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    Fake medicines kill hundreds of thousands of people every year

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Counterfeit medicines are a serious problem in developing countries. The World Health Organization states that 25 percent of all drugs used in developing countries are illegal imitations. Hundreds of thousands die each year as a result of using these drugs.
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    The CAPA handbook: a "how-to" guide for implementing Catchment Area Planning and Action, a community-based child survival approach

    Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004
    This manual, published by Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival/Nigeria (BASICS II/N), provides guidelines on an approach to improving child survival known as Catchment Area Planning and Action (CAPA).
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    The MNPI study: measures of strength for maternal health programs in 55 developing countries

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004
    This paper, produced by the POLICY Project, reports on research relating to the Maternal and Neonatal Program Effort Index (MNPI), a standardised assessment instrument designed to measure the strength and character of government programmes to improve maternal and newborn health. The index was applied during 1999 and 2002, to 49 and 55 developing countries respectively.
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    Comparison of house spraying and insecticide-treated nets for malaria control

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000
    This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, compares the efficacy of residual house spraying against insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control using data from Africa, Asia and Melanesia. Comparisons of recent initiatives showed that ITNs were at least as effective as house spraying.

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