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  Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School-based Student Health Survey

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a sample of children in five African countries.
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  Rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy at primary care sites in Zambia

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006

  This study, published by the American Medical Association, examines the feasibility and effect of HIV and AIDS care and treatment services at primary care clinics in Zambia, which has seen a rapid expansion of priority interventions using predominately non-physician clinicians.
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  One World Action Policy Brief on EPAs and Gender

  One World Action, 2007

  The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) proposes a scheme to create a free trade area (FTA) between the European Union and the Asian, Caribbean and Pacific countries. What are some of the likely impacts of such scheme on women's livelihoods in the sugar, beef and cut flower sectors in Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia? Based on research conducted in each of these countries, the report asked:
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  Making politics work to reduce extreme forms of poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  There is a growing recognition of the importance of politics in shaping poverty reduction efforts in developing countries. But current development thinking and practice may be failing the poorest groups. What forms of politics lead to successful pro-poor policies?
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  A new debt crisis? Assessing the impact of the financial crisis on developing countries

  Jubilee Debt Campaign, 2009

  The global financial crisis is already having a severe effect on the developing world. Many prominent donor countries have announced draconian cuts to their overseas aid budgets; falling global demand for goods is being felt by many producers in poorer countries; whilst much-needed foreign remittances, are, according to the IMF, falling for the first time in decades.
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  Facilitator’s manual on planning for gender sensitive multi-sectoral response to HIV/AIDS initiatives

  National AIDS Council, Zambia, 2005

  This manual is a learning instrument and a reference tool for beginners. It is a step-by step handbook to guide the development of local HIV/AIDS action plans. It also details how to build the capacity of trainers in order for them to systematically integrate and mainstream HIV/AIDS into all developmental programmes.
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  Worker retention in human resources for health: catalysing and tracking change

  The Capacity Project, 2009

  There is increasingly widespread commitment to initiatives to attract and retain skilled workers, especially in rural areas. Retention continues to be a serious challenge in the human resources for health (HRH) crisis. This brief from the Capacity Project updates and documents a previously published resource paper and technical brief which focus on the area of worker retention.
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  Neighbourhood characteristics influence young women’s HIV risk in Zambia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  Some young people are more at risk of contracting HIV than others and this is not only because of different sexual behaviour. The context of young women’s lives may be as important as individual behaviour in determining their risk of becoming HIV positive.
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  A copper-bottomed crisis?: the impact of the global economic meltdown on Zambia

  Oxfam, 2009

  At the time of independence in 1964 Zambia was a middle-income country and appeared set to develop into a prosperous nation. The country is now one of the poorest countries in the world, ranked 163 out of 179 countries on the UN’s Human Development Index (2008), 64 per cent of Zambians were estimated to live below the poverty line in 2006, down from 71 per cent in 1991.
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  Political opposition in African countries: the cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007

  This document is a compilation of three research papers originally presented to the Research Committee on Comparative Sociology at the XVI World Congress of Sociology held in 2006. The first chapter examines perceptions and attitudes regarding the influence of ethnicity on politics in Kenya and Zambia. The paper finds that:

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