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  Community based homecare for older people in South East Asia

  HelpAge International, 2011

  This paper outlines the growing need for community-based home care for older people in South East Asia. It explains the model of home care introduced by HelpAge Korea in collaboration with HelpAge International in the 10 countries of ASEAN.
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  IHP+ results annual performance report 2010

  IHP+Results, 2010

  This review shows a mixed picture of progress in how health sector resources are being delivered and used. The results that signatories are achieving to date overall fall short of the expectations on which the IHP+ was founded in 2007.
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  Good practice guide: community mobilisation through women’s groups to improve the health of mothers and babies

  Women and Children First (UK), 2011

  This good practice guide, based on the experience of a project in India and Bangladesh called Saving Mothers and Children, describes an approach that has the potential to reduce maternal and newborn deaths, and to address other health problems.
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  Analysis of Rounds 8, 9 and 10 Global Fund HIV proposals in relation to men who have sex with men, transgender people and sex workers

  The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria, 2011

  This report, published by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), analyses HIV proposals received in the Global Fund Rounds 8, 9 and 10 in relation to interventions that focus on men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people and sex workers.
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  Champions for children: state of the world’s mothers 2011

  Save the Children Fund, USA, 2011

  This State of the World’s Mothers report ranks 164 countries on women’s access to health care, education and opportunities. Whereas millions of children are alive today because of past investments in lifesaving programs, the authors note that 22,000 children still perish per day, mostly from preventable or treatable causes.
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  From the Front Lines: Effective Community-Led Responses to HIV and AIDS Among MSM and Transgender Populations

  American Foundation for AIDS Research, 2010

  This report profiles efforts by small, grassroots community-based organisations worldwide that are leading work to provide HIV prevention, education, care, support, and advocacy services to men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people. The authors observe six major themes that characterise the work of these organisations and that service providers say are key to programme success.
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  Developing effective chronic disease interventions in Africa: insights from Ghana and Cameroon

  Globalization and Health, 2010

  Africa faces an urgent but "neglected epidemic" of chronic diseases. This paper, using in-depth case studies of Ghanaian and Cameroonian responses, discusses the challenge of developing effective primary and secondary prevention to tackle chronic diseases such as stroke, hypertension, diabetes and cancers.
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  Global status report on non-communicable diseases 2010

  World Health Organization, 2011

  This report sets out the statistics, evidence and experiences needed to launch a more forceful response to the growing threat posed by non-communicable diseases (NCD).
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  Using Touchscreen Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support and Monitor National Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi

  PLoS Medicine, 2010

  This article describes the rationale and experience of using a touchscreen electronic medical record (EMR) system at the point-of-care (POC)  to monitor and support antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale up in Malawi.
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  Non communicable diseases: A priority for women's health and development

  NCD Alliance, 2011

  This report focuses on the specific needs and challenges of girls and women at risk of, or living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The authors note that NCDs, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, are the world’s number one killer causing 60% of deaths globally, with a staggering 18 million women dying every year from NCDs.

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