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    Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women and Adolescent Girls Living with HIV: Research Report on Qualitative Findings from Brazil, Ethiopia and the Ukraine

    United Nations Population Fund, 2006
    Despite the growing magnitude of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, health interventions that focus on providing care and treatment for HIV positive women have come at a slow pace. Most women do not know their HIV status until they become pregnant and are tested as a part of antenatal care.
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    Multicentre study of acute alcohol use and non-fatal injuries: data from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuries

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2006
    This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), examines the link between drinking alcohol and the risk of non-fatal injury. It draws on data collected from hospital emergency departments in Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, India, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.
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    Agricultural R&D in the developing world: too little, too late?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
    Are developing countries are at risk of becoming technological orphans?
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    Combined strategies needed for tackling armed violence and poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Loss of lives, unemployment and large-scale displacement as a result of armed violence are increasing. The link between armed violence and poverty is clear.  But, how can poverty reduction and armed conflict reduction programmes be integrated?
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    South Bulletin: Hunger

    South Centre, 2005
    This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on Hunger, with contributions from various Southern leaders including speeches from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe as well as other stakeholders.Hunger is an emergency: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva argues that hunger needs to be raised as a polit
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    Heart patients are not getting the right treatment

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Every year 32 million people have a heart attack or stroke. At least half of these occur in people known to have cardiovascular disease who have already suffered an attack or stroke. Using the right drugs could prevent as many as three-quarters of these experiencing repeat attacks.
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    Non-formal education and basic education reform: a conceptual review

    International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2006
    There is growing recognition that non-formal education (NFE) can play an important role in providing basic education for disadvantaged children and young people. However, development agencies and governments face difficult questions about how to manage the relationship between NFE and the formal education system.
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    A capability centred approach to environmental sustainability: is productive employment the missing link between micro- and macro policies?

    WebEc World Wide Web Resources in Economics, 2006
    The central premise of this paper is that there is a strong synergy between economic, social and environmental interventions. Focusing development analysis and policy on merely increasing income and material wealth is misguided, as standards of living are also determined by access to social services and the health and sustainability of the environment.
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    Financing energy efficiency: lessons from recent experience with a focus on Brazil, China and India

    International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Minsk, 2006
    Without gains from energy efficiency efforts, China, India and Brazil are projected to more than double their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in a single generation, resulting in major impacts on the global energy system and climate.
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    Using community conservation to achieve the MDGs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In many places, globalisation, inappropriate policies and malpractices in government and non-government organisations have resulted in the degradation of many ecosystems. Official conservation policies are often failing to stop this decline. Can community-based conservation efforts achieve better results?

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