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  Ethical trading : a force for improvement, or corporate whitewash?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001

  This paper considers the challenges facing stakeholders in one particular case of private sector self-regulation: the Ethical Trading Initiative’s pilot project in monitoring compliance with its ‘Base Code’ in the South African wine industry. It explores questions arising both out of direct participation in ETI monitoring and inspection processes and out of independent research.
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  A new face for private providers in developing countries: what implications for public health?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2003

  The use of private health care providers in low- and middle-income countries is widespread and is the subject of considerable debate. This article, produced by the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, reviews a new model of private primary care provision emerging in South Africa, in which commercial companies provide standardised primary care services at relatively low cost.
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  HIV/AIDS, gender and the challenge to orthodoxy, myth and silence

  Department of Politics and Governance, Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa, 2001

  This paper is based on the belief that social theory, particularly in the human sciences, has been ominously reticent in its intellectual input on the social determinants of HIV in South Africa.A brief overview is provided of the manifestations of HIV/AIDS as a genderised variable.
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  Is land a human rights issue? approaching land reform in South Africa

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2002

  This essay briefly explores South African post-apartheid land reform as a human rights issue. It suggests that land reform has an ethically, politically and strategically important interface with international human rights.
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  Combating child labour and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of policies, programmes, and projects in South Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia to identify good practices

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This review of national HIV/AIDS and child labour policies and programmes, NGO projects, and community-based initiatives lluminates the harsh realities of the link between child labour and HIV/AIDS.
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  Corporate accountability in South Africa: the petrochemical industry and air pollution

  Groundwork, 2002

  This report seeks to describe the present state of governance for corporate accountability in the South African context.
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  Under the surface: a critique of the HSRC HIV/AIDS survey

  AIDS Analysis Africa, 2003

  This paper analyses the methods and results of the South African national household HIV prevalence survey.The author outlines the results of the survey that seem surprising, especially when compared with other prevalence surveys in South Africa.The paper explores the potential biases that may have occurred in the
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  Evidence of iatrogenic HIV transmission in children in South Africa

  British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2003

  This paper is the latest in a series arguing that HIV transmission in Africa is attributable to unsafe medical practices in far more cases than have been previously believed.
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  Case study: The Tygerberg children's hospital and rotary telemedicine project

  Bridges.org, 2003

  This case study describes the Tygerberg Children's Hospital and Rotary Telemedicine Project in South Africa, which links specialists from Tygerberg Hospital to doctors at regional community or "district" hospitals to improve healthcare in rural areas.
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  Social marketing for adolescent sexual health: results of operations research projects in Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, and South Africa

  Population Services International, 2000

  This report, produced by Population Services International (PSI), describes a project that tested the impact of youth-oriented social marketing techniques on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Interventions and communications strategies included promotion through mass media, brand names such as ‘Youth Horizon’, and condom distribution through peer educators and youth-friendly outlets.

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