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  Can biomedical and traditional health care providers work together?: Zambian practitioners' experiences and attitudes towards collaboration in relation to STIs and HIV/AIDS care: a cross-sectional study

  Human Resources for Health, 2006

  This paper, from Human Resources for Health, explores biomedical and traditional health practitioners’ experiences of, and attitudes towards, collaboration. The paper also identifies obstacles and potential opportunities for collaboration in the care of patients with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV and AIDS.
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  Planning, developing and supporting the faith-based health workforce

  The Capacity Project, 2006

  This report describes a meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya of the first African Church Health Associations (CHAs) human resources for health (HRH) working group, supported by USAID and Medicus Mundi.
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  Ethical international recruitment of health professionals: will codes of practice protect developing country health systems?

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2004

  This study, from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, reviews the potential impact of existing ethical international recruitment instruments. The authors outline how these instruments are being introduced at both national and international levels. While it is too early to evaluate the actual impact of this strategy, important lessons can still be learned.
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  Regional consultative meeting on taking the HRH agenda forward at country level (18-20 July 2005, Brazzaville, Congo): African human resources for health observatory working paper

  World Bank, 2005

  This working paper, from an African regional consultative meeting on human resources for health (HRH), highlights the background to and working arrangements of a proposed African HRH observatory. The paper notes that while progress has been made in some health systems, a lack of data from across the region has made it very difficult to compare and contrast any progress.
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  Emergency nutrition network special supplement : community-based therapeutic care (CTC)

  Valid International, 2004

  This supplement, jointly produced by Valid International and Concern Worldwide, aims to provide a broad range of opinions and experiences of community-based therapeutic care (CTC), as well as its relationship with other humanitarian interventions Using case studies from Malawi, Ethiopia, North and South Sudan, the contributions to the supplement define clearly what CTC is and how it works, clarify
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  For goodness sake!: Asia-Pacific faith-based organizations battle HIV/AIDS

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2003

  This chapter, from the book HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support: Stories from the Community, examines the response to HIV and AIDS of faith-based organisations in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper explores the range of activities these organisations have undertaken.
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  Should I stay or should I go?

  King's Fund, 2005

  The King’s Fund, in association with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) conducted a survey of several hundred international nurses working in London in late 2004. Survey returns were analysed from 380 international nurses who were London-based RCN members. They came from more than 30 different countries.
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  Retention of health care workers in low-resource settings

  International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, 2006

  Based on an intensive literature review, this article considers challenges and responses related to retention of health care workers, including the causes of turnover, actions to address turnover, and emerging evidence on retention approaches.
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  Human resources: the Cinderella of health sector reform in Latin America

  Human Resources for Health, 2005

  This article, in the journal Human Resources for Health, argues that the two most important World Bank health reform policies in Latin America – decentralisation and privatisation – have had a negative impact on workers’ conditions of employment, and have prompted opposition from organised professionals and unions.
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  Checklist for the review of the human resource development component of national plans to control tuberculosis

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This World Health Organization (WHO) publication focuses on the need to improve training of staff as part of national plans to control tuberculosis (TB).

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