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Health and Education For All: What you need to know

WebYet these vital public services – health, education, water and sanitation – can transform the lives of poor people. They make society more equal. They are the key to …

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Guidelines for Public Health Promotion in Emergencies

WebPublic Health Promotion is the planned and systematic attempt to enable people to take action to prevent or mitigate disease. It combines insider knowledge (what …

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Universal Health Coverage: Why health insurance …

WebUniversal Health Coverage is about the right to health. Everyone – rich or poor – should get the health care they need without suffering financial hardship. …

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Harmful Side Effects: How drug companies undermine …

WebOverview. New Oxfam research shows that four pharmaceutical companies – Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer – systematically hide their profits in …

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The Impact of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support …

WebThis systematic review, commissioned by the Humanitarian Evidence Programme and carried out by a team from the EPPI-Centre, University College London …

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The Impact of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support …

WebThis protocol outlines plans for conducting a mixed-methods systematic review on the impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes in …

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Access to Healthcare: A right not a luxury

WebThe deep crises Lebanon is going through have led to increased cases of mental health issues, especially among marginalized and vulnerable groups, particularly …

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Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private …

WebThe realisation of the right to health for millions of people in poor countries depends upon a massive increase in health services to achieve universal and equitable …

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Guide to Community Engagement in WaSH: A …

WebThis guide is a compilation of best practices and key lessons learned through Oxfam’s experience of community engagement during the 2014 ’15 Ebola response in …

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Cholera Outbreak Guidelines: Preparedness, prevention and control

WebThis practical field guide brings together lessons learned from Oxfam’s past interventions in the prevention and control of cholera, and other related guidance. The …

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Public Good or Private Wealth

WebOverview. Our economy is broken, with hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty while huge rewards go to those at the very top. The number of …

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The Right Choices: Achieving universal health coverage in Malawi

WebOverview. Malawi has a proud history of delivering free healthcare for its citizens, but this is now seriously under threat. Bypass fees for hospitals are already …

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A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC's flagship health PPP bankrupt

WebThe Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho was built under a public–private partnership (PPP), which is the first of its kind in a low-income country and …

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Oxfam’s Conceptual Framework on Women’s Economic …

WebWomen’s economic empowerment (WEE) programmes focus on women’s ability to gain access and control over productive resources and to be recognized as fully …

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Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal …

WebThis paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social …

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Paying for Health: Poverty and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe

WebOverview. Paying for Health shows how the most vulnerable sections of society carry the burden of structural adjustment when a government adopts the World …

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Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank …

WebDevelopment finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit …

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South Africa vs. the Drug Giants: A challenge to affordable medicines

WebOn 5 March 2001, 39 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies took the South African government to court over the terms of its 1997 Medicines Act. The Act was …

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