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Interventions, economics and research priorities for a malaria-free 21st century
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Helping newborns live: a framework for effective neonatal care
The Lancet Neonatal Survival Series seeks to provide information that will affect policy globally. The papers also provide a framework for practical action ...
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Sending messages to save lives: TB and mobile technology in South Africa
This evaluation looks at a project led by On Cue, a small company based in Cape Town, which sends Short Message Service (SMS) messages to patients, reminding ...
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Achieving MDG 5: Strategies to ensure better maternal and newborn health
The focus of this working paper is on providing all the relevant background information on the methodology, key parameters and assumptions used to estimate ...
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Research and advocacy to improve sexual and reproductive health services
The Lancet sexual and reproductive health series aims to stimulate awareness and action among decision makers, policymakers, medical researchers and other ...
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What progress has been made in reducing TB in HIV patients?
The burden of HIV associated TB is greatest in Sub-Saharan Africa where the TB epidemic is primarily driven by HIV. This short article in the Journal ...
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Community health workers monitor neonatal health in Bangladesh
Four million babies die each year in their first four weeks of life. Better neonatal survival requires cost-effective action at the community level ...
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Mental health in post-conflict Southern Sudan
Sudan's two decades of civil war, which ended in 2005, involved widespread violence and large-scale forced migration. This had traumatic impacts ...
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Global public action needs to tackle global health policies
Our understanding of global public action is dominated by experiences from global campaigns and a focus on human rights, environmental and gender issues. ...
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Millennium Development Goal 'success' can hide health inequities
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Can improved sanitation make children healthier?
Some 250,000 Ethiopian children die each year from poor sanitation, hygiene and water. Ethiopia has ambitious plans to ensure universal access to pit ...
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Promoting emergency contraception sector in South Africa
This report reflects some preliminary findings of an ongoing collaborative project to investigate the impact of trade liberalisation on reproductive ...
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Development undermined: low-level corruption
This essay in the Africa Development Indicators series aims to shed light on a different type of corruption. It introduces the term “quiet corruption' ...
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How could antiretroviral therapy in Thailand allow AIDS-infected persons to materially support their old-aged parents?
This report focuses on the implications of the AIDS epidemic on older aged parents, in particular in the context of the increasing availability of ...
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The three I's of tuberculosis prevention
Each year hundreds of thousands of people with HIV develop tuberculosis (TB), mostly in sub- Saharan Africa. Many of them will die from the illness. ...
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Do human rights matter when treating widespread communicable diseases?
Tuberculosis (TB) is among the most widespread communicable diseases and the world's second most important cause of death from an infectious agent. ...
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Assessing the TB epidemic
This report by The World Health Organisation is the 13th annual report on global control of tuberculosis (TB) it provides a comprehensive and up-to-date ...
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Assessing the prevalence and consequences of tuberculosis in South Africa
Tuberculosis is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV greatly increases the ...
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Role of Heath Surveillance Assistants in Malawi
In June 2001, the Centre for Social Research (Malawi) was approach by UNICEF to undertake a study that would provide answers to the apparent low immunization ...
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Poor sanitation and water logging challenges in rural Malawi
Sanitation remains one of the pillars of good health in Malawi. This study aims at finding ways for improving sanitation for rural people living ...
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