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    Municipal Services Project (MSP)

    The Municipal Services Project (MSP) is a research project that explores alternatives to the privatization and commercialization of service provision in electricity, health, water and sanitation in Af
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    Universal Health Coverage: beyond rhetoric

    Municipal Services Project, 2013
    This paper raises critical questions around Universal Health Coverage (UHC), which is increasingly seen as a silver-bullet solution to healthcare needs in low- and middle-income countries.
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    Helpdesk report: Trachoma

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2011
    The eyes disease Trachoma is endemic in more than 50 countries with more than 80% of the burden concentrated in 14 countries, and predominantly in the savannah areas of East and Central Africa and the Sahel of West Africa.
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    Voice and accountability in the health sector

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    This Helpdesk report responds to a query to write a report to identify: 1) useful sources on assessment of voice and accountability (V&A); 2) examples of V&A in the Bangladesh health sector; and 3) different models of V&A. It includes: assessment of voice and accountability in the health sector
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    Women’s literacy and the links between maternal health, reproductive health and daughter education

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2010
    Development agencies have found two predictable indicators for longevity among women in developing countries: accessible clean water and literacy skills. Of the 1 billion illiterate people in the world, two thirds of them are women. Literate women average 2 children per family while illiterate women give birth to 6–8 children. The Helpdesk report summarises that:
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    Postabortion Care in Pakistan

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2013
    Recent statistics show that there is a high demand for postabortion care (PAC) in Pakistan. Most of PAC cases are treated by private-sector providers. Many facilities are not able to provide high standard treatments as they lack adequate equipment and trained staff.
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    Health-enhancing holidays: challenges in expanding medical tourism in the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    Medical tourism is poised to continue growing globally in the next few years due to combined economic, demographic, epidemiological, communication, and transport trends. While the Philippines offers better prices than its Asian competitors in surgical procedures, it continues to get a minuscule share of the medical tourism market.
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    Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2012
    This In Brief presents facts on abortion around the world. Global trends show that almost half of all abortions are done under unsafe conditions. Such unsafe abortions are nearly all conducted in developing countries. Compared to developed regions, there are slightly more abortions in developing countries.
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    End of project evaluation for ATJK WEHEA II (including last year of ATJK WEHEA I) ADRA Ethiopia

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014
    Background:
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    Unsafe Abortion in Tanzania: A Review of the Evidence

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2013
    What needs to be done to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 of reducing maternal mortality and ensuring universal access to reproductive health care by 2015?

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