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    Operations manual for delivery of HIV prevention, care and treatment at primary health centres in high-prevalence, resource-constrained settings: edition 1 for fieldtesting and country adaptation

    World Health Organization, 2008
    This operations manual, published by the World Health Organization, provides guidance on planning and delivering HIV prevention, care, and treatment services at health centres in countries with high HIV prevalence. It provides an operational framework to ensure that HIV services can be provided in an integrated, efficient and quality-assured manner.
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    The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: evidence from demographic and health surveys

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009
    This paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, documents the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. The authors, using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunisation for children born between 1988 and 2005.
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    Lifting the burden of malaria: an investment guide for impact-driven philanthropy

    The Center for High Impact Philanthropy, 2009
    This guide published by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, notes that individual philanthropists are searching for opportunities to maximize the impact of their philanthropic dollars to avert deaths due to malaria.
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    Analysing disrupted health sectors - Manual

    World Health Organization, 2009
    Providing health services in fragile states and conflict affected settings is a challenge. This manual, published by the World Health Organization, provides guidance to analysts of troubled health sectors, in countries on the verge of an economic, political and/or military catastrophe, protracted crises and situations of transition from disaster to recovery.
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    Improving the quality of health care when health workers are in short supply

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    This paper studies how health workers’ choices of labour supply and work effort impact on the quality of health services when health workers are in short supply.
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    Health care financing in complex emergencies: a background issues paper on cost-sharing.

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2003
    There is considerable interest in the introduction of cost-sharing as an element of health care financing in emergency and post-emergency situations, but many questions remain. This paper from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine provides an understanding of health care financing issues, and the arguments for and against cost-sharing in developing countries and complex emergencies.
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    Facilitator’s manual on planning for gender sensitive multi-sectoral response to HIV/AIDS initiatives

    National AIDS Council, Zambia, 2005
    This manual is a learning instrument and a reference tool for beginners. It is a step-by step handbook to guide the development of local HIV/AIDS action plans. It also details how to build the capacity of trainers in order for them to systematically integrate and mainstream HIV/AIDS into all developmental programmes.
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    Incentives for health worker retention in Kenya: an assessment of current practice

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2008
    Kenya's health system faces a variety of human resource problems, primarily an overall lack of personnel in key areas, which is worsened by high numbers of trained personnel leaving the health sector to work overseas.
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    Guidelines: incentives for health professionals

    Global health workforce alliance, 2008
    The growing gap between the supply of health care professionals and the demand for their services is a critical issue facing governments, managers and professionals seeking to improve international health and development. This paper from the Global Health Workforce Alliance provides an overview of the use of incentives for health care professionals.
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    Worker retention in human resources for health: catalysing and tracking change

    The Capacity Project, 2009
    There is increasingly widespread commitment to initiatives to attract and retain skilled workers, especially in rural areas. Retention continues to be a serious challenge in the human resources for health (HRH) crisis. This brief from the Capacity Project updates and documents a previously published resource paper and technical brief which focus on the area of worker retention.

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