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Medicines without Doctors: Why the Global Fund Must Fund Salaries of Health Workers to Expand AIDS Treatment

0605 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (“the Global Fund”) was created to fi ght three of the world’s most devastating diseases. Since its creation in 2002, it has struggled with the diffi cult task of focusing on three diseases, and at the same time supporting the fragile public health systems that are supposed to implement this fi ght on the ground. Recent internal comme...

Social Sciences and Humanities

Artificiality in Social Sciences

The “sciences of the artificial” deal with synthesized things which may imitate natural things, which have functions and goals and which are usually discussed in terms of imperatives as well as descriptives. Imitation with computer is now usually termed simulation and is used to understand the imitated system (Simon, 1996). Artificiality has invaded science over the last thirty years, and physi...

Measures in Social Sciences

In the series Basic Concepts in Social Sciences a list of 79 concepts was given. The last part of that list consisted of 10 concepts concerning measures. Verbal definitions of these measures were considered as a preparation of mathematical definitions. In this paper these mathematical definitions will be discussed.