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  Deep dive: an exploration for innovation

  Futures Group, 2005

  This case study provides an overview of the work of the Key Social Marketing (KSM) organisation in Pakistan. Since 1997 the organisation has aimed at raising awareness about, and the use of, three hormonal contraceptives among lower income population groups.
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  Willingness to pay surveys for setting prices for reproductive health products and services

  Population Council, USA, 2004

  This user’s manual from the Population Council provides information to managers of reproductive health programmes on how to conduct willingness to pay (WTP) surveys.
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  Lancet chronic diseases 4: preventing chronic diseases in China

  The Lancet, 2005

  This article, the fourth in the Lancet series on chronic diseases, focuses on China. It reports that chronic diseases now account for an estimated 80 per cent of deaths and 70 per cent of disability-adjusted life-years lost in China.
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  What motivates lay volunteers in high burden but resource-limited tuberculosis control programmes? Perceptions from the Northern Cape province, South Africa

  International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2002

  This article, from the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, explores factors that motivate lay volunteers to joint tuberculosis (TB) control programmes in high burden, resource-limited settings. The study, based in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, found that volunteers do not receive monetary incentives in Northern Cape TB programmes.
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  Teaching mothers to provide home treatment of malaria in Tigray, Ethiopia: a randomised trial

  The Lancet, 2000

  This article from The Lancet reports on a study in Tigray, Ethiopia which examined the effect on under-5 mortality, of teaching mothers to provide anti-malarials to their sick children at home. This was compared with the current community health worker approach.
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  WHO global study on domestic violence against women

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This report by the World Health Organization presents a global perspective on domestic violence against women. Covering ten countries including Bangladesh, Peru and Tanzania, the document finds that violence against women is still widespread with far reaching health consequences.The report covers violence against women in both partner and non-partner experiences.
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  Health system capacities in developing countries and global health initiatives on communicable diseases

  Uma Lele, Personal Website, 2005

  The paper assesses seven international health programs addressing communicable diseases, primarily focusing on the focus on the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM) and its interactions with other organisations. It argues that global health programmes need to shift away from a tendency for crisis management to a greater focus on longer-term strategic planning and implementati
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  Behavior Change Communication (BCC) handbooks on sexual health promotion and HIV prevention

  Family Health International, 2004

  This series of nine handbooks from the AIDSCAP (AIDS Control and Prevention) project at Family Health International (FHI) introduces the concepts of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) and shows how they can be effectively used in HIV prevention and sexual health promotion.
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  Gendered health systems biased against maternal survival: preliminary findings from Koppal, Karnataka, India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This Institute of Development Studies working paper examines the persistently high levels of maternal mortality in India. The paper explores the context of pregnant women’s lives and the plural health systems they encounter in Koppal, the most deprived district in the state of Karnataka. Findings show that a large number of maternal deaths are preventable.
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  Role of traditional birth attendants in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV

  British Medical Journal, 2002

  This article, from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) explores how traditional birth attendants could be involved in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV. Rich nations have been able to keep these rates low with the use of anti-retroviral drugs, elective caesarean sections and avoidance of breastfeeding.

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