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  Review of potential interventions to reduce child mortality in Iraq

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2003

  This paper looks at opportunities for improving child health in Iraq, focusing on key interventions for reducing child and infant mortality rates. These include programmes for promoting breastfeeding; improved care of newborn babies; oral rehydration treatment for diarrhoea; nutritional education and use of vitamin supplements; vaccinations; domestic hygiene; and use of antibiotics.
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  To serve the community or oneself: the public servant’s dilemma

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper addresses the issue of embezzlement of resources in public service delivery within the developing world, with Ethiopian nursing students as experimental subjects.
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  Integrating HIV voluntary counselling and testing services into reproductive health settings

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004

  This guide, produced by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), provides information on how to integrate voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS into sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes.
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  Improving the health of newborns in Indonesia

  Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, 2003

  This report, produced by PATH, follows the implementation of a USAID-funded programme to improve the health and survival of newborn babies and infants in Indonesia. Entitled Awal A Sehat Untuk Hidup Sehat or ASUH, meaning “A Healthy Start for a Healthy Life”, it ran from November 2000 to September 2003 and cost $4.7 million.
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  Insights for implementers: improving access to maternal health care through insurance

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003

  Resources aimed at reducing maternal mortality rates (MMRs) are failing to reach the poor, due largely to cultural, educational and financial barriers which prevent poor women from accessing essential health care.
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  Accountability and health systems: overview, framework and strategies

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2003

  What does ‘accountability’ mean? Recognition of failed accountability can prompt calls for reform, but what actions are needed to strengthen the accountability of health systems?
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  WTO decision on implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: a solution to the access to essential medicines problem?

  Publishers WWW sites, 2004

  This article from the Journal of International Economic Law looks at the problem identified in paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health – namely that of ensuring access to low-cost essential medicines in developing countries in the context of compulsory licensing provisions.
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  Clarifying health impact assessment, integrated impact assessment and health needs assessment

  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK, 2004

  This paper, produced by the NHS Development Agency, provides a straightforward summary of three approaches used across sectors to help improve health and reduce health inequalities: health impact assessment (HIA), integrated impact assessment (IIA) and health needs assessment (HNA).
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  Human capacity-building plan for scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment

  World Health Organization, 2003

  In order to meet the target of delivering simplified, standardised antiretroviral treatment services to 3 million people by the end of 2005, it is estimated that up to 100,000 people need to be trained.
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  Impact of HIV/AIDS on the health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: the issue of human resources.

  US Agency for International Development, 2001

  As African countries scale up HIV/AIDS programmes, human resource policy and management must be considered a priority investment. Issues to be considered include: commitment of funds; development of provider skills to meet the changing patient mix and disease profiles; and diagnostic, care, and support therapies.

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