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  Drug use and HIV vulnerability policy research study in Asia

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000

  This study, from UNAIDS, explores how national drug control and public health policies could facilitate or prevent the implementation of interventions to reduce HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs). The study looks specifically at China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
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  Nepali women trafficked for sex work in India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  It is estimated that up to 7,000 Nepali women and girls are trafficked – transported through deception, exploitation or abduction – for sex work in India each year, and that 200,000 Nepalis are working in the sex industry in India.
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  Effect of a participatory intervention with women’s groups on birth outcomes in Nepal: cluster-randomised controlled trial

  The Lancet, 2004

  This article, published in The Lancet, reports on the effects of a community-based participatory intervention to reduce neonatal (newborn) mortality in rural Makwanpur district, Nepal. The intervention was conducted among random clusters or groups of local women. In each cluster, a local female facilitator convened nine group meetings each month.
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  Still clean - do hygiene practices continue after promotion programmes end?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  What happens after a hygiene promotion programme ends?  Surprisingly little research has been done to find out whether such programmes have lasting effects.  This study investigated the question in six developing countries and found that changes to behaviour do last.
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  Not wasting waste: improving the livelihoods of poor urban waste pickers

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Sifting through and recycling used glass, metals and plastics is the only way for many urban inhabitants in low income countries to earn a living. In most cases they do not recycle all the waste and leave low value waste (LVW) unutilised.
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  Can partnerships deliver electricity to boost the livelihoods of the rural poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The extension of grid electricity to rural areas of developing countries has proceeded very slowly. Decentralisation and energy sector reforms offer opportunities for local authorities to supply electricity through public-private partnerships (PPPs). The risk however, is that the private sector will only target larger and wealthier communities.
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  Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia. India – where one in five people are undernourished – has more undernourished people than the whole of Africa.
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  Gender mainstreaming in Nepal; working paper 6

  Engendering Eden, Cork, 2003

  This paper explores the dynamics of gender mainstreaming in several areas of Nepal. The author begins with the premise that in most areas of Nepal women are discriminated against. Within mountain areas this is less so with the societies being more gender equitable, but women still remain relatively marginalised.
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  The ultimate stamps of approval: postal campaigns deliver AIDS information beyond mass media

  Population Services International, 2004

  This Population Services International (PSI) document outlines how governments are using specially designed postage stamps to communicate HIV and AIDS messages. These campaigns have been used in Nepal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Chad, with support from PSI, USAID and the German government.
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  Caught in the middle: mounting violations against children in Nepal's armed conflict

  Watchlist/Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, 2005

  This report documents violations against children and adolescents in the context of the armed conflict in Nepal.

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