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    Towards equitable financing strategies for reproductive health

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) working paper examines the impact of different financing regimes on the delivery of reproductive health services in low and middle income countries.
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    Finance development: invest in children

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2002
    This UNICEF report looks at the financial investments needed to free children from poverty and meet targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The report focuses on the investments needed by governments and international organisations in health, education, and water and sanitation to secure the well-being of children.
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    Hazardous to health: the World Bank and IMF in Africa: Africa Action position paper

    Africa Action, 2002
    This opinion piece from Africa Action proposes that the free market fundamentalism of the World Bank and IMF has had a disastrous impact on Africa's health and that the all-out pursuit of market-led growth has undermined health and health care in African countries forcing governments to sacrifice social needs to meet macroeconomic goals.The author argues that the World Bank / IMF approach is fl
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    The decline of female circumcision in Egypt: evidence and interpretation

    Population Council, USA, 1999
    Female circumcision is still widespread in Egypt.
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    The implications of health sector reform for human resources development

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2002
    Argues that ‘‘health for all’’ is not achievable in most countries without health sector reform that incorporates a process of coordinated health and human resources development.The report examines the situation in countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization.
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    Noncommunicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: where do they feature in the health research agenda?

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2001
    There is no doubt that communicable diseases will remain the predominant health problem for the populations in sub-Saharan Africa, including adults, for the next 10–20 years. Concern has been expressed that the available resources to deal with this problem would be reduced by increasing the emphasis on noncommunicable diseases.
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    Armed conflict as a public health problem

    British Medical Journal, 2002
    Although conflict obviously causes deaths and injuries on the battlefield, serious health implications also result from factors such as population displacement, the breakdown of health and social services, and the heightened risk of disease transmission.This paper reviews the limited knowledge on the health consequences of conflict, suggests ways to improve measurement, and discuss the potenti
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    Interventions to reduce tuberculosis mortality and transmission in low- and middle-income countries

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2002
    Examines, through a literature review, the impact of tuberculosis control measures on tuberculosis mortality and transmission, and constraints to scaling-up.
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    Children of war: the real casualties of the Afghan conflict

    British Medical Journal, 2002
    This article explores the origin of the current Afghan crisis and describes the impact of a quarter of a century of incessant conflict on Afghan children.The author concludes that: the rise of the Taliban and the genesis of the current Afghan conflict was in no small measure due to global apathy to the plight of Afghanistanthe women and children of Afghanistan, both among refugees a
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    Parents providing care to adult sons and daughters with HIV/AIDS in Thailand

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    This report is a qualitative analysis of the circumstances and consequences of parental caregiving to adult children with AIDS in Thailand based on open-ended interviews, primarily with parents of adult children who died of AIDS.The results reveal the circumstances that lead to parental caregiving, the tasks involved and the stress they created, how parents coped with this stress, and the conse

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