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  Helping children in the time of HIV and AIDS

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2004

  This booklet offers practical guidelines to individuals and organisations on what is needed most and how to go about helping the thousands of children who are rendered vulnerable in the context of HIV/AIDS.Suggestions include:finding out who is most in need of helpsupporting a community-based responsestrengthing essential services such as education and health facilitieslimit
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  Bottlenecks and drip-feeds: channelling resources to communities responding to orphans and vulnerable children in southern Africa

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This study identifies a number of barriers that are stopping the smooth flow of funds to support community initiatives working with vulnerable children.The report argues that current aid allocations are unable to find their way through to community groups, and it is unlikely that simply increasing aid flows will result in sufficient resources reaching community level.
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  Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child

  Pan American Health Organization, 2002

  This document, published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), provides guidelines for complementary feeding of breastfed children from 6 to 24 months of age.
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  Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers

  World Health Organization, 1999

  This manual from the World Health Organization provides guidelines for the treatment and management of severe malnutrition, intended for use by healthcare staff at both central and district level, including physicians, nurses, midwives and auxiliaries.
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  Disabled village children: a guide for community health workers, rehabilitation workers and families

  Disabilities Information Resources, 1999

  This guidebook serves as a reference manual for health workers and village rehabilitation workers who regularly work with disabled children.
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  Potential impact of adjustment policies on vulnerability of women and children to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2005

  This article evaluates the potential impact of the IMF and WB adjustment policies on women's and children’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa through connecting changes at the macro level with effects at the meso and micro levels.The study finds that adjustment policies may inadvertently produce conditions facilitating women's and children’s exposure to HIV/AIDS.
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  Programme planning materials and training resources: a compendium

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This compendium of materials aims to address the needs of both professionals and health workers, including young people, by providing access to materials previously unavailable to them, and bringing to light the concepts being highlighted as essential elements of HIV prevention for youth-focused programming.
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  Killer bills: make child poverty history - abolish user fees

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This brief from Save the Children Fund argues that user fees for basic health care, paid in the poorest countries around the world, are in reality "killer bills". It argues that abolishing user fees and covering the relatively small cost of abolition would immediately save the lives of nearly a quarter of a million children under five.
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  Should we provide a guarantee that no child will be brain-damaged by malnutrition in Africa if money can prevent it?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that no child should be subject to brain-damage caused by malnutrition if more money can prevent it.
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  The use of operations research as a tool for monitoring and managing food-assisted maternal/child health and nutrition (MHCN) programs: an example from Haiti

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This report documents research undertaken to assess the effectiveness of World Vision’s (WV) food assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) programme in the Central Plateau region of Haiti.

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