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    Helpdesk Report: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) in Ghana

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    Malaria remains a leading cause of global ill health, causing an estimated 216 million cases of clinical malaria and 655 thousand deaths in 2010, of which more than 85% of malaria cases and 90% of malaria deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. Across the Sahel sub-region of sub-Saharan Africa, most childhood malaria mortality and morbidity occurs during the short rainy season.
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    Helpdesk Report: Health and nutrition for displaced populations

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This helpdesk report focuses on evidence of the most appropriate ways to support health and nutrition outcomes for management of protracted population displacement. It highlights information on psycho-social social impacts of protracted displacement (including gender). Findings on health and nutrition management of protracted population displacement include:
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    Helpdesk Report : Psycho - social activities in education in emergencies

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    Schools can be good places for psycho-social programmes because they can access many children, as well as draw on existing resources and because schools supposedly offer a stigma free environment.
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    Helpdesk Report: Education and nutrition

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    This Helpdesk paper provides an overview of the evidence on educational outcomes from nutrition and nutritional outcomes from education.  It includes the following sections: effects of intra-uterine growth retardation; low birth-weight, effects of poor infant nutrition (low weight, stunting, breastfeeding), iron deficiency anaemia in school age children, parental education and school healt
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    Helpdesk Report: Child health and parents’ education

    Department for International Development, UK, 2012
    What is the evidence about the associations between child health outcomes and mo thers' (or parents') education? Does education have an impact on child survival and where a re published papers about this? How much education delivers what kind of impact?
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    Helpdesk Report: Categorising behavioural characteristics

    Department for International Development, UK, 2012
    There are lots of models of human behaviour which can be used to conceptualise behaviour change for more effective learning and future programming within, across and beyond human development.
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    Helpdesk Report: Malaria and Rapid Diagnostic Tests

    Department for International Development, UK, 2012
    Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) do not require a laboratory or any special equipment; they are simple to use and can give results as a simple positive/negative result within 15 minutes. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), RDTs are adequate to diagnose malaria in febrile patients.
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    Helpdesk Report: Selective vs. integrated support for maternal and newborn health

    Department for International Development, UK, 2012
    This Helpdesk report provides a literature summary review of the evidence for interventions to reduce maternal and newborn mortality, including evidence of the impact of selective interventions such as training and equipment provision and the extent to which context is influential. Include cost benefit findings where relevant.
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    Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunisation in Northern Nigeria – Maternal Newborn and Child Health Initiative, PRRINN - MNCH: project completion review

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2015
    The Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunisation in Northern Nigeria and Maternal Newborn and Child Health Initiative (PRRINN-MNCH), is a maternal, newborn and child health programme implemented in four States in Northern Nigeria (Jigawa, Yobe, Katsina and Zamfara).
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    What does universal health coverage mean?

    The Lancet, 2013
    The recent UN General Assembly resolution calling for universal health coverage (UHC) was testimony to the continuing high-level political commitment to achievement of global health goals—an achievement that has the potential to transform health systems, especially for the poorest people.

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