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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on adult mortality in South Africa

    Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2001
    Demographic projections of the epidemic indicate that HIV/AIDS will cause a rapid change the age and sex pattern of deaths in South Africa.A system to monitor the age pattern has been developed by the Medical Research Council.
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    Resource needs for HIV/AIDS

    International AIDS Economics Network, 2001
    This paper estimates the costs of of HIV/AIDS programmes by the year 2005, and how these might be met from domestic and international sources . The paper specifically looks at the costs of meeting the targets set by the General Assembly Special Session on AIDS in June 2001By 2005, programmes will require about US$9 billion annually, with half of these resources needed in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    The links between biodiversity and poverty

    World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001
    Poor people, especially those living in areas with low agricultural productivity, depend heavily and directly on genetic, species and ecosystem biodiversity to support their livelihoods. This support takes the shape of contributions to health and nutrition, reduced vulnerability, crop and stock development, and off-farm resource use.
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    Fatal imbalance: the crisis in research and development for drugs for neglected diseases

    Médecins Sans Frontières, 2001
    The human suffering caused by infectious diseases could be reduced; with billions of dollars dedicated to health research and development (R&D) it should be possible to develop effective treatments for these diseases. However, the lack of R&D for diseases common in developing countries means that very few new drugs have been brought to market for them.
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    Food and Nutrition Library, IFPRI Special Edition CD-ROM

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
    This CD-ROM contains 300+ full-text publications from cooperating organisations and agencies, covering food, food policy, nutrition and nutrition research, as well as the complete IFPRI website as of August 2000.The Food and Nutrition Library 1.1 is a cooperative project coordinated by IFPRI, the United Nations University Press and the Humanity Libraries Project.
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    HIV/AIDS and development in the education sector

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    The objective of this paper is to describe the underlying problem of HIV/AIDS in the context of education development in Southern Africa, and also to identify opportunities for remedial action and positive enablement.
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    The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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    De-emphasize nutrition goals and targets in nutrition work: now

    SCN News, 2001
    This paper examines the history and success of the current nutrition goals and targets in overcoming malnutrition. It argues that whilst these resolutions are useful to bring about new programme efforts, they shift the focus of attention to achieving the specified short- and/or long-term outcome(s).
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    The external debt burden and government allocation for health expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper provides evidence on the impact of potentially binding debt servicing on health expenditures.The paper finds that debt service exerts a negative effect on health expenditure. Furthermore, debt service is observed to be the most potent explanatory variable of health expenditure among the non-time variables in the model.
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    Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.

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