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    AIDS: the undeclared war

    Stakeholder Forum, 2001
    Identifying the key issues relating to the war on HIV / AIDS as access to medication, cultural factors, lack of knowledge and resource short-fall this paper discusses broad areas of change needed to break current trends.The author goes on to suggest some more detailed policy responses for governments, ngos, the private sector and international institutions placing HIV /AIDS in the context of th
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on adult mortality in South Africa

    Medical Research Council, South Africa, 2001
    Demographic projections of the epidemic indicate that HIV/AIDS will cause a rapid change the age and sex pattern of deaths in South Africa.A system to monitor the age pattern has been developed by the Medical Research Council.
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    Resource needs for HIV/AIDS

    International AIDS Economics Network, 2001
    This paper estimates the costs of of HIV/AIDS programmes by the year 2005, and how these might be met from domestic and international sources . The paper specifically looks at the costs of meeting the targets set by the General Assembly Special Session on AIDS in June 2001By 2005, programmes will require about US$9 billion annually, with half of these resources needed in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    HIV/AIDS and development in the education sector

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    The objective of this paper is to describe the underlying problem of HIV/AIDS in the context of education development in Southern Africa, and also to identify opportunities for remedial action and positive enablement.
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    The hidden battle: HIV/AIDS in the family and community

    Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
    This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath.
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    Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

    Panos Institute, London, 2001
    This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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    Whose education counts?: the impact of grown children's education on the physical functioning of their parents in Taiwan

    Population Council, USA, 2001
    This article discusses the influence that education of children has on the physical functioning of their parents.The article finds that:older adults in Taiwan tend to experience close ties to family members and high rates of adult child coresidenceboth child's and parent's education have an impact on the existence of physical limitations of the child's education is more importan
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    Immunization status and child survival in rural Ghana

    Population Council, USA, 2001
    This article discusses the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).
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    Living arrangements of older adults in the developing world: an analysis of DHS household surveys

    Population Council, USA, 2001
    Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys, this study examines living arrangements of older adults in 43 developing countries and compares patterns by gender, world regions, and macro-level measures of socioeconomic development.The article concludes that:average household sizes are large, but a substantially higher proportion of elderly adults live alone than do individuals in othe
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    Workers in an integrating world: World Bank World Development Report 1995: executive summary

    World Development Report, World Bank, 1999

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