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  Asian Harm Reduction Network Newsletter, March 2002

  Asian Harm Reduction Network, 2002

  This newsletter, from the Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN), provides a range of information on drug use and HIV prevention programmes in Asia.
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  Unmet reproductive and child-health needs and use of essential services package in urban NGO clinics of Bangladesh

  Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2003

  An important aim of two major health programmes in Bangladesh – the government’s 1998 Health and Population Sector Programme and the USAID-supported 1997 National Integrated Population and Health Programme – was to broaden the range of integrated health and family-planning services available to Bangladeshis.This report focuses on the Urban Family Health Partnership (UFHP), which provides such s
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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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  Addressing the reproductive health needs and rights of young people since ICPD : the contribution of UNFPA and IPPF : Bangladesh country evaluation report

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  This report is an evaluation of the contribution of the United Nations Population Fund to addressing the reproductive rights and health needs of young people in Bangladesh.This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the UNFPA Bangladesh Country Office and ABBEF (the Burkina IPPF affiliate) against the five evaluation themes: strategic focus; institutional arrangements; policy and a
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  Dynamics of remittance utilization in Bangladesh

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  This report looks at the importance of remittances for the economic development of the origin countries of migrant communities. The report takes Bangladesh as a case study.The report answers the following three questions: what is the impact of remittances on households and the broader community in Bangladesh?
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  Revisiting the human trafficking paradigm: the Bangladesh experience part 1: trafficking of adults

  International Organization for Migration, 2004

  This paper discusses a new framework to conceptualise and understand trafficking in Bangladesh, developed by the Bangladesh Thematic Group on Trafficking.The framework uses a flow diagram to illustrate that human trafficking involves a wide range of trafficking acts and outcomes that involve several stages.
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  Health domain of the ultra poor: an exploration

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2004

  This study, published by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), explores the health behaviours of, and types of health services used by, the poor in rural Bangladesh, including perceptions of ill health, knowledge and treatment-seeking behaviours, and the rationale behind these decisions.
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  Costs of illness due to typhoid fever in an Indian urban slum community: implications for vaccine policy

  Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2004

  Typhoid fever is common in India and other developing countries, but the available vaccines are not being widely used. Information is lacking on the cost of illness and the cost-effectiveness of different strategies to prevent or cure typhoid and paratyphoid.
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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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  Closing The Gap: Putting EU and UK gender policies into practice

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The elimination of gender inequality is key to the reduction of poverty and is high on the list of priorities among policy-makers in the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK).  In various countries of Africa, Asia and South and Central America – where the EU and the UK are involved through their development aid – women continue to make up a high proportion of the people who are excluded soci

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