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  Creating an enabling environment for the advancement of women and girls

  World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2006

  This publication is World Vision’s briefing paper to the 50th Commission on the Status of Women.
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  Uganda: Partnering with the private sector to meet Uganda’s health care needs

  Commercial Marketing Strategies, 2003

  This report from the USAID project Commercial Marketing Strategies (CMS) provides an overview of the organisation’s social marketing of reproductive health products in Uganda. This work has focused on a number of branded contraceptive and sexual health products, as well as products which improve maternal and child health.
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  Gender and decentralisation in the Kenyan and Ugandan health services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The concept of gender mainstreaming has the potential to produce tangible improvements in the health of women and men.  However, many obstacles stand in the way of integrating gender into policy planning at district level. Evidence from Kenya and Uganda suggests that a shift from external to locally driven gender advocacy is needed.
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  Demand for health care services in Uganda: implications for poverty reduction

  Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda, 2004

  Health is a fundamental dimension of well-being and a key component of human capital development. Previous studies have shown that ill health is a major cause and consequence of poverty. There is also evidence showing that poor people utilise health facilities less, and their utilisation patterns indicate a preference for more expensive private health facilities.
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  A leadership strategy for reducing hunger and malnutrition in Africa: the agriculture-nutrition advantage

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2005

  This paper reviews the aspects and outcomes of the Agriculture- Nutrition Advantage project implemented in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States.
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  Pukaar: the journal of Naz Foundation International, April 2005

  Naz Foundation International, 2005

  This quarterly newsletter from the Naz Foundation International (NFI) provides a forum for discussion, information and advice regarding sexual health and HIV and AIDS, focusing on South Asian masculinities and sexualities.
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  Group interpersonal therapy for depression in rural Uganda

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003

  This article, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reports on a controlled clinical trial of group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for the treatment of depression in rural Uganda. Thirty villages were randomly selected; of these, 15 were assigned for studying men and 15 for women.
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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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  Uganda’s minimum health care package: rationing within the minimum?

  Department of Health Sciences, Uganda Martyrs University, 2004

  The concept of a minimum health care package (MHCP) has been used as a means of setting priorities for national health budgets.
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  A review of human resource for health in Uganda

  Department of Health Sciences, Uganda Martyrs University, 2003

  Expenditure on health workers forms a significant proportion of total health expenditure in many countries. Evidence suggests that health systems in developing countries are understaffed and that health workers are badly distributed within the system.

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