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    IFAD strategy paper on HIV/AIDS for East and Southern Africa: October 2001

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2001
    This strategy paper delineates IFAD's role in helping to stem the spread of the epidemic and in addressing its effects on the rural poor and on agricultural and rural development. It describes the approach the Fund will use to achieve these objectives:adapting existing agricultural and rural development strategies and programmes to the challenges of HIV/AIDSintroducing new component
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    The links between biodiversity and poverty

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
    Poor people, especially those living in areas with low agricultural productivity, depend heavily and directly on genetic, species and ecosystem biodiversity to support their livelihoods. This support takes the shape of contributions to health and nutrition, reduced vulnerability, crop and stock development, and off-farm resource use.
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    The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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    The external debt burden and government allocation for health expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper provides evidence on the impact of potentially binding debt servicing on health expenditures.The paper finds that debt service exerts a negative effect on health expenditure. Furthermore, debt service is observed to be the most potent explanatory variable of health expenditure among the non-time variables in the model.
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    Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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    Debt relief and health care in Kenya

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-related diseases.Conclusions: Kenya deals with external debt together with regular servicing at the expense of such vital life programmes as health care,
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    Public spending and poverty in Mozambique

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper assesses the extent to which public expenditure on social sectors constitute a targeted, efficient and powerful instrument for poverty reduction and human development.
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    Workers in an integrating world: World Bank World Development Report 1995: executive summary

    World Development Report, World Bank, 1999
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    Women, environment and development: IISD bibliography

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999
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    Sustainability and security: IISD bibliography

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999

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