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  Monitoring global health: time for new solutions

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This article from the British Medical Journal explores the problems and potential solutions to the gaps in global health monitoring systems.
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  Effect of a participatory intervention with women’s groups on birth outcomes in Nepal: cluster-randomised controlled trial

  The Lancet, 2004

  This article, published in The Lancet, reports on the effects of a community-based participatory intervention to reduce neonatal (newborn) mortality in rural Makwanpur district, Nepal. The intervention was conducted among random clusters or groups of local women. In each cluster, a local female facilitator convened nine group meetings each month.
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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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  Free trade agreement between the USA and Thailand threatens access to HIV/AIDS treatment

  Oxfam, 2004

  This Oxfam briefing note outlines how the future of Thailand’s HIV/AIDS treatment programmes could be threatened by new intellectual property (IP) standards in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. The article outlines how the Thai treatment programmes lack important medicines to scale up. These patented medicines are too expensive for wide scale distribution.
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  Using mid-level cadres as substitutes for internationally mobile health professionals in Africa: a desk review

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This article, from Human Resources for Health, examines the experiences of using substitute health workers (SHW) in Africa. The review focuses mainly on physicians and reviews data from Tanzania, Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Ghana. Findings demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of using SHWs and higher rates of retention within countries and in rural communities.
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  The impacts of decentralization on health behaviors in Uganda

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2003

  This paper from Measure studies the impacts of a public sector decentralisation programme on the demand for health care in Uganda in the 1990s. The authors examine how local allocation decisions impact upon individual-level health behaviours. Ultimately, the goal of the paper is to determine whether decentralisation can actually help to improve the health status of the population.
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  Working to achieve health equity with an ethnic perspective: what has been done and best practices

  Pan American Health Organization, 2004

  This document from the Pan American Health Organization addresses issues relating to health equity and racial discrimination. The document examines what has been done and highlights examples of best practice. The author outlines a number of policies, collections of disaggregated information and the creation of new institutions within state reform as examples of best practice.
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  The global migration of nurses: importing skills, exporting shortages

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Facing nursing shortages, health systems in developed countries are recruiting nurses from other developed and developing countries. What is the impact of this short term solution on recipient and source countries?  How can health systems plan for the effects of increasing migration of nursing staff?
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  Antiretroviral therapy in primary healthcare: Experience of the Khayelitsha programme in South Africa

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This paper, published by the World Health Organization, discusses the experience of a Médecins Sans Frontières programme to offer antiretroviral (ARV) treatment within primary health care centres in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa.It provides an overview of the treatment programme, and outlines a range of positive outcomes.These include dramatic improvements in health a
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  Freedom to do the job: barriers to females health workers practising in Pakistan

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In strict Muslim societies, many women face barriers to finding, holding down, and being able to do their jobs to the best of their abilities.  In Pakistan, the government, along with several other countries in South Asia, has introduced female health workers to make sure that women are able to receive the health care they need.  However, these health workers face the same cultural constraints as

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