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Implementing Multiple Drug Therapy for Leprosy

01/01/1984

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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The system of multiple drug therapy for leprosy recommended by the World Health Organisation in 1982 is an extremely effective treatment which, if widely introduced and effectively operated, could result in a dramatic reduction of the incidence and severity of leprosy throughout the world. This book, written in the form of extended answers to a […]

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Silver Shackles: Women and development in India

01/01/1984

1 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English

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Relegated by Indian culture and traditions to a position of inferiority, women remain shackled by lack of access to education and health care, increasing unemployment and the deficiencies of their legal status. Burdened at home and exploited at work, women are India’s vast “invisible” labour force – yet they have been virtually by-passed by Indian […]

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Selective Feeding Programmes

01/01/1984

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97 pages long

Languages: English

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Originally produced to accompany the Oxfam Feeding Kit, at the time of the large-scale famine in Ethiopia in the 1970s, this book has been expanded into a comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations. The first part of this book describes the assessment and monitoring of the nutritional needs […]

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The Poverty of Diplomacy: Kampuchea and the outside world

01/01/1983

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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A survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime said: “It was inconceivable to us that we would all be left to perish. Every time I heard heavy artillery I thought: The UN is coming at last.” It was not the UN, but Vietnamese forces. Since then the Kampucheans have struggled to rebuild their country. For reasons […]

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Against The Grain: The dilemma of project food aid

01/01/1982

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

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For years food has been gien to Third World countries to help in their development. But it has made little impact. Too often the food aid tail wags the development dog. Yet the effectiveness of food aid as a tool for development has gone virtually unchallenged.

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The Great Health Robbery

01/01/1981

1 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

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Poor health and poverty often go together – in Britain and in other parts of the world. Yemen is no exception. Here people die from diseases that could be prevented – diarrhoea, TB and so on.

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One in Ten: Disability and the very poor

01/01/1981

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Today, one in ten of the population of the Third World is disabled. The International Year of Disabled People is a good time to look at what causes that disability and what can be done about it. This booklet is designed to do that by increasing an understanding of what ‘ needs to be done […]

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Muck and Brass

01/01/1980

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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While the people of the Third World struggle against a chronic scarcity of resources, the rubbish thrown away by British householders each year amounts to a pile sixty times the size of the Great Pyramid. This report proposes a domestic reclamation strategy for the UK which will create jobs, save imports and make better use […]

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The Poor Man’s Wisdom: Technology and the very poor

01/01/1979

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Development methods

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One of the major under-used resources in the fight against poverty is local technology – the skills and knowledge that the poor in the Third World already possess, and their ability to select and adapt technologies from outside. Local technology is weakened and sometimes destroyed by the thought-less use of modern techno-logy, and it is […]

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A Picture of Poverty

01/01/1979

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128 pages long

Languages: English

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This is the first of an annual series of Oxfam Reports which will aim to examine some of the fundamental problems associated with development. “A Picture of Poverty” does not claim to provide a blueprint for the alleviation of world poverty. It is merely an attempt to come to grips with some of the issues […]

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