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Population, reproductive health and the millennium development goals: how the ICPD programme of action promotes poverty alleviation and human rights. This paper reviews the targets and goals of the MDGs, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and ICPD+5. The last section sets out how all of these can be achieved. The paper looks at: MDGs goals and targets: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger achieve universal primary education promote gender equality and empower women reduce child mortality improve maternal health combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases ensure environmental [Eldis HIV/AIDS newsfeed] 11:56:27 AM 
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Africa s orphaned generations. This report presents information and analysis on the situation of children in Sub-Saharan Africa orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Findings include: in 1990, fewer than 1 million Sub-Saharan African children under the age of 15 had lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS at the end of 2001, 11 million in this age group were orphans because of HIV/AIDS, nearly 80% of the world total by 2010, 20 million in this age group are likely to be orphans from this single cause, comprising about half the total number [Eldis HIV/AIDS newsfeed] 11:56:02 AM
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The UNGASS, gender and women s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean. This paper discusses the effect of gender roles, power relations and sexual behaviour on the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, and it specifically explores women s vulnerability to the epidemic. It argues that although the prevalence and urgency of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is forcing the public health sector to gradually discuss issues of sexuality and power in sexual relationships, these links have yet to be fully operationalised in health policies and programs. Based on the commitments made [Eldis HIV/AIDS newsfeed] 11:55:28 AM
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Deadly delay: South Africa s efforts to prevent HIV in survivors of sexual violence. This report highlights the obstacles to effective post- exposure prophylaxis (PEP) provision in South Africa and their solutions, and serves to illustrate lessons of the South African experience that may be useful for countries that are beginning to discuss or develop PEP services. Recommendations to the Government of South Africa include: launch an information campaign to educate the public about PEP and its provision as part of a comprehensive package of services for sexual violence survivors provide PEP at all government [Eldis HIV/AIDS newsfeed] 11:54:46 AM
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Post offices, pension and computers: new opportunities for combining growth and social protection in weakly-integrated rural areas?. India s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies. However, implementation constraints (especially in areas weakly integrated into economic institutions and infrastructure) are severe. After reviewing briefly the complexities of targeting and delivery in India, this paper examines why there is an apparently inexorable trend towards an increasing number (of [Eldis ICT for development newsfeed] 11:52:28 AM
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The Challenges of Getting Malawi Wired. It''s a tale of delays, missed deadlines and the grinding problems that can dog large-scale infrastructure projects. [EarthWire RSS News Feed] 11:48:55 AM
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Why people don't share what they know. The ideas for blog-based communities now being advanced by Jonathan Briggs reminded me of an interesting table of different knowledge behaviours posted by Mopsos. It charts Knowledge Web, Knowledge Ladder, Knowledge Torch, and Knowledge Fortress against definitions, examples and recommended... [Designing for Civil Society] 11:41:34 AM
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Choosing Open Source: a decision making guide for civil society organizations. Open source software holds a great deal of potential for civil society organisations, the most obvious benefit being that it is free to use. It may also offers better security, increased flexibility and the ability to adapt software to meet local and organizational needs. It is also based on the kind of collaborative and cooperative principles that many civil society organizations embrace. This report provides an introduction to the topic, tackling questions like 'what is open source?' and 'how will it [Eldis ICT for development newsfeed] 11:39:37 AM
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Weblog as Corporate Information Service. Michael Angeles has posted an interesting entry on how weblogs and RSS may be used as an information service within a company. Along with the possibilties, he also provides some well-grounded thoughts on how to get people to be webloggers: The environment has to be right. Potential bloggers can't be forced into this role, but must be willing to fall gently into it. Potential bloggers should be selected among those that have the appropriate skills and subject area exposure for the topics you want to cover. If these (and other important factors that I haven't identified yet) are in place, perhaps this can happen. Perhaps we can employ librarians/indexers as bloggers.and... I'm inclined to agree that if you want to tap the potential of the knowledge worker to create/contribute/share knowledge, you have to spend a lot of time making sure the environment makes them feel enabled/empowered/rewarded for doing so. Via: Column Two [Common Craft - Online Community Strategies]11:38:41 AM
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Profile in Unusability: Weatherbug. I was watching the evening news and saw a story about Weatherbug, which is the organization that runs the school-based weather updates. Have you noticed your (US) weatherman reporting about weather from local schools? It’s Weatherbug. I thought that was interesting so I went to their site. Upon clicking the big graphic on the home page, you go to this page where you are asked to choose an option and click "Next". Upon clicking "Next" an error message asks for a 5 digit zip code, yet there is no such field on the page. Also, once you get to this page, there is no way to return to home or cancel the process. There is no way out.
You also see the “technical problems” link. I expected some information regarding the most common “technical problems” related to that page. Instead, I get a full support form asking me to create an account and fill out all kinds of information to ask them for help. Yikes.
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How To Design Information Pages For The Focussed Reader. People may initially scan read on the Web; their eyes moving quickly across a page. However, when they find the keywords they are interested in, they tend to tunnel read. What this means is that they focus on a specific set of content. They basically don’t see anything else on your website. [Robin Good's Latest News] 11:36:22 AM
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The High Cost of Not Finding Information. Businesses generally have a pretty good on handle on how much they spend to acquire information, but sometimes it's what they *don't* know that really trips them up. For instance, in 1999 NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft traveled 416 million miles without a hitch only to crash on impact because a contractor had submitted acceleration data in pounds of force rather than its metric equivalent, newtons. Studies by IDC, AIIM, Reuters and others have shown that knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their time searching for information, but searchers are only successful in finding what they're looking for about 50% of the time. Forty percent of corporate users report that they can't find the information they need to do their jobs on their intranets. And recent research shows that knowledge workers spend more time recreating existing information than they do turning out new information. A 1999 IDC study of the phenomenon they dubbed "knowledge work deficit" estimated that the cost of intellectual rework and inability to find knowledge resources worked out to about $5,000 per worker per year. [Robin Good's Latest News] 11:35:26 AM
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Twelve Reasons Why Open Source Will Prevail. Internet whiz Marc Andreessen took the 3rd annual "Open Source in Government" conference by storm last week, at George Washington University in Washington DC, when he came up with his personal top twelve reasons for why open source will boom over the next 5-10 years. [Robin Good's Latest News] 11:34:36 AM
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HIV/AIDS, lagging policy response and impact on children: the case of C te d Ivoire. This study reviews the experience of C te d'Ivoire in dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and pays special attention to its impact on children. Findings include: AIDS has become the leading cause of mortality among adults and one of the first in children the mortality associated with the disease has reduced life expectancy at birth from 65 years to 55 years in 2000 since 1994 there has been an increase in child mortality more than others, HIV- affected children have no access to care when they are [Eldis Education newsfeed] 11:32:19 AM
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The SWAP: one financial strategy for educational development in Nepal. This paper examines the use of a sector wide approach (SWAP) as a relatively new type of external educational funding in Nepal. Findings include: the Nepalese government assumed primary responsibility for funding formal and non- formal educational programs during the early 1950s by the mid 1950s, the influence of foreign money, in terms of specific 'projects,' significantly altered the ways in which the Kingdom designed educational policies and funded educational [Eldis Education newsfeed] 11:31:43 AM
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Four Things Every Website Headline Must Do. Four Things Every Web Site Headline Must Do If you're writing a headline or heading for a site page, here are four things you need to keep in mind, four elements that demand your attention, four separate ‘audiences' you need to satisfy.[Common Craft - Online Community Strategies] 11:29:27 AM
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MIT Blog Survey Results. Blog Survey: Summary of Findings The results have just been published for a survey conducted by Fernanda Viegas at MIT. I took it back in January and the focus of the survey was weblogs and "Expectations of Privacy and Accountability." 486 bloggers took the survey and the results provide an interesting look at how we, as webloggers, view our responsibilities and liabilities. As the survey points out, it appears that the blog world is in flux, with some trends emerging. An interesting insight: Reasons for revealing the names of companies on blog postings:[Common Craft - Online Community Strategies] 11:24:28 AM
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