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  Paying with their lives: the cost of illness for children in Africa

  Save the Children Fund, 2006

  This paper makes a case for the abolition of hospital user fees in developing countries in general and in Africa in particular. The paper asserts that hospital fees make basic health care treatment unaffordable for poor people, and forces them into debt.
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  Child morbidity and treatment patterns

  Measure DHS Deomographic and Health Surveys, 2004

  This Measure DHS report on childhood illness and how it is treated focuses on three of the leading causes of death in early childhood: diarrhoea; acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI); and fever. It draws on District Health Surveys (DHS) in 52 developing countries.
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  How effective are conditional cash transfers? Evidence from Colombia

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2005

  This briefing note, published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, examines the impacts of Familias en Acción (FA), a programme implemented in Colombia in 2001/02. The programme involved giving cash to families with children on the condition that the children attended health check-ups (if they were under 5) or school (if they were aged 6-17).
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  Creating youth-friendly pharmacies

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2005

  This briefing, produced by Family Health International, examines the role of pharmacies in providing reproductive health information and services to youth, especially contraceptives and referrals to services for sexually transmitted infections. It reports evidence from several countries that youth prefer pharmacies to public services as a source of contraceptives and information.
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  Engaging communities in youth reproductive health and HIV projects: a guide to participatory assessments

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2006

  The involvement of young people and their families in the creation and implementation of targeted interventions is commonly held as a pivotal part of the success or failure of a programme. Recruiting such groups, however, remains a challenge.
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  The effect of antenatal care on professional assistance at delivery in rural India

  Measure DHS Deomographic and Health Surveys, 2006

  This paper, published by Measure DHS, examines the role of antenatal care visits in promoting professional medical assistance during childbirth in India. The paper notes that three quarters of births in rural India take place at home, mostly without the assistance of any trained health workers.
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  Neonatal mortality in the developing world

  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2006

  This paper, published in the journal Demographic Research, examines age patterns and trends of neonatal mortality in developing countries, using data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). It reveals that the average (median) neonatal mortality rate across 108 nationally representative surveys was 33 per 1000 live births.
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  How should we measure maternal mortality in the developing world?: a comparison of household deaths and sibling history approaches

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2006

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, compares two approaches to measuring the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). In the "sibling history" approach, adults are asked about sisters who have survived or who have died during or shortly after pregnancy, whereas the "household deaths" approach asks similar questions about women within each household.
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  First aid for women and newborns: where home birth is necessary or common

  MAQWeb Global Health Technical Briefs, 2006

  This technical brief, published by MAQWeb, outlines a first aid approach to emergency care during home births called Home Based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS). HBLSS is promoted through a training strategy in which a trainer teaches selected community members, who then teach home birth teams in the community as they were taught.
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  1 year after The Lancet Neonatal survival series: was the call for action heard?

  The Lancet, 2006

  This Lancet article asks what progress has been made in policy, funding, and programmes to address newborn survival, since the publication in 2005 of a series of articles highlighting the huge number of newborn babies who die every year in developing countries.

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