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  Priority service provision under decentralization: a case study of maternal and child health care in Uganda

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 1999

  This paper from Partnerships for Health Reform reports on a study to examine the impact of health sector decentralisation in Uganda on maternal and child health (MCH) services.
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  Coping with paediatric referral: Ugandan parents’ experience

  The Lancet, 2004

  This article, published in The Lancet, reports on a study examining the constraints faced by caretakers in completing referrals of severely ill children to hospital in Uganda. The study found that only 28 per cent of children had completed referral after two weeks, and at an average cost of US$8.85.
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  Teacher and health care provider absence: a multi-country study

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper looks at the incidence and causes of absenteeism in public health workers and teachers in eight countries. Research was based on unannounced visits to a random sample of health care facilities and schools.
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  Assessing the vulnerability of women street traders to HIV/AIDS: a comparative analysis of Uganda and South Africa

  Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2004

  This HEARD study examines women street traders' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Uganda. The paper examines how conditions of employment in the informal economy influence women’s social and economic marginalisation. It then goes on to explore how this is linked to the social and behavioural dynamics that influence HIV/AIDS.
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  Mothers' education but not fathers' education, household assets or land ownership is the best predictor of child health inequalities in rural Uganda

  International Journal for Equity in Health, 2004

  This article, published in the International Journal for Equity and Health, reports on the factors influencing child health inequalities in rural Uganda.
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  Integrated management of childhood illness by outpatient health workers: technical basis and overview

  World Health Organization, 1997

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, describes the technical basis for the guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), which are presented in the WHO/UNICEF training course on IMCI for outpatient health workers at first-level health facilities in developing countries.
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  Creating youth-friendly sexual health services in sub-Saharan Africa

  Advocates for Youth, 2002

  This paper, produced by Advocates for Youth, explores the barriers that frequently deter African youth from obtaining urgently needed sexual and reproductive health services. Research shows that barriers relate primarily to specific aspects of reproductive and sexual health services: the characteristics of the facilities, the design of services, and providers’ attitudes and actions.
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  Determinants of personal demand for an AIDS vaccine in Uganda: contingent valuation survey

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This study focuses on two issues concerning the introduction of a preventative HIV/AIDS vaccine in Uganda: what are the key factors that will lead adults to accept a vaccine; and what are possible behavioural responses to being vaccinated?
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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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  Behaviour and communication change in reducing HIV: is Uganda unique?

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2004

  In this paper from Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE), epidemiological and behavioural data from Uganda is assessed in comparison with other populations where HIV has declined. HIV prevalence declined from 21 percent to 9.8 percent in Uganda from 1991-98.

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