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  Sustainable health care financing in Southern Africa

  World Bank, 1998

  This report summarises the findings of a five day conference on sustainable health care financing held in South Africa in 1996.
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  “Hulle kan nie hulle hormone intoom hou nie”: a study on gender, adolescents and sexual behaviour in relation to HIV in South Africa

  Centre for International Development Issues, University of Nijmegen, 2002

  This paper from the Centre for International Development Issues presents the results of research conducted among young people in South Africa, aiming to gain a better understanding of the sexual context of adolescents in the country. It looks at the question of how gender constructions influence risk-related sexual behaviour among adolescents.
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  Young people, HIV / AIDS, and intervention: barriers and gateways to behaviour change

  Development Studies Network, 2000

  This paper reports from a 1999 study that explored sexual dynamics and decision making among young people between the ages of 11 and 24 years in KwaZulu/Natal Province. Two aspects of youths’ sexual behaviour – condom use and abstinence – are discussed.
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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on the health sector: national survey of health personnel, ambulatory and hospitalised patients and health facilities

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003

  This report for the South African Department of Health explores the impact of HIV/AIDS on the South African health system, with an aim to assist policy and programming decisions in response to the epidemic.
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  Developing Gender-sensitive Local Services

  One World Action, 2000

  In many developing countries public services are poor or non-existent for the majority of people, and in others, including European countries, new forms of public service provision, including contracting-out and public-private partnerships are being considered.
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  25 years of essential medicines progress

  Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003

  The historic first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs took place in Geneva in 1977. Today, more than 150 countries have adopted the concept and developed their own national lists of essential medicines.This special issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor, produced by the WHO, celebrates 25 years of the essential medicines concept.
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  Non-contributory pensions – costly luxury or weapon against poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Although the incidence of old age poverty in developing countries is high and set to increase further there is considerable resistance to establishing non-contributory pension programmes. It is often argued that they are unaffordable, that households can provide adequate support to older people and that there are many more pressing development challenges.
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  Generating Earned Income

  Global Philanthropy and Foundation Building, Synergos Institute, 2000

  This chapter from the book 'Foundation building sourcebook: a practitioners guide based on experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America' explores two approaches foundations have used to generate their own resources.The chapter discusses the benefits and challenges of market approaches to earning income for foundations.
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  Report of the FAO/OXFAM GB workshop on women's land rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This document reports on a workshop held in South Africa in June 2003 to address continuing insecurity of women's land rights. It brought together a broad group of participants covering NGO, grassroots, government, UN agency staff, researchers, activists, lawyers, and women living with HIV/AIDS.
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  Drugs for HIV in South Africa

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2004

  This short article presents the main features of the a South African major plan to provide antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to hundreds of thousands of HIV-infected patients.Findings include:about 50 000 people could receive drug treatment in 2004, rising to as many as 1-4 million by 2009the total budget will rise from US$44 million in 2005 to $666 million in 200950 service points are

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