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    Far-fetched? Does travelling for treatment increase TB mortality risks?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The mortality rate for patients using a tuberculosis (TB) treatment programme in the Northern Province of South Africa is relatively high (12 percent). Is this related to the distance that patients have to travel for treatment? Researchers from the University of the North and Jane Furse Memorial Hospital, South Africa, and King's College Hospital, UK, address this question.
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    TB decided… Patient choice of treatment strategies in South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    South Africa’s Northern Cape Province has around 547 new TB cases per 100 000 population each year. It may be impossible to provide directly observed treatment (DOT) for every TB patient in high burden settings. Are there effective alternatives to DOT? Should health facilities offer patients a range of treatment options?
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    Friends in deed – preventing HIV through peer education in South African schools

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    HIV is rampant among young people in South Africa, despite sound knowledge about sexual health risks. Levels of perceived vulnerability among this group are low and unprotected sex is common. Researchers from the London School of Economics studied a participatory programme seeking to empower young people to change gender norms as an HIV prevention strategy.
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    Are governments out of the woods? Returning Africa’s woodlands to communities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    African governments have traditionally assumed that the main agents from which forest and woodlands need protection are the local inhabitants. As new constitutions and land laws recognising customary tenure come on stream, radical change is in the air. What progress has actually been made in implementing community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and joint forest management (JFM)?
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    Measuring the haze: quantifying environmental and health impacts of urban energy use

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The urban poor suffer disproportionately from the effects of air pollution. Could changes in patterns of urban and domestic energy use reduce outdoor and indoor air pollution? How can recent advances in environmental economics contribute to pro-poor cost-benefit analysis of options to tackle the growing problem of foul air?
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    Getting rights right: Is access to justice as important as access to health or education?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    A core government function is to provide an effective system of justice for its citizens. Yet many governments fail to deliver on the basic services of protecting physical safety, securing personal property and settling disputes quickly and fairly. Recent studies have highlighted the fact that for poor people, access to justice may be as important as access to healthcare or education.
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    Johannesburg: nightmarish future or potential model of inclusive urban governance?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Built on the sweat of black migrant workers, Johannesburg is synonymous with social fragmentation, environmental degradation, violent crime and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty. How is the city reinventing itself in post-apartheid South Africa? What can it teach other divided cities similarly struggling to promote political, economic and social justice?
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    A risky business: poverty and livelihoods in South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Most of the poorest people in South Africa live in former homelands and are without jobs, decent housing or land. What strategies do people use to make a living? What kind of institutions shape these strategies?
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    Insights Health Editorial: Delivering the goods - HIV treatment for the poor

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    HIV has spread like wildfire, causing untold suffering and death and creating profound development challenges. Anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) are standard treatment for HIV in wealthy countries and should be included in a package of care for all infected people.
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    Predicting the social consequences of orphanhood in South Africa

    Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2003
    This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in Southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic.Analysis of the logic underlying these predictions reveals four causal relationships necessary to fulfil such dramatic and apocalyptic predictions:high AIDS mortality rates wil

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