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The state of the world’s midwifery 2011
United Nations Population Fund, 2011Increasing women’s access to quality midwifery services has become a focus of global efforts. This report presents a body of knowledge to inform and accelerate the availability of quality midwifery services for women and newborns.DocumentThe effects of midwives' job satisfaction on burnout, intention to quit and turnover: a longitudinal study in Senegal
Human Resources for Health, 2012Public sector midwives in Senegal play a key role in tackling maternal mortality. This study aims to explore their job satisfaction and its effects on their burnout, intention to quit and professional mobility.DocumentTime to act: save a million lives by 2015: prevent and treat among people living with HIV
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011Tuberculosis (TB) is the main cause of death in people living with HIV. This report is a call that TB should not be a death sentence for a two million people living with HIV and expected to die of TB between 2011 and 2015. The report highlights the following related facts and drawn findings:DocumentWHO recommended collaborative TB/HIV activities: evaluation of implementation and performance in a rural district hospital in Cameroon
National Centre for Biotechnology Information, USA, 2011In response to the need of integrating tuberculosis (TB)/HIV activities, the WHO in 2004 mapped out a number of key activities to be implemented by countries to ensure effective collaboration between TB and HIV programmes.DocumentTiming and uptake of ART during treatment for active tuberculosis in HIV co-infected adults in Malawi
Ingenta, 2011Malawian policy to invite patients co-infected with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) 2 months after initiating TB treatment changed recently; the new policy shortened the period to 2 weeks instead of 2 months.DocumentThe cancer burden and cancer control in developing countries
Envirnomental Health, 2011Means to monitor the occurrence of cancer in developing countries are still very limited, and prevention planning relies largely on estimates. The present paper summarises some of the priorities in cancer prevention in developing countries and the underlying evidence base, and addresses some of the challenges. The author draws these conclusions:DocumentUtilisation of sexual health services by female sex workers in Nepal
BioMed Central, 2011Statistics indicate that more than half of the women with sexually transmitted infections in Nepal sought sexual health services. This study explores female sex workers (FSWs) use of sexual health services in Nepal and the factors associated with their use and non-use of services.DocumentChallenges to maternal health care utilisation among ethnic minority women in a resource-poor region of Sichuan Province, China
Oxford Journals, 2010A goal of the Chinese government is to improve the quality and use of maternity services. This paper presents a simple descriptive study of maternal health care utilisation (MHCU) among ethnic minority women in a remote region of China. The paper shows that:DocumentGender, women and primary health care renewal
World Health Organization, 2010The WHO has launched an ambitious course of transforming health systems towards primary health care (PHC), yet integrating a gender perspective within PHC reform is a major challenge. This document aims to outline the basic elements of gender-equitable PHC reforms. The paper concludes the following:DocumentHealth systems financing and the path to universal coverage
World Health Organization, 2011Donor commitments to health have increased more than fourfold since the Millennium Declaration was signed in September 2000. However, the simple act of raising more international funds cannot, by itself, achieve the goals if the health system is too weak to support the rapid scale-up of service coverage.Pages