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  Informal cross border food trade in southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This brief highlights the issue of trade barriers in southern Africa and its impact on informal cross boarder trade in the region. The report shows that while there may be surpluses in neighbouring countries, food deficit countries such as Zimbabwe continue to experience a high grain prices due to import/export restrictions.
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  Living in the abyss: hunger in Mchinji district, Malawi

  Eldis Document Store, 2002

  This paper presents the findings of an assessment of the food shortages experienced in the Mchinji district in Malawi's notoriously dry central region, in early 2002.
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  Helping children survive: assessing health prevention coverage

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In most low-income countries various health interventions are put into action simultaneously with the aim of improving children’s survival rates. However, these interventions do not tend to reach all children and the number of interventions per child is often not adequate.
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  Beyond the numbers: understanding the institutions for monitoring poverty reduction strategies

  PovertyNet, World Bank, 2006

  This volume provides lessons on the design and functioning of Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) monitoring systems, based on the experience of twelve PRS countries.
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  Achieving food security in southern Africa: policy issues and options

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper synthesises the findings to date of ODI’s Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa.
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  id21 viewpoint - AUVEC: using the virtual world to achieve real world gains in livestock care

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The importance of livestock to poor people is as obvious as the humps on a camel. However, the diseases that affect animals and their keepers do not get the attention they need.
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  Is HIV treatment fairly distributed in Malawi?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Malawi extended its free HIV drug treatment through its public health service to reach 17,000 patients by March 2005. But who is getting treatment? Is drug distribution fair? Research by the Ministry of Health shows steady progress but a need to improve access for children, pregnant women and patients with tuberculosis (TB).
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  Birth intervals and injectable contraception in sub-Saharan Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Short intervals between births increase the risk of children dying during their first year and beyond. Use of contraception should help to increase birth intervals, but does it work? Research in nine African countries suggests that use of the injectable contraceptive, depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), actually increases the odds of short birth intervals.
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  No small change: Oxfam GB Malawi and Zambia emergency cash transfer projects - a synthesis of key learning

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006

  In response to predictions of an impending food crisis in southern Africa in 2005 - 2006, Oxfam deployed a relief response. As an alternative to emergency food aid, the agency undertook cash transfer schemes in both Malawi and Zambia.
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  Working to improve the reproductive and sexual health of young people: Save the Children's experiences in Bhutan, Malawi, Nepal, and Viet Nam

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report outlines the experiences of delivering an Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) programme in Bhutan, Malawi, Nepal and Viet Nam. A participatory approach, involving young people and other stakeholders, was used to develop and implement the programme in each country.

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