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The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community
Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.DocumentThe impact of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights on human rights: report of the High Commissioner
United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2001This report examines the role of the TRIPS Agreement on the promotion and protection of the right to health. It focuses on the right to health as an entry point for an analysis of the TRIPS Agreement for several reasons. First, resolution 2000/7 recognises that the TRIPS Agreement could affect the enjoyment of the right to health - in particular through its effect on access to pharmaceuticals.DocumentHIV/AIDS in development
Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, 2001Paper asks:how does HIV/AIDS influence the scope for eradicating poverty and creating intercultural co-operation?how can MS contribute to an open and constructive approach to the human problems related to HIV/AIDS?how can training and seminars increasingly take the HIV/AIDS catastrophe into consideration?MS and MS partners should increase the awareness and create a debate in theDocumentBrazil to bypass patent on costly AIDS drug
Ethics Newsline, Institute for Global Ethics, 2001Brazil's health minister announced last week (gone to press on the 23 Aug) that the government would break the patent of a leading anti-AIDS drug after its manufacturer, Hoffman-La Roche Inc., refused to lower its price to the level demanded by the government.Brazilian law allows a patent to be overridden if the government claims the patent holder is abusing its monopoly or in cases of nationalDocumentYoung men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk
Panos Institute, London, 2001This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.DocumentAIDS, economic growth and the HIPC initiative in Honduras
WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001This paper explores how the AIDS epidemic is effecting Honduras's macroeconomic health.DocumentPost-TRIPS options for access to patented medicines in developing countries
Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001Since developing countries spend a large percentage of their private household health expenditures on drugs, affordability of patented medicines is particularly important.DocumentDebt relief and health care in Kenya
WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-related diseases.Conclusions: Kenya deals with external debt together with regular servicing at the expense of such vital life programmes as health care,DocumentBotswana's future, Mozambique's future, Namibia's future: modelling population and sustainable development challanges in the era of HIV/AIDS
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2001Paper is part of the population-development-environment (PDE) framework of analysis and it presents major research findings, which are based on computer simulation models.