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  Can innovative health financing policies increase access to MDG-related services?: evidence from Rwanda

  Oxford Journals, 2011

  Ensuring financial access to health services is a critical challenge for poor countries if they are to reach the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This article examines the case of Rwanda, a country which has championed innovative health care financing policies.
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  Evaluation of a school-based HIV prevention intervention among Yemeni adolescents

  BioMed Central, 2011

  Yemeni youth are experiencing increased pre-marital sex, peer pressure to engage in risky behaviour, and changing lifestyle norms. This article describes an evaluation of a school-based peer education intervention for HIV prevention among students in 27 high schools in Aden, Yemen.
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  Half empty or half full? APCOM takes stock of on World AIDS Day 2011 - key coalition's annual report on MSM HIV issues for Asia and the Pacific

  Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health, 2011

  In this media release, APCOM explains that despite HIV reaching its 30th birthday in 2011, significant global and regional policy progress will be undone by budget cuts and the global level. This in turn will have a negative effect on men who have sex with men (MSM) interventions and organisations.
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  Civil society organizations and the functions of global health governance: what role within intergovernmental organizations?

  Journal of Global Health Governance, 2010

  Amid discussion of how global health governance (GHG) should and could be strengthened, the potential role of civil society organisations (CSOs) has been frequently raised. This paper considers the role of CSOs in four health governance instruments under the auspices of the WHO, and maps the functions they have contributed to. The examined case studies indicate that:
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  A systematic review of agricultural interventions that aim to improve nutritional status of children

  Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre, 2011

  This report is a systematic review of the impact of potential „win-win‟ agricultural interventions that aim to improve children‟s nutritional status by improving the incomes and the diet of the rural poor.
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  Zero child hunger: breaking the cycle of malnutrition

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2011

  Six million children die of hunger every year. Over 40 per cent of children under five in countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Nepal and Niger are stunted. Children that do survive are more likely to have heart disease, diabetes and renal damage.
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  Regional policy and model legislation to address HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination

  Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2010

  This publication, commissioned by CARICOM, is a desk review report of existing legislative frameworks affecting people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families in eleven countries in the Caribbean.  The study highlights findings around stigma and discrimination and the legal frameworks as presented below:
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  What factors are associated with recent intimate partner violence: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence

  BioMed Central, 2011

  Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health and human rights concern. This multi-country study is sought to identify factors that are consistently associated with abuse across sites, in order to inform the design of IPV prevention programs. Main findings of the paper are that:
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  Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study

  The Lancet, 2010

  Research linking gender inequity and gender-based violence to HIV is limited. This paper assess whether intimate partner violence (IPV) and relationship power inequity increase risk of incident HIV infection in South African women. Some of the important points demonstrated in the paper are as follows: 
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  Globalization and global health governance: implications for public health

  Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 2010

  Globalisation creates health disparities between its beneficiaries and losers. This paper explores the effects of globalisation on health equity, assessing the influence of the new architecture of global health governance on the response to global health challenges. The paper underlines these findings:

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