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Social technology and human health
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2001Exploring the relationship between technology and health this paper argues that technology itself will do little to benefit human health without the complex processes of development and distribution that give access to that technology.DocumentGender and women's studies in Malawi: a national database 1980-2000
Sustainable Development Networking Programme, Malawi, 2000Database presents materials on gender and women studies in Malawi:- books, dissertations, journal articles, research reports, seminar papers, conference and workshop proceedings as well as directories and bibliographies covering the period 1980-2000.DocumentAIDS epidemic update 2001
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001Paper provides overviews of statistics of HIV/AIDS infections and looks at methods for prevention of epidemic. It suggests there exists a particular opportunity for action in countries where either the rate of HIV is low or which have large populations.It loks at figures by region.DocumentThe status and trends of HIV/AIDS/STI epidemics in Asia and the Pacific
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001Report looks at current statistics of AIDS/HIV/STI in Asia and the Pacific and discusses the trends behind population groups and country regions where infections are prevalent.It suggests that focused interventions can keep infection rates low in specific groups and reduce the risk of extensive HIV spread in the population at large.DocumentThe refugee experience: psychosocial training module
Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2001This web resource, produced by the Refugee Studies Centre, provides over 30 hours of training material on the psychosocial elements of the refugee experience. The material is designed for humanitarian workers and refugee policy makers who do not necessarily have a professional background in the social sciences.DocumentAIDS: the undeclared war
Stakeholder Forum, 2001Identifying the key issues relating to the war on HIV / AIDS as access to medication, cultural factors, lack of knowledge and resource short-fall this paper discusses broad areas of change needed to break current trends.The author goes on to suggest some more detailed policy responses for governments, ngos, the private sector and international institutions placing HIV /AIDS in the context of thDocumentCrisis of impunity: the role of Pakistan, Russia, and Iran in fueling the civil war
Human Rights Watch, 2001This document seeks to show the extent to which the civil war in Afghanistan was being sponsored by Pakistan, Iran, Russia, and other neighboring countries, with the United States and India working in other ways to influence the war's outcomeThe report predicts Afghanistan's role as a theater of geopolitical competition and questions the reasons why the humanitarian toll of war did not figure pDocumentDifferentiated pricing of patented products
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001This paper analyses the current reality of price differentiation in patented products and the mechanisms by which prices are determined.DocumentPerformance-based payment to improve the impact of health services: evidence from Haiti
Flagship Programme on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing, World Bank, 2001This article emphasises that holding health institutions accountable for achieving explicitly defined results by linking reimbursement to results can be a powerful strategy to improve health system performance.The article finds that in Haiti, USAID introduced performance-based payment as the mechanism to pay nongovernmental organizations after a population-based survey identified poor performa