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Case Study of the Women's Health Care Foundation, Quezon City, Philippines
Family Health International, 1997The Women's Health Care Foundation seeks to expand women's health care services "beyond the womb." Established in 1980, the Foundation works to meet the diverse health needs of Philippine women throughout their life cycle, broadening services beyond the traditional maternal-child health programs to include services for adolescents and postmenopausal women; counseling on sexually transmitted diseaDocumentHIV and Infant Feeding: A Chronology of Research and Policy Advances and their Implications for Programs
Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 1997DocumentResearchers identify a simple, inexpensive drug regimen that is highly effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA, 1999A joint Uganda-U.S. study has found a highly effective and safe drug regimen for preventing transmission of HIV from an infected mother to her newborn that is more affordable and practical than any other examined to date.DocumentLiterature Review on Adolescent Reproductive Health Studies Conducted in Tanzania 1988 - 1998
Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1999Reviews all available adolescent reproductive health (ARH) documents and published articles on studies conducted or published in Tanzania in the past ten years (1988-1998). The study also includes as a background a review of some ARH studies carried out in Tanzania and Africa and in Tanzania before 1988.DocumentPrevention of HIV transmission from mother to child: Strategic options
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1999Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is by far the largest source of HIV infection in children below the age of 15 years. In countries where blood products are regularly screened and clean syringes and needles are widely available, it is virtually the only source in young children.Paper reviews methods for forming a national policy on prevention and treatment.DocumentAlgorithms for purchasing AIDS vaccines
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000Paper delineates two different algorithms for the purchase of AIDS vaccines, to show how differences in policy objectives can greatly affect projections of the number of courses of vaccine that will be needed.Authors consider a hypothetical vaccine costing $10 to produce, and offering 60 percent, 75 percent, and 90 percent reductions in the risk of HIV for 10 years.DocumentSex Workers and the Cost of Safe Sex: The Compensating Differential for Condom Use in Calcutta
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000The practice of safe sex by commercial sex workers is considered to be central in preventing the transmission of AIDS in developing countries.DocumentInstitutional and cultural determinants of demand for reproductive health services in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review and implications for research
Centre for Population Studies, London, 2000There is no consensus view on why African fertility has been so high, why it is now falling, or why HIV has spread so rapidly.DocumentReal Lives
International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1999Online version of print journal, promoting dialogue and highlighting sexual and reproductive health needs and rights in South Asia.DocumentEncouragement of new clinical drug development: the role of data exclusivity
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations, 2000Paper asserts that for the pharmaceutical industry to invest the billions of dollars, Euros, yen, etc. in these highly risky health care solutions, intellectual property protection is essential. However, patent and trade-mark protections are not the entire story.Pages