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  Accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases: a roadmap for implementation

  World Health Organization, 2011

  Efforts to combat the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) reached a turning point in 2007, when global partners committed to support WHO goals by working together in an innovative, flexible and cost-effective way. This roadmap paper represents the next step to eliminate NTDs or at least reduce their impact to minimum levels. The paper highlights these facts:
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  Local production for access to medical products: developing a framework to improve public health

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2011

  Poor medicine availability is a key barrier to access to medicines. This report provides an entry point for supporting the local production of medicines, vaccines and diagnostics in developing countries. The paper forms part of a comprehensive project, and reflects some of its practical conclusions.
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  Don’t stop now: how underfunding the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria impacts on the HIV response

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2012

  In November 2011, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) announced that its next scheduled funding round was cancelled. This report draws on recently collected field data from numerous countries where the International HIV/AIDS Alliance operates to explain why AIDS funding crisis requires urgent action.
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  Will increased funding for neglected tropical diseases really make poverty history?

  The Lancet, 2012

  In January 2012, The UK’s Department for International Development announced a fivefold increase in its support for programmes to control neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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  Linking global HIV/AIDS treatments with national programs for the control and elimination of the neglected tropical diseases

  PLoS ONE, 2011

  This article states that there is evidence that high prevalence NTDs in sub-Saharan Africa promote susceptibility to the HIV virus or worsen the clinical course and progression of AIDS. It highlights that emerging evidence provides a scientific rationale for combining treatment programmes for NTDs with programmes for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
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  Neglected tropical disease (NTD) control in health systems: the interface between programmes and general health services

  Science Direct, 2011

  While there is a growing consensus that neglected tropical disease (NTD) control and health services are linked, little is known of what actually happens at the interface between the two entities.
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  Information Technology and the Revolution in Healthcare

  2002

  This study examines the impacts of ICTs on the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. It includes a brief exploration of ICT developments, a discussion of their impacts on pharmaceuticals and healthcare, and an assessment of the implications for healthcare costs, health outcomes and pharmaceutical industry
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  Contextualising rights: the lived experience of sexual and reproductive health rights

  BioMed Central, 2012

  This volume (Volume 11 supplement 3) entitled 'Contextualisingrights: the lived experience of sexual and reproductive health rights'includes the following articles:
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  Effectiveness of agricultural interventions that aim to improve nutritional status of children: systematic review

  British Medical Journal, 2012

  This systematic review's main objective was to assess the effectiveness of agricultural interventions in improving the nutritional status of children indeveloping countries.The review included 23 studies,mostly evaluating home garden interventions. Key findings include:
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  The right to water

  UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2010

  Safe drinking water and sanitation are indispensable to sustain life and health. This publication explains “The Right to Water” (RTW), issued by the WHO and three other international organisations in 2003, and elaborates upon State obligations with respect to the right.

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