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  The sound of silence: difficulties in communicating on HIV/AIDS in schools

  ActionAid International, 2003

  One of the key responses to the AIDS crisis has been the provision of school–based HIV/AIDS education. However, this work has often been led by those specialising in HIV and has not sufficiently drawn upon sound pedagogic practice.
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  Global Health Forum II: intellectual property rights and global health: challenges for access and R&D

  Institute for Global Health, 2000

  The impact of stronger intellectual property (IP) rights regimes on public health has become the subject of considerable concern within international development circles. Views have frequently been divided between those who see strong IP regimes as likely to restrict access to medicines, and those who see patent protection as necessary to encourage development of new drugs and treatments.
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  Global Health Forum I: creating global markets for neglected drugs and vaccines: a challenge for public-private partnership

  Institute for Global Health, 2000

  Efforts to put the health gap between rich and poor countries at the top of the development political agenda have been renewed in recent years.
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  Tunnel vision: women, mining and communities

  Oxfam, 2002

  Provides practical examples of situations where women and children have consistently suffered disproportionately from the negative impacts of mining projects due to the policies and behaviour of the companies involved.The following list represents a consolidation of grievances expressed by women during the research:companies only entering into negotiations with men, making women neither
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  From age old watermills to modern energy and information technologies

  IT Power India, 2001

  How can improvements be made to the way watermiller communities harness water resources?
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  Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access.It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines.
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  Financing education: investments and returns

  OECD Education and Skills, 2002

  This report seeks to analyse the education indicators developed through the OECD/UNESCO World Education Indicators (WEI) programme.
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  A longitudinal study of the effect of integrated literacy and basic education programs on women’s participation in social and economic development in Nepal

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  This document describes the results from a project that investigated the impact of women’s integrated literacy programs on Nepal's development by examining measures of socio-economic status, as well as indicators of women’s social and economic development.
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  Country ICT survey for Sri Lanka

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002

  This document forms one of a series of country ICT studies. It begins with background information on the trends and status of ICTs in Sri Lanka, socio-economic conditions there and ICT policy and legislation in the country.
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  "We want to live as humans": repression of women and girls in Western Afghanistan

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This report argues that post-Taliban Afghanistan has failed to lift the severe restrictions and violations on women and children's human rights. This is due to the fact that in many areas Taliban officials have been replaced by warlords, police officers, and local officials with similar attitudes toward women.

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