in the city: poor urban women and maternal health care provision in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Despite major achievements in reducing fertility and infant mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa, progress has been much slower in reducing maternal mortality and improving maternal health.
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    Treating 3 million by 2005: making it happen, the WHO strategy

    World Health Organization, 2003
    In 2001, partners within the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and other organisations along with scientists at the World Health Organization (WHO) calculated that, under optimal conditions, 3 million people living in developing countries could be provided with antiretroviral therapy and access to medical services by the end of 2005.
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    Health sector responses to HIV/AIDS and treatment access in southern Africa: addressing equity

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2003
    All people with HIV/AIDS should have equal opportunity to access effective and appropriate treatment. Factors affecting access to treatment include existing social and health inequities, widespread poverty, high rates of new HIV infections, famine and budgetary constraints.
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    Impact of public-private partnerships addressing access to pharmaceuticals in low-income countries: Uganda pilot study

    Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health, 2003
    The UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded the Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health (IPPPH) to conduct a pilot study in Uganda to assess the health and health systems impact of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for improving access to pharmaceuticals.
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    Tackling HIV in resource poor countries

    British Medical Journal, 2003
    Prevention of HIV infection is often promoted as the only feasible option in resource poor settings despite the existence of drugs to treat it. As recently as 2002, experts argued that prevention should take priority over treatment for AIDS in Africa based on cost effectiveness.
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    Equity in health sector responses to HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2003
    It is estimated that globally there are 42 million people suffering from AIDS of whom 29.4 million are found in Sub- Saharan Africa. HIV/AIDS was first described in 1983 in Tanzania, and has since spread dramatically.
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    HIV/AIDS, equity and health sector personnel in southern Africa

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2003
    In the health sector, HIV/AIDS increases the demand for care, the level and complexity of work and the risk of infection, whilst also placing a strain on resources. These burdens exacerbate problems of sickness, absenteeism and workload, increasing losses of health workers.
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    Beating depression - innovations in Chilean mental healthcare

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In developing countries mental illness often goes unrecognised and the treatment of depression can be disorganised and ineffective.  The combination of high levels of depression, poverty and lack of resources can leave health workers feeling they face an impossible task.  The UK's Bristol University, together with the University of Chile, looked at the effect of an inexpensive programme of treatme
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    Managing misinformation - introducing a new health management information system in Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can health management information systems (HMIS) be successfully introduced in low- income countries? Research coordinated by the University of Sheffield examined the introduction of HMIS in Uganda and identified the problems experienced in the process. Can the introduction of HMIS support the decentralisation of the Ugandan health service?

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