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    Don’t Stop Now! Calling for a UK Blueprint to achieve an HIV-free generation

    2012
    This report calls on the UK government, the world’s second largest bilateral HIV donor, to develop a detailed blueprint by June 2013 which maps out the UK’s role in achieving an HIV-free generation.
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    Human Rights and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2011
    With respect to rights-based programming, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria faces an inherent dilemma: it explicitly espouses human rights-centered approaches to HIV, yet it also claims as a central principle of its work that the programs it funds should result from “country-driven” processes.
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    Moving beyond gender as usual

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    In the 1980s, at the beginning of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, it was estimated that about a third of all people infected worldwide were women. After just one decade this had risen to more than half and now today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61% of all people infected with HIV are female. This report examines national policies and then focuses on how three influential donors, the U.S.
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    Financing for HIV, AIDS, TB and malaria in Uganda: An equity analysis

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009
    Global health initiatives (GHIs) are an emerging and global trend in health that focus on partnerships. The introduction of GHIs in Uganda has had significant impacts on the overall financing of the health system, though there has been no assessment of their impact on equity in health sector financing in Uganda.
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    Saving lives now: female condoms and the role of US foreign aid

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2008
    This report from the Centre for Health and Gender Equity outlines the importance of the female condom in preventing the spread of HIV.
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    No health without mental health

    The Lancet, 2007
    This is the first in a series of six papers about global mental health. The paper illustrates the significant burden of mental disorders and the links between these and other health conditions. Mental disorders increase the risk for communicable and non-communicable diseases, and contribute to unintentional and intentional injury.
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    Delivering the 2010 target: financing universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment

    ActionAid International, 2006
    This paper looks at the current funding gap in the global response to HIV and AIDS and calls on the UK to work with other G8 countries to galvanise sufficient funding. It also calls on Gordon Brown to build on the UK’s political leadership in 2005 and push for G8 countries to agree on an international funding, focusing on the urgent delivery of existing financial commitments.
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    Health system capacities in developing countries and global health initiatives on communicable diseases

    Uma Lele, Personal Website, 2005
    The paper assesses seven international health programs addressing communicable diseases, primarily focusing on the focus on the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) and its interactions with other organisations. It argues that global health programmes need to shift away from a tendency for crisis management to a greater focus on longer-term strategic planning and implementati
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    Reproductive health of women in Thailand: progress and challenges towards attainment of international development goals

    United Nations Population Fund, 2005
    This report examines Thailand’s progress in the area of women’s reproductive health in the context of major international declarations and conventions including the MDGs.
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    Clinical management of rape survivors: developing protocols for use with refugees and internally displaced persons

    United Nations Population Fund, 2004
    This paper describes best practices in the clinical management of people who have been raped in emergency situations; it is intended for adaptation to each situation, taking into account national policies and practices, and availability of materials and drugs.

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