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  Globalization, equity and health

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Millions of people in developing countries around the world lack access to basic health care. Yet, developing countries still spend very low amounts on health.
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  Sexually transmitted infections in Sub-Saharan Africa: the use and effectiveness of treatment kits

  Population Services International, 2001

  This document explores the potential of pre-packaged treatment kits for the treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Rapid assessment of referral care systems: a guide for program managers

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2003

  This guide is a tool to help national and district-level managers quickly assess the status of and constraints to referral of severely ill children from first-level care to secondary and tertiary levels of care, a key element of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategies.It presents a Rapid Referral Assessment (RRA) methodology which uses a cross-sectional study design that in
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  An evaluation of community-based surveillance in the Northern region of Ghana

  The Change Project, 2000

  This report documents a March 2000 evaluation of the community-based surveillance (CBS) system in the Northern region of Ghana.
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  A framework linking community empowerment and health equity: it is a matter of CHOICE

  Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2003

  This paper, part of a special issue on health equity of the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, presents a framework to explore the relationship between health equity and community empowerment. It traces the progression of the concept of participation to the present term of empowerment and the links among empowerment, equity, and health outcomes.
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  Can developing countries achieve adequate improvements in child health outcomes without engaging the private sector?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2003

  The private sector exerts a significant and critical influence on child health outcomes in developing countries. This article in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization reviews the available evidence on private sector utilisation and quality of care.
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  Understanding mechanisms for integrating community priorities in health planning, resource allocation and service delivery: results of a literature review

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2003

  Community participation is widely advocated as a mechanism to allow health service users to be involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of activities, with the aim of increasing the responsiveness, sustainability and efficiency of health programmes.
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  Health-care systems: lessons from the reform experience

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003

  This study presents a broad overview of health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades.
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  Stepping back from the edge: the pursuit of antiretroviral therapy in Botswana, South Africa and Uganda

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) ‘Best Practice Collection’ describes who is taking the initiative on better access to antiretrovirals at grass-roots level and how they are doing it. The report offers firsthand experience from HIV/AIDS programmes in three African countries.
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  Provision of antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings: a review of experience up to August 2003

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  Cheaper drugs and increased levels of financing mean the prospects should be improving for people with HIV/AIDS in poorer countries. There has been an expansion of existing antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes and a number of new initiatives. But how can access to ART be most effectively improved, and what are the pitfalls that policymakers must avoid?

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