Pastoralists throughout Africa face increasing pressures. In Benin, governmental
development policies and programmes in crop farming are changing power relations …

Purpose This paper is part 2 of our twin articles on income reference points for social life
cycle assessment (SLCA). The purpose of this article is to provide a well-founded fair …

Background. Viral load (VL) monitoring for patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) is
recommended worldwide. However, the costs of frequent monitoring are a barrier to …

East Africa Research Papers in Economics and Finance is a series linked to the
collaborative PhD program in Economics and Management among East Africa national …

With the mounting cost of the global fight against malaria to reach the 2015 Millennium
Development Goal targets, there is an ever increasing need for evidence-based malaria …

In this perspectives brief, authors Ilona Drew, Fiona Wilson, Bill Maddocks discuss a case
study that was examined as part of the Social Sector Franchise Initiative (SSFI), a project of …

1.1. Background Despite the flows of global capital investment in the mining sector in Africa
since early 2000, national and local communities have not benefitted, on the contrary the …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa is currently experiencing a youth bulge that is expected to
continue growing for a few decades. Uganda, one of the countries with the highest youth …

In the midst of a busy medical practice in Canada, it is easy to forget that access to
postoperative pain relief has not always been universal in our country. In this issue of the …

The present study sought to identify significant predictors of wellbeing within a sample of
2,764 high school and university students in Nicaragua, a country where significant stressful …