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Danger and opportunity: responding to HIV with vision

01/07/2001

11 pages long

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Danger and opportunity: responding to HIV with vision

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This article presents some examples of successful and innovative community-development work which has focused on HIV and gender relations, and gives a personal view of ways in which the danger of HIV can be used as an opportunity to address many issues which have always been there, but which, until the advent of HIV, few […]

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Briefing paper

Global HIV/AIDS and Health Fund: Foundation for action or fig leaf?

01/06/2001

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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This week, at a special UN meeting on HIV/AIDS, world leaders will announce a Global Health Fund – a “war chest” estimated by UN Secretary, Kofi Annan, to need US$7-10bn to tackle HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in poor countries.

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Briefing paper

Drug Companies vs. Brazil: The threat to public health

01/05/2001

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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The access of impoverished Brazilians to essential medicines, including those required for treatment of HIV/AIDS, is under threat. International pharmaceutical firms, with the backing of the United States government, are trying to ensure that Brazil has to buy the expensive patented drugs that they manufacture, rather than have access to the cheaper generic drugs that […]

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Briefing paper

South Africa vs. the Drug Giants: A challenge to affordable medicines

01/02/2001

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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On 5 March 2001, 39 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies took the South African government to court over the terms of its 1997 Medicines Act. The Act was intended to provide a legal framework within which medicines could be made more affordable in South Africa. The companies’ decision to pursue the legal proceedings initiated […]

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Book

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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Book

Uganda

01/01/2001

4 documents

93 pages long

Languages: English

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Over the last 50 years, Uganda, once known as ‘the pearl of Africa’, has suffered dictatorship, economic collapse, and systematic human rights abuses. Yet today, Uganda is widely viewed as an inspirational economic success story, and as a symbol of a more vibrant, successful Africa.

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Journal article

Stepping Stones – a participatory tool to integrate gender into HIV/AIDS work

01/11/2000

4 pages long

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Stepping Stones – a participatory tool to integrate gender into HIV/AIDS work

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Stepping Stones is a training package on HIV/AIDS, gender, communication, and relationship skills designed both for use in existing HIV/AIDS projects and more generally. Narrating her experience of a training of trainers programme in India, the author explores the possibilities and challenges of using this as a means of integrating gender into HIV/AIDS projects. This […]

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The potential role of food aid in mitigating the impacts of HIV/AIDS: the case of Zambia

01/11/2000

7 pages long

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Needs assessments of adults and children in households affected by HIV/AIDS in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa indicate that food provision is a critical support area which has been neglected in mitigation interventions. This paper looks at practical options for targeting food aid within a development framework, using Zambia as a case country. This article […]

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Girl-trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and the position of women in Nepal

01/07/2000

6 pages long

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Girl-trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and the position of women in Nepal

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This article focuses on trafficking of young Nepalese girls and women. Trafficking is an integral part of the social and economic fabric of Nepal, as in other parts of the world. The practice causes intolerable degradation and suffering for the girls and young women involved, who are treated as a commodity. It presents a risk […]

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‘At my age I should be sitting under that tree’: the impact of AIDS on Tanzanian lakeshore communities

01/07/2000

9 pages long

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‘At my age I should be sitting under that tree’: the impact of AIDS on Tanzanian lakeshore communities

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In 1992, the author led a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) exercise for a community fisheries project in Kagera region, on the western side of Lake Victoria, Tanzania. The PRA team visited four settlements: the prime harbour settlement on Kerebe Island; N’toro beach, in Bukoba district, near the Ugandan border; Chamkwikwi landing site in Muleba district; […]

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