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    Free trade agreement between the USA and Thailand threatens access to HIV/AIDS treatment

    Oxfam, 2004
    This Oxfam briefing note outlines how the future of Thailand’s HIV/AIDS treatment programmes could be threatened by new intellectual property (IP) standards in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. The article outlines how the Thai treatment programmes lack important medicines to scale up. These patented medicines are too expensive for wide scale distribution.
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    Knowledge-based changes to health systems: the Thai experience in policy development

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004
    This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines how research into health systems and policy contributed to the move to universal health coverage in Thailand. The authors chart how the Thai government first offered coverage to government employees and families.
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    Thailand tackles urban housing problems

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The seventh Millennium Development Goal calls for significant improvements in slum dwellers’ lives. However, conventional upgrading projects are unlikely to be enough. Thailand has developed successful partnerships between government agencies and community-based organisations encouraging slum dwellers to use their savings to improve their housing. Is this the way forward?
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    Shrimp farming at the cross roads

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The growth of the shrimp industry in many developing countries has generated considerable international debate about the environmental and social costs and benefits of previous practices. Problems have been linked to poor management practices, planning and governance.
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    Balancing food security and sustainability: the challenges of rice production

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Rice provides 23 percent of all calories consumed globally. Traditionally, hundreds of varieties have been cultivated but growing urban populations and the green revolution mean that farmers now produce large quantities of a few high-yield varieties. This means cheap rice but it requires high-cost inputs. Inputs are one of the reasons why rice production has high environmental costs.
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    Global reporting initiative: HIV/AIDS program

    Ford Motor Company, 2004
    This report, from the Ford Motor Company, details how the HIV/AIDS epidemic is affecting the corporation under the terms of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The GRI is a multi-stakeholder process whose mission is to develop and disseminate globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.
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    Helping hands or shackled lives? Understanding child domestic labour and responses to it

    International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004
    This report analyses the causes and impacts of child domestic labour, and looks at the actions that are being taken to respond to it.
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    Is trafficking in human beings demand driven?: a multi-country pilot study

    International Organization for Migration, 2003
    This study examines the factors that lead to the exploitation of trafficked women and children.
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    China in the Mekong River Basin: the regional security implications of resource development on the Lancang Jiang

    Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2004
    Shared water resources epitomise the dilemmas surrounding common-pool resources, whose use by one party diminishes the potential benefits to others. The Mekong river is just such a critical shared resource between China and five Southeast Asian countries, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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    Helping older people who care for grandchildren orphaned and affected by AIDS

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    An estimated 13 million children under the age of 15 have already lost either one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. A further 40 million children will lose their parents within the next 10 years. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic hits families in Africa and Asia, large numbers of grandparents are assuming responsibility for the care of orphans and vulnerable children.

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