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Acceptability of routine HIV counselling and testing, and HIV seroprevalence in Ugandan hospitals
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R. K. Wanyenze;C. Nawavvu;A. S. Namale
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2008
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This report published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization examines the uptake of free HIV counselling and testing programmes in two large Ugandan hospitals. The report finds that of those...
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Medical visas mark growth of Indian medical tourism
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M. Meleigy
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2007
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This news article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, argues that whilst India’s medical tourism sector is a growing source of foreign exchange, the government is under ...
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Delayed care seeking for fatal pneumonia in children aged under five years in Uganda: a case-series study
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K. Kallander;H. Hildenwall;P. Waiswa
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2008
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This research paper in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization reviews individual case histories of children who have died of pneumonia in rural Uganda and investigates why these children did no...
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Monitoring effectiveness of programmes to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in lower-income countries
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E.M. Stringer;B.H. Chi;N. Chintu
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2008
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This article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization proposes a new method for evaluating prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programmes. The authors suggest that HIV-...
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Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries
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E. Van de Poel;A. R. Hosseinpoor;N. Speybroeck
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2008
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This study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, reports on socioeconomic inequality in childhood malnutrition in developing countries, with the intention of providing evidence ...
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Informal health workers: to be encouraged or condemned?
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F. Omaswa
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2006
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This editorial published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization argues for expanding the professional category of formal health care workers to include home-based informal caregivers, politi...
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Leprosy: too complex a disease for a simple elimination paradigm
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D. N. Lockwood;S. Suneetha
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2005
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Can leprosy be eliminated? This paper considers the question against the background of the World Health Organization programme to eliminate leprosy. In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target of e...
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Routine offer of antenatal HIV testing (“opt-out” approach) to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in urban Zimbabwe
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Winfreda Chandisarewa;Lynda Stranix-Chibanda;Elizabeth Chirapa
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2007
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This paper from the World Health Organization aims to assess the impact of routine antenatal HIV testing for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in urban Zimbabwe. ...
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A national survey of the impact of rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy on health-care workers in Malawi: effects on human resources and survival
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Simon D Makombe;Andreas Jahn;Hannock Tweya
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2007
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This paper from the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to assess the human resources impact of Malawi’s rapidly growing antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme and balance this against the surv...
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Global costs of attaining the Millennium Development Goal for water supply and sanitation
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G. Hutton;J. Bartram
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health,
2008
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This study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization estimates the global costs of attaining the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target - to halve by 2015 the proportion of people w...
