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    Sanitation for all: an engine of economic growth for urban Africa. About time to get the shit out of town?

    2011
    Improved sanitation facilitates improvements in human health, it enhances prospects for education and work, as well as personal security and dignity and has a positive impact on the environment. In this way, sanitation has a pivotal role in achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals. Human excreta can be viewed as waste or a resource.
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    Epidemiology of child injuries in Uganda: challenges for health policy

    Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2011
    Globally, 90% of road crash deaths occur in the developing world. Children in Africa bear the major part of this burden, with the highest unintentional injury rates in the world. Our study aims to better understand injury patterns among children living in Kampala, Uganda and provide evidence that injuries are significant in child health.
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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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    NACS Meeting Report 2011

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2011
    Ninety-eight participants from 18 countries met to share tools and experiences and to disseminate promising approaches in nutrition assessment, counseling, and support (NACS) programming. NACS is the primary model supported by the United States President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for integrating nutrition services into clinical HIV care and treatment services.
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    Information and Communication Technologies and Continuing Medical Education in East and Southern Africa

    International Institute for Communication and Development, 2003
    This report presents some of the background materials prepare for the meeting held in April 2003 and coorganised jointly by IICD, Cordaid and CEDHA jto explore ways in which ICTs can be used to develop and deliver continuing medical education to rural healthcare workers in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
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    An assessment of mental health policy in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia

    Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
    Approximately half of the countries in the African Region had a mental health policy by 2005, but little is known about quality of mental health policies in Africa and globally. This paper reports the results of an assessment of the mental health policies of Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia.
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    Lessons from case studies of integrating mental health into primary health care in South Africa and Uganda

    International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2011
    While decentralised and integrated primary mental healthcare forms the core of mental health policies in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), implementation remains a challenge.
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    Ugandan health workers speak: the rewards and the realities

    Voluntary Service Overseas, 2012
    This report is based on the accounts of 90 Ugandan health workers at the front line – qualified nurses and midwives, nursing assistants, clinical officers and doctors – and 15 of their facility and district managers, all holding a nursing or medical qualification, some of whom also worked as clinical officers or doctors in the facilities they managed.
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    Exploring new health markets: experiences from informal providers of transport for maternal health services in Eastern Uganda

    BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2011
    Although a number of intermediate transport initiatives have been used in some developing countries, available evidence reveals a dearth of local knowledge on the effect of these rural informal transport mechanisms on access to maternal health care services, the cost of implementing such schemes and their scalability.
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    Tracking and monitoring the health workforce: a new human resources information system (HRIS) in Uganda

    Human Resources for Health, 2011
    Health workforce planning is important in ensuring that the recruitment, training and deployment of health workers are conducted in the most efficient way possible. However, in many developing countries, human resources for health data are limited, inconsistent, out-dated, or unavailable.

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