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  Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC)

  The Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) was formed in 1984 and works as a specialist technical group of the industry association CropLife providing a coordinated industry response toprevent
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  Surgery in Africa Monthly Review

  Archive of medical articles, run by Ptolemy Project.  The objective of Surgery in Africa is to provide a self-directed online, journal-based course for surgical trainees who are undertaking the F
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  Journal of Public Health in Africa (JPHiA)

  The Journal of Public Health in Africa (JPHiA) is a peer-reviewed, open access electronic quarterly journal that focuses on health issues in the African continent.
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  Community-based provision of injectable contraceptives in Madagascar: ‘task shifting’ to expand access to injectable contraceptives

  Oxford University Press India, 2011

  This experience from Madagascar is among the first evidence from sub-Saharan Africa documenting the feasibility, effectiveness and acceptability of community-based distribution (CBD) services for injectable contraceptives. This evidence influenced national and global policy makers to recommend expansion of the practice.
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  Out of sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries | Demographic Resarch

  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2011

  The authors present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to be relatively high.
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  Why are tuberculosis patients not treated earlier? A study of informal health practitioners in Bangladesh

  International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2011

  This study examines the role of informal health practitioners in delays in initiating tuberculosis (TB) treatment in new smear-positive TB patients.
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  Harnessing non-state actors for better health for the poor

  HANSHEP is a group of development agencies and countries, established by its members in 2010, seeking to improve the performance of the non-state sector in delivering better healthcare to the poor by
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  Valuing Health Workers- Implementing sustainable interventions to improve health worker motivation

  Voluntary Service Overseas, 2011

  A useful collation of existing research on responses to Malawi’s health worker crisis, with recommendations on non-financial incentives to address recruitment, retention and quality of care issues. There is a particular focus on the importance of Health Surveillance Assistants, who, it is recommended, become regular health workers.
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  Valuing Health Workers Research and Advocacy

  Voluntary Service Overseas, 2011

  A clear, concise 2 page publication to introduce the research and advocacy programme designed to provide evidence for governments on how best to change policy and implementation to address health worker shortages. A clear summary of aims is supported by short summaries of research done in Uganda, Cambodia and Malawi.
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  The health workforce crisis in Bangladesh: shortage, inappropriate skill-mix and inequitable distribution

  BRAC Education Programme, 2012

  Bangladesh is suffering from a severe HRH crisis–in terms of a shortage of qualified providers, an inappropriate skills-mix and inequity in distribution–which requires immediate attention from policy makers.

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