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Reviewing ten years of the School Nutrition Programme
Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope.DocumentBreaking the silence and saving lives: young people’s sexual and reproductive health in the Arab States and Iran
Harvard School of Public Health, 2005This research reviews young people’s sexual and reproductive health (YPSRH) and gender issues affecting young people ages 10–24 in 19 Arab States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.DocumentAccelerating reproductive and child health program development: the Navrongo initiative in Ghana
Population Council, USA, 2005The Navrongo initiative is a reproductive and child health programme which uses research to accelerate policy implementation.DocumentThe State of the World's Children 2006: excluded and invisible
United Nations Children's Fund, 2006The 2006 State of the World's Children report provides an assessment of the world's most vulnerable children, whose rights to a safe and healthy childhood are exceptionally difficult to protect.DocumentWorking with street children: understanding sexual and reproductive health including HIV/AIDS and STDs among street children
World Health Organization, 2000Although the typical age of a street child varies from place to place, the age range includes children in the adolescent period, and street children are exposed to situations that make them vulnerable to sexual and reproductive health problems on a day to day basis.DocumentChanging a harmful social convention: female genital mutilation/cutting
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2005This paper examines the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and its social dynamics. It provides an explanation as to why the practice persists and of the elements necessary for its abandonment.DocumentThe effect of community nurses and health volunteers on child mortality: the Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project
Population Council, USA, 2005This working paper, published by the Population Council, examines the impact on child mortality of two strategies for delivering primary health care in rural Ghana. The first strategy involved using village-based community nurses to deliver services, while the second centred around community involvement and training of a local health volunteer.DocumentCan governments contract private health care providers to help the poor?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Frustration with a lack of progress in public sector reform and the large sums spent out-of-pocket on health care have fuelled interest in the private health sector. By contracting private providers using public finance, can governments improve the delivery of cost effective health care to the poor?DocumentAssessing care: progress towards the measurement of selected childcare and feeding practices, and implications for programs
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2002This report, published by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, discusses measurement of childcare and feeding practices, drawing on insights from a study conducted in Ghana in 1997.DocumentChanges in child survival are strongly associated with changes in malnutrition in developing countries
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2002This paper, published by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA), examines the effects of changes in general malnutrition, as measured by child weight-for-age, on changes in child survival in 59 developing countries during 1966-1996. It finds that changes in average weight-for-age had a significant effect on rates of child mortality.Pages