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Working Document on Health and Family Planning Indicators: A Tool for Results Frameworks
Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1999Draws on technical reviews of USAID mission documents, with the aim of providing an introduction to the results framework (a hierarchical model consisting of strategic objective, supporting intermediate results, and key performance indicators; presenting and defining key indicators; and offering guidance on difficulties in collecting and interpreting data for these indicators.DocumentImproving Reproductive Health: The Role of the World Bank
Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1999Reproductive health is not merely the absence of disease or disability. It is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters related to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. Reproductive health therefore implies that women and men have a right to a safe sex life, and to reproduce if and when they wish.DocumentMortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study
The Lancet, 1997Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury. Medically certified information is available for less than 30 percent of the estimated 50.5 million deaths that occur each year worldwide. This paper, from The Lancet, reports on the five-year Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD).DocumentMother-to-child transmission of HIV
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is the overwhelming source of HIV infection in young children. Of the 3 million infants infected with HIV since the beginning of the pandemic, about 90% have been born in Africa. However, the number of cases in India and South-East Asia appears to be rising rapidly.DocumentThe impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households in the Monze District of Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. It investigates how caring for a chronically ill family member impinges on household production and alters labour allocation between genders and generations.DocumentThrough a gender lens: Resources for Population, Health and Nutrition Projects
Family Health International, 1998Reviews existing models and methodologies for incorporating a gender perspective into U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) development initiatives.DocumentGender and health: a technical paper
Women's Health and Development Programme, WHO, 1998Studies on health differences between men and women tend to emphasise biological factors as determinant. Instead, this technical paper, written by the Gender and Women’s Health Department at the World Health Organisation (WHO), explores the implications of the shift to a 'gender and development' (GAD) approach for the analysis of health and health care issues.DocumentFrom single parents to child-headed households: the case of children orphaned by AIDS in Kisumu and Siaya districts in Kenya
HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998The socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are felt in a growing number of countries and increasing mortality rates among adults are threatening economic and social well-being.This study looks at the status, needs and skills of orphans, especially those orphaned by AIDS and shows that:when a husband dies of AIDS in a family, the mother is also often living with HIV/AIDS aPages