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    State of the World’s Mothers Report

    Save the Children Fund, 2007
    This Save the Children publication reports on child mortality rates in developing countries. The report includes Child Survival Progress Rankings of 60 countries, which together account for 94 per cent of all child deaths worldwide.
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    Children and AIDS: a stocktaking report. Actions and progress during the first year of 'Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS'

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2007
    This briefing paper provides an overview of the achievements of the 'Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS initiative' in improving prevention of and treatment for HIV and AIDS among children.Topics addressed include:coverage of access to antiretroviral treatments and counselling servicesefforts to prevent infection through education of children and adolescentspreventing mother
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    Youth well-being in Brazil: an index for cross-regional comparisons

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    The Brazilian Youth Well-Being Index (YWI) is a single indicator of youth well-being that can be used to compare the situation of young people across regions of Brazil, as well as track progress over time.
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    The influence of husbands’ approval on women’s use of prenatal care: results from Yirgalem and Jimma towns, south west Ethiopia

    Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, 2006
    This article, published in the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, examines the influence of the attitudes and background characteristics of husbands and wives on prenatal care utilisation, and identifies the role of husband’s approval on women’s use of prenatal care.
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    Estimated global resources needed to attain universal coverage of maternal and newborn health services

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007
    This paper in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the amount of additional resources that are needed to scale up maternal and newborn health services in order to reach the Millennium Development Goals, specifically goal 5 (to improve maternal health), goal 4 (to reduce child mortality), and goal 6 (to combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases).
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    Global public-private health partnerships: tackling seven poor habits

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Global public-private health partnerships, as a means of global health governance, have become increasingly common. Initially, much was expected of them but enthusiasm has now waned, with concern raised over costs and unanticipated consequences. What bad habits impact negatively on their performance and what actions could make them more effective?
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    Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC)

    Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) is a non profit Indian organisation which aims to address health issues of the urban poor through a consultative and knowledge-sharing approach in partnership with
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    The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)

    The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health is a global health partnership, launched to accelerate efforts towards achieving millennium development goals 4 and 5: to reduce child mortality
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    Studies in Family Planning

    Published by the Population Council, Studies in Family Planning is a peer-reviewed international quarterly concerned with all aspects of reproductive health, fertility regulation, and family planning
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    International Centre for Reproductive Health

    The International Centre for Reproductive Health was established in 1994 within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Ghent University.

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