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Ensuring a Public Health Impact of Programs to Reduce HIV Transmission From Mothers to Infants: The Place of Voluntary Counseling and Testing by Bassett, Mary Travis

“…Since 1999, many African governments have launched programs to offer short-course antiretroviral drug regimens to reduce mother-to child transmission of HIV…”
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From Harlem to Harare: Lessons in How Social Movements and Social Policy Change Health by Mary Travis Bassett

“…As far back as I can remember, we children were carted along to marches and meetings. I grew up in the multiracial, largely working-class community of Upper…”
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Cancer survival in a southern African urban population by Gondos, Adam, Chokunonga, Eric, Brenner, Hermann, Parkin, Donald Maxwell, Sankila, Risto, Borok, Margaret Z., Chirenje, Z. Michael, Nyakabau, Anna M., Bassett, Mary Travis

“…This paper provides the first comprehensive population based cancer survival estimates from the African continent. Five‐year absolute and relative survival…”
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From Harlem to Harare: Lessons in How Social Movements and Social Policy Change Health by Travis Bassett, Mary

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Comrades in Health: U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Theodore M. Brown, Vicente Navarro, Susan Gross Solomon

“…Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements…”
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The pursuit of equity in health: reflections on race and public health data in Southern Africa by Bassett, MT

“…The United States shares with Zimbabwe and South Africa a history of racial subjugation. A revision of the US racial classification to allow membership in more…”
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Professionalism, patient satisfaction and quality of health care: Experience during Zimbabwe's structural adjustment programme by Bassett, Mary Travis, Bijlmakers, Leon, Sanders, David M.

“…In 1991, Zimbabwe embarked on a structural adjustment programme. In the health sector, collection of fees was enforced and fees were later increased…”
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Risk factors for HIV infection at enrollment in an urban male factory cohort in Harare, Zimbabwe by BASSETT, M. T, MCFARLAND, W. C, RAY, S, MBIZVO, M. T, MACHEKANO, R, VAN DE WIJGERT, J. H. H. M, KATZENSTEIN, D. A

“…Between March 1993 and March 1995, volunteers at 40 Harare factories were interviewed regarding sociodemographic characteristics and behavior; HIV serostatus…”
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