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    Urbanisation, the peri-urban growth and Zoonotic disease

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Ebola has had significant, negative effects in the rapidly expanding, unregulated areas of peri-urban and urban West Africa. The residents of these areas maintain vital connections with rural populations while intermingling with and living in close proximity to urban and elite populations. These interconnections fuel the spread of Ebola.
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    The pathology of inequality: gender and ebola in West Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The international response to Ebola has been decried for being ‘too slow, too little, too late’. As well as racing to respond, this parctice paper argues for the need to consider what has happened over the past decades to leave exposed fault lines that enabled Ebola to move so rapidly across boundaries of people’s bodies, villages, towns and countries.
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    Local engagement in Ebola outbreaks and beyond in Sierra Leone

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    Containment strategies for Ebola rupture fundamental features of social, political and religious life. Control efforts that involve local people and appreciate their perspectives, social structures and institutions are therefore vital. Unfortunately such approaches have not been widespread in West Africa where response strategies have been predominantly top-down.
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    A wake-up call – lessons from Ebola for the world’s health systems

    Save the Children Fund, 2015
    Ebola has taken a dreadful toll in the three West African countries hit by the current outbreak – Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. It has led to the deaths of thousands of adults and children, in pain, distress and, because of the infectious nature of the disease, far from the comfort of their families.
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    Helpdesk report: Ebola - traditional healers, witch doctors, burial attendants

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2015
    This helpdesk report focuses on the impact of traditional healers, witch doctors and burial attendants on ebola in West Africa. It uses available literature to look at the following questions:
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    Pitfalls in targeting

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2007
    In Novemver 2005 the Philippine's Government aunched its hunger mitigation initiative consisting of two programs: the Food-for-School Program (FSP) and the Tindahan Natin Program (TNP) amidst rising concerns about the prevalence of hunger.
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    Validation of hearing screening procedures in Ecuadorian schools

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    When not detected early in life, most children with permanent hearing loss lag behind their peers in language, social, and cognitive development; fail school more frequently; and do not acquire the skills to be successfully employed. In 2012, Ecuador launched a national initiative, Tamiz aje Auditivo Escolar, to identify and provide services to children with permanent hearing loss.
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    Impact of water and sanitation interventions on childhood diarrhea: evidence from Bangladesh

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    This paper analyses the possible relevance of water and sanitation improvements for diarrhoea reduction in the context of Bangladesh. Much of the public policy thinking in the past was guided by public investment in providing improved access to water.
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    Do piped water and flush toilets prevent child diarrhea in rural Philippines?

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    Like in other developing countries, diarrhea in the Philippines continues to be among the top causes of infant mortality and morbidity. In pursuit of its Millenium Development Goals, the Government of the Philippines commits to reduce the child deaths and to provide water and sanitation services to more rural households by 2015.
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    Impact of malaria control and enhanced literacy instruction on educational outcomes among Kenyan school children: a multi - sectoral, prospective, randomised evaluation

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    Improving the health of school-aged children can yield substantial benefits for cognitive development and educational achievement. However, there is limited experimental evidence on the benefits of school-based malaria prevention or how health interventions interact with other efforts to improve education quality.

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