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  Does a competitive voucher program for adolescents improve the quality of reproductive health care?: a simulated patient study in Nicaragua

  BMC Public Health, 2006

  This study, published in BMC Public Health, evaluates the impact and sustainability of a competitive voucher programme on the quality of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care for poor and underserved female adolescents. Vouchers were distributed to adolescents in disadvantaged areas that gave free-of-charge access to SRH care in four public, ten non-governmental and five private clinics.
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  Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for maternal and neonatal health in developing countries

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This paper examines the costs and benefits of interventions for maternal and newborn health in developing countries. The analysis includes 21 interventions which target the health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the effects of these interventions are estimated through their impact on incidence, remission and case fatality of maternal and neonatal conditions.
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  Improving female recruitment, participation, and retention among peer educators in the Geração BIZ Program in Mozambique

  Pathfinder International, 2006

  This report from Pathfinder International outlines an intervention to boost the number of young women participating as peer workers in a youth work project in Mozambique.
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  Can biomedical and traditional health care providers work together?: Zambian practitioners' experiences and attitudes towards collaboration in relation to STIs and HIV/AIDS care: a cross-sectional study

  Human Resources for Health, 2006

  This paper, from Human Resources for Health, explores biomedical and traditional health practitioners’ experiences of, and attitudes towards, collaboration. The paper also identifies obstacles and potential opportunities for collaboration in the care of patients with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV and AIDS.
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  Efforts underway to stem "brain drain" of doctors and nurses

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines actions that are being taken to combat the problem of developing countries losing healthcare professionals through migration to wealthier countries.
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  Human resources for obstetric care in northern Tanzania: distribution of quantity or quality?

  Human Resources for Health, 2005

  This article from Human Resources for Health assesses the availability and distribution of healthcare professionals delivering emergency obstetric care in Northern Tanzania. The research found that there are adequate numbers of suitably trained healthcare workers in Tanzania to meet the national standards for healthcare delivery.
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  What motivates lay volunteers in high burden but resource-limited tuberculosis control programmes? Perceptions from the Northern Cape province, South Africa

  International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2002

  This article, from the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, explores factors that motivate lay volunteers to joint tuberculosis (TB) control programmes in high burden, resource-limited settings. The study, based in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, found that volunteers do not receive monetary incentives in Northern Cape TB programmes.
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  Teaching mothers to provide home treatment of malaria in Tigray, Ethiopia: a randomised trial

  The Lancet, 2000

  This article from The Lancet reports on a study in Tigray, Ethiopia which examined the effect on under-5 mortality, of teaching mothers to provide anti-malarials to their sick children at home. This was compared with the current community health worker approach.
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  Role of traditional birth attendants in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV

  British Medical Journal, 2002

  This article, from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) explores how traditional birth attendants could be involved in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV. Rich nations have been able to keep these rates low with the use of anti-retroviral drugs, elective caesarean sections and avoidance of breastfeeding.
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  Determinants of maternal health care utilisation in India: evidence from a recent household survey

  National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2002

  In India, utilisation of basic health services has remained poor. The reasons may include low levels of household income, illiteracy and ignorance, and traditional attitudes to health care.

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