Recommended readings
Complete list of 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...
- Market development approaches scoping report
- ( E. Gardiner; D. Schwanenflugel; C. Grace / HLSP Institute, UK , 2006)
- This paper, produced for the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, explores how market development approaches (MDAs) for reproductive health commodities, can contribute to financial sustainability, ...
- Assessment manual: a handbook for conducting private sector country assessments
- ( The Commercial Market Strategies project , 2001)
- This handbook from the Commercial Market Strategies (CMS) project at the USAID Center for Population, Health and Nutrition is a guide for conducting technical assessments to determine the potential fo...
- Targeting services towards the poor: a review of targeting mechanisms and their effectiveness
- ( K. Hanson; E. Worrall; V. Wiseman / Health Systems Resource Guide , 2006)
- This chapter analyses the alternative approaches to targeting the poor that have been used in healthcare delivery and draws together evidence from a range of countries about their effectiveness. The a...
- Family planning market segmentation in Jordan
- ( S. Sharma; I. Almasarweh / Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington , 2004)
- This report from the POLICY project at USAID uses a market segmentation approach to analyse the provision of family planning services in Jordan. Market segment analysis is used to identify which parts...
- Segmentation and a total market approach
- ( S. Chapman; M. Collumbien; A. Karlyn / Population Services International , 2006)
- This paper from Population Services International (PSI) outlines a method for segmenting populations as part of a Total Market approach to designing, managing and evaluating reproductive and sexual he...
- The access frontier as an approach and tool in making markets work for the poor
- ( D. Porteous / Department for International Development, UK , 2005)
- This paper from DFID sets out the "access frontier" approach to understanding how markets work, how they change over time and, in particular, how they work to increase access by poor people. The theor...
- Willingness to pay surveys for setting prices for reproductive health products and services
- ( K. Fleischman Foriet; J. Foreit / Population Council, USA , 2004)
- This user’s manual from the Population Council provides information to managers of reproductive health programmes on how to conduct willingness to pay (WTP) surveys. Programme managers can use these ...
- Project MAP: measuring access and performance: lessons learned and recommendations
- ( Population Services International , 2005)
- Recommended reading
- This report from Population Services International (PSI) outlines a pilot project that developed a system for measuring equity of access to reproductive healthcare products. Project MAP (Measuring Acc...
- Project TraC: tracking results continuously
- ( Population Services International , 2003)
- Recommended reading
- This paper from Population Services International (PSI) outlines Project TraC, a four year project aimed at expanding the use of tracking surveys in the social marketing of reproductive healthcare ser...
- The dashboard: a tool for social marketing decision making
- ( D. Patel; S. Chapman / Population Services International , 2005)
- Recommended reading
- This paper, from Population Services International (PSI), describes the ‘Dashboard’ concept. In the Dashboard tool, evidence gathered through population and service delivery based studies is presented...
- State of the private health sector wall chart
- ( Private Sector Partnerships-One , 2005)
- This wall chart from the Private Sector Partnerships - One project of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) provides detailed information on the extent of private sector involvement in h...
- A guide to competitive vouchers in health
- ( World Bank , 2005)
- Recommended reading
- This World Bank guide examines voucher schemes as a means of subsidising healthcare goods and services for the poor. It focuses on schemes that involve some form of competition between service provide...
- Access to health care for all? User fees plus a health equity fund in Sotnikum, Cambodia
- ( W. Hardeman; W. Van Damme; M. Van Pelt; I. R. Por / Health Policy and Planning , 2004)
- This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, presents the experience of a Health Equity Fund managed by a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Sotnikum, Cambodia. The aim of the Health...
- Increasing people’s access to essential medicines in developing countries: a framework for good practice in the pharmaceutical industry
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2005)
- This document, from the UK Department of International Development, describes the current situation regarding access to essential medicines in developing countries, and aims to provide guidance to pha...
- Equitable pricing of newer essential medicines for developing countries: evidence for the potential of different mechanisms
- ( C. Grace / World Health Organization , 2003)
- The disease burden in developing countries is large and growing, but funds to tackle it are limited. Differential drug pricing is one way to increase access to essential medicines. A study commissione...
- The effect of changing intellectual property on pharmaceutical industry prospects in India and China: considerations for access to medicines
- ( C. Grace / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2004)
- This HSRC report explores the implications of changing Intellectual Property (IP) on access to medicines (ATM) in India and China by asking two key questions: how will the implementation of product pa...
- Processes and issues for improving access to medicines: the evidence base for domestic production and greater access to medicines
- ( J. Guimier; L. Lee; M. Grupper / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2004)
- This HSRC study explores whether the domestic production of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria drugs in sub-Saharan Africa is sufficiently profitable to operate indefinitely, while at the same time increasing a...
- Improving hormonal contraceptive supply: the potential contribution of manufacturers of generic and biosimilar drugs
- ( F. Armand / Private Sector Partnerships-One , 2006)
- This technical paper from the Private Sector Partnership for Better Health (PSP-One) project of USAID examines the factors determining the supply of hormonal contraceptive products in developing count...
- West Africa reproductive health commodity security study: Ghana reproductive health commodity security country assessment
- ( J. Amenyah; R. Rao; E. Shea; M. Oubnichou; A. Nazzar; G. Addico / Deliver , 2005)
- This country assessment from USAID and DELIVER examines the supply of reproductive health commodities in Ghana. The assessment was commissioned as part of the West Africa Reproductive Health Commodity...
- What works: serving the poor, profitably
- ( C.K. Prahalad; A. Hammond / World Resources Institute, Washington DC , 2002)
- This article, from the World Resources Institute, considers how the global market system could be expanded to provide direct benefits and opportunity to poor communities. There are nearly 4 billion pe...
- Deep dive: an exploration for innovation
- ( C. Shepherd / Futures Group , 2005)
- This case study provides an overview of the work of the Key Social Marketing (KSM) organisation in Pakistan. Since 1997 the organisation has aimed at raising awareness about, and the use of, three hor...
- Social franchising as a strategy for expanding access to reproductive health services
- ( R. Ahmed; J. McBride / The Commercial Market Strategies project , 2001)
- This report from the Commercial Market Strategies (CMS) project examines the use of social franchising as a mechanism for increasing access to affordable family planning services in developing countri...
- The potential market for expanded private-sector family planning in the Philippines
- ( W. Winfrey; S. Scribner; F. Armand; C. Carlson; L. Dougerty / The Commercial Market Strategies project , 2003)
- This report, part of the Country Research Series from the Commercial Market Strategies (CAM) project at USAID, provides information on the growing numbers of those using family planning products and s...
- Support to contraceptive social marketing in the Philippines, performance and prospects - final report
- ( P. Connell; C. Cisex; J. Robertson / Private Sector Partnerships-One , 2005)
- This report from the USAID project Private Sector Partnership for Better Health (PSP-One) gives an assessment of a USAID-funded social marketing intervention in the Philippines. As part of this projec...
- Uganda: Partnering with the private sector to meet Uganda’s health care needs
- ( Commercial Marketing Strategies , 2003)
- This report from the USAID project Commercial Marketing Strategies (CMS) provides an overview of the organisation’s social marketing of reproductive health products in Uganda. This work has focused on...
