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Child Needs Assessment Toolkit
Early Child Development, World Bank, 2001The CNA Tool Kit provides organizations working in communities impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic a methodology, questionnaire and software for assessing the needs of young children.DocumentMaking a difference for children affected by AIDS: baseline findings from operations research in Uganda
Population Council, USA, 2001Many organisations have begun to provide services to support AIDS orphans in East and southern Africa however, few have undergone any process of systematic evaluation.This report is a result of collaboration with PLAN International, Makerere University, and the Horizons Program to assess: the impact of an orphan support program physical, educational, and emotional wellbeing of childrenDocumentThe wrong model: GATS, trade liberalisation and children’s right to health
Save the Children Fund, 2001This report examines the global policy context behind the child health crisis. In particular, it looks at the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the World Trade Organisation’s drive to increase international trade in services such as water and health care.DocumentCarbohydrates in human nutrition
Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, 1998Discusses key factors that may influence consumption, health, food production and processing, food marketing and labelling.DocumentWTO ministerial declaration on the TRIPs agreement and public health: the issues at stake
European Commission, Directorate General for Trade, 2001Note which sets out the Trade Directorate General's (DG III) position on the agreement on TRIPS and access to essential medecines agreed at the Doha WTO MinisterialThe paper is set out in a question and answer format which addressed the following:What is the major value of this Declaration?Why was it necessary to clarify the relationship between TRIPs and public health?What claDocumentChronic poverty and older people in the developing world
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002The paper explores the relationship between old age and chronic poverty in the developing world, and the implications of this for achieving global targets for poverty reduction.For the majority of the world's older people, the meaning of old age is not a chronological definition but the changing roles accompanying physical change and reduced capacity to contribute or maintain a livelihood.DocumentDrug patents in French-speaking Africa
Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2000This paper summarises the measures included in the original 1977 Bangui Agreement, which established the African Organization for Intellectual Property (OAPI) and regulates patents and IP in 15 west African states. It goes on to discuss the revised agreement which brought IP regulation in that region into line with the WTO TRIPS Agreement.DocumentThe search for an HIV vaccine
British Medical Journal, 2002Short paper argues that an effective, affordable, and accessible HIV vaccine is within reach . Equitable public-private partnerships between researchers, manufacturers, and distributors and partnerships between rich and poor countries are the best strategy for the development of the vaccine.DocumentFirst trial of the HIV-1 vaccine in Africa: Ugandan experience
British Medical Journal, 2002The first trial of a candidate HIV-1 vaccine in Africa was completed in Uganda in 2001. It involved a randomised, placebo controlled trial of a vaccine in healthy volunteers at low risk of HIV infection.DocumentThe Debt Relief Initiative and public health spending in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs)
Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative is the first international effort to reduce the external debt of the world’s poorest, most heavily indebted countries, and represents an important step forward in placing debt relief within an overall framework of poverty reduction.Pages