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  Children who live in communities affected by AIDS

  The Lancet, 2006

  This short article examines the impacts that HIV and AIDS in a comminuty has on children living in that community. In particular, the author states that children indirectly affected by HIV and AIDS can be broadly divided into two categories: those whose parents are infected with HIV; and those who have lost one or both parents to AIDS.
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  Incorporating a rapid-impact package for neglected tropical diseases with programs for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria

  Public Library of Science Medicine, 2006

  This article, published in PLoS Medicine, examines the importance of neglected tropical diseases and looks at ways of including them in health policy. It argues that the neglected diseases may threaten the health of the poor as much as AIDS, tuberculosis, or malaria, and may have effective treatment and prevention strategies that can be delivered for less than US$1 per capita per year.
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  Strategic and technical meeting on intensified control of neglected tropical diseases: report of an international workshop

  World Health Organization, 2006

  This document, produced by the World Health Organization, reports on a meeting held in 2005 by WHO and the German development agency GTZ on the control of neglected tropical diseases.
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  Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil: an analysis of the BPC continuous cash benefit programme

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  This paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BCP, reflecting its Portuguese translation). Introduced in Brazil in 1993, it is the second largest non-contributary cash benefits programme in the country. Targetted at elderly or very poor individuals with disabilities, the transfer is equivalent to a monthly minimum wage.
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  Promoting gender equality: a resource kit for trade unions

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This toolkit is designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members, and in ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals.The kit is divided into six booklets:booklet one suggests ways in which trade unions could recruit more female members and increase women's participation in order to promote more gender equal internal
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  Getting to school: achieving universal primary education

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Physical mobility and transport barriers that prevent rural children from attending primary school can be substantial but are often complex and hidden. The situation is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa where, with few exceptions, more than half the children in any age group fail to attend school regularly.
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  Live longer, work longer

  Ageing Society, 2006

  This report makes the case for a new agenda of reform which it claims would not only help offset the negative potential effects of population ageing on public budgets and economic growth, but would also promote choice for older workers.
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  Creating an enabling environment for the advancement of women and girls

  World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2006

  This publication is World Vision’s briefing paper to the 50th Commission on the Status of Women.
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  Self-perceived health of ultra poor women: the effect of an inclusive development intervention

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006

  This paper reports on the health component of the BRAC project entitled "Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor" (CFPR/TUP). The paper examines changes in the self-reported health status of these ultra poor women in northern Bangladesh over a period of one and half years.
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  Violence against children: what do NGOs know, what do NGOs say?: an analysis of information relating to violence available in NGO reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child from 1990 to 2005

  NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2006

  This report aims to coallate and analyse the information relating to violence against children that has been reported in NGO documents over the last 15 years.

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