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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Health, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

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  Estimated global resources needed to attain universal coverage of maternal and newborn health services

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007

  This paper in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the amount of additional resources that are needed to scale up maternal and newborn health services in order to reach the Millennium Development Goals, specifically goal 5 (to improve maternal health), goal 4 (to reduce child mortality), and goal 6 (to combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases).
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  Who's got the power: transforming health systems for women and children 2005

  Millennium Project, 2005

  This report, produced by the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Maternal Health and Child Health, outlines challenges in maternal and child health around the world, and considers key interventions to address these challenges, focusing on health systems.
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  How does progress towards the child mortality millennium development goal affect inequalities between the poorest and least poor?: analysis of demographic and health survey data

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This paper, published in the British Medical Journal, examines how inequality in the under-five mortality rates of the poorest and least poor groups changes as progress is made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in 22 countries of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia.
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  Meeting Millennium Development Goals 3 and 5

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This article, taken from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Africa issue, calls for gender equality to be put on the African agenda. The authors point out that of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), we have made the least progress towards achieving MDG 5 – to improve maternal health.
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  Progress for children: a report card on immunization

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This volume of Progress for Children reports on the progress of immunisations by countries and region.The report finds that East Asia/Pacific, Latin America/Caribbean and Middle East/North Africa are almost achieving the 90 per cent target for DPT3 (national and district coverage).
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  Promises, promises: how can the Millennium Development Goals be met?

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This briefing explores the progress to date of the health and education MDGs, their implications for children, and makes recommendations for change.The briefing states that a key target - to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2005 - has been missed, and that this has not been recognised.
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  Bottlenecks and drip-feeds: channelling resources to communities responding to orphans and vulnerable children in southern Africa

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This study identifies a number of barriers that are stopping the smooth flow of funds to support community initiatives working with vulnerable children.The report argues that current aid allocations are unable to find their way through to community groups, and it is unlikely that simply increasing aid flows will result in sufficient resources reaching community level.
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  Killer bills: make child poverty history - abolish user fees

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This brief from Save the Children Fund argues that user fees for basic health care, paid in the poorest countries around the world, are in reality "killer bills". It argues that abolishing user fees and covering the relatively small cost of abolition would immediately save the lives of nearly a quarter of a million children under five.
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  80 million lives: meeting the Millennium Development Goals in child and maternal survival

  Save the Children Fund, 2003

  This report, produced by Save the Children on behalf of the Grow Up Free from Poverty Coalition, analyses the progress made towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals on infant and maternal survival. It reveals that the goal of reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 is unlikely to be met; sub-Saharan Africa is particularly off-track.
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  Children in crisis: good practices in evaluating psychosocial programming

  Save the Children Fund, USA, 2004

  This manual presents major principles of psychosocial project design and evaluation, and seeks to heighten critical awareness of the cultural and ethical issues associated with psychosocial work.The manual is set out as follows:the concept of psychosocial development.

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