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  AIDS, public policy and child well-being

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001

  This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
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  Involving, men in sexual & reproductive health: an orientation guide

  Population Reference Bureau, 2002

  The authors of this intercative guide state that its two goals are: promoting gender equity for its own sake, and using gender equitable approaches to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
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  Achieving the twin objectives of efficiency and equity: contracting heath services in Cambodia

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2002

  How do health indicators between Cambodian districts compare with conventional government provision of health services and those in which the services have been contracted out to non-governmental organisations (NGOs)?
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  Reproductive rights on the line

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2002

  This document outlines what it considers to be seven key areas of concern for HIV positive women and girls in terms of their reproductive rights in the current response to HIV/AIDS.They look at the following issues affecting women's rights:mother to child transmission (MTCT), which, they argue, overlooks the mother as a woman in her own right.
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  UK working group on increasing access to essential medicines in the developing world: Policy recommendations and strategy

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This report of the UK Working Group on Increasing Access to Essential Medicines in the Developing World proposes that pharmaceutical companies provide drugs at near to cost price for HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria to the poorest countries.
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  HIV/AIDS and the education sector: the foundations of a control and management strategy in South Africa

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2000

  This document sets out to respond to a request from the UN Economic Commission for Africa for details about what is being done in South Africa to control and manage HIV/AIDS in the education sector, and to mitigate its consequences.The author begins by giving an overview of the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, before looking more deeply at the impacts of the pandemic on the educat
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  Impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector in Swaziland: the demographic, social and economicimpact on subsistence agriculture, commercial agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives and business

  TAT Health Services, Swaziland, 2002

  This study attempts to determine the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector, obtain vital information on vulnerability of agriculture and the private sector to HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality; and identify strategies that can be implemented to prevent and control the epidemic. A key finding of the paper is that HIV/AIDS has not affected the profitability and product
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  Rural workers’ contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS: a framework for district and community action

  Royal Tropical Institute and HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2001

  This paper describes an evaluation of a number of projects that form the African regional AIDS program, set up by the World Bank's rural sector.
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  Model-based estimates of risks of disease transmission and economic costs of seven injection devices in sub-Saharan Africa

  WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2002

  This paper describes the findings of research to investigate and compare seven types of injection devices for their risks of iatrogenic transmission of bloodborne pathogens and their economic costs in sub-Saharan Africa.Both financial costs and assessment of transmission risk were estimated for each device against the number of new hepatitis B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
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  World Health Report 2002: reducing risks, promoting healthy life

  World Health Organization, 2002

  The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 2002 World Health Report describes the amount of disease, disability and death in the world today that can be attributed to a small number of health risks.

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