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Over the past two decades, studies on the migration-development nexus often portray small states as one homogeneous group, ‘developing countries’, without considering their critical and peculiar challenges or inherent vulnerabilities, due mainly to their size.

Development Challenges of HIV/AIDS in Small States provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the economic impacts of the epidemic in the Pacific, Southern Africa and the Caribbean.

At the centre of the HIV/AIDS response are the 12 million people who need care and treatment.

The UN Human Rights Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism has been in place for over two years.

Because e-health is a core resource for healthcare systems, every country needs good policies, strategies and plans, both for information and communication technology (ICT), and for the associated organisational changes that support improved health and healthcare.

This book tells the real life stories of men and women who live with the HIV/AIDS virus and have triumphed over it.

In recent years there have been renewed concerns worldwide about the tremendous drain of resources that can occur when skilled health professionals migrate, particularly from developing to developed countries.

The CYCI Toolkit is an innovative publication which will help governments, development agencies and NGOs to implement micro-credit programmes modelled on the Commonwealth Youth Credit Initiative.

This book explains the role, background and issues surrounding the establishment of National Human Rights Institutions.

Women and men experience health differently and have different health care needs.

Many of the attitudes and behaviours that impact on heath in later life are acquired during adolescence and early adulthood.

Within the universities of the Commonwealth there has always been a sense of a common educational and research tradition.A workshop was held in Singapore in April 1992 to outline the strategies and mechanisms for developing, maintaining and expanding student flows into the universities and polytechnics of the Commonwealth South and for the extension of South-South exchange.