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  Equity in financing healthcare: impact of universal access to healthcare in Thailand

  Equitap, 2005

  This Equitap paper analyses the impact of the introduction of universal health care coverage in Thailand in 2001. It examines changes in the use of public health care and the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures. The universal coverage scheme provides free care at registered primary-care networks and free hospital admissions to poor households.
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  Field experiences integrating family planning into programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

  Studies in Family Planning, 2005

  This article, published in Studies in Family Planning, reviews field experiences of provision of family planning services in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in ten countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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  Support by migrants to their elderly parents in rural Cambodia and Thailand: a comparative study

  Population Council, USA, 2007

  Internal migration in Southeast Asia raises questions about strains upon traditional systems of support for older adults. This paper focuses on the adult children of older persons living in rural Cambodia and Thailand and examines the determinants of personal visits, monetary remittances, and more general forms of household support.
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  Cultural Canvas Thailand

  Cultural Canvas Thailand offers volunteer experiences in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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  Patents, compulsory license and access to medicines: some recent experiences

  Third World Network, 2007

  Patents can affect the access of patients (especially the poor) to medicines. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) also affects the space available to developing country Members of WTO to formulate the drug patent policies of their choice.
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  Inclusive growth toward a prosperous Asia: policy implications

  Asian Development Bank, 2007

  Asia’s impressive economic growth is being complemented by soaring inequalities. This paper argues that if rising income and non-income inequalities are not addressed, there is a major risk to continued social and economic progress in developing Asia.
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  Good practices in Asia: prevention and rehabilitation

  Humantrafficking.org, 2006

  Child trafficking is widespread in much of Asia. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that children make up 40 to 50 per cent of the 2.45 million persons trafficked for exploitative labour.
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  Underpaid, overworked and overlooked: the realities of young migrants in Thailand

  Human Trafficking, 2006

  Thailand has emerged as the number one destination in cross-border trafficking of children and women. Many children and young women from Myanmar, Cambodia and Lao PDR migrate to Thailand in search of better life. Often their journey leads them to a life of exploitation.
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  Natural disaster preparedness and education for sustainable development

  Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2007

  Education is now recognised as playing an important role in allowing individuals and communities to prepare for disaster. It forms a key element of the Hyogo Framework for Action and is also being addressed through UNESCO’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD).
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  UNESCO Bangkok

  UNESCO Bangkok promotes international co-operation, sets standards and disseminates information in the fields of education, the natural sciences, the social and human sciences, culture and communicati

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