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    Health and human rights

    The Lancet, 2003
    This feature consists of three seperate articles that address issues around the rights of sex workers The first piece, 'Public health and the human rights of sex workers ' argues that sex workers are often seen as immoral people or as victims of unscrupulous traffickers who exploit the lack of opportunities of deprivileged inhabitants of mostly poor countries and that public he
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    Fighting HIV/AIDS with peanuts: a year in the life of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria

    Christian Aid, 2002
    The Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria has been feted as a major positive result of 2001’s UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS and G8 summit. Indeed, some policy-makers appear to believe that the existence of the Fund means that the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the developing country health crisis have been ‘dealt with’.
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    Briefing position paper on the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM)

    Save the Children Fund, 2002
    Addressing health as an investment, rather than a right, prioritises those who are economically productive rather than the elderly, the disabled and the poorer women and children. At the recent G8 meeting the rich governments failed to pledge the $27 billion needed to re-establish basic health care systems in the poorest countries.
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    The Global Fund: which countries owe how much?

    Aidspan, 2002
    The majority of the world's nations resolved at UNGASS, a major United Nations conference on AIDS, to increase annual expenditure on the AIDS epidemic to $7-10 billion by 2005, with much of this money to be raised and disbursed by a new global fund – now known as the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
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    False hope or new start?: the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria

    Oxfam, 2002
    The Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria was set up in the context of high and increasing infection rates and what this Oxfam policy paper sees as a lack of response from governments. The health status of poor people is deteriorating in many parts of the world, and the Fund is a unique opportunity to mobilise international political will and resources to address this crisis in a new way.