Search

Searching with a thematic focus on Health, Sexual & reproductive health

Showing 251-260 of 421 results

Pages

• Document

  Maternal mortality at the end of a decade: signs of progress?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2001

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines recent trends in two indicators of maternal mortality: the percentage of births attended by a skilled health care worker, and rates of caesarean delivery. It reveals that globally, modest improvements in coverage of skilled care occurred, with an average increase of 1.7 per cent per year during 1989-99.
• Document

  Social franchising as a strategy for expanding access to reproductive health services

  The Commercial Market Strategies project, 2001

  This report from the Commercial Market Strategies (CMS) project examines the use of social franchising as a mechanism for increasing access to affordable family planning services in developing countries.
• Document

  West Africa reproductive health commodity security study: Ghana reproductive health commodity security country assessment

  Deliver, 2005

  This country assessment from USAID and DELIVER examines the supply of reproductive health commodities in Ghana. The assessment was commissioned as part of the West Africa Reproductive Health Commodity Security study.
• Document

  Segmentation and a total market approach

  Population Services International, 2006

  This paper from Population Services International (PSI) outlines a method for segmenting populations as part of a Total Market approach to designing, managing and evaluating reproductive and sexual health interventions in developing countries. The approach is demonstrated using data from South Africa. Until now market segmentation analysis has mainly focused on people’s ability to pay.
• Document

  Spending requirement presents challenges for allocating prevention funding under the President’s plan for AIDS relief

  Government Accountability Office, US Congress, 2006

  This report considers what effects the President’s Plan for AIDS relief (PEPFAR) restrictions on funding, including abstinence-only prevention requirements, have had on country teams’ ability to implement adequate prevention strategies.
• Document

  Project TraC: tracking results continuously

  Population Services International, 2003

  This paper from Population Services International (PSI) outlines Project TraC, a four year project aimed at expanding the use of tracking surveys in the social marketing of reproductive healthcare services. Tracking surveys provide a mechanism for repeatedly measuring levels and trends of certain indicators over time.
• Document

  Project MAP: measuring access and performance: lessons learned and recommendations

  Population Services International, 2005

  This report from Population Services International (PSI) outlines a pilot project that developed a system for measuring equity of access to reproductive healthcare products. Project MAP (Measuring Access and Performance) began in August 2003 and the report provides findings from the first year.
• Document

  The dashboard: a tool for social marketing decision making

  Population Services International, 2005

  This paper, from Population Services International (PSI), describes the ‘Dashboard’ concept. In the Dashboard tool, evidence gathered through population and service delivery based studies is presented in the form of five standard tables. This categorisation is useful for making decisions relating to strategic, project and marketing planning.
• Document

  Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY): providing social support, savings, and microcredit opportunities for young women in areas with high HIV prevalence

  Population Council, USA, 2006

  Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY) is a multiphase initiative whose overall aim is to reduce adolescents' vulnerabilities to adverse social and reproductive health outcomes, including HIV infection, by improving their livelihoods options. The project operates in low-income and slum areas of Nairobi, Kenya, where rates of HIV infection are high and where young women are disproportionately affected.
• Document

  Assessment manual: a handbook for conducting private sector country assessments

  The Commercial Market Strategies project, 2001

  This handbook from the Commercial Market Strategies (CMS) project at the USAID Center for Population, Health and Nutrition is a guide for conducting technical assessments to determine the potential for private sector involvement in the provision of family planning services. This assessment process is used by CMS to evaluate the market for family planning services in selected countries.

Pages