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  Young people - we care! A book of ideas to help young people supporting each other in their communities in Zimbabwe

  John Snow International UK, 2003

  This book from John Snow International UK has been designed to encourage young people to support either younger children or their peers who are living in communities in Zimbabwe affected by HIV/AIDS. It is also envisaged it will be used by home-based care organisations to involve young people in their activities.
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  Teacher training: essential for school-based reproductive health and HIV/AIDS education: focus on sub-saharan Africa

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2004

  For teaching information and skills related to HIV/AIDS, teacher training is essential, and complex. In sub-Saharan Africa, up to half of all new HIV infections are occurring among youth under age 25. Since most youth attend school at least for primary education, school-based programmes are a logical place to reach young people.
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  Sustainable health care financing in Southern Africa

  World Bank, 1998

  This report summarises the findings of a five day conference on sustainable health care financing held in South Africa in 1996.
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  Where has all the education gone in Zimbabwe?: employment outcomes among secondary school and university leavers

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This report analyses the results of surveys investigating the labour market experiences of high school leavers and university graduates in Zimbabwe, to examine whether the education system is meeting the needs of students and the labour market.The report details the further education and training activities leavers and graduates undertake to improve their labour market opportunities, describes
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  Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2003

  This paper examines the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators. The authors present levels of urban-rural differences for several African countries (where data is available) and find that living standards in rural areas lag far behind those in urban areas.
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  Public participation in health: making people matter

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  This IDS working paper highlights the importance of community participation in improving health outcomes and performance of health systems.
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  25 years of essential medicines progress

  Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003

  The historic first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs took place in Geneva in 1977. Today, more than 150 countries have adopted the concept and developed their own national lists of essential medicines.This special issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor, produced by the WHO, celebrates 25 years of the essential medicines concept.
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  From risks to rights: challenges for biotechnology policy

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper looks at the issues emerging within a rights approach to biotechnology regulation.
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  Wild resources theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001

  This paper provides background information on access to natural resources in Southern Africa. Case studies are used from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, to explore customary rights and de facto access to a wide range of wild resources, in particular those of greatest importance to the rural poor.
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  Water theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

  Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002

  The key concern of this paper is with the implications of changes in institutions and policy in the water sector for poor communities, households and individuals. Three case studies are used, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, to illustrate changes in decentralisation, the involvement of stakeholders in decision making, and the role of the private sector.

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