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  Community-driven development for water and sanitation in urban areas

  Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, 2005

  This booklet presents a number of community-led initiatives to improve and extend provision for water and sanitation to low-income urban households and discusses their relevance for meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for water and sanitation.At the core of most initiatives described in this booklet is the possibility for urban poor groups and their organizations to influence wha
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  Enlisting the armed forces to protect reproductive health and rights: lessons learned from nine countries

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  This paper is a comparative study of country experiences across regions, undertaken as part of a UNFPA interregional project ‘Improving Gender Perspective, Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention through Stronger Partnership with the Military.’ Its purpose is to inform future programming by identifying effective approaches for working with men in the uniformed services in reproductive and sexu
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  Risk factors for treatment delay in pulmonary tuberculosis in Recife, Brazil

  BMC Public Health, 2005

  Published in BMC Public Health, this article reports on a study which investigated factors associated with treatment delay for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in urban Recife, Brazil. Of 1,105 adult patients diagnosed over a two-year period, 62 per cent had a delay in treatment of longer than 60 days.
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  Nigeria: study of non-state providers of basic services

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2004

  This paper looks at the service delivery of health, urban water and education by non-state providers (NSPs) in Nigeria.Each sector study focused on three broad forms of government (or civil society) intervention or action: dialogue between state and non-state actors in deciding and reviewing policy and legislation about standards and regulatory systems; the implementation of interventions to re
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  One in two: children are the key to Africa’s future

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report makes the case for investment in children as the key to breaking Africa’s cycle of poverty.
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  Strategies for reducing maternal mortality in developing countries: what can we learn from the history of the industrialized West?

  Tropical Medicine & International Health, 1998

  This paper from Tropical Medicine & International Health notes that after ten years of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries remain similar to those of industrialised countries in the early twentieth century. The authors identify conditions in which industrialised countries reduced maternal mortality over the past 100 years.
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  Neonatal survival 2: Evidence-based, cost-effective interventions: how many newborn babies can we save?

  The Lancet, 2005

  This paper, the second in The Lancet neonatal survival series, reviews evidence for the effectiveness of newborn health interventions in developing countries. It selects 16 simple interventions of proven efficacy (implementation under ideal conditions).
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  Equity of family planning in developing countries

  Deliver, 2004

  This policy briefing from DELIVER focuses on how to ensure equitable access to and use of family planning services and resources in developing countries. The authors refer to analyses of nationally representative data from demographic and health surveys in 20 countries, as well as data from reproductive health surveys in Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay.
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  A review of the health sector in Kenya

  Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2004

  This paper reviews Kenya’s health indicators; describes the health system and government health policy; and examines the quality of healthcare and ways in which the system is financed.
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  Child labour in India: a health and human rights perspective

  The Lancet, 2003

  This article, published in the Lancet, reports on a study by the Physicians for Human Rights Child Rights Group which investigated the health of children working in hybrid cottonseed fields in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. The study found that the majority of children surveyed were in debt bondage to pay off a family loan or advance.

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