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    Missing in action: teacher and medical provider absence in developing countries

    Development Education Programme, World Bank, 2005
    Absenteeism of teachers and medical personnel is widely cited as a barrier to improvement of education and health outcomes in developing countries, especially in South Asia. But how severe is the problem of absent teachers–and in health care, absent medical personnel?
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    A handbook for network support agents and other community workers supporting HIV prevention, care support and treatment

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009
    Uganda like many other developing countries, suffers from inequitable distribution of health workers between rural and urban areas and between public and private sectors. To strengthen the referral systems, people living with HIV have been trained as Network Support Agents (NSA) to work alongside health care workers in health facilities.
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    Moving beyond gender as usual

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    In the 1980s, at the beginning of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, it was estimated that about a third of all people infected worldwide were women. After just one decade this had risen to more than half and now today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61% of all people infected with HIV are female. This report examines national policies and then focuses on how three influential donors, the U.S.
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    Financing for HIV, AIDS, TB and malaria in Uganda: An equity analysis

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009
    Global health initiatives (GHIs) are an emerging and global trend in health that focus on partnerships. The introduction of GHIs in Uganda has had significant impacts on the overall financing of the health system, though there has been no assessment of their impact on equity in health sector financing in Uganda.
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    Guidelines for occupational safety and health, including HIV in the health services sector

    US Agency for International Development, 2008
    These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors argue that the health sector is loaded with a wide variety of situations where health and safety issues are crucial.
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    Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School-based Student Health Survey

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009
    This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a sample of children in five African countries.
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    Searching for patients: Norwegian testing of pharmaceuticals and treatment methods in developing countries

    NorWatch, 2009
    In Norway there have been two Norwegian companies that have tested their products in developing countries. A-Viral tested AIDS medications in 300 HIV/AIDS-positive persons in Uganda in 1997-1998 and in 13 such persons in the Philippines in 2000-2002.
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    Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA)

    The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA), launched in London in May 2008, is a multi-stakeholder alliance working to improve access and affordability of medicines for the one-third of the wo
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    Refugees are not receiving adequate reproductive health care

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Many people who flee their homes during periods of crisis do not have refugee status because they have not crossed an international border. These people, especially women and girls, often do not receive the reproductive health care they need.
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    Turning up the heat: Climate change and poverty in Uganda

    Oxfam, 2008
    With a specific focus on Uganda, this report examines the impacts of climate changes on agriculture, pastoralism, health and water. The report aims to serve as a stimulus for change for people in developing countries like Uganda who are feeling the worst impacts of climate change, even though their contribution to global warming has been miniscule.

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