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Finding a curriculum that works under trees: Literacy and health education for adolescent girls in rural Malawi

01/08/2005

13 pages long

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Non-formal education often represents a last chance for adolescent girls who do not attend school to receive some education to improve their health before they become mothers. This paper describes the development of a literacy and health education curriculum for adolescent girls in southern Malawi who will never enter formal schooling. The curriculum was redefined […]

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Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

01/04/2005

14 pages long

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HIV/AIDS is having profound impacts on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. These include the deaths of working-age adults, the diversion of resources to caring, and the rupture of traditional chains of knowledge transmission. NGOs are responding by providing assistance to communities affected by the epidemic in the fields of agriculture, skills training, and microfinance, as well […]

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Relations between NGOs and trade unions: the case of Ukraine

01/02/2004

6 pages long

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This article describes the legal frameworks governing trade unions and NGOs in Ukraine, with the latter defined very much as organisations working for the benefit of their members and other citizens sharing the same interests rather than as philanthropic organisations whose mission is to assist others. Trade unions and NGOs are encouraged to collaborate in […]

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Gender, Development, and Health

01/01/2001

1 documents

119 pages long

Languages: English

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This book argues that two fundamental changes are needed if both women and men are to achieve better health. The first of these is to ensure equal access to all the resources that women and men need for healthy minds and bodies: not only to medical care, but to food, water, shelter, a source of […]

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Advancing women’s reproductive and sexual health rights: using the International Human Rights system

01/11/2000

16 pages long

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Advancing women’s reproductive and sexual health rights: using the International Human Rights system

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Often the primary barriers to improving women’s health are rooted in socio-economic, legal, and cultural factors. Women are generally assigned subordinate status in terms of economic power, decision making, and options regarding education, work, and family. National laws often restrict or prohibit equality and choice within society. Thus, the improvement of reproductive health is not […]

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Challenging machismo: promoting sexual and reproductive health with Nicaraguan men

01/03/2000

11 pages long

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Challenging machismo: promoting sexual and reproductive health with Nicaraguan men

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Health education work with men needs to be done from a gender perspective, which encourages men not only to take on responsibility for promoting health, but also to share that responsibility with women. This article presents the results of a participatory exploration of men’s attitudes towards sexual and reproductive health issues in Nicaragua. This article […]

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Responding to mental distress in the Third World: cultural imperialism or the struggle for synthesis?

01/05/1999

9 pages long

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This paper questions the appropriateness of some of the ‘help’ that has already been given in mental health in ‘developing’ countries, particularly Africa, and examines some of the complex ideological issues underlying different cultural understandings of the aetiology and treatment of mental illness. Some personal experiences, illustrating examples of the imposition of culturally inappropriate ideology […]

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Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project

01/02/1999

7 pages long

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Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project

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The Assuit Burns Project (ABP) is a small Egyptian NGO working to help burns victims. The author describes the work of the Project, setting out its various capacities, and criticises funders’ and donors’ over-emphasis on preventative medicine at the expense of this type of curative work. Burns victims can become economic and social outcasts, and […]

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Whose terms? Observations on ‘development management’ in an English city

01/02/1999

5 pages long

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Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may […]

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Discussion paper

Gender Issues in Health Projects and Programmes: Report from AGRA East Meeting, 15-19 November 1993, The Philippines

01/01/1999

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper sets out some of the major gender issues arising from considerations of health and health care provision. It draws on the experience of participants in a workshop in The Philippines organised by Oxfam staff with the help of two consultants, one of whom subsequently wrote this paper.

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