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  Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Project, 2005

  Investing in development is the final report of the UN Millennium Project. It presents the findings and recommendations of the project, which will be reported directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Administrator of the UNDP.The report makes ten key recommendations:developing country governments should adopt development strategies bold enough to meet the MDG targets for 2015.
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  TB and human rights

  Journal of the Indian Medical Association, 2003

  This article, published in the Journal of the Indian Medical Association, explores the way in which tuberculosis (TB) impinges on the human rights of individuals. TB is a chronic disease which restrains the individual’s right to a healthy life. It also has major socio-economic implications. The disease particularly affects the poor and vulnerable, amplifying existing divisions within society.
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  Involving men in maternity care: South Africa

  Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2004

  This paper, from the Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program, reports on a clinic-based intervention in South Africa which focused on involving men in maternal health services. This included providing an antenatal information booklet for couples, training health providers in couples counselling, and inviting partners of pregnant women to attend the counselling during and after delivery.
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  Monitoring and evaluation of decentralization reforms in developing country health sectors

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  The purpose of this paper, from Partners for Health Sector Reform/plus, is to provide planners, policymakers and researchers with guidance on measuring and evaluating decentralisation reforms in the health sector. The paper presents basic information on the rationales and definitions of different forms of decentralisation, as well as country experiences with health sector decentralisation.
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  Reducing maternal and child mortality in Bolivia

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2000

  This paper, produced by Partnerships for Health Reform, reports on an evaluation of the Bolivian National Insurance for Mothers and Children (SNMN) programme. The paper finds that utilisation of formal maternal and child health services has increased as a direct result of the implementation of SNMN, particularly among the poor and among adolescents.
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  Priority service provision under decentralization: a case study of maternal and child health care in Uganda

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 1999

  This paper from Partnerships for Health Reform reports on a study to examine the impact of health sector decentralisation in Uganda on maternal and child health (MCH) services.
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  Measuring the effects of behavior change and service delivery interventions in Guatemala with population-based survey results

  JHPIEGO Consortium, 2004

  This JHPIEGO report, presents the results from the Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) Programme conducted in Guatemala. This programme was also run in Nepal and Burkino Faso. The MNH programme promotes the use of skilled maternal and newborn care, family and community involvement in this care, as well as supportive government policies to sustain these efforts.
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  Fear and want: obstacles to human security

  Social Watch, 2004

  Acknowledging that it is impossibe to answer many specific questions on current events, this report aims to make its own contribution to the debate by examining which grassroots organisations around the world are engaged in the frontline of the battle against poverty and discrimination.
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  Water for life: the impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality

  Universidad Torcuato di Tello, Argentina, 2004

  During the 1990s, about 30 per cent of Argentinean municipalities, covering approximately 60 per cent of the population, privatised their water services.
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  How poverty separates parents from children: a challenge to human rights

  ATD Fourth World, 2004

  This paper examines the effects of poverty on families, particularly on children. Looking specifically at case studies in Guatemala, Burkina Faso, Haiti, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines, this paper examines the way that children and families experience poverty, the way that current discourse frames this issue, and comes up with several lessons learnt on the topic.

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