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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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    International health partnership (IHP+) country health sector teams: background literature review

    DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2008
    This review outlines the current arrangements for country health sector teams (CHSTs) in ten International Health Partnership countries: Burundi, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria and Zambia. It provides a summary of good practice and effective national coordination in health and HIV/AIDS.
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    HIV/AIDS in Sri Lanka : a profile on policy and practice

    Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka, 2007
    This paper discusses the status of HIV/AIDS in Sri Lanka. It focuses on laws, policies, institutional structures and practical issues such as the prevalence of stigma and discrimination, lack of adequate resources and infrastructure.
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    Training of HIV/AIDS committees at local government authorities

    Tanzania Commission for AIDS, 2007
    Tanzania is one of the countries hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Tanzania Commission for AIDS was established as part of the government response to the HIV epidemic.This manual is part of the Tanzania Commission for AIDS strategic plan to coordinate and strengthen the efforts of stakeholders involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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    IPPF HIV Prevention Report Cards

    International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2008
    Under the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA), the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), together with the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) and Young Positives are developing 23 country Report Cards with the aim to strengthen HIV Prevention strategies for girls and young women.
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    Squaring the Circle: AIDS, Poverty, and Human Development

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2007
    This report from UNAIDS highlights the differences between the effects of AIDS on poverty, and the effects of poverty upon the risk of acquiring HIV. HIV and poverty are linked but the report sites recent evidence that indicates that HIV is a disease of inequality, often associated with economic transition, rather than a disease of poverty in itself.
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    Turning bureaucrats into warriors, preparing and implementing multi-sector HIV-AIDS programs In Africa - a generic operations manual

    World Bank, 2004
    This manual has been prepared to provide practical advice on preparing and implementing multi-sector programmes for countries engaged in tackling the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. It is aimed at national AIDS commissions (NACs) and the external institutions involved in implementing national AIDS plans.
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    Tackling political barriers to end AIDS

    Books for Change, 2007
    This policy document from ActionAid argues that the world’s political leaders are still refusing to mount an adequate response to the global HIV emergency. In 2005 world leaders made a commitment to creating universal access to HIV treatment, prevention and care by 2010, but two years later there is still no financial plan in place to achieve this.
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    UNAIDS practical guidelines for intensifying HIV prevention: towards universal access

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2007
    These guidelines from UNAIDS provide practical guidance for policy makers and planners who are working on creating universal access to HIV prevention services. The guidelines are based on the principle that it is necessary to tailor each national HIV prevention response to the specific social context, and the dynamics of the epidemic, in each country and among its vulnerable population groups.
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    Implementing the UN learning strategy on HIV/AIDS: sixteen case studies

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2007
    This report from UNAIDS outlines a programme that was developed in 2003 to promote knowledge of HIV among United Nations (UN) workers. One objective of this learning strategy was to increase competence in relation to HIV among UN staff so that they can contribute more fully to the national responses to the epidemic.

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