Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks. However, countries face multiple challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC strategies. Sharing and learning from diverse country experiences may enable to foster...

Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender gap requires attention. Maldives has made great progress in improving maternal health and has achieved MDG. The total fertility rate has declined to 2.3 in 2012. Contraceptive use...

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Veränderte gesellschaftliche Anforderungen, wie dem Wunsch nach mehr Biodiversität und einer nachhaltigeren Nutzung der Agrarfläche, bieten auf den ersten Blick für den ökologischen Anbau von Heil-, Kosmetik- und Gewürzpflanzenanbau neue Möglichkeiten. Das seit Jahren gestiegene...

The costs of HIV/AIDS programs are significant from a macroeconomic or fiscal perspective in a number of countries. Assessing the fiscal implications is complicated by the long lags between infection and the need for HIV/AIDS-related services, and the long duration over which these services...

Describes the effect of HIV/AIDS on East African society and makes recommendations for actions to be taken and research to be carried out.