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    Get Ahead Foundation [NGO credit in South Africa]

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    Briefly outlines some of GAF’s numerous activities during the past decade. These diverse projects reflect a donor-driven approach to development that was common among South African NGOs during apartheid. The end of apartheid in 1994 precipitated changes in donor priorities, and indirectly caused Get Ahead to change its methods.
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    The socio-economic impact of HIV and AIDS on rural families in Uganda: an emphasis on youth

    HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1994
    While youths are among the most vulnerable groups to HIV infection, they are also the most promising agents of behaviour change. Young men and women are vulnerable to HIV infection because they begin sexual activity at an increasingly younger age, tend to have multiple partners and have restricted access to information on safer sexual practices.
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    The impact of HIV and AIDS on children, families and communities: risks and realities of childhood during the HIV epidemic

    HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
    The impact of HIV/AIDS extends beyond those living with the virus, as each infection produces consequences which affect the lives of the family, friends and communities surrounding an infected person. The overall impact of the epidemic encompasses effects on the lives of multiples of the millions of people living with HIV/AIDS or of those who have died.
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    The Progress of Nations Report 1998

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
    Points out that society has largely overlooked the vulnerabilities of adolescence in developing countries -- and that young people, who make up one sixth of the people on earth, need the support of their elders if they are to fulfil their promise and avoid the inevitable perils that lie ahead.
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    The Impact of Family Planning and Reproductive Health on Women's Lives: A Conceptual Framework

    Family Health International, 1996
    The framework examines women's use and non-use of family planning, their pregnancy and childbearing experiences, their experiences with family planning programs, and their experiences with other reproductive health services. Also, the framework looks at three domains of women's lives: household and family roles, psychological and physical factors, and societal and economic roles.
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    A Framework for the Analysis of Family Planning on Women's Work and Income

    Family Health International, 1999
    Proposes a conceptual framework to examine the possible impacts of family planning use on women's work and income. Because use of family planning may have short-term and long-term effects on women's economic activity, the authors present separate frameworks for modeling both influences.
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    Case Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia

    Family Health International, 1996
    Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design and delivery of health care, and both offer health care as one of an array of services designed to improve women's quality of life.
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    Case Study of the Women's Center of Jamaica Foundation, Program for Adolescent Mothers

    Family Health International, 1996
    Addresses the serious socioeconomic and health consequences of adolescent pregnancy, the Women's Center of Jamaica Foundation offers the Program for Adolescent Mothers.
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    Immunization: Going the extra mile

    The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998
    Immunization is the greatest public health success story in history. Between 1980 and 1990, a massive effort raised coverage rates world wide from 5 per cent to 80 per cent. But just as a new generation of vaccines is about to come on the market -- capable of saving millions more children's lives each year, but at much greater cost -- the momentum to sustain immunization is faltering.
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    Child mortality and public spending on health : how much does money matter?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Roughly 95 percent of cross-national variation in child or infant mortality can be explained by a country's per capita income, the distribution of income, the extent of women's education, the level of ethnic fragmentation, and the predominant religion. Public spending on health has relatively little impact.

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