Recommended readings

Access to condoms and HIV/AIDS information: a global health and human rights concern

( Human Rights Watch , 2004)

This Human Rights Watch briefing paper documents censorship of information, myths and restrictions on condoms in a number of countries. While condoms remain the single most effective device against s...

Reproductive health commodity security (RHCS) country case studies synthesis: Cambodia, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia

( N. Druce / Department for International Development Health Resource Centre (HRC) , 2006)

This report, commissioned by the UK Department for International Development and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, analyses the key factors that influence the financing, procurement, foreca...

Paris declaration on aid effectiveness

( Aid Harmonization & Alignment , 2005)

Adopted at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (March 2005) the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, has been prepared with broad participation from development practitioners, through a proce...

Private sector participation in health

( HLSP Institute, UK , 2004)

This document, from HLSP, examines a range of approaches to strengthening public-private sector partnerships in order to scale up affordable and quality-assured health services. The document summarise...

Ends versus means: the role of markets in expanding access to contraceptives

( K. Hanson; L. Kumaranayake; I. Thomas / Health Policy and Planning , 2001)

This review article from Health Policy and Planning examines the relationship between the public and private sectors in the provision of sustainable supplies of contraceptives. The article looks at th...

Economic rationale and programme issues for promoting sustainability

( I. Thomas; K. Hanson; L. Kumaranayake / Options Consultancy Services , 1999)

This paper, prepared by Options Consultancy for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), gives an analysis of the economic issues related to the supply of subsidised contraceptives to...

When donor support ends: the fate of social marketing products and the markets they help create

( S. Agha; M. Do; F. Armand / Private Sector Partnerships-One , 2005)

This report is part of the Global Research Report series published by USAID’s Private Sector Partnership for Better Health (PSP-One). It assesses the performance of social marketing interventions in p...

Review of DFID approach to social marketing

( J. Meadley; R. Pollard; M. Wheeler / Department for International Development Health Resource Centre (HRC) , 2003)

This review, from the DFID (Department for International Development) Health Systems Resource Centre, argues that DFID should continue to expand its use of social marketing as a strategy for deliverin...