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  Private sector response to HIV/AIDS in Swaziland: impact, response, vulnerability and barriers to implementation of workplace HIV/AIDS prevention programmes

  Global Development Network, 2001

  This report presents a detailed analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the private sector, by focusing on costs imposed on the private sector as a result of increased illness and deaths from AIDS. The report also discusses the knowledge, attitudes and practices of businesses in the area of HIV/AIDS at the workplace.
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  Decentralising of health policy and planning using Participatory Rural Appraisal : Indian example

  Global Development Network, 2001

  This paper focuses on the importance of decentralisation in health care provision and how community participation could become a way forward to provide health care to all, using participatory rural appraisal.The paper outlines the present system of health care in India and the current challenges it faces.
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  Do patents for antiretroviral drugs constrain access to AIDS treatment in Africa?

  International Intellectual Property Institute, 2001

  The report studies the patent statuses of 15 antiretroviral drugs in 53 African countries. These antiretroviral drugs are patented in few African countries and that in countries where antiretroviral drug patents exist, generally only a small subset of antiretroviral drugs are patented.
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  Providing health care to HIV patients in Southern Africa

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This paper provides an economic analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the health sector in Southern Africa. It provides indicators for the scale of the impact, including estimates of the costs of various forms of treatment.
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  Rapid Assessment Procedures (RAP): ethnographic methods to investigate women's health

  United Nations University, 1998

  This document contains guidelines and procedures for carrying out a community-based ethnographic study of women's health. The main goal of the protocol is to provide techniques for applied social research to facilitate program development and implementation in organizations working in women's health.
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  The effect of the AIDS epidemic on economic welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001

  This paper assesses the contribution of mortality changes in Sub-Saharan Africa to rates of change in economic welfare.It notes that between 1960 and 1990 life expectancy in Africa increased by a very substantial 9 years.
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  Developing and validating a methodology to examine the impact of HIV/AIDS on older caregivers

  Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 2001

  Project set in four countries in Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania. It aims to identify barriers that prevent older people from providing adequate and fulfilling care to their children dying from HIV/AIDS and, subsequently, to their orphaned grandchildren.
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  Parental bereavement: heterogeneous impacts of AIDS in Thailand

  Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2001

  Over the coming decades in Thailand, ageing parents whose adult children sicken with AIDS will bear burdens of care giving and loss. Using demographic microsimulation, this paper shows that the new, lower projections of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic still imply that 8% of Thais over the age of 50 in 1995 will lose one or more children to AIDS before their own deaths.
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  Finding a way forward: principles and strategies to reduce the impacts of AIDS on children and families

  Displaced Children and Orphans Fund & Patrick J. Leahy War Victims Fund, USAID, 2000

  As programs to date have reached only a small fraction of the most vulnerable children in the countries hardest hit by AIDS, the fundamental challenge is to develop interventions that make a difference over the long haul in the lives of the children and families affected by HIV/AIDS at a scale that approaches the magnitude of their needs.By itself, the paper argues, no single intervention will
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  Guidelines for children's participation in HIV/AIDS programs

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999

  These guidelines provide a framework for local projects to develop ways of working with children and young people that respect their rights and enable their voices to be heard. The question that has been addressed in this booklet is:how can children and young people participate in AIDS campaigns and programmes in ethical and appropriate ways?The report states that programmes ne

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