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  We want birth control: reproductive health findings in Northern Uganda

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2007

  What does the reproductive health (RH) situation among the conflict-affected populations of northern Uganda look like? The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children and the United Nations Population Fund assessed this question in February 2007 and visited the districts of Kitgum and Pader and also a youth center and clinic in Gulu. Specific findings include:
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  What's culture got to do with HIV and AIDS?

  Healthlink Worldwide [formerly Appropriate Health Resources and Technologies Action Group ], 2007

  This paper from Healthlink Worldwide argues that developing more effective cultural approaches to HIV prevention should be a priority. The paper draws on the preliminary findings of a study co-sponsored by the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to examine the role of culture in HIV work.
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  YouthLens No. 21: Integrating reproductive health and HIV services for youth

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2007

  Often health services for young people address contraception or prevention of HIV/STIs, but not both. Would an integrated approach to sexual health services reduce unwanted pregnancies and HIV/STIs among young people? This briefing paper reports on the findings of a series of studies that examined this question.
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  Civil conflict and sleeping sickness in Africa in general and Uganda in particular

  Conflict and health, 2007

  This article, published in Conflict and Health journal, reviews the processes by which conflict has contributed to the occurrence of sleeping sickness in Africa. In particular, the paper focuses on sleeping sickness in south-eastern Uganda, where incidence increase is expected to continue.
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  Understanding positive women's realities: Exchange Autum 2006

  Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender, 2006

  This issue of Exchange, produced in association with the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), focuses on the experience of women living with HIV. The issue focuses particularly on sexual and reproductive rights.
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  SOMO briefing paper on ethics in clinical trials: Examples of unethical trials

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006

  This briefing paper provides an overview of known examples of unethical clinical trials for pharmaceuticals with a focus on developing countries. The study makes the following general observations :
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  Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa: introduction to a special issue

  Journal of Development Studies, 2006

  This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies that explores persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers aim to break new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty. The articles integrate qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis using longitudinal data and country case studies.
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  The Global Fund Secretariat’s suspension of funding to Uganda: how could this have been avoided?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2006

  This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, argues that the suspension of funding to Uganda from the Global Fund could have been avoided. The article outlines how the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) suspended five grants to Uganda following an audit report that exposed gross mismanagement in the Project Management Unit.
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  Market development approaches scoping report

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2006

  This paper, produced for the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, explores how market development approaches (MDAs) for reproductive health commodities, can contribute to financial sustainability, improved access and expanded choice.
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  Missing in action: teacher and health worker absence in developing countries

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2005

  This paper presents the results of teacher and health worker absenteeism in primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru, and Uganda.Main findings from the study include:averaging across the countries, about 19 percent of teachers and 35 percent of health workers were absentin India, one quarter of government primary school teachers were absent f

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