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  Review of health service delivery in Uganda – general country experience and Northern Uganda

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This paper, published by the Health Systems Resource Centre, analyses health sector interventions in Northern Uganda. The north and eastern regions of Uganda can be seen as difficult environments for service delivery because of the ongoing conflict there and because large areas remain outside government control.
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  An evaluation of post-campaign knowledge and practices of exclusive breastfeeding in Uganda

  Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2004

  Published by ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research, this research article assesses the influence of exposure to behaviour change communication (BCC) messages via the mass media on exclusive breastfeeding in Uganda.
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  Working from within: culturally sensitive approaches in UNFPA programming

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Published by UNFPA, this guide highlights the importance of cultural analysis and sensitivity in development efforts, addressing issues such as gender equality and equity, HIV and AIDS, female genital cutting, gender-based violence and reproductive health.
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  The impacts of decentralization on health behaviors in Uganda

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2003

  This paper from Measure studies the impacts of a public sector decentralisation programme on the demand for health care in Uganda in the 1990s. The authors examine how local allocation decisions impact upon individual-level health behaviours. Ultimately, the goal of the paper is to determine whether decentralisation can actually help to improve the health status of the population.
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  Harmonization and MDGs: a perspective from Tanzania and Uganda

  High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 2003

  Harmonisation through the Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) and increased budget support has increased the resources available to the health sector over the past five years. This draft paper from the High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals looks at the examples of Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Managing public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This ODI working paper is a survey of the practice of results-oriented – or performance-based – public expenditure management in low income developing countries.
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  Impact of public-private partnerships addressing access to pharmaceuticals in selected low and middle income countries: a synthesis report from studies in Botswana, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia

  Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health, 2004

  This research report outlines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) intended to provide HIV drugs in three African countries are having limited impact because of the way in which these drugs are priced and patented.The report examines evidence on the effectiveness of two different types of PPPs: those set up to provide treatments for tropical diseases (in Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia), and tho
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  Measuring health inequality among children in developing countries: does the choice of the indicator of economic status matter?

  BioMed Central, 2003

  This study, published by BioMed Central, compares the impact of four different wealth indices on the measurement of health inequality among children in developing countries. The study uses the World Bank Asset Index and three other indices, all based on household assets, to analyse data from Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Safe motherhood initiatives: critical issues

  Reproductive Health Matters, 2000

  This book, produced by Reproductive Health Matters, provides an overview of the problems and challenges raised by safe motherhood work and examples of some of the efforts towards achieving safe motherhood in developing countries in the past decade. It contains papers by different authors, grouped into sections.
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  Dilemmas of post-conflict transition: lessons from the health sector

  Overseas Development Institute, 1995

  This paper, published by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), examines the experience of the health sector in situations of post-conflict transition in Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

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