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2004 World Drug Report

Annual report produced by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime provides an overview of the international illicit drug trade.

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/world_drug_report.html

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Changing Course Alternative Approaches to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals and Fight HIV/AIDS [PDF]

ActionAid's explosive new report details how the Millennium Development Goals and the war against HIV/AIDS can never succeed as long as the IMF continues to bind the growth and sovereignty of developing nations through its restrictive policies.

http://www.actionaidusa.org/pdf/Changing%20Course%20Report.pdf

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Global Health Watch 2005/ 2006 Report

Global Health Watch 2005-2006 is a collaboration of leading popular movements and non-governmental organizations comprising civil society activists, community groups, health workers and academics. It has compiled this alternative world health report - a hard-hitting, evidence-based analysis of the political economy of health and health care - as a challenge to the major global bodies that influence health. The report also offers a comprehensive survey of current knowledge and thinking in the key areas that influence health, focusing throughout on the health and welfare of poor and vulnerable groups in all countries. Global Health Watch 2005-2006 is above all a call for action, written in a clear, accessible style to appeal to grass-roots health workers and activists worldwide, as well as to international policy-makers and national decisionmakers. Its resource sections advocate actions everyone can take, while its recommendations show how better global health governance and practice could work for Health for All rather than health for the privileged few.

http://www.ghwatch.org/2005_report_contents.php

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Health and the Millennium Development Goals

WHO, 2005. The report, Health and the Millennium Development Goals, presents data on progress on the health goals and targets and looks beyond the numbers to analyse why improvements in health have been slow and to suggest what must be done to change this. The report points to weak and inequitable health systems as a key obstacle, including particularly a crisis in health personnel and the urgent need for sustainable health financing. Building up and strengthening health systems is vital if more progress is to be made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report. Unless urgent investments are made in health systems, current rates of progress will not be sufficient to meet most of the Goals.

http://www.who.int/mdg/publications/mdg_report/en/index.html

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International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes

The WHO's International Code on the Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes was created in 1981 to promote the practice of breastfeeding as a way to improve the health and nutrition of infants and young children. The Code bans all promotion of bottle feeding and sets out requirements for labelling and information on infant feeding. Any activity which undermines breastfeeding also violates the aim and spirit of the Code.

http://www.ibfan.org/english/resource/who/fullcode.html

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Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights [pdf 4.69mb]

An independent Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health presented its report on April 3 to the World Health Organisation. Over half of the people in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia lack regular access to existing essential medicines because they cannot afford them, or because the health system in their country is too weak. Apart from access to existing medicines, some health products specifically for diseases which disproportionately affect developing countries are simply not developed at all due to the lack of a sustainable market. The relationship between intellectual property rights, innovation and public health has been at the heart of debate on these issues. The report recommends key actions needed to ensure that poor people in developing countries have access to existing and new products to diagnose, treat and prevent the diseases which affect them most. (Commission of the WHO, 3 April 2006)

http://www.who.int/intellectualproperty/documents/thereport/CIPIH23032006.pdf

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State of the World Population Report (UNFPA)

In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. Many of the new urbanites will be poor. Their future, the future of cities in developing countries, the future of humanity itself, all depend very much on decisions made now in preparation for this growth. (UNFPA).

http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2007/english/introduction.html

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State of the World's Mothers 2005

Across the globe, 58 million girls are not attending school. Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2005 examines the ways investing in girls' education can benefit present and future generations of children, and society as a whole. It points to effective, affordable programs and policies that are working, even in the world's poorest countries. Other highlights of the report include: Looking back 10 years at gains in girls' education in 71 developing countries (Girls' Education Progress Report), the report finds that countries have a mixed record when it comes to progress in girls' education. Looking 10 years forward (Forecasts for Children), the report identifies 11 developing countries that are "most likely to succeed" in improving children's quality of life in the next decade in three important areas of global development: achieving smaller, healthier families; educating all children; and reaching the Millennium Development Goal targets. The sixth annual Mothers' Index ranks the best and worst countries to be a mother, based on a review of 10 indicators of women's and children's well-being among 110 countries, including the United States.

http://www.savethechildren.org/mothers/report_2005/

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State of World Population 2005

UNFPA, 2005. This report explores the degree to which the global community has fulfilled pledges made to the world's most impoverished and marginalized peoples. It tracks progress, exposes shortfalls and examines the links between poverty, gender equality, human rights, reproductive health, conflict and violence against women and girls. It also examines the relationship between gender discrimination and the scourge of HIV/AIDS. It identifies the vulnerabilities and strengths of history's largest cohort of young people and highlights the critical role they play in development.

http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm

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The World Health Report 2005

WHO, April 2005. The World Health Report 2005 - Make Every Mother and Child Count, says that this year almost 11 million children under five years of age will die from causes that are largely preventable. Among them are 4 million babies who will not survive the first month of life. At the same time, more than half a million women will die in pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. The report says that reducing this toll in line with the Millennium Development Goals depends largely on every mother and every child having the right to access to health care from pregnancy through childbirth, the neonatal period and childhood.

http://www.who.int/whr/2005/en/index.html

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World Health Organization (WHO)

http://www.who.int/en/

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World Health Report 2004 (pdf)

This year's report, changing history, calls for a comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy that links prevention, treatment, care and long-term support. At a crucial moment in the pandemic's history, the international community has an unprecedented opportunity to alter its course and simultaneously fortify health systems for the enduring benefit of all.

http://www.who.int/whr/en/

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World Health Report 2006 - Working Together for Health

7 April is World Health Day, and the focus of this year's celebrations is health workers, who form the heart of any health system. The report contains an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and ambitious proposals to tackle it over the next ten years, starting immediately. The report reveals an estimated shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, midwives, nurses and support workers worldwide. The shortage is most severe in the poorest countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where health workers are most needed. Focusing on all stages of the health workers' career lifespan from entry to health training, to job recruitment through to retirement, the report lays out a ten-year action plan in which countries can build their health workforces, with the support of global partners. (World Health Organisation, 2006)

http://www.who.int/whr/2006/en/index.html

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World Report on Violence and Health

The World Health Organization launched the first World report on violence and health on October 3rd, 2002. The goals of the report are to raise awareness about the problem of violence globally, to make the case that violence is preventable, and to highlight the crucial role that public health has to play in addressing its causes and consequences. Complete report freely available in PDF format.

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/world_report/wrvh1/en/

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