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  How much of the gender difference in child school enrolment can be explained? evidence from Rural India

  Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, 2003

  This paper considers several possible causes of observed gender differences in child schooling in the Indian states, including differential returns to schooling, household resource constraint, nature of parental preferences and also child’s implicit opportunity costs of domestic work.Findings:the predicted value of household expenditure has similar effects on enrolment of both boys and
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  HIV prevalence and prevention among teenagers in Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This short article argues that prevalence rates for HIV have been overestimated in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that, since there is very little comprehensive data collection of rates of infection and that most estimates are derived from testing in ante-natal clinics, rates are bound to be skewed.
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  Summary report: national HIV and syphilis antenatal sero-prevalence survey in South Africa 2002

  HIV/AIDS and STD Directorate, Department of Health, South Africa, 2003

  This report is the 13th in a series of studies on HIV and syphilis prevalence conducted among pregnant women attending antenatal care in the public sector.
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  Population report: the reproductive revolution continues

  The Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health Project, 2003

  This paper synthesises the findings and conclusions from more than 100 surveys conducted since 1990 into family planning and reproductive health. It demonstrates that contraceptive use and fertility rates vary substantially among developing countries.
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  Haiti family planning and AIDS prevention survey, 1998

  Population Services International, 1999

  This report describes the main findings from the 1998 Haiti Family Planning and AIDS Prevention Survey (HFAPS-98).
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  Health and poverty gender analysis

  BRIDGE, 1998

  This paper examines the various debates on health and poverty and how these have addressed gender issues.
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  Expanded response guide to core indicators for monitoring and reporting on HIV/AIDS programs

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This guide is the second in the series of two monitoring and evaluation handbooks which focuses on the new areas of USAID's Expanded Response to HIV/AIDS including care, support, and treatment for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS with a special focus on women and children.The paper offers a rationale for the expanded response monitoring and reporting system; targets for the expanded res
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  Gender mainstreaming in poverty eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This book explores the issue of gender inequality through the lens of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first one of halving world poverty by 2015.
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  The impact of the Global Gag Rule in Zambia

  Access denied: impacts of the global gag rule, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact that the Global Gag Rule has had on Zambia’s reproductive health situation. The Global Gag Rule prohibits US assistance to foreign NGOs that use funding from any other source to fund abortions in cases other than exceptional.The paper demonstrates that Zambia has a relatively liberal abortion law, but in practice access to abortion is heavily restricted.
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  Saving mothers, saving families: the MTCT-plus initiative (Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral Treatment)

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This paper assesses the degree of success of the MTCT-Plus Initiative in providing lifelong care and treatment for HIV/AIDS to families in resource-limited settings.

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