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    A handbook for network support agents and other community workers supporting HIV prevention, care support and treatment

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009
    Uganda like many other developing countries, suffers from inequitable distribution of health workers between rural and urban areas and between public and private sectors. To strengthen the referral systems, people living with HIV have been trained as Network Support Agents (NSA) to work alongside health care workers in health facilities.
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    Small technology – big impact: practical options for development

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2009
    This publication, based on AED’s experience, shows examples of the practical application of small technology that have a big impact around the developing world. The authors argue that technology has dramatically changed the world whereby almost anyone can “move” at internet-speed.
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    Using mobile phones to fight HIV

    IRIN PlusNews, 2008
    As Uganda's HIV prevalence is rising again, policy makers are on the look for innovative ways of educating people about the virus. This article, published by PlusNews, reports on a pilot project in western Uganda aimed at communicating knowledge about the disease and encouraging mobile phone subscribers to volunteer for HIV testing.
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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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    Moving beyond gender as usual

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    In the 1980s, at the beginning of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, it was estimated that about a third of all people infected worldwide were women. After just one decade this had risen to more than half and now today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61% of all people infected with HIV are female. This report examines national policies and then focuses on how three influential donors, the U.S.
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    Financing for HIV, AIDS, TB and malaria in Uganda: An equity analysis

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009
    Global health initiatives (GHIs) are an emerging and global trend in health that focus on partnerships. The introduction of GHIs in Uganda has had significant impacts on the overall financing of the health system, though there has been no assessment of their impact on equity in health sector financing in Uganda.
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    Guidelines for occupational safety and health, including HIV in the health services sector

    US Agency for International Development, 2008
    These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors argue that the health sector is loaded with a wide variety of situations where health and safety issues are crucial.
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    A cluster-randomised trial to compare home-based with health facility-based antiretroviral treatment in Uganda: study design and baseline findings

    PubMed Central, 2007
    Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is being scaled up in Africa but the number of people receiving treatment remains far less than those needing it. In most countries, the scale up of ART is progressing rapidly but with a limited evidence-base.
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    Searching for patients: Norwegian testing of pharmaceuticals and treatment methods in developing countries

    NorWatch, 2009
    In Norway there have been two Norwegian companies that have tested their products in developing countries. A-Viral tested AIDS medications in 300 HIV/AIDS-positive persons in Uganda in 1997-1998 and in 13 such persons in the Philippines in 2000-2002.
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    The Global Fund: managing great expectations

    The Lancet, 2004
    This paper published in the Lancet, tracks early implementation experiences of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four African countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Interim findings are based on interviews with 137 national-level respondents. The paper finds that: 

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