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  HIV/AIDS stigma: finding solutions to strengthen HIV/AIDS programs

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2006

  AIDS related stigma has pernicious effect on the epidemic’s prevention. Fear of stigmatisation dissuades people from seeking help from treatment, care and support services. What factors perpetuate and contribute to stigma against those infected with HIV/AIDS?
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  Are poverty reduction policies ignoring poor rural people?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Three-quarters of the world’s poor people live and work in rural areas and survive on less than one dollar a day, Yet the first round of Poverty Reduction Strategies, the World Bank mechanism to plan poverty reduction and allocate aid for each country, has failed to engage directly with rural economies.
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  Viet Nam's policymakers respond to research findings on mental health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Policymakers in developed countries are increasingly using scientific evidence to formulate government policies on health care. Health professionals argue that policies based on evidence provide far better care for patients and value for money than their predecessors. Should developing countries be following suit?
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  "Children of the dust": abuse of Hanoi street children in detention

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  Street children in Hanoi face abuses from government authorities who regularly remove children to ‘rehabilitation’ centres, where they are detained in very poor conditions for up to six months without charge.
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  Aquaculture: benefiting rural and urban people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The global aquaculture industry is growing by ten percent each year – quicker than any other food sector. The most impressive changes are found around the cities of developing countries, particularly south and southeast Asia.
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  Walking the Talk: Inner Spaces Outer Faces - a Gender and Sexuality Initiative

  CARE International, 2006

  Initiating a dialogue around sex and sexuality was identified as a priority need by CARE reproductive health programme staff working in India and Vietnam.
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  Viet Nam: toward universal social protection: private mechanisms to reach the poor

  Making markets work better for the poor, 2005

  In Vietnam, migration and other pressures of economic development threaten traditional systems of social protection. Private mechanisms have the infrastructure, access to information and knowledge to provide effective social protection, however they tend not to reach the most vulnerable groups.
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  Rapid awareness and transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hanoi French hospital, Vietnam

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2005

  This article, published by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, analyses the impact of individual behaviours on the control of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. It looks at how precautionary behaviour (behaviour intended to reduce the risk of SARS transmission) varied over time during an outbreak of SARS in Hanoi French Hospital, Vietnam.
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  Learning from experience? a review of recipient-government efforts to manage donor relations and improve the quality of aid

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This paper reviews the efforts of five countries seen as relatively successful examples of recipient-led aid policies and donor management.
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  The ETI code of labour practice: do workers really benefit?

  Ethical Trading Initiative, UK, 2006

  This report, commissioned by the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), aims to assess whether its own private sector code of conduct approach has had demonstrable positive effects for workers.

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