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    Allocating public resources for health: developing pro-poor approaches

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2002
    Public funds are often a key source of financing for services used by the poor therefore the way in which a country finances its health care can have a major impact on the access of the poor. How then can financing policies be made more pro poor?
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    Health impacts of co-residence with and caregiving to persons with HIV/AIDS on older parents in Thailand

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2002
    An emerging literature indicates that parents are main caregivers to persons with HIV and AIDS (PHAs) in Thailand, especially during the late stages of illness.
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    Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Asia: practical guidance for programs

    US Agency for International Development, 2002
    In most countries in Asia, pediatric incidences of HIV/AIDS are increasing.
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    The elderly and AIDS: coping strategies and health consequences in rural Tanzania

    Population Council, USA, 2002
    This paper, published by the Population Council, examines the effects on the elderly of the death from AIDS of prime-aged adults, using household survey data from northwestern Tanzania in 1991-94. The paper reveals that a significant proportion of adults suffering from AIDS return to their parents’ home shortly before death.
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    HIV and conflict: a double emergency

    Save the Children Fund, 2002
    This report reflects the International Save the Children Alliance’s experience of HIV/AIDS and its effects on young people in conflict situations around the world.In war, HIV/AIDS spreads rapidly as a result of sexual bartering, sexual violence, low awareness about HIV, and the breakdown of vital services in health and education. In conflict situations, young people are most at risk.
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    World Bank pharmaceuticals discussion paper

    World Bank Publications, 2000
    There is a profound gap between the benefit that pharmaceuticals have to offer and the reality that for millions of people - particularly poor and disadvantaged people - medicines are unavailable, unaffordable, unsafe or improperly used.
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    Report of the Scientific Peer Review Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment

    World Health Organization, 2002
    The provision of comparative data on health-system characteristics is a vital component of securing health-system improvements. Health System Performance Assessment (HSPA) activity should therefore be judged by the extent to which it effects a worldwide improvement in health systems performance.
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    Health: a global public good?

    International Poverty Health Network, 2002
    This paper is based on a report by the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health The main argument being put forward being that investment in the health of the poor would contribute to a wide range of global public goods such as equity, security, peace and a healthy environment.
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    Background paper for communication for development roundtable

    Panos AIDS Programme, 2001
    The report is divided into two sections, the first of which deals specifically with communications and HIV/AIDS.The report explores recent work in social communications, looking at social marketing and behaviour change communications.
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    State of the art: AIDS and economics

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2002
    What is the state of current knowledge about AIDS? How far have economists and economic analysis come in developing tools and methods for assessing the impact of AIDS and in designing strategies to prevent or address it?

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