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    Addressing the reproductive health needs and rights of young people since ICPD: the contribution of UNFPA and IPPF: Vietnam country evaluation report

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003
    This report is an evaluation of the contribution of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) to addressing the reproductive rights and health needs of young people in the period since the finalisation of the Programme of Action (POA) developed at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994.The goal of the
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    Global tuberculosis control: surveillance, planning, financing: WHO report 2005

    World Health Organization, 2005
    The 2005 World Health Organization (WHO) report on tuberculosis control is based on data received from 199 countries. Findings show that TB incidence is rising slowly but prevalence and death rates are falling; however, prevalence, deaths and incidence have all been rising in Africa, particularly in those countries with the highest rates of HIV infection.
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    Strengthening primary health care through health insurance in Vietnam

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    How can countries with few resources increase access to health services for the poorest sections of their societies? The introduction of health insurance in Vietnam has increased the level of access to health care, especially among the poorest groups.
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    Drug use and HIV vulnerability policy research study in Asia

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000
    This study, from UNAIDS, explores how national drug control and public health policies could facilitate or prevent the implementation of interventions to reduce HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs). The study looks specifically at China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
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    How does China’s growth affect poverty reduction in Asia, Africa and Latin America?

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2004
    This study assesses China’s growth on the world economy and its implications of this for poverty reduction in other developing countries and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The growth of China has implications for other countries through its impact on their exports to China itself (positive) and to third countries (negative), and through their imports from China.
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    Anti-trafficking measures harm migrants in Mali and Vietnam

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Measures to stop people trafficking can increase the health risks and vulnerability of those who migrate voluntarily, by reducing their access to appropriate services and social care.
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    Motivating rural health workers in north Viet Nam

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    The performance of public health sector staff is affected by a variety of factors that can either motivate or discourage them in their work. Increasing the performance of health sector staff depends, among other things, upon the response of policy-makers and managers to these factors. In rural north Viet Nam, financial incentives play a considerable part in staff performance, but are not alone.
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    Introducing …the female condom: what is the most appropriate approach?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    The female condom reduces the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, and can empower women in negotiations with sexual partners. But it must be presented to them in the right way. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine assess introduction of the female condom to young, brothel-based Vietnamese sex workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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    The World Bank on security and stability: The listening bank?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Latest World Bank thinking on the link between property rights and poverty reduction risks undermining small local businesses in developing countries in favour of large multinationals. id21 Guest Editor Geoffrey Payne asks why the Bank is seemingly so insistent on ignoring the mounting evidence against titling programmes.
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    Forgotten waterways – time to recognise the potential of water transport

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Traditional waterways continue to be neglected by policy-makers and the deteriorating vessels which navigate them ignored. Yet, rural water transport may be more energy efficient than road transport.

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