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    Using TRIPS flexibilities to improve access to HIV treatment

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
    This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organization (WTO) Members to reduce prices and expand access to HIV medicines.
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    South African Medical Journal (SAMJ)

    The South African Medical Journal is a monthly peer reviewed, internationally indexed, general medical journal.
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    Tuberculosis control has failed in South Africa: time to reappraise strategy

    South African Medical Journal, 2011
    This article looks at the reasons for the failure of South Africa’s current tuberculosis (TB) control programme by looking at the major drivers of the TB epidemic. The authors also identify new control strategies that they argue must be accompanied by novel TB control targets.
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    Dealing with HIV and AIDS: id21 insights, issue 64

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Twenty-five years of knowingly living with HIV, the global community is still falling behind the virus in its alarming, complex and often hidden progress. Despite many diverse and creative successes in committed peoples’ responses and many lessons drawn along the way, few have been widely adopted. What can we learn from this diversity of response?
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    Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

    Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
    Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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    Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis as a cause of death in patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in a rural area of South Africa

    The Lancet, 2006
    Tuberculosis is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV greatly increases the risk of active tuberculosis disease and about 80 per cent of patients presenting with active tuberculosis in the province of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, are co-infected with HIV.
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    Headship of older persons in the context of HIV/AIDS in rural South Africa

    Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 2009
    This paper examines older persons’ living arrangements in an area with 32% HIV-prevalence in South Africa. The paper concentrates on headship as a measure of position, and explores how households’ composition and experience of a death differ across headship types.
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    A doctor in your pocket

    The Economist, 2009
    This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors demonstrate how new technologies help to tackle the health problems of the world’s poorest.
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    Determinants of knowledge of HIV status in South Africa: results from a population-based HIV survey

    BioMed Central, 2009
    With over 30% of women and men in the South Africa's 2005 national HIV household survey indicating that they had previously been tested for HIV (of which 91% were aware of their test results), this paper published by BioMed Central seeks to describe the associations between socio-demographic, behavioural and social characteristics and knowledge of HIV status among a nationally representati
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    Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA)

    The Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) has 76 member hospice programmes present in all nine provinces, and with hospice outreach programmes reaching many more areas.

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