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    Patents, access to medicines and the role of non-governmental organisations

    Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004
    This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paper looks at how patents adversely affect access to affordable medicines. Although effective medicine is available to treat many global diseases, one-third of the world’s population lacks access to these basic, but expensive drugs as a result of patent rights.
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    25 years of essential medicines progress

    Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003
    The historic first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs took place in Geneva in 1977. Today, more than 150 countries have adopted the concept and developed their own national lists of essential medicines.This special issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor, produced by the WHO, celebrates 25 years of the essential medicines concept.
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    Who infects whom? Migration and the HIV epidemic in South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    High rates of population movement fuel the spread of HIV in Southern Africa. Urban migrants returning home to their rural communities can help drive the epidemic. However, is this migration pattern the main cause of the spread of infection within rural communities? The South African Medical Research Council investigated this issue in Hlabisa, a rural district of KwaZulu/Natal.
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    Stepping back from the edge: the pursuit of antiretroviral therapy in Botswana, South Africa and Uganda

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003
    This Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) ‘Best Practice Collection’ describes who is taking the initiative on better access to antiretrovirals at grass-roots level and how they are doing it. The report offers firsthand experience from HIV/AIDS programmes in three African countries.
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    Surmounting challenges: procurement of antiretroviral medicines in low- and middle-income countries

    Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003
    As the price of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in low- and middle-income countries has fallen in recent years, governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations have been able to start developing treatment programmes for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
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    TRIPS, pharmaceutical patents, and access to essential medicines: a long way from Seattle to Doha

    Médecins Sans Frontières, 2003
    Public health advocates welcomed the Doha Declaration as an important achievement because it gave primacy to public health over private intellectual property, and clarified World Trade Organization (WTO) Members' rights to use trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) safeguards.
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    Briefing note on international migration of health professionals: levelling the playing field for developing country health systems

    Health Sector Reform Research Work Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2002
    The international movement of labour is greatest amongst those with a high level of skill. Health professionals form the biggest group of skilled migrants.
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    South Africa: health briefing paper

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2001
    From the early 1960s due to its apartheid policies, South Africa became increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. With the collapse of the Rand in 1989, repeal of the apartheid laws started, culminating in the free elections of 1994.
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    Equity in health in unequal societies: towards health equity during rapid social change

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
    This paper explores the implications for health policy of the segmentation of society into social groups with very different levels of income and wealth.
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    Efficiency, accountability and implementation: public sector reform in East and Southern Africa

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2001
    Five questions central to public sector reform in East and Southern Africa, and consistent with their proclaimed thrust, are addressed in this paper:Has the size of government employment changed since the mid-1980s?Have government functions become more focused on 'core' activities, such as health and education, during this period?Have real wage levels changed?Has accountability

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