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    Understanding the poverty business interface: experiences from Tanzania

    Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice, UK, 2001
    Uses case studies of five businesses operating in Tanzania explore the poverty business interface.Key lessons include:The core business activities of a successful business can have a positive impact on poverty through the creation of employment, through employment benefits such as medical provision for employees and their families, and through the supply of products and services tailore
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    The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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    HIV/AIDS in development

    Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, 2001
    Paper asks:how does HIV/AIDS influence the scope for eradicating poverty and creating intercultural co-operation?how can MS contribute to an open and constructive approach to the human problems related to HIV/AIDS?how can training and seminars increasingly take the HIV/AIDS catastrophe into consideration?MS and MS partners should increase the awareness and create a debate in the
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    Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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    AIDS, economic growth and the HIPC initiative in Honduras

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper explores how the AIDS epidemic is effecting Honduras's macroeconomic health.
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    Debt relief and health care in Kenya

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-related diseases.Conclusions: Kenya deals with external debt together with regular servicing at the expense of such vital life programmes as health care,
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    Poverty and human development: UNDP Human Development Report 1997 (highlights)

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
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    Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study

    ProCor, 1997
    Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the public-health importance of these has been hampered by the lack of common methods to investigate the overall, world wide burden.
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    The Geographic Scope of EC Aid: One or Several Development Policies?

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
    This paper describes the origins of the EC development cooperation and its general characteristics.
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    The socio-economic impact of HIV and AIDS on rural families in Uganda: an emphasis on youth

    HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1994
    While youths are among the most vulnerable groups to HIV infection, they are also the most promising agents of behaviour change. Young men and women are vulnerable to HIV infection because they begin sexual activity at an increasingly younger age, tend to have multiple partners and have restricted access to information on safer sexual practices.

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