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    Education in emergencies: the gender implications

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2006
    Emergency situations often increase gender disparities in access to education but, through disrupting everyday gender relations, also provide a window of opportunity for girls and women to access education.
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    Improving the health of mothers and babies: breaking through health system constraints

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Improving maternal health remains the most elusive of the Millennium Development Goals. Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy-related causes: 99 percent of these are in developing countries.
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    A forgotten priority: maternal health service infrastructure

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Weak health service infrastructure contributes to poor maternal health. Apart from inadequate skilled human resources, substandard infrastructure includes poor access to functioning equipment and a lack of essential drugs and supplies.
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    On the Margins: Violence Against Women with Disabilities. Research Report Written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2005
    Why are South African women with disabilities more vulnerable to violence than non-disabled women and experience it differently? To what extent do service providers recognise and respond to their needs?
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    South Africa Country Profile: Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Intersex Issues

    Behind the Mask, 2007
    On 8th May 1996 South Africa became the first country in the world to enshrine lesbian and gay rights in its Constitution, which includes the clause: "The state may not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience,
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    The consequences of child soldiering

    Households in Conflict Network, 2006
    What are the long-term effects of child soldiering? This study of northern Uganda finds that only a small percentage of ex-child soldiers experience ongoing psychological trauma.
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    Training shopkeepers to improve malaria home management in rural Kenya

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In rural Kenya, where qualified pharmacists are rare, many people buy medicines from general shops to treat themselves at home. Often they receive incorrect medication or doses. Would the training of shopkeepers, who help treat the majority of children with fevers, be cost-effective in improving malaria treatment in young children?
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    The role of gender in compliance and attendance at an outpatient clinic for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Trinidad

    Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2006
    This article, in the Pan American Journal of Public Health, explores the relationship between gender, attendance at outpatient clinics, and compliance with treatment, amongst patients with diabetes in the island of Trinidad.
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    Population ageing in East and South-East Asia: current situation and emerging challenges

    UNFPA Country Technical Services Team for East and South-East Asia, 2006
    There has been marked progress in the policy response to population ageing in countries of the ESEAR, particularly since the commemoration of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999 and the 2002 Madrid World Assembly on Ageing.This report describes the current situation of population ageing, its causes and consequences and implications at the policy, programme and community level.
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    Can aid meet Education for All goals?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Aid flows are rising, but the Education for All (EFA) goals cannot be met from current disbursements and domestic resources. US$11 billion of external support per year – three times the current level – is needed if early childhood and adult literacy programmes are to expand and all children are to complete primary school by 2015.

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