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Shifting Paradigm: How the Brics are reshaping global health and development

Published by: 
Global Health Strategies initiatives

With donor spending from the U.S. and Europe slowing or declining, there is an urgent need for new global health resources and champions. With this in mind, international organizations have started looking to the BRICS as potential donors and health innovators. GHSi’s report explores the expanding influence of the BRICS on global health and development through their foreign assistance programs and innovative, home-grown products and services.

The Global Gender Gap Report 2011

Published by: 
World Economic Forum

Many of the world’s women are moving closer to gender equality, but substantial gaps remain between men and women in health, education and, particularly, political and economic participation in a number of countries, including some of the most developed, according to a new global report.

Measuring against 2010 rankings, for example, the Sixth Annual World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2011 found that New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom showed slight declines in their overall gender equality rankings, while Brazil, Ethiopia, Qatar, Tanzania and Turkey posted gains.

Against Her Will: Forced Coerced Sterilization of Women Worldwide

Published by: 
Other/ unknown/ unpublished

Women worldwide have been forced or coerced by medical personnel to submit to permanent and irreversible sterilization procedures. Despite condemnation from the United Nations, cases of forced and coerced sterilization have been reported in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Women who are poor or stigmatized are most likely to be deemed “unworthy” of reproduction. Perpetrators are seldomly held accountable and victims rarely obtain justice for this violent abuse of their rights.

Achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights for women and girls through the HIV response

Published by: 
UNAIDS

The case studies that follow, from across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central
Asia, Latin America and North America, highlight the rich diversity of community initiatives that
bridge sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV. The report has a strategic emphasis
on the innovation that is being led by women living with HIV and features pioneering endeavours
that reflect community and key stakeholder interpretation and understanding of how this
intersection is defined. It profiles initiatives that have emerged from within the HIV sector as it
broadens out to encompass a sexual and reproductive health and rights approach, as well as

Tuberculosis in South Africa

Series Name: 
HST Update
Published by: 
Health Systems Trust
Tuberculosis remains the most important communicable disease in the world. In South Africa it accounts for over 80% of all notifiable diseases. The combination of a bacterium which presents special problems in treatment and the tissue destruction that results from the host response have made it a dangerous and life threatening disease since very early human civilization.