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    A tale of four cities: does general education affect the risk of HIV?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Sexual behaviour and the ability to change that behaviour are likely to be linked to education level. But does schooling increase or decrease the risk of HIV infection? Research by the Study Group on Heterogeneity of HIV Epidemics in African Cities looks at the link between education and behaviour in Cotonou (Benin), Yaoundé (Cameroon), Kisumu (Kenya) and Ndola (Zambia).
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    Between codes and practices: are African women getting a fair deal?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Tens of thousands of African women are employed in the export horticulture sector where fresh fruit, vegetables and cut flowers are grown for foreign, mainly European, markets. Many of these jobs are labour intensive and insecure, and characterised by long hours, hazardous working conditions and low pay.
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    Mobiles and markets – providers of telephones for Africa’s rural poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Bridging the ‘digital divide’ – a gap between those who can access and use information technology and those who cannot – is seen as an essential part of development. Despite the wide publicity about promoting information and communication technologies (ICTs), most rural Africans still lack telephone services.
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on humanitarian assistance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    HIV/AIDS and emergencies are now at the top of the humanitarian policy agenda. The combined effect of climatic, economic and social issues led to a crisis in several countries in southern Africa during 2002–2003. This crisis brought to the forefront the complex interactions between HIV/AIDS, food security, livelihoods and humanitarian action.
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    Trade unions in Africa

    National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2004
    This booklet examines the legal, economic, and political environment in which trade unions operate in Africa and attempts to identify the key challenges facing them. It describes country case studies from Zambia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Namibia, and South Africa.
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    User-payment, decentralization and health service utilization in Zambia

    Health Policy and Planning, 2001
    This article, published in Health Policy and Planning, reports on a study that assessed the impact of health sector reform in Zambia from 1993 to 1997. Results show a decrease of about one-third in general attendance for both hospitals and health centres over a two-year period, followed by a slower decrease.
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    People not projects – the low-technology approach to improving rural water supply

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Simply providing hand pumps and conventionally protected wells to small and impoverished rural communities is rarely sustainable. In much of Africa, high-cost lined wells usually do not, in the long term, provide better quality than progressive improvements undertaken by users using local materials and their own funds.
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    The influence of orphanhood on children’s schooling and labour: evidence from Sub Saharan Africa

    Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2004
    This paper looks at whether orphanhood is linked to child labour and school attendance.
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    Energy services for the urban poor in Zambia

    African Energy Policy Research Network, 2004
    This report assesses the affordability of modern forms of energy by the urban poor in Zambia; analyses the ways in which energy subsidies affect different types of household; and examines the impact of energy subsidies on public finances.
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    Impact of public-private partnerships addressing access to pharmaceuticals in selected low and middle income countries: a synthesis report from studies in Botswana, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia

    Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health, 2004
    This research report outlines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) intended to provide HIV drugs in three African countries are having limited impact because of the way in which these drugs are priced and patented.The report examines evidence on the effectiveness of two different types of PPPs: those set up to provide treatments for tropical diseases (in Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia), and tho

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