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  Interpreting reproductive rights: institutional responses to the agenda in the 1990s

  Public Administration and Development [Journal], 2004

  This article from Public Administration and Development examines the reproductive health policy of three international organisations during the 1990s: Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), the International Federation of Family Planning Associations (IPPF) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
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  Monitoring equity in health and healthcare: a conceptual framework

  Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2003

  This article, from the Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), outlines a conceptual framework for monitoring equity in health and healthcare.
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  Patents, access to medicines and the role of non-governmental organisations

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004

  This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paper looks at how patents adversely affect access to affordable medicines. Although effective medicine is available to treat many global diseases, one-third of the world’s population lacks access to these basic, but expensive drugs as a result of patent rights.
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  The pilot process: case study on piloting complex health reforms in Kyrgyzstan

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  The concept of piloting has been used in implementing health sector reform throughout the former Soviet Union. This study, published by Partners for Health Reform Plus (PHRPlus), examines the first pilot of this kind, which was established in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan in 1994.
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  Gender, health and development in the Americas, 2003 data sheet

  Pan American Health Organization, 2003

  Governments have increasingly recognised the need to monitor disparities between women and men in efforts to reduce poverty and enhance development. However, data on these disparities has not been readily available.
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  Skilled care during childbirth policy brief: saving women’s lives, improving newborn health

  Safe Motherhood Inter-Agency Group, 2002

  More than half a million women die every year from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. Nearly all maternal deaths (99 per cent) occur in the developing world. In addition to this, more than 50 million women suffer from a serious pregnancy-related illness or disability, and at least 1.2 million newborn infants die from complications during delivery.
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  Reproductive health interventions: which ones work and what do they cost?

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2000

  This paper, produced by the POLICY project, looks at the effectiveness and cost of different reproductive health care interventions, and asks what criteria governments can use to decide whether they will provide certain interventions.
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  Reducing maternal mortality in the developing world: sector-wide approaches may be the key

  British Medical Journal, 2001

  Reducing the rate of maternal mortality by 75 per cent by 2015 is one of the development targets endorsed at numerous international meetings. The technical interventions needed to prevent maternal deaths are well understood. The problem is how an environment can be created which will enable interventions to be made in a setting with few resources.
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  HIV/AIDS and TB in Central Asia: country profiles

  World Bank, 2004

  This report, published by the World Bank, looks at the growth of TB and HIV in Central Asia. It emphasises that although HIV levels in the region are currently low, policy makers urgently need to develop strategies for addressing the projected epidemic, based on international evidence on the growth of HIV infection.
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  The National Health Service plan

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000

  Public consultation on the National Health Service (NHS) showed that people wanted more and better paid staff, reduced waiting times, and high quality care and improvements in local hospitals and surgeries. This paper from the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre summarises the NHS plan ("a plan for investment, a plan for reform") published in July 2000.

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