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  Trade and Environment Review 2013: Wake up before it is too late: Make agriculture truly sustainable now for food security in a changing climate

  United Nations, 2013

  This report argues that the world needs a paradigm shift in agricultural development: from a ‘green revolution’ to a ‘truly ecological intensification’ approach.
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  Factors associated with appropriate home management of uncomplicated malaria in children in Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana and implications for community case management of childhood illness: a cross-sectional study

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2015

  Home management of uncomplicated malaria (HMM) is now integrated into the community case management of childhood illness (CCM), an approach that requires parasitological diagnosis before treatment.
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  Catastrophic health expenditure and its determinants in Kenya slum communities

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2015

  In Kenya, where 60 to 80% of the urban residents live in informal settlements (frequently referred to as slums), out-of-pocket (OOP) payments account for more than a third of national health expenditures. However, little is known on the extent to which these OOP payments are associated with personal or household financial catastrophe in the slums.
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  INSPIRES: Investigating a reusable sanitary pad intervention in a rural educational setting

  University of Sheffield, 2012

  Although there is a lack of rigorous quantitative evidence on the links between menstruation and girls’ absenteeism from school, the qualitative evidence that exists indicates that girls can experience a range of problems when menstruating that may prevent or discourage them from attending school.
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  Use of menstrual cup by adolescent girls and women: potential benefits and key challenges

  2010

  In resource poor settings, sanitary towels are often too expensive and unaffordable for most adolescent girls and women who need them, and as a consequence these women and girls resort to unhygienic methods.
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  Grow and Know

  Grow and Know, 2015

  The Grow and Know programme aims to empower young girls and boys to reach their potential through improved education and preparation for life. It develops books for girls and boys that are grounded in the local social, cultural, and economic context, and that capture the real perspectives of young people growing up today.
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  Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance

  World Health Organization, 2014

  Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. This report examines the current status of surveillance and information on AMR, in particular antibacterial resistance (ABR), at country level worldwide. Key findings and public health implications of ABR are:
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  Wellbeing Through Empowerment, Improved Enabling Environment, and Assets

  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2015

  This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: Wellbeing through empowerment, improved enabling environment, and assets: What is the evidence that increasing empowerment, improved enabling environment, and assets together lead to improved wellbeing?
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  Children in Barbados and the eastern Caribbean: child rights - the unfinished agenda

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2009

  This report provides profile overviews of the socio-economic situation and main issues situation of children in ten Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean.
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  Swine flu: challenges and impact on the Indian economy

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015

  The large-scale outbreak of infectious diseases can threaten the economic and regional stability of a country. In the recent past, HIV, H1N1 influenza (swine flu), H5N1 influenza (bird flu), SARS and Ebola epidemics and pandemics have affected people and economies of different lands. Swine flu has seen a worrisome spread in India recently. Given the

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