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  Lessons learned from mainstreaming HIV into the poverty eradication action plan in Uganda

  John Snow International UK, 2003

  In 1991 Uganda was the first country to adopt a multi-sectoral approach to HIV. It has since been hailed as a Sub Saharan African success story. HIV prevalence has declined from a high of 20% in 1992 to 6.1% in 2001.
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  Sexually transmitted infections in Sub-Saharan Africa: the use and effectiveness of treatment kits

  Population Services International, 2001

  This document explores the potential of pre-packaged treatment kits for the treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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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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  National poverty reduction strategies (PRSPs) in conflict-affected countries in Africa

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This briefing note, published by the PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, describes a study of progress with, and prospects for, the implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in countries affected by conflict. It focuses on Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Nigeria, and Sudan.
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  Effective drug regulation: a multi-country study

  World Health Organization, 2002

  National medicines policy usually includes activities to ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of all medicines available in the country.
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  Inequality of child mortality among ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000

  Accounts by journalists of wars in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s have raised concern that ethnic cleavages and overlapping religious and racial affiliations may widen the inequalities in health and survival among ethnic groups throughout the region, particularly among children.
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  Uganda: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000

  Despite strong economic growth, averaging around eight per cent per annum over the past decade, Uganda remains amongst the world’s twenty most poorest countries.
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  How, when and why does poverty get budget priority: poverty reduction strategy and public expenditure in five African countries

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  Summary produced by the Governance Resource Centre.It has become a part of the conventional wisdom of development policy that poverty reduction is one of the main development objectives.
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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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