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2002 UN
Country Team and Resident Coordinator Report, Ethiopia |
HIV/AIDS
remains a major challenge in Ethiopia. During 2002 the UNCT
conducted intensive awareness and advocacy campaigns. Through
its campaigns and collaboration with other development
partners the UNCT has succeeded in having HIV/AIDS
incorporated in important national processes and policies. |
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AIDS-Stigma
& Discrimination.
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Stigma and discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS are
the greatest barriers to preventing further infections,
providing adequate care, support and treatment and alleviating
impact. HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination are universal,
occurring in every country and region of the world
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AIDS Epidemic Update 2002
(Large report-increased
down-load time) |
As
the world enters the third decade of the AIDS epidemic, the
evidence of its impact is undeniable. Wherever the epidemic
has spread unchecked, it is robbing countries of the
resources and capacities on which human security and
development depend. In some regions, HIV/AIDS, in
combination with other crises, is driving ever-larger parts
of nations towards destitution. |
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AIDS Prevention
(Large report-increased
down-load time) |
At the
World Summit held at the United Nations in September 2005,
leaders pledged to fully implement the Declaration of
Commitment of HIV/AIDS adopted in 2001, by scaling up
efforts for prevention, treatment, care and support so that
every person, without exception, has access to these
life-saving programmes. In Kofi Annan’s address on World
Aids Day on 1 December 2005 he said that “It is a time to
recognize that although our response so far has succeeded in
some of the particulars, it has yet to match the epidemic in
scale. It is a time to admit that if we are to reach the
Millennium Development Goal of halting and beginning to
reverse the spread of AIDS by 2015, then we must do far, far
more. That mission concerns every one of us.” |
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AN
INTRODUCTION TO HIV/AIDS
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The possible responses to
the epidemic are well documented. Risk of sexual transmission
can be reduced by use of condoms and/or cutting down on
numbers of partners and treating other sexually transmitted
infections. Blood and blood products can be made safer through
screening of donors and their blood. Drug users can be
encouraged to sterilize or exchange needles
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Barriers to better care for people with AIDS in developing
countries
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Access to
good quality antiretroviral treatment has transformed
the prognosis for people with AIDS in the developed
world. Although it is feasible and desirable to
deliver antiretroviral drugs in resource poor
settings, few of the 95% of people with
HIV and AIDS who live in developing countries receive
them. The World Health Organization has launched
a programme to deliver antiretroviral drugs to
three million people with AIDS in the developing
world by 2005, the "3 by 5" initiative. We identify
some of the challenges faced by the initiative,
focusing on delivery of care. |
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Children-residential
care policy .
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We
fight for children’s rights and deliver lasting improvements
to children’s lives worldwide
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Pdf
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Comparative
analysis-India & Uganda.
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HIV
and AIDS-related discrimination, stigmatization and denial—a
comparison of both countries
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209 kb
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Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS-UN 2001 |
Global Crisis—Global Action—What the United Nations
plans on doing for the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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182 kb pdf |
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Guideline
for Preparation and Execution of Studies of the Social and
Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS
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Because of HIV/AIDS, its
results in exceptional levels of illness and death in the
mature adult population it has many social and economic
implications. This document provides basic concepts to assist
thinking about these implications together with ideas and
techniques for planning responses to the medium and longer
term social and economi impact
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Handbook for Legislators on HIV/AIDS, Law and Human Rights:
Action to Combat HIV/AIDS in View of its Devastating Human,
Economic and Social Impact |
The
Introduction to this report sets out the shocking statistics
of the epidemic-33.4 million people are currently living with
HIV/AIDS. An effective response is required to avert the
devastation wreaked on communities around, the world by the
epidemic. This impact is disproportionately felt in
developing countries and vulnerable population (those whose
human rights are already not fully respected). |
775 kb pdf |
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HIV
and AIDS-related stigmatization, discrimination and denial:
forms, contexts and determinants—Research studies from
Uganda and India
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From the moment scientists
identified HIV/AIDS, social responses of fear, denial, stigma
and discrimination have accompanied the epidemic.
Discrimination has spread rapidly fuelling anxiety and
prejudice against groups most affected as well as those living
with HIV/AIDS
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HIV/AIDS
and Human Rights
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The
ILO estimates that over 25 million workers worldwide are
infected with HIV, and millions more are affected by the
epidemic, including the tragic situation of children orphaned
by AIDS. Prevention of the further spread of the epidemic is
essential, as are measures to mitigate its impact, including
the provision of care and support. Neither prevention nor
care, however, is effective in settings where the rights of
workers and individuals are not respected.
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HIV/AIDS
in Africa
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The
HIV pandemic continues to pose major challenges in the world
of work and African society at large. Nearly 34 million people
are currently living with HIV/AIDS, and one-third of these are
young people between the ages of 10 and 24. Sub-Saharan Africa
is the most affected. More than 11 million Africans have
already died, and another 22 million are now living with
HIV/AIDS. Nearly 10 million more deaths are expected by 2005.
Among the HIV-infected globally, six out of ten men, eight out
of ten women, and nine out of ten children live in Africa.
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HIV/AIDS:
A threat to decent work, productivity and development
(Large report-increased
download time)
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HIV/AIDS is a threat to
enterprise performance. The world of work is affected by
increasing costs due to health care, absenteeism, burial fees,
recruitment, training and re-training. For smaller firms in
both the formal and informal sectors, the loss of employees
has major implications. In the rural sector, losses due to
HIV/AIDS may reduce food production and food security.
Enterprises in sectors such as transportation, tourism and
mining are the most vulnerable. Overall, there will be a
reduction of growth if rapid measures are not taken to prevent
the impact of HIV/AIDS.
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ILO- Recording and notification of occupational accidents |
The absence of reliable information about the incidence of
occupational accidents and disease is a major obstacle to
curbing the appalling toll of work-related deaths and injuries
that continues to plague humankind. Despite enormous advances
in technology, preventive medicine and the means to prevent
accidents, the ILO and the World Health Organization (WHO)
estimate that each year around 1.2 million work-related
deaths, 250 million accidents and 160 million work-related
diseases occur worldwide. Death, illness and injury on such a
scale impoverish individuals and their families, and undermine
attempts to improve working conditions |
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Interventions
to reduce HIV stigma.
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Stigma
is a common human reaction to disease.
Throughout history many diseases have carried
considerable stigma, including leprosy, tuberculosis, cancer,
mental illness, and many STDs.
HIV/AIDS is only the latest disease to be stigmatized
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Introducing
Governance into HIV/AIDS Programmes: People’s Republic of
China, Lao PDR and Viet Nam
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What links exist between
governance and the AIDS pandemic?
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2,414
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Low-credit-report on World banks response to AIDS. |
This paper
looks at the response to the HIV/AIDS crisis by the World Bank
as a key member of the international donor/lending community… |
669kb pdf |
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Meeting
the Global Challenge of AIDS.
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More
people have died from HIV/AIDS over the last twenty years than
from any other disease in human history.
The devastation caused by the epidemic poses a clear
and direct challenge to long-term US economic and security
interests.
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Pdf
594 kb
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Money
Matters: Financing the global epidemic-Sectoral Impact: what
we know, don’t know and need to know: the true cost of AIDS
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Charts and graphs
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295
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National
Health Bill of South Africa 2003.
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TO provide a framework for
a structured uniform health system within the Republic
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166
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News: OSI Sues USAID over Dangerous Public Health Policy |
The Open
Society Institute (OSI), along with its affiliate the
Alliance for Open Society International (AOSI), filed a
lawsuit today against USAID to challenge its
unconstitutional and dangerous policy of requiring grantees
to sign a pledge opposing prostitution. Failure to endorse
this loyalty oath means health workers across the world
striving to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS could lose funding
and be forced to abandon life-saving programs. |
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Now More Than Ever HUMAN RIGHTS AND HIV/AIDS
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At the
United Nations High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2006, world
leaders reaffirmed that “the full realization of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms for all is an essential
element in the global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.”
Yet, 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, the “essential
element” remains the missing piece in the fight against
AIDS. This declaration, endorsed by 24 nongovernmental
organizations and networks around the world, affirms that,
now more than ever, human rights should occupy the center of
the global struggle against HIV and AIDS. |
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Racism,
stigma and discrimination.
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Fighting
HIV-related intolerance: exposing the links between racism,
stigma and discrimination
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Pdf
88 kb
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Sexual relations among young people in developing countries:
evidence from WHO case studies |
In every
setting, sexual activity begins during adolescence among
many young people. Much of this activity is
risky—contraceptive use is often erratic, and unwanted
pregnancy and unsafe abortions are observed in many
settings. Sexual relations may be forced. There are wide
gender-based differences in sexual conduct, and in the
ability to negotiate sexual activity and contraceptive use.
Despite this, relatively few young people think they are at
risk of disease or unwanted pregnancy. Awareness of safe
sex practices seems to be superficial, and misinformation
regarding the risks and consequences of unsafe sex is
wide-spread |
356 kb pdf |
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SEXUALLY
TRANSMITTED DISEASES (STDs)
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Sexually transmitted
diseases affect industrialized as well as developing
countries. The 20-24 age group is the most exposed to risk.
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Stigma
and Global Health: Developing a Research Agenda"
an International Conference
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To explore the relationship
between stigma and public health, examine the social and
cultural determinants of stigma, explore how stigma prevents
people from seeking or getting treatment for disease, and
determine future research opportunities
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Strategy
on HIV/AIDS and Investigative Journalism
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It
is a defining attribute of democracy that people should not
merely have voice on how but they must and should be able to
exert influence on the public process in which they deserve
the best information on HIV/AIDS epidemic, they must be aware
of developments, findings and research not only at home, but
to have regular flow of information from abroad and be able to
present the nature of its problems to the officials that will
deal with them.
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Summary
of HIV Prevalence & Sexual.
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The
USAID-supported ABC Study examines how prevention behaviors
may have affected HIV prevalence as well as fertility patterns
in 3 countries where HIV prevalence declined during the 1990s
and in 3 countries where it appears not to have declined
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288 kb
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The
Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Structural Inequalities, and the
Politics of International Health
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In spite of recent advances
in treatment and care available in most developed countries,
the HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to spread throughout the
developing world
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The New UN Trafficking Protocol |
This
article also addresses the connections between prostitution
and trafficking for sexual exploitation, arguments of those
who would dispute these connections, and policy and
legislative trends in countries that are seeking to
legalize/regulate prostitution as ‘sex work.’ |
Pdf 135 kb
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The
Socio-economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on Children in a low
prevalence Context: the Case of Senegal
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Examines the socio-economic
impacts of HIV/AIDS on children in Senegal as well as the
impacts of the response policies implemented by the different
actors
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Threat to decent work, productivity and
Development
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The
pandemic has profound
negative
impacts on the economy, the workforce, the business,
individual
workers and their families. Economic growth could be as
much
as 25 per cent lower than it might otherwise have been over a
20-year period in high prevalence countries.
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Strategy on AIDS and Journalism
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It is a defining attribute of democracy that people should not
merely have voice on how but they must and should be able to
exert influence on the public process in which they deserve
the best information on HIV/AIDS epidemic, they must be aware
of developments, findings and research not only at home, but
to have regular flow of information from abroad and be able to
present the nature of its problems to the officials that will
deal with them |
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The
World Bank and Disability
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Defining what is meant by
disability is sometimes a complex process, as disability is
more than a description of a specific health issue; rather it
is affected by people's cultures, social institutions, and
physical environments.
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UNAIDS & The Prevention of HIV Infection Through Injecting
Drug Use |
Despite
the clear public health benefits of the main components of a
harm reduction approach to drug injection, recorded in a
number of academic and policy reviews over the last 10
years, the implementation of these measures has remained the
subject of fierce debate at local, national and
international levels. |
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United Nations:
ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL |
Despite the distribution of information and educational materials for
AIDS prevention and care, behaviour change remains a challenge
for national AIDS programmes in the region. Nevertheless, there
has been a dramatic rise in the number of condoms sold or
distributed over the past five years. Some countries made special
efforts during the year to assess the safety of blood transfusion in
health-care settings with a view to developing a national policy.
Sentinel surveillance activities are being implemented as planned
in many countries, but in some they are hampered by a lack of
resources to purchase HIV test kits or maintain equipment.
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UN Hits Back at US in Report Saying Parts of
America Are as Poor as Third World |
Claims that
the New Orleans floods have laid bare a growing racial and
economic divide in the US have, until now, been rejected by
the American political establishment as emotional rhetoric.
But yesterday's UN report provides statistical proof that
for many - well beyond those affected by the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina - the great American Dream is an ongoing
nightmare. |
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UN:
Facts and Figures 1999 World AIDS Campaign
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According to estimates by
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS, more
than 3 million children and young people worldwide became
infected with HIV in 1998. This included almost 590 000
children under 15 and over 2.5 million 15-24 year olds.
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UNDP’s
Role in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
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AIDS is devastating in
terms of creating and deepening poverty, reversing
achievements in education, and diverting meager health budgets
away from other priorities
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UN's
Envoy to Convey Enormity of Food/Aids Crisis
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At the end of January, the
UN Secretary General's special envoy for Humanitarian Needs in
Southern Africa, James Morris, completed a tour of four
countries in the region and said the HIV/Aids pandemic was
threatening the very future of nations. One president told
him: "My country is on the verge of extinction."
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UN-facts
and figures |
According to estimates by UNAIDS, the Joint United
Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS, more than 3 million children
and young people worldwide became infected with HIV in 1998.
This included almost 590 000 children under 15 and over 2.5
million 15-24 year olds. |
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UN-targets
peacekeepers, combatants
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It is now widely accepted
that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is, as Secretary-General Kofi Annan
asserts in his report on AIDS to the General Assembly special
session, "the most formidable development challenge of
our time." World leaders increasingly call for a
"war" on the deadly infection, and often note that
the disease has killed more people in Africa than all of the
continent's recent conflicts combined.
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UN update 2003-AIDS |
Applying
the improved tools and methods to previous years shows there
have been steady increases in the number of people living with
HIV/AIDS, as well as in the number of AIDS deaths. |
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pdf |
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UNICEF report on Africa's orphaned
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The HIV/Aids epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has already
orphaned a
generation of children - and now seems set to orphan
generations
more. |
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WHO
(the World Health Organization") just released its new
ICF -International Classification of Functioning, Disability
and Health
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ICF describes how people
live with their health conditions. ICF is a classification of
health and health-related domains that describe body functions
and structures, activities and participation.
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Who cares AIDS
review 2001-#1
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Tim Treng ove Jones has emerged as one of the leading
commentators on the HIV and AIDS epidemics in South Africa
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463 kb pdf
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Who cares AIDS
review 2001-#2
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Contents
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839 kb pdf
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Who cares AIDS
review 2001-#3
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This review will seek to address a particular question and
in answering it broaden our knowledge and understanding of HIV
and AIDS as the epidemics unfold in South Africa
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673 kb pdf
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Who cares AIDS
review 2001-#4
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The question these billion (of poor) ask is—what are you
doing, you in whom we have placed our trust, what are you
doing to end the deliberate and savage violence against us
that, everyday, sentences many of us to a degrading and
unnecessary death!
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597 kb pdf
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Who cares AIDS
review 2001-#5
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To note the intertwining of the clarificatory and the
obfuscatory in the discourses surrounding HIV/AIDS in South
Africa, is to pinpoint another manifestation of the struggle
over power and disputes over authority provoked by the illness
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World Band and Disability
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For this reason and the fact that persons with disabilities
are an underserved group in most developing countries, there
are economic and social benefits to increasing the
participation of and opportunities for persons with
disabilities in society. Although the link is not well
documented, disability in the household can lead to poverty
because persons with disabilities are often excluded from
school or the workplace and may depend—particularly
children—on others in the family for care. Disabled people are
also at risk of social exclusion |
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World
Bank Approves $20 Million For HIV/AIDS Prevention And Control
In Trinidad And Tobago
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The World Bank yesterday
approved a $20 million loan aimed at reducing HIV infections
and providing treatment and care for people infected with
HIV/AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago.
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World
Bank Supports Pakistan’s Efforts In Preventing The Spread Of
HIV/AIDS
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Recognizing that Pakistan
has an opportunity to prevent a widespread HIV/AIDS epidemic,
the World Bank today announced the approval of a US$37.1
million credit, of which US$ 9.28 is a grant to the Government
of Pakistan. The HIV/AIDS Prevention Project will
prevent HIV/AIDS from becoming established in vulnerable
populations while, at the same time, avoiding
stigmatization of these vulnerable populations.
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World
Bank’s Moscow Office
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"Expanding economic
opportunities overall—that is, promoting growth that
directly benefits the poor—remains central. Market-oriented
reforms, institutional development and investments in health,
education and infrastructure are crucial to its
delivery," says World Bank Chief Economist and Senior
Vice President Nicholas Stern
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World
Bank-Accelerating the Response to HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
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HIV/AIDS is the leading
cause of death in the 15 to 44 year age group in the
Caribbean. By the end of 2001, more than a half million people
in the region were infected with the disease.
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Worldwide
Map of Hepatitis Rates
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Map of the world
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3,797
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