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  Promoting hygiene behavior change within C-IMCI: the Peru and Nicaragua experience

  Environmental Health Project, 2004

  This report, published by the USAID’s Environmental Health Project, examines projects in Peru and Nicaragua which gave counselling to families on better hygiene, as part of a child health strategy called Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (C-IMCI).
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  The CAPA handbook: a "how-to" guide for implementing Catchment Area Planning and Action, a community-based child survival approach

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004

  This manual, published by Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival/Nigeria (BASICS II/N), provides guidelines on an approach to improving child survival known as Catchment Area Planning and Action (CAPA).
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  Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): a field manual

  Valid International, 2006

  Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) is designed to address the limitations of previous feeding programmes. Its underlying aims are to maximise coverage and access. This manual reflects the experience gained over five years of implementing and developing Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC).
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  Adolescence in Pakistan: sex, marriage and reproductive health

  Marie Stopes International, 2006

  This report is a baseline knowledge, attitude and practice study that looks at the issue of sexuality and reproductive health in Pakistan. The report notes that in Pakistan, as many other poor countries, there are strong links between poverty and poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
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  Paying with their lives: the cost of illness for children in Africa

  Save the Children Fund, 2006

  This paper makes a case for the abolition of hospital user fees in developing countries in general and in Africa in particular. The paper asserts that hospital fees make basic health care treatment unaffordable for poor people, and forces them into debt.
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  Child morbidity and treatment patterns

  Measure DHS Deomographic and Health Surveys, 2004

  This Measure DHS report on childhood illness and how it is treated focuses on three of the leading causes of death in early childhood: diarrhoea; acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI); and fever. It draws on District Health Surveys (DHS) in 52 developing countries.
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  Family planning for married adolescent girls

  US Agency for International Development, 2006

  This two-page technical brief emphasises that young married women are the most vulnerable sub-group of the sexually active population because health care providers ignore their needs, despite their need for adequate contraceptive options.
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  Risk and protective factors affecting adolescent reproductive health in developing countries: an analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health literature from around the world

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This paper, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), reviews the international literature on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, in order to identify "protective" and "risk" factors – factors which encourage or discourage behaviours that might lead to or prevent negative health outcomes.
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  Creating youth-friendly pharmacies

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2005

  This briefing, produced by Family Health International, examines the role of pharmacies in providing reproductive health information and services to youth, especially contraceptives and referrals to services for sexually transmitted infections. It reports evidence from several countries that youth prefer pharmacies to public services as a source of contraceptives and information.
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  Engaging communities in youth reproductive health and HIV projects: a guide to participatory assessments

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2006

  The involvement of young people and their families in the creation and implementation of targeted interventions is commonly held as a pivotal part of the success or failure of a programme. Recruiting such groups, however, remains a challenge.

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