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  Fending for themselves: Afghan refugee children and adolescents working in urban Pakistan

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2002

  This report documents the findings of a Women’s commission mission to identify the protection and care concerns of refugee Afghan children, adolescents and youth working and living in urban settings in Pakistan. Urban refugee communities in Pakistan have been neglected by the international humanitarian community.
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  Reaching out-of-school youth with reproductive health and HIV/AIDS information and services

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2004

  This paper from Youthnet examines the issue of reaching out-of-school youths with reproductive health (RH) and HIV/AIDS information services. Highlighting the difference between mainstream and socially marginalised out-of-school youth, it examines the link between schooling and safer sexual behaviour, emphasising the benefits of school beyond literacy and knowledge.
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  The experience of sexual coercion among young people in Kenya

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004

  This research article, published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, analyses data on non-consensual sex among young people aged 10–24 in Nyeri, Kenya. Of those who were sexually experienced, 21 per cent of females and 11 per cent of males had experienced coercive (forced) sex. The perpetrators were usually intimate partners, including boyfriends, girlfriends and husbands.
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  Summary report: study on the impact of the implementation of the convention on the rights of the child

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2004

  This report examines how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been implemented, the impacts it has had on the daily lives of children, and the extent it has made to advance their human rights and generate social change.
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  Reducing maternal and child mortality in Bolivia

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2000

  This paper, produced by Partnerships for Health Reform, reports on an evaluation of the Bolivian National Insurance for Mothers and Children (SNMN) programme. The paper finds that utilisation of formal maternal and child health services has increased as a direct result of the implementation of SNMN, particularly among the poor and among adolescents.
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  Priority service provision under decentralization: a case study of maternal and child health care in Uganda

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 1999

  This paper from Partnerships for Health Reform reports on a study to examine the impact of health sector decentralisation in Uganda on maternal and child health (MCH) services.
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  Cost-effective strategies for achieving polio eradication: lessons from Turkey and Cambodia

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2001

  This paper, from the Partnerships for Health Reform Project, reports on two case studies on the cost-effectiveness of mixed operational approaches to polio eradication. The two case studies, Turkey and Cambodia, involved mass immunisation campaign approaches that combined both fixed site immunisation with targeted house-to-house immunisation.
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  Closing the quality chasm in child abuse treatment: identifying and disseminating best practices

  National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center [Medical University of South Carolina], 2004

  This report, produced by the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (Medical University of South Carolina, USA), is the result of an extensive assessment of the current forms of therapeutic intervention used by those working with the victims of child abuse and their families in the US.
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  Recognizing childhood illnesses and their traditional explanations: exploring options for care-seeking interventions in the context of the IMCI strategy in Ghana

  Medline, 2003

  The capacity of carers to recognise the symptoms of serious illness is only one of many reasons why sick children are not being taken to health facilities in poor countries.
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  Sara, a role model for girls as they face HIV and AIDS in Africa: a review of the sara communication initiative for its introduction to Ghana

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  The Sara Communication Initiative (SCI) is a complementary regional project designed to support and reinforce on-going and future program activities supported by UNICEF, its partners and any organisation with similar goals.

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