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    Chlorine dispensers in Kenya: scaling for results

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015
    Two million children die of diarrheal disease each year and contaminated water is often to blame. Treating water with chlorine could substantially reduce this toll. The most common approach to chlorination in areas without piped water infrastructure is to offer small bottles of chlorine for sale to consumers. However, chlorine use has been slow to catch on in this system.
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    Disability Inclusion: Topic Guide

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2015
    Disability is not rare. An estimated one billion people or around 15 per cent of the world’s population have some form of disability. Disability is more common in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries, and among older age groups.
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    Sexual and reproductive health and rights: Zambia country fact sheet

    2015
    Zambia faces severe sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV-related health challenges with variable access to healthcare. 
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    Sexual and reproductive health and rights: Tanzania country fact sheet

    2015
    Tanzania suffers high adverse sexual and reproductive health (SRH) indicators including high levels of: maternal mortality, adolescent births, mother to child transmission of HIV, intimate partner violence, persistence of child and teenage marriages, girls forced to drop out of school due to pregnancy, and low contraceptive prevalence.
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    National response to disability and HIV in eastern and southern Africa

    2010
    Despite the significant intersection between HIV and disability, people with disabilities have been largely ignored within national responses to HIV and AIDS, and existing HIV prevention, treatment, care and support programmes generally fail to meet their specific needs.
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    Disability rights, HIV/AIDS in east and southern Africa: considerations for policy and practice

    2010
    Recent studies amongst people with disabilities (PWD) in selected African countries suggest that rates of HIV infection are at least similar to, or higher than those of the general population. Despite such studies, PWD have not been routinely identified as a vulnerable population to be integrated within national strategic plans on HIV and AIDS (NSPs) in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA).
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    Sexual and reproductive health and rights: Lesotho country fact sheet

    2015
    Lesotho faces numerous health and development challenges. These both drive and stem from: the HIV and AIDS epidemic, income inequalities, and poor access to information and services on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
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    Sexual and reproductive health and rights: Zimbabwe country fact sheet

    2015
    Zimbabwe has a high HIV burden and high HIV/TB coinfection (22,442 TB/HIV co-infected patients in 2013). Women suffer from high rates of cervical cancer (47/100,000 women), mother to child transmission (MTCT) (9.61% in 2013), and maternal mortality. Maternal experiences are also marked by persistently high neonatal mortality (29/1,000 lb), infant mortality, and under-five mortality.
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    Sexual and reproductive health and rights: Mauritius country fact sheet

    2015
    HIV prevalence in Mauritius has remained around 1% of the population since 2004 and the general HIV incidence rate has decreased since 2010. Given comparatively strong health indicators in areas of common focus in southern Africa, the Mauritian government is concentrating on key populations in view of evidence that concerted interventions in this direction will reduce HIV incidence substan
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    When the Hen Crows: Obstacles that Prevent Indigenous Women from Influencing Health-care Policies – A Case Study of Shillong, Meghalaya, India

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    This paper examines how the Indian state prioritises health needs, and how and whether poor and indigenous women are able to participate in decisions about their sexual and reproductive health. The focus is on the indigenous Khasi population in Meghalaya, with its traditional systems of governance that exist in tandem with India’s modern institutions.

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