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    Dropping Out of School in Southern Ghana: The Push-out and Pull-out Factors

    Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2011
    Addressing school dropout has been one of the most controversial elements of policy since the introduction of free compulsory universal basic education (FCUBE) in Ghana. This document argues that in order to achieve the target of universal basic education by 2015, education policy should focus more directly on addressing dropout.
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    Fosterage and Access to Schooling in Savelugu-Nanton, Ghana

    Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2011
    Fosterage is an important cultural institution in Ghana. Its effects on education are ambiguous. This study examines fostering as a possible contributor to the low levels of educational access and progress in the district using secondary data and interviews with key informants and foster-carers.
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    South Asian Nomads - A Literature Review

    Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2011
    In the context of India, most recent work has focused on access to the education system for the poor. This monograph focuses on nomadic communities and offers insights into how educational access can best be widened in a culturally sensitive manner. The monograph attempts to understand nomadism, and explores how their basic education needs can be addressed.
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    Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)

    The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of deep concern for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children.
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    Re-engineering Education and Training for Economic and Social Development in the 21st Century: A Focus on Technology and Skills Development in National Education and Training Systems in Africa

    Global E-Schools and Communities Initiative, 2011
    This paper argues for the re-engineering of education and training systems for sustainable socio-economic development in Africa and looks at the role of ICTs in this context. African youth face very high unemployment rates, while also constituting a vast reservoir of talent, skills and opportunity.
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    Opportunity in Crisis: Preventing HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2011
    At the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV and AIDS in 2001, the world made a promise to reduce the prevalence of HIV in young people globally by 25 per cent by the end of 2010 and to increase young people’s access to essential prevention information, skills and services so as to reach 95 per cent of those in need by the same date.
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    Hunger for learning: nutritional barriers to children’s education

    Child Poverty Action Group, 2011
    Do you know that in many parts of the world an ever-growing number of children turn up to school every day without having eaten breakfast? This paper focuses on New Zealand in particular, indicating that it is time to deal directly with childhood hunger in New Zealand, yet drawing some outstanding world-wide applicable recommendations.
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    Sputum induction for microbiological diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis in a community setting

    Ingenta, 2011
    Sputum induction has increasingly enabled microbiological confirmation of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in hospitalised children, but it has not been evaluated in a community setting. This paper aims to investigate the yield, feasibility and safety of sputum induction for the diagnosis of TB in children in a primary health care facility.
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    Treatment outcomes for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2012
    This paper aims to assess existing evidence for the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in children. It highlights that MDR clinical management is especially challenging because there is much variation in the characteristics of patients and programmes, including time to appropriate treatment, average duration of treatment and duration of follow-up.
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    Rapid advice: treatment of tuberculosis in children

    World Health Organization, 2010
    The aim of this guideline is to establish standards for high-quality treatment of tuberculosis in children by providing evidence-based recommendations.

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