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  Mobilizing resources for health: the case for user fees revisited

  World Health Organization, 2000

  More than a decade has passed since many developing countries introduced user fees for health services, but so far the benefits predicted by the World Bank and others have not been achieved.
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  Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2003

  This paper examines the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators. The authors present levels of urban-rural differences for several African countries (where data is available) and find that living standards in rural areas lag far behind those in urban areas.
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  GM food aid: Africa denied choice again?

  Earthlife Africa, 2004

  This publication by the Africa Center for Biosafety, Earthlife Africa, Environmental Rights Action - Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Grain and SafeAge makes the case that non-GM food aid is both possible and desirable.
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  Disentangling HIV and AIDS stigma in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003

  This paper examines stigma and discrimination of HIV and AIDS in three countries, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. The project studied the complexities around stigma by investigating the causes, context (focusing on socio-economic status, youth and gender), experiences, coping strategies and consequences of stigma and discrimination.
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  Empowering communities to respond to HIV/AIDS: Ndola demonstration project on maternal and child health: operations research final report

  Population Council, USA, 2003

  This paper presents the results of a pre-post intervention study of the Ndola Demonstration Project in Zambia, whose goal was to pilot the introduction of infant feeding counselling (IFC) and voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) at antenatal care (ANC) sites as interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV.Findings include:during the intervention mothers became i
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  Sector wide approaches in education

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2003

  This report provides an overview of key issues in the development and implementation of sector wide approaches (SWAps) in education.
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  Trade liberalization and the structure of poverty in developing countries

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 2003

  This paper gives an analysis of the structure of poverty across a range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and explores how national poverty rates could be affected by global trade liberalization.Some of the main findings from this analysis are:the poor tend to be more specialized in the earnings sources than the non-poor, which makes them more vulnerable to tra
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  HIV/AIDS and agriculture: impacts and responses: case studies from Namibia, Uganda and Zambia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  How can countries support increasing numbers of vulnerable households? What can be done to reverse the trend towards increasing destitution?
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  People living with HIV/AIDS in community-based prevention, care and support programs in developing countries: a multi-country diagnostic study

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  Despite growing recognition of its importance, there has been little research that examines the involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) in the delivery of prevention, care and support services in developing countries and its effects on PLHA, others affected by HIV/AIDS and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
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  Reducing poverty or repeating mistakes?

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2003

  This report summarises partner perspectives, positions and recommendations in relation to the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, policy contents, implementation and monitoring of PRSPs. It offers a critique of PRSPs, and addresses the roles played by government, donors and civil society. It also highlights the various groups' capacities and their commitment.

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