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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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Overview

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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Case study

Under Fire: The human cost of small arms in north-east Democratic Republic of the Congo

01/01/2001

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

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The ongoing conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been described as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. It is a war mainly fought out with small arms. The resulting humanitarian crisis continues to be fuelled by new supplies of arms, brought in by businessmen or by soldiers belonging […]

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Briefing note

21st Century Debt Relief

01/01/2001

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam welcomes the IMF and the World Bank’s drive to increase the number of countries receiving debt relief at the end of last year. 22 out of a possible 41 qualifying countries are now receiving debt relief – this is a good start. However, there is still much to be done to ensure that debt […]

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Briefing paper

Dare to Lead: Public health and company wealth

01/01/2001

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Access to medicines

Overview

This is the first in a series of Oxfam Briefings analysing the impact on human development of transnational corporations (TNCs). It reviews the role of the newly formed GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and outlines three challenges facing GSK and other global pharmaceutical companies wishing to increase poor people’s access to medicines. First, how to ensure that changes […]

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Discussion paper

Gender Considerations in Economic Enterprises

01/01/2001

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper is a report of an Oxfam workshop on women’s economic enterprises, held in the Philippines, arranged and facilitated by Josefa Francisco and Eugenia Piza Lopez. The main points arising from the workshop are listed after this introduction. The first section of the paper describes the reasons for holding the workshop, and the way […]

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Book

Perspectives on Pastoral Development: A casebook from Kenya

01/01/2001

1 documents

160 pages long

Languages: English

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An objective account of a major Oxfam initiative: the Wajir Pastoral Development Project in north-east Kenya, with its distinctive emphasis on community participation. It explains how marginalized groups are developing their own pastoral associations to represent their interests, and Oxfam’s role in facilitating that process. It describes an integrated approach to pastoral development: supporting the […]

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Book

Gender, Development, and Humanitarian Work

01/01/2001

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

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This collection of articles explores the interface between gender and humanitarian work. Several contributors focus on humanitarian activity during natural disasters, or analyse responses to conflict. Others consider the post crisis period of reconstruction, and provide lessons and recommendations for conflict resolution and peace-building. While the difficulties of integrating gender equity goals into interventions are […]

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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

Gender, Development, and Money

01/01/2001

1 documents

99 pages long

Languages: English

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Money, value, power, and status are linked in complex ways in the global economic system. Male-biased economic policies and practices fail to give equal pay for equal work in any sector; women are more likely than men to have insecure, informal employment; and unpaid work done mainly in the home by women is not valued […]

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Discussion paper

Access to Health and Education Services in Ethiopia: Supply, demand, and government policy

01/01/2001

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

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This report analyses the findings of an extensive research project conducted by Oxfam in Ethiopia. In the context of Ethiopia’s rising external debt, and the new decentralised system of regional governance, members of four communities, both rural and urban, were interviewed in depth about the problems that they encounter in trying to access basic health […]

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