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Searching with a thematic focus on Health systems, HIV and AIDS treatment and care, HIV and AIDS

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  The forgotten tribe: people with disabilities in Zimbabwe

  Progressio, 2007

  Disabled people in Zimbabwe are more likely to experience poverty and discrimination due to social and cultural norms as well as problems with accessing health, education and employment. Legislation makes no provision for affirmative action or positive discrimination and policies remain vague or unenforced.
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  The gathering storm: infectious diseases and human rights in Burma

  Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2007

  This document sheds light on the factors that have contributed to Burma’s health situation and the spread of infectious diseases in Burma, and across its borders.
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  Malaysia’s experience in increasing access to antiretroviral drugs: exercising the ‘government use’ option

  Third World Network, 2006

  Currently the Malaysian government has a policy that encourages domestic manufacturing of non-patented antiretroviral drugs. This paper argues that the case of Malaysia illustrates that access to affordable antiretroviral drugs can become a reality when
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  For goodness sake!: Asia-Pacific faith-based organizations battle HIV/AIDS

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2003

  This chapter, from the book HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support: Stories from the Community, examines the response to HIV and AIDS of faith-based organisations in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper explores the range of activities these organisations have undertaken.
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  Dream: an integrated faith-based initiative to treat HIV/AIDS in Mozambique

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This case study, from the World Health Organization, describes DREAM, a faith-based initiative to treat HIV and AIDS in Mozambique.
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  HIV/AIDS, communities and health systems strengthening

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2006

  This submission to the DfID (UK Department for International Development) Health Strategy details the key elements that should be prioritised to strengthen health systems. The report outlines how much health care and support is provided outside formal health systems.
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  Expert patients and AIDS care

  Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2006

  This paper, published by the Institute of Tropical Medicine, reviews the literature on expert patient programmes for AIDS care in high-income countries, and explores their relevance for low-income countries with severe human resources shortages.
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  Scaling up HIV/AIDS care: service delivery and human resources perspectives

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines the results of a study into the human resources implications of delivering anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to those affected by HIV and AIDS.
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  Scaling up access to antiretroviral treatment in southern Africa: who will do the job?

  The Lancet, 2005

  This paper, published in the Lancet, examines plans for scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-positive people in Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa. It reports that a lack of human resources for health, rather than financial resources, is regarded as the main obstacle to implementing national treatment plans in these countries.
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  A briefing paper for DFID: update on China and India and access to medicines

  DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2005

  This paper, from the DFID Health Resource Centre, examines how Intellectual Property (IP) agreements impact upon the pharmaceutical sector in China and India, and how this in turn affects access to medicines.

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