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    Rethinking differences and rights in sexual and reproductive health: a training manual for health care providers

    Family Health International, 2002
    The target audience for this guide is the men and women working in sexual and reproductive health who are interested in promoting training or reflections designed to improve gender and culturally sensitive care among their provider teams.
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    Stigma, HIV/AIDS and prevention of mother-to-child transmission: a pilot study in Zambia, India, Ukraine and Burkina Faso

    Panos AIDS Programme, 2001
    Aims to assess and provide an initial analysis of the extent of perceived and enacted stigma, consider stigma in general and, more specifically, that surrounding mother-to-child transmission, and to explore what steps might be taken to alleviate it.Piolot research was conducted in India (South Asia), Ukraine (Eastern Europe), Burkina Faso (Francophone West Africa) and Zambia (Anglophone South
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    Response to AIDS at individual, household and community levels in Thailand

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
    Looks at how individuals, families and communities cope with and respond to the challenges presented by HIV/AIDS, particularly outside the much-studied Northern Region. . It begins by briefly reviewing the influence of the on-going social transformation in relation to the AIDS epidemic in Thailand.
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    Active ageing: a policy framework

    Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 2002
    Outline of a policy strategy for improving the well-being of older people, focusing on improvements in health, participation and security.It targets government decision-makers at all levels, the nongovernmental sector and the private sector, all of whom are responsible for the formulation of policies and programmes on ageing.
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    Relation between burden of disease and randomised evidence in sub-Saharan Africa: survey of research

    British Medical Journal, 2002
    This study evaluates whether the amount of randomised clinical research on various medical conditions is related to the burden of disease and health needs of the local populations in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach: main findings

    Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2002
    Summary of findings from official review of PRSP processes.
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    WTO TRIPS agreement and its implications for access to medicines in developing countries

    Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002
    This detailed issue briefing examines TRIPS in light of the Doha Declaration which mandates that TRIPS be interpreted in a manner that supports public health interests and promotes access to medicines.The study accepts the consensus of experts that developing countries should make use of policy options such as compulsory licensing and parallel importation to increase the supply of low-price med
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    Using innovative action to meet global health needs through existing intellectual property regimes

    Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002
    This report investigates the literature and on-going political debates surrounding two issues. The first of these is the link between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and research and development (R&D), especially in diseases prevalent predominately in the developing world (henceforth, neglected diseases).
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    Children affected by HIV/AIDS: USAID project profiles

    Children Affected by AIDS, 2001
    This report from USAID provides an overview of some of the major challenges the HIV/AIDS pandemic is posing for the emotional and physical health and well-being of children across the world. The report highlights 62 USAID-funded initiatives implemented in 22 developing countries to support vulnerable childnre and adolescents.
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    Human genome patents and developing countries

    Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002
    This report considers a number of questions relating to the issue of how information on the human genome is made available, and to what extent national patent systems should be allowed to impinge on the international consensus as expressed by the UNESCO Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, 1997.The report is divided into sections each considering one important question in this deba

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