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  Blame and banishment: The underground HIV epidemic aff ecting children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2010

  This report, published by UNICEF, highlights the issues faced by children living with HIV, adolescents engaged in risky behaviours, pregnant women using drugs, and the more than one million children and young people who live or work on the streets of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.Key findings of the report are:
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  Blueprint for the provision of comprehensive care to gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Latin America and the Caribbean

  2010

  This publication, published by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), is a guide for clinicians and health administrators in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region countries, in both the formal health sector as well as within specialised men who have sex with men (MSM) health clinics.
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  HIV prevalence among female sex workers, drug users and men who have sex with men in Brazil: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  BioMed Central, 2010

  This paper notes that whereas the Brazilian response towards the AIDS epidemic is well known, the absence of a systematic review of vulnerable populations ─ men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers (FSW), and drug users (DU) remains a main gap in the available literature.
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  Dignity denied: violations of the rights of HIV-positive women in Chilean health facilities

  Center for Reproductive Rights, 2010

  This report, published by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Vivo Positivo, describes the significant barriers to quality health care, including reproductive health care, that HIV-positive women in Chile face.
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  Mental health and the development agenda in sub-saharan Africa

  Psychiatric Services, 2010

  This article synthesizes the views of participants in two roundtables that were convened in Nairobi (March 2007) and London (July 2008) to identify key challenges to the prioritisation of mental health in Africa and possible solutions.
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  Collaboration between traditional practitioners and primary health care staff in South Africa: developing a workable partnership for community mental health services

  Transcultural Psychiatry, 2010

  This paper posits that the majority of the black African population in South Africa utilise both traditional and public sector Western systems of healing for mental health care. As such, the authors argue that there is a need to develop models of collaboration that promote a workable relationship between the two healing systems.
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  Health sector response to gender-based violence: case studies of the Asia Pacific region

  United Nations Population Fund, 2010

  This report brings together seven case studies on gender-based violence (GBV) in seven Asian/Pacific countries, and reviews the specific healthcare delivered to its victims there.
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  Human resources for health and decentralization policy in the Brazilian health system

  BioMed Central, 2011

  The Brazilian health reform process, following the establishment of the Unified Health System (SUS), has had a strong emphasis on decentralisation, with a special focus on financing, management and inter-managerial agreements.
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  Human resources for health in southeast Asia: shortages, distributional challenges, and international trade in health services

  The Lancet, 2011

  In this paper, published in the Lancet, the authors address the issues of shortage and maldistribution of health personnel in southeast Asia in the context of the international trade in health services.Key highlights of the paper are:
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  Getting research into policy and practice

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009

  The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.

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