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The Global Water and Sanitation Initiative - mid-term summary,

IFRC, 10 August 2012

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The GWSI outlines a common approach among Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies to establish larger-scale, longer-term sustainable water and sanitation programmes to contribute more effectively in meeting the UN MDG's.

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Eliminating health inequities - Every woman and every child counts,

IFRC, 29 November 2011

Health inequities are “unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries”. Health inequities are systematic: they usually affect particular groups of people, and they occur across the social gradient

English, French, Spanish, Arabic

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Out of harm’s way - Injecting drug users and harm reduction,

IFRC, 1 December 2010

24 pages

The report depicts the stark reality of what it means to be an injecting drug user and living with HIV. It examines the prevention, treatment, care and support needs of this most at-risk population and the IFRC response to their plight.

English, Arabic

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Beyond prevention: home management of malaria in Kenya,

IFRC, 10 September 2010

24 pages

The advocacy report presents a successful malarial prevention programme, carried out by the Kenya Red Cross Society and the Kenyan Ministry of Health with support from the Canadian Red Cross Society, ensuring that remote communities have access to prompt and effective malaria treatment. The Kenyan experience is just one example showcasing the global fight against malaria to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

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Immunization: unfinished business,

IFRC, 6 September 2010

16 pages

The advocacy report was produced jointly by IFRC and the GAVI Alliance. It highlights the significant financial gaps that pose a threat to millions of children lives which can be saved with vaccination. The report focuses on the value and impact of immunization on child mortality.

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Inequalities fuelling HIV pandemic,

IFRC, 27 November 2009

32 pages

The HIV pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean is fuelled by a range of social and economic inequalities exacerbated by high levels of stigma, discrimination of highly vulnerable groups, and persistent gender inequality and homophobia, says this report. It is released on the occasion of World AIDS Day 2009 (1 December).

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The epidemic divide,

IFRC, 1 July 2009

16 pages

The IFRC is concerned that the growing burden of epidemics on the social and economic development of poorer countries is not being sufficiently addressed. In this report the IFRC recognises that non-communicable diseases such as cancers and heart attacks are now the leading causes of death worldwide, but claims that using only mortality rates to measure the impact of diseases distorts the true burden epidemics have on developing countries.

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Standards for HIV peer education programmes,

IFRC, 25 June 2009

92 pages

These standards have been developed in order to provide a common framework and set of standards for National Societies implementing and supporting HIV peer education programmes. They should be considered in conjunction with other relevant International Federation HIV documents and the Code of Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV and AIDS.

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Managing Stress in the Field,

IFRC, 23 June 2009

24 pages

A publication designed to give practical advice to relief workers before, during and after their mission. Its aim is to help those working in the field to recognise, prevent and reduce stress in the field.
Fourth edition (2009)

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100,000 cases: The spectre of cholera remains in Zimbabwe ,

IFRC, 4 May 2009

8 pages

A report issued on May by the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - warns that although rates of infection have dropped over the past months, the risk remains.

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