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    Diagnosing and preventing TB in children

    Aidsmap, 2012
    This document looks at efforts to improve tuberculosis (TB) case detection and prevention in children. It highlights that most children get TB from a family member, and families or households where HIV is present pose a particularly high risk of TB for children.
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    Transformation-Ready: The strategic application of information and communication technologies in Africa. Education Sector Study. Final report

    eTransform Africa, 2011
    The future development of Africa will be heavily influenced by how Africa manages to deliver quality education to its citizens.  This study examines the potential for using ICT to support the improvement and transformation of the education sector in Africa, with the aim of raising awareness and stimulating action, especially among African governments and development partners.
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    Computer Learning Centers: Today and Tomorrow

    Development Research Network, 2012
    An unremarkable high school in a nondescript backwater village of our country just became equipped with a Computer Learning Center sponsored by the Volunteers Association for Bangladesh, New Jersey (VAB-NJ).
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    Computer Learning for Underprivileged Rural Youth: A Critical Reflection of D.Net’s Intervention

    Development Research Network, 2005
    The paper on Computer Learning for Underprivileged Rural Youth was prepared to provide a brief outlook on how these centres significantly contributed and changed the lives of many students, teachers, parents and members of various communities. The target area was the educational institutes and the aim was to provide employment and education through computer literacy.
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    Technology and Young Children: A Review of Literature

    2001
    This article reviews current research on developmental issues and the use of technology in learning environments for 4, 5 and 6-year-old preschool children. The reviewers are cognizant of the controversy revolving around whether the developmental needs of children are best met when technology is introduced into the learning environment.
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    The digital generation?: Children, ICT and the everyday nature of social exclusion

    2002
    This paper explores the potentially inclusionary and exlusionary implications of ICT for children through an examination of ICT policies and practices within UK schools. It begins by outlining the rhetoric of inclusion evident in UK government policy and by reflecting on how these discourses are mobilised in three case-study schools.
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    The Role of ICT in Enhancing Education in Developing Countries: Findings from an Evaluation of The Intel® Teach Essentials Course in India, Turkey, and Chile

    2009
    This paper presents findings from case studies of the introduction of the Intel® Teach Essentials Course — a professional development program focused on integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into project-based learning — into six schools in Chile, India,and Turkey.
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    Young Children and ICTs – current issues in the provision of ICT technologies and services for young children

    Human Factors in Telecommunication, 2012
    The objective of this paper is to review issues in the market for ICT products and services for young children under 12 years of age. Although much has been successfully completed, there are still major concerns for the safety and security of young children who are using ICT products and services.
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    Children and Disasters: Understanding Impact and Enabling Agency

    Save the Children Fund, 2011
    From a child rights perspective, disaster impacts affect not only a child's basic right to survival and development, but cut across their right to participate and for decisions to be made in their best interests.
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    Adolescents Living with HIV (ALHIV)

    Knowledge for Health, 2011
    The resources in this toolkit cover a broad range of topics pertinent to the treatment, care and support of ALHIV including: 1. Training 2. Treatment Literacy & Adherence 3. Counseling & Disclosure 4. Life Skills, Prevention and Reproductive Health 5. Psychosocial Support 6. Human Rights & Advocacy 7. Peer Education 8. Adolescent Transitioning 9. Research, Policy and Promising Practices

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