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  Distribution of insecticide-treated bednets during an integrated nationwide immunization campaign -- Togo, West Africa, December 2004

  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2005

  This article, published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, describes the planning, implementation and results of a campaign in Togo to distribute insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) for prevention of malaria.
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  Youth-friendly services: Tanzania end of program evaluation report

  Pathfinder International, 2005

  This report highlights the results of a project to establish youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services in Tanzania.
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  Promoting hygiene behavior change within C-IMCI: the Peru and Nicaragua experience

  Environmental Health Project, 2004

  This report, published by the USAID’s Environmental Health Project, examines projects in Peru and Nicaragua which gave counselling to families on better hygiene, as part of a child health strategy called Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (C-IMCI).
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  The CAPA handbook: a "how-to" guide for implementing Catchment Area Planning and Action, a community-based child survival approach

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004

  This manual, published by Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival/Nigeria (BASICS II/N), provides guidelines on an approach to improving child survival known as Catchment Area Planning and Action (CAPA).
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  Is adequate health development assistance reaching central and eastern Europe?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The health of people in many countries of central and eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE-CIS) has declined in the past ten years due to social and economic instability. Is sufficient development assistance for health being sent to these countries compared to other countries with similar levels of life expectancy and national health spending?
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  Saying one thing and doing another? Donors and reproductive health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  While donors say they are committed to supporting integrated reproductive health services, evidence suggests that their actions cause programmes to remain as separate vertical programmes. What factors influence how donors operate and what are the implications for reproductive health services?
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  Child and adolescent health and development progress report 2002-2003

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This report highlights the activities and progress of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development during 2002-2003. It notes that the majority of deaths among children and adolescents are in developing countries, and most are attributable to preventable or treatable causes.
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  Interventions to improve the role of medicine sellers in malaria case management for children in Africa

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004

  This report, published by the Malaria Consortium and the USAID project Basic Support for Institutionalising Child Survival (BASICS), reviews 15 interventions to improve child health and malaria-related activities of medicine sellers in Africa. It reports that medicine sellers are a major source of health care for many communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): a field manual

  Valid International, 2006

  Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) is designed to address the limitations of previous feeding programmes. Its underlying aims are to maximise coverage and access. This manual reflects the experience gained over five years of implementing and developing Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC).
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  Does the integrated management of childhood illness cost more than routine care?: results from the United Republic of Tanzania

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), reports on the costs of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) compared to routine care in Tanzania. It explains that 70 per cent of deaths of young children are caused by five conditions: diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria, measles and malnutrition.

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