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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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    Wireless technology for social change: trends in NGO mobile use

    United Nations Foundation, 2008
    This report, published by the UN Foundation, examines real life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. Largely using case studies, the authors find that NGOs’ use of mobile technology is very widespread and indispensable.
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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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    Mobile phones: exceptional tools for HIV/AIDS, health, and crisis management

    The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2008
    This article, published by The Lancet, argues that with mobile telephones reaching people in Africa’s cities, towns, villages, and countrysides more rapidly than anywhere else in the world, they are perhaps one of the most promising emerging health systems tools which can build capacity around the HIV and AIDS response and filter into the wider global health.
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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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    The role of parents and family members in ART treatment adherence: evidence from Thailand

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2009
    High levels of treatment adherence are crucial for the success of expanding anti-retroviral therapy (ART) treatment programmes for persons with HIV/AIDS (PHA).  Although family members are sometimes mentioned in the context of treatment support programmess, they receive far less attention than peers. In particular, parents are almost never specifically cited.
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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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    UN drug summit: undo a decade of neglect

    Human Rights Watch, 2009
    UN drug control agencies have paid little attention to whether international drug control efforts are consistent with human rights protections, or to the effect of drug control policies on fundamental human rights. This webpage provides an overview of Human Rights Watch documentation of human rights abuses linked to drug enforcement laws, policies, and practices over the last decade.
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    Harm reduction and human rights: the global response to drug-related HIV epidemics

    International Harm Reduction Association, 2009
    It is estimated that 15.9 million people inject drugs in 158 countries and territories around the world. Despite the proven efficacy of harm reduction interventions and endorsement by the UN bodies, uptake of strategies for harm reduction is inadequate.
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    At what cost? HIV and human rights consequences of the global "war on drugs"

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2009
    A decade after governments worldwide pledged to achieve a 'drug-free world', there is little evidence that the supply or demand of illicit drugs has been reduced. This digital book from the Open Society Institute argues that instead, aggressive drug control policies have led to increased incarceration for minor offenses, human rights violations, and disease.

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