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  Equity promoting health care policies in South Africa

  Health Systems Knowledge Network, 2007

  This paper reviews literature on the health care policies that were implemented by the South African democratic government in order to promote equity following the end of the apartheid government in 1994. It examines whether the policy objectives have been met and the challenges that need to be addressed to reach these objectives.
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  Health-e

  Health-e is a news agency that produces news and in-depth analysis for the print and electronic media.
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  Models for funding and coordinating community-level responses to HIV/AIDS

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2007

  This research report from the South African Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) examines how community organisations responding to HIV can be effectively supported. The report uses case studies to illustrate seven different models for supporting community organisations through a combination of funding, capacity building and networking.
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  Help wanted: confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2007

  This Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) report examines the impact of human resources shortages witnessed by MSF teams in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, focusing largely on nurses in rural areas. It describes how MSF teams and local partners are trying to overcome human resource constraints.
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  South African Health Review, 2006

  Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2007

  This edition of the South African Health Review focuses on maternal, women's and child health and seeks to reflect on achievements made, challenges and gaps that impact on transformation and strengthening of the South African health system.
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  The importance of human resources management in health care: a global context

  Human Resources for Health, 2006

  This paper, from Human Resources for Health, highlights the importance of human resources management (HRM) in improving overall patient health outcomes and delivery of health care services. The authors demonstrate how HRM is essential to any health care system and how it can improve health care models.
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  Segmentation and a total market approach

  Population Services International, 2006

  This paper from Population Services International (PSI) outlines a method for segmenting populations as part of a Total Market approach to designing, managing and evaluating reproductive and sexual health interventions in developing countries. The approach is demonstrated using data from South Africa. Until now market segmentation analysis has mainly focused on people’s ability to pay.
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  International nurse mobility: trends and policy implications

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) examines the trends and policy implications of nurses moving from the developing world to work in wealthier countries.
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  Efforts underway to stem "brain drain" of doctors and nurses

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines actions that are being taken to combat the problem of developing countries losing healthcare professionals through migration to wealthier countries.
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  Scaling up access to antiretroviral treatment in southern Africa: who will do the job?

  The Lancet, 2005

  This paper, published in the Lancet, examines plans for scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-positive people in Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa. It reports that a lack of human resources for health, rather than financial resources, is regarded as the main obstacle to implementing national treatment plans in these countries.

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