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  Resource flows and levels of spending for the response to HIV and AIDS in Belarus

  BioMed Central, 2011

  Whereas Belarus has a focused HIV epidemic concentrated among injecting drug users, female sex workers and men who have sex with men, this paper argues that, until 2008, Belarus had no way of evaluating HIV spending priorities. This comprehensive National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) analyses HIV spending priorities.
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  Why bother? Global health and AIDS: fighting for justice and equity

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011

  33 million people are living with HIV, close to 9 million children die every year, and hundreds of thousands of women die of pregnancy-related complications. This report drawn from seminar-discussions argues that while we have made some progress, we need to redouble our efforts to increase health equity, alleviate suffering, and promote healthy people and communities.
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  Blame and banishment: The underground HIV epidemic aff ecting children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2010

  This report, published by UNICEF, highlights the issues faced by children living with HIV, adolescents engaged in risky behaviours, pregnant women using drugs, and the more than one million children and young people who live or work on the streets of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.Key findings of the report are:
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  Blueprint for the provision of comprehensive care to gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Latin America and the Caribbean

  2010

  This publication, published by the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), is a guide for clinicians and health administrators in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region countries, in both the formal health sector as well as within specialised men who have sex with men (MSM) health clinics.
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  HIV prevalence among female sex workers, drug users and men who have sex with men in Brazil: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  BioMed Central, 2010

  This paper notes that whereas the Brazilian response towards the AIDS epidemic is well known, the absence of a systematic review of vulnerable populations ─ men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers (FSW), and drug users (DU) remains a main gap in the available literature.
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  Dignity denied: violations of the rights of HIV-positive women in Chilean health facilities

  Center for Reproductive Rights, 2010

  This report, published by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Vivo Positivo, describes the significant barriers to quality health care, including reproductive health care, that HIV-positive women in Chile face.
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  Health sector response to gender-based violence: case studies of the Asia Pacific region

  United Nations Population Fund, 2010

  This report brings together seven case studies on gender-based violence (GBV) in seven Asian/Pacific countries, and reviews the specific healthcare delivered to its victims there.
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  Getting research into policy and practice

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009

  The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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  Getting research into policy, or out of practice, in HIV?

  The Lancet, 2010

  Globally, health policy has been dominated by calls for getting research into practice. This notwithstanding, this paper argues that many health interventions are based on hypotheses that are best guesses or gut feelings.
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  System-wide effects of the Global Fund in Malawi: baseline study report

  2005

  In January 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF) was established as an additional financial instrument to address these three diseases. Malawi has so far received a substantial GF grant for HIV/AIDS, and another grant for malaria has been approved, although the grant agreement with the GF has not yet been signed.

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