INTRODUCTION Indoor residual spraying (IRS) and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), two principal malaria control strategies, are similar in cost and efficacy. We aimed to describe recent policy development regarding their use in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. METHODS Using a qualitative case study methodology, we undertook semi-structured interviews of key informants from May 2004 to Ma...

This paper reviews the relationship between the rule of law, good governance, and sustainable development as those terms are used by the relevant development organizations; describes the efforts made by various organizations to promote the rule of law and good governance; and addresses the need to strengthen compliance and enforcement for sustainable development. A recent movement, which has re...

The principle of ‘non-interference’ is often seen, especially in relation to Sudan and Zimbabwe, merely as a cynical cloak for the pursuit of China’s national self-interest regardless of human rights and good governance issues. If so, China would hardly be unique. Beijing’s approach is not significantly different in this respect from the way other countries pursue their interests. As Professor ...

The tragedy of ethnic Rohingya stems from the discriminatory treatment experienced decades ago in Myanmar. lack attention international community and humanitarian aid efforts for group Myanmar has resulted wave refugees fleeing to other countries is increasing, causing a sense insecurity instability region, especially South Southeast Asia. This article aims look at Indonesia's diplomacy strateg...

UK novelistic fiction has been consistently acknowledged as a major repository of narrative paradigms for the incipient Brazilian novel. Genres originally offering solution tensions embedded throughout social life United Kingdom would cross Atlantic and, by mid-nineteenth century, be rendered instrumental structuring local experience. Among these genres, arguably, was national tale. National ta...

A number of national studies have reported patients' interests in preventive medical care, but rural populations have not been well studied. We surveyed patients from a major clinic in rural central Minnesota to determine their interests in preventive medical care and their physicians' perceptions of those interests. Of 270 patients who responded to a questionnaire, 63-93 percent agreed that ph...

OBJECTIVES Risk-sharing is being considered by many health care systems to address the financial risk associated with the adoption of new technologies. We explored major stakeholders' views toward the potential implementation of a financial risk-sharing mechanism regarding budget-impact estimates for adding new technologies to the Israeli National List of Health Services. According to our propo...