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  Behaviour and communication change in reducing HIV: is Uganda unique?

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2004

  In this paper from Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE), epidemiological and behavioural data from Uganda is assessed in comparison with other populations where HIV has declined. HIV prevalence declined from 21 percent to 9.8 percent in Uganda from 1991-98.
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  Patents, access to medicines and the role of non-governmental organisations

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004

  This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paper looks at how patents adversely affect access to affordable medicines. Although effective medicine is available to treat many global diseases, one-third of the world’s population lacks access to these basic, but expensive drugs as a result of patent rights.
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  Global survey on education in emergencies

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2004

  This report presents information gathered by the Global Survey on Education in Emergencies (Global Survey). It attempts to fill a gap in information about how many refugee, displaced and returnee children and youth globally have access to education and the nature of the education they receive.The report consists of three parts.
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  Global standards and the environmental performance of industry

  School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 2004

  Initially presented at the conference on Global Standards, Oxford, November 2003, this paper considers the emergence of global standards as a driver of improvements in the environmental performance of industry. It focuses on the growing importance of firm-based global environmental standards as an alternative to the more widely recognised state-centred approaches.
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  Learning from Thailand's health reforms

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  Thailand took a "big bang" approach to introducing universal access to subsidised health care. In 2001, after years of debate and slow progress, it extended coverage to 18.5 million people who were previously uninsured (out of a population of 62 million). This move was combined with a radical shift in funding away from major urban hospitals in order to build up primary care.
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  View-finder: pregnant women share their opinions about healthcare

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) is testing a new streamlined model of antenatal care. Researchers from the WHO Antenatal Care Trial Research Group assess this model within the context of women’s views on pregnancy and healthcare services in Argentina, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Thailand.
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  Labour migration in Asia: trends, challenges and policy responses in countries of origin

  International Organization for Migration, 2003

  This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances.
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  Trade liberalization and the structure of poverty in developing countries

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 2003

  This paper gives an analysis of the structure of poverty across a range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and explores how national poverty rates could be affected by global trade liberalization.Some of the main findings from this analysis are:the poor tend to be more specialized in the earnings sources than the non-poor, which makes them more vulnerable to tra
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  Deforestation, floods and state reactions in China and Thailand

  Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2002

  What factors motivate developing countries to prevent deforestation, which can cause serious environmental damage, such as flooding? Do democratic states take action more effectively than authoritarian states?
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  Organic agriculture and rural poverty alleviation: potential and best practices in Asia

  Poverty and Development Division, UNESCAP, 2002

  This document studies the rapidly developing organic farming sector in Asia. It looks at concepts and practices, export potential, market developments and, first and foremost, success cases where small and marginal farmers in the rural areas were able to increase their livelihood through organic agriculture.

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