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    Repositioning family planning: guidelines for advocacy action

    Africa's Health in 2010 (Academy for Education Development), 2008
    Provision of family planning services in Africa is hindered by poverty, poor access to services and commodities, poor coordination of the programmes, and dwindling donor funding. In addition, traditional beliefs favouring high fertility, religious barriers, and lack of make involvement have weakened family planning interventions.
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    Severe maternal morbidity from direct obstetric causes in West Africa: incidence and case fatality rates

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000
    Data on maternal morbidity make it possible to assess how many women are likely to need essential obstetric care, and permit the organization, monitoring and evaluation of safe motherhood programmes.
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    Health of women after severe obstetric complications in Burkina Faso: a longitudinal study

    The Lancet, 2007
    Although maternal mortality is widely used as an indicator of development, the many pathways that link maternal health and illness to long-term economic and developmental indicators are under-explored. This article in The Lancet investigates how severe obstetric complications affect a range of health and other outcomes in the year after the end of pregnancy in hospitals in Burkina Faso.
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    Manual for the health care of children in humanitarian emergencies

    World Health Organization, 2008
    The acute phase of an emergency is defined by crude mortality rate and persists as long as the crude mortality rate is at least double the baseline mortality rate, that is, as long as there are twice as many people dying per day compared to the normal rate of death.
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    The role of misoprostol in making home births safer

    Future Health Systems research consortium, 2009
    According to the World Health Organization a woman dies every minute from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. This research in focus paper by Future Health Systems provides an introduction to the use of misoprostol to make home births safer and explains the relevance of new learning from Future Health Systems to what is known.
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    Implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Tanzania: success and challenges

    Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems, 2009
    This CREHS research report analyses the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) policy in Tanzania. Two districts in North-Western Tanzania, Bunda and Tarime, in Mara region, were picked to examine the issues around introduction, planning and implementation by district health managers and at facility levels. The paper finds that: 
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    A rethink on the use of aid mechanisms in health sector early recovery

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2009
    States emerging from protracted crises struggle to provide basic services. This is no more crucial than in the health sector where vulnerable ‘post-conflict’ populations are frequently in dire need of care.
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    Implementing IMCI in Kenya: challenges and recommendations

    Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems, 2008
    This policy brief, by the Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems (CREHS), looks at the challenges of implementing the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy in Kenya.
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    Improving health services and strengthening health systems: adopting and implementing innovative strategies - an exploratory review in twelve countries

    World Health Organization, 2006
    In recent years, a number of specific strategies for improving health services and strengthening health systems have been consistently advocated. In order to advise governments, the World Health Organization(WHO) commissioned this exploratory study to examine more closely the track record of these strategies in twelve low-income countries.
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    Operational approaches and financing in fragile states

    International Development Association, 2007
    Fragile states and situations are difficult environments most importantly for national reformers struggling to bring about peace, improved governance and protection of the population but also for the staff of the World Bank and other donor agencies who work to support them under difficult conditions.

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