In response, the Horizons Program and the Population Council, in collaboration with the Municipal Secretariat of Health and the customs station in Foz do Iguaçu, the Paraná State Secretariat of Health, and the Uruguaiana Municipal STI/AIDS Program, conducted an intervention study from 2002 to 2005. The study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of providing a range of health serv...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence refers to any type of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse enforced in the setting of familial relationships. Domestic violence has a significant relationship with poor outcome among pregnant women. Success in resolving this social phenomenon rests on accurate assessment of the society and the factors associated with violence in that specific community. OBJEC...

The Disaster Unit of the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) responded to the Kurdish refugee crisis in March 1991, with the early dispatch and air dropping of material aid by the RAF. Their chief medical adviser was seconded to coordinate inputs in Turkey and later on the Turkish/Iraqi border. The Minister for Overseas Development herself made an on-site assessment of the scale of the pr...

The creation of the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2010 resulted in changes not only in trade between Member States but also with third countries. The introduction of a uniform tariff, a common customs code, standardization of health, veterinary and phytosanitary requirements as well as unification of quality standards in relation to goods imported from third countries ...

Measures to actively facilitate trade are increasingly seen as essential to assist developing countries in expanding trade and benefiting from globalisation. Although often viewed as narrowly concerned with the ease and speed of Customs procedures, even greater trade cost reductions and trade and welfare benefits may be reaped from a broader view of trade facilitation (TF) that incorporates tra...