Author: UNAIDS
Publisher: World Health Organizatio
Keywords: epidemic, aids, global, report
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2009-02-01
ISBN-10: 9291737119
ISBN-13: 9789291737116

"Knowing your epidemic" is essential for everyone involved in the response to HIV. Extensively illustrated with graphs and charts, this biennial report presents concise but comprehensive summaries of major issues in the global AIDS response. Annexes provide HIV estimates and data 2001 and 2007, and also country progress indicators.

Author: Vishnu Padayachee
Publisher: Human Sciences Research Council
Keywords: south, africa, change, social, decade, economic, development
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2007-04-01
ISBN-10: 0796921237
ISBN-13: 9780796921239

Locating the South African challenges within a broader international perspective, this study covers all the major economic growth challanges from employment, industrial policy, urban governance, and the informal economy to the social challenges of poverty, inequality, HIV/AIDS, and health policy. The key development debates of the post-apartheid era are outlined and the success of a decade of reform and experimentation is considered by a wide range of international development specialists, including American economists Gil Hart and Michael Carter; British economist Jonathan Michie; and South A

Author: R. J. May
Publisher: The Australian National University
Keywords: studies, state, society, pacific, guinea, papua, making, implementation, policy, new
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 2010-07-20
ISBN-10: 1921536683
ISBN-13: 9781921536687

There is a vast literature on the principles of public administration and good governance, and no shortage of theoreticians, practitioners and donors eager to push for public sector reform, especially in less-developed countries. Papua New Guinea has had its share of public sector reforms, frequently under the influence of multinational agencies and aid donors. Yet there seems to be a general consensus, both within and outside Papua New Guinea, that policy making and implementation have fallen short of expectations, that there has been a failure to achieve ’good governance’. This v

Authors:Laura Frost, Michael R. Reich,  Tadataka Yamada,
Publisher: Harvard Center for Population and Development Stud
Keywords: poor, health, population, series, international, harvard, people, technologies, access, countries
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2009-03-31
ISBN-10: 0674032152
ISBN-13: 9780674032156

Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist? What can be done to improve access to good health technologies, especially for poor people in poor countries? This book answers those questions by developing a comprehensive analytical framework for access and examining six case studies to explain why some health technologies achieved more access than others. The technologies include praziquantel (for the treatment of schistosomiasis), hepatitis B vaccine, malaria rapid diagnostic tests, vaccine vial monitors for

Authors:Cynthia C. Lebow, Liam P. Sarsfield, William Stan
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: aviation, accident, investigations, ntsb, parties, skies, personnel, safety
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2000
ISBN-10: 0833028065
ISBN-13: 9780833028068

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) bears a significant share of the responsibility for ensuring the safety of domestic and international air travel. The NTSB relies on teamwork to resolve accidents; the parties that participate in an investigation may include manufacturers and operators, as well as the Federal Aviation Administration. This arrangement works well under most circumstances, despite inherent conflicts of interest that may jeopardize, or be perceived to jeopardize, the integrity of the NTSB investigation. The NTSB’s ability to lead investigations and to form expe

Authors:Errol P. Mendes, Sakunthala Srighantha,
Publisher: University of Ottawa Pre
Keywords: canadian, perspectives, chinese, china, discrimination, inequality, confronting
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 2009-04-18
ISBN-10: 077660709X
ISBN-13: 9780776607092

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in Chinafocuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent

Authors:Ted A. Grossbart, Carl Sherma,
Publisher: Health Press (NM)
Keywords: skin, healthy, mind, program
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 1992-11-01
ISBN-10: 0929173112
ISBN-13: 9780929173115

Dermatology has made remarkable strides in recent decades, with the advent of high-tech aids such as lasers and cryosurgery and new wonder drugs such as steroids and vitamin A derivatives; thus, many skin sufferers have been cured by their physicians. Yet many have not. If you have brought your persistent eczema, your stubborn warts, your psoriasis or other distressing skin ailment, or even your recurrent herpes to specialists and superspecialists, and if all the creams, lotions, and medications have failed to help, you must wonder if there is something else -- and ardently hope that there is