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2007; Volume 8, No 5, May

 
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Public Policy Publications

The availability and affordability of selected essential medicines for chronic diseases in six low- and middle-income countries (Includes assessment of codeine and morphine) Shanti Mendis et al.

Abstract .html
http://tinyurl.com/39qmn9

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http://tinyurl.com/3xok67

Toward a regional plan of action for national health research system development

Results of Latin America Regional Think Tank, August 2006, Antigua Experiences from Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua. 

Supporting health research systems development in Latin America, COHRED Record Paper 6
The Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), 2006
Available online as PDF file [26p.] at: http://tinyurl.com/2w7f7t

 

Pan American Health Organization

“These messages from the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO, are a part of an effort to disseminate information related to: Equity; Health inequality; Socioeconomic inequality in health; Socioeconomic health differentials; Gender; Violence; Poverty; Health Economics; Health Legislation; Ethnicity; Ethics; Information Technology - Virtual libraries; Research & Science issues.” 

See the following articles:

1) Seven habits of highly effective global public–private health partnerships: Practice and potential
Kent Buse, and Andrew M. Harmer
Overseas Development Institute - ODI , London, UK
Social Science & Medicine
Volume 64, Issue 2 , January 2007, Pages 259-271
Abstract: http://tinyurl.com/2put3f

2) ODI Briefing Paper 15, January 2007 at: http://tinyurl.com/2tjrmp

3) Implementing the UN learning strategy on HIV/AIDS : sixteen case studies

UNAIDS/07.08E / JC1311E, March 2007
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 2007

This report is comprised of UN HIV/AIDS Learning Strategy case studies from sixteen countries: Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, India, Indonesia, Macedonia, Madagascar, Morocco, Nigeria, the Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO (United States), Pakistan, Paraguay, Vienna (Austria), Viet Nam, and Yemen. It presents each country’s unique experience in implementing the strategy

 Available online as PDF file [100p.] at: http://tinyurl.com/3xlsua"

AIDS and Social Policy in China
Edited by Joan Kaufman, Arthur Kleinman, and Tony Saich

Published by the Harvard University Asia Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006

Available online as PDF file [292p.] at: http://tinyurl.com/3yap2j

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