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  Global tuberculosis control: surveillance, planning, financing: WHO report 2007

  World Health Organization, 2007

  This eleventh annual report on Tuberculosis (TB) by the World Health Organization (WHO) assesses whether national TB control programmes (NTP) around the world met the 2005 targets of 70 per cent case detection and 85 per cent cure, and examines the effectiveness of the Stop TB strategy.
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  Health is global: proposals for a UK government-wide strategy

  Department of Health, UK, 2007

  This report by the United Kingdom (UK) Department of Health provides the rationale for a UK global health strategy. It outlines the need for an international approach in order to protect the health of the UK population, reduce global poverty and harness the opportunities of globalisation. The report provides an overview of the current state of the world’s health.
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  Slum health: diseases of neglected populations

  BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2007

  This article examines the distinct set of health problems that occur in urban slums. With one billion people currently estimated to live in such communities, this neglected population has become a major reservoir for a wide spectrum of health conditions that are not well recognised by the formal health sector.
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  Integrating youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services in public health facilities: a success story and lessons learned in Tanzania

  Pathfinder International, 2005

  This Pathfinder International report shares successes and lessons learned from integrating youth-friendly services (YFS) into public health facilities in Tanzania. In this country young people are often prevented from accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services, and their SRH needs often fall through the cracks of many health and development plans and programmes.
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  Neurological disorders: public health challenges

  World Health Organization, 2007

  This report from the World Health Organization examines the public health aspects of neurological disorders. Neurological disorders, ranging from epilepsy to Alzheimer disease, from stroke to headache, affect up to one billion people worldwide. They affect people in all countries, irrespective of age, sex, education or income.
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  Global health partnerships: the UK contribution to health in developing countries

  Department of Health, UK, 2007

  This report, published by the United Kingdom’s (UK) Department of Health, examines how the UK’s experience and expertise in health can be used to best effect to support developing countries. It sets out examples of individual and National Health Service (NHS) partnerships working to improve health and share learning, and reviews the need to strengthen health systems in developing countries.
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  Policy issues in planning and finance: creating conditions for greater private sector participation in family planning/reproductive health: benefits for contraceptive security

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004

  This policy brief provides an overview of processes, strategies, and tools that developing countries can adopt to foster complementary public/private sector roles that enhance the private sector’s contribution to contraceptive security.
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  Gender dimensions of user fees: implications for women’s utilization of health care

  Reproductive Health Matters, 2002

  This article, published in Reproductive Health Matters, looks at the implications of user fees for women’s utilisation of health care services in Africa. The article shows that a lack of access to resources and inequitable decision-making power means that many poor women are put out of reach of health care when they face out-of-pocket costs such as user fees.
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  Effects of the global fund on reproductive health in Ethiopia and Malawi: baseline findings

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2005

  This report by Partners for Health Reformplus, assesses the effects of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria (GF), and the activities it supports on reproductive health and family planning programmes in Ethiopia and Malawi.
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  Study of the integration of family planning and VCT/PMTCT/ART programs in Uganda

  Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda, 2005

  This paper examines the integration of family planning (FP) services with HIV and AIDS services (voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) and anti-retroviral therapy (ART)) in Uganda.

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