Publications
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Revisiting studies and training in gender and development: the making and re-making of gender knowledge
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How to improve the use of medicines by consumers
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The Earth Charter (Brochure A4)
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The Earth Charter (Leaflet A6)
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Genre et planification communale
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Building North-South partnerships for a better world
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‘I believe that the staff have reduced their closeness to patients’
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Partnerships for health in Mali
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Evaluation of the Commonwealth secretariat’s strategy for gender equality and gender mainstreaming
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Revisiting gender training – the making and remaking of gender knowledge
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Shaping a New Africa
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Human African trypanosomiasis in a rural community, Democratic Republic of Congo
According to the World Health Organization, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) (sleeping sickness) caused the loss of ≈1.5 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2002. We describe the effect of HAT during 2000–2002 in Buma, a rural community near Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We used retrospective questionnaire surveys to estimate HAT-related household costs and DALYs. The HAT outbreak in Buma involved 57 patients and affected 47 (21%) households. The cost to each household was equivalent to 5 months’ income for that household. The total number of HAT-related DALYs was 2,145, and interventions to control HAT averted 1,408 DALYs. The cost per DALY averted was US $17. Because HAT has a serious economic effect on households and control interventions are cost-effective, considering only global burden of disease rankings for resource allocation could lead to misguided priority setting if applied without caution in HAT-affected countries.
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Water and sanitation in the context of HIV/AIDS
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Measuring health-related stigma – A literature review
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The fight against stigma: an overview of stigma-reduction strategies and interventions
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The participation scale: measuring a key concept in public health
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Integration of sexuality into SRH and HIV/AIDS counselling interventions in developing countries: a systematic review
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Improving health worker performance: in search of promising practices
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Tuberculosis recurrence and mortality after successful treatment: impact of drug resistance
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Imported Skin Diseases