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    Dynamics of pharmaceutical quality systems for the export of pharmaceuticals from India to Africa

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    With its pharmaceutical exports, India has been contributing to public health globally and is often referred to as the ‘pharmaceutical factory’ to the world. For example, India has a dominant global market share of anti-retrovirals (80%) and paediatric ARVs (90%) in the world.
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    Strategic sourcing of Indian pharmaceuticals: a blueprint for creating a global buyer’s guide

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    The study is a detailed research of one of the recommendations from another DfID funded study titled: “Dynamics of Pharmaceutical Quality Systems for the Export of Pharmaceuticals from India to Africa”.
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    Knowledge Partnership Programme (KPP)

    The Knowledge Partnership Programme (KPP) supported by Government of UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and managed by IPE Global Limited has now ended.   
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    Nutritional status of HIV-positive patients in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014
    More than 600,000 AIDS cases have been reported in Brazil since the appearance of the first patient in 1980. Around 180,000 HIV-infected Brazilian patients are under combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), taking drugs supplied by the Ministry of Health and distributed all over the country through a network of public hospitals.
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    Prevalence of vitamin A deficiency in pregnant and lactating women in the Republic of Congo

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2013
    Vitamin A status in a sample of pregnant and lactating women living in several representative regions of Congo was assessed and compared between August and September 2004. This survey was conducted using a randomised two-stage cluster-sampling method with stratification on 90 clusters, each consisting of at least 15 women.
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    Coping with unintended pregnancies: Narratives from adolescents in Nairobi’s slums

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
    In Kenya, an estimated 43% of births among women aged 15-49 years are unintended. Early sexual initiation exposes young people to greater risk of unintended pregnancies high level of unintended pregnancy in Kenya is associated with low contraceptive use among women and girls.
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    Benefits of family planning: An assessment of women’s knowledge in rural Western Kenya

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
    The last two decades have seen an increase in literature reporting an increase in knowledge and use of contraceptives among individuals and couples in Kenya, as in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, but there is a dearth of information regarding knowledge about the benefits of family planning (FP) in Kenya.
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    Maternal health care utilization in Nairobi and Ouagadougou: Evidence from HDSS

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
    Maternal mortality is higher and skilled attendance at delivery is lower in the slums of Nairobi (Kenya) compared to Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). Lower numbers of public health facilities, greater distance to facilities, and higher costs of maternal health services in Nairobi could explain these differences.
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    Unintended pregnancies among young women living in urban slums: Evidence from a prospective study in Nairobi city, Kenya

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
    Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest level of adolescent fertility in the world, which significantly contributes to the region’s lifetime average of 5.1 births per woman. Though childbearing is a natural part of the transition to adulthood, evidence shows that a significant portion of adolescent fertility is unintended–either unwanted or mistimed–across countries in SSA.
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    Young women’s access to and use of contraceptives: The role of providers’ restrictions in urban Senegal

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
    According to the 2010–2011 Senegalese Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), only 12% of currently married women used a modern contraceptive method, compared with 8% in 1997 and 10% in 2005. This slow change can be attributed to low demand for contraceptives, as well as to supply-side barriers.

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