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Child health services
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Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative Training Course for Maternity Staff
All health workers who care for women and children during the postnatal period and beyond have a key role to play in establishing and sustaining breastfeeding. Many health workers cannot fulfill this role effectively because they have not been trained to
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Strengthening Community Engagement and Local Government Support to Improve Community Health Care Programs
The purpose of this policy brief is to inform discussions and decisions at the national and local levels in Bangladesh regarding why community and government support is essential to improve community health programming. This brief summarizes recent progra
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Effects of Terrorist Attacks on Access to Maternal Healthcare Services: A national longitudinal study in Burkina Faso
Improvements in access to healthcare are likely to disappear if new barriers are introduced or former barriers are reinstituted. Common barriers for women's access to healthcare are user-fees and distance as well as poor quality. One aspect that remains u
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Clients Exit Interview of Community Health and Social Accountability Project (CHASP)
CHASP project is funded by SIDA and SDC builds upon SCI’s decentralized approach used in the Karkaar Region of Puntland as part of the DFID-funded CHANGE programme. The decentralized system for the delivery of health care and Nutrition services empowers d
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Off the Radar: Meeting Contraceptive Needs of Populations on the Move
This meeting summary provides an overview of and findings from the “Off the Radar: Meeting Contraceptive Needs of Populations on the Move” side event from the International Conference on Family Planning 2018. It is a helpful resource for program staff who
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Evaluation de l'intervention pour améliorer la performance des ASC dons la recherche active des cas d'enfants malades dons 10 aires de sante du district sanitaire de Kolondieba
A study by the USAID-funded Services de Santé à Grand Impact (SSGI) project in Mali (High-Impact Health Services Project) to evaluate the integration of active case detection of malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, and acute malnutrition in children aged 0 to 5,
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Research Brief MaMoni HSS Project- Evidence Based Human Resource for Health (HRH) Planning: Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) application at Public Sector Health Facilities
This is a MaMoni Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) program brief that covers key learning from an assessment of workloads for various cadres of health facility staff in select districts of Bangladesh using the Workload Indicators for Staffing Need (WISN)
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Primary Health Care First: Strengthening the foundation for universal health coverage
Universal health coverage (UHC) promises a world in which all people have access to the health services, vaccinations and medicines they need, without risk of financial hardship. A world where the right to health is realised for the 400 million people who
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Creating Impact: Success Stories, Improving the lives of children in cotton growing districts of Pakistan
Save the Children implemented a child rights program, titled as CHAON “Children's Action against Oppression and Neglect” in 200 villages of Muzaffargarh (Punjab) and 150 villages of Sanghar (Sindh) from 2009 to 2014. This Program was implemented with the
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Strengthening Community Participation in Health: End of project report Zimbabwe 2013-2016
The Strengthening Community Participation in Health project, implemented by Save the Children and Community Working Group on Health between 2013 and 2016, aimed to address key barriers to uptake in maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services, inclu
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Struggling to Survive: Stories from Yemen's collapsing health system
Every ten minutes, one Yemeni child dies from preventable causes like diarrhea, malnutrition, and respiratory tract infection. Yemen's children are at the heart of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Ten million children are in urgent need of assistan
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Time Volunteered on Community Health Activities by Brigadistas in Nicaragua
"Brigadistas de Salud" are unpaid volunteers trained by the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health to implement the National Community Programme for Health and Nutrition. Brigadistas are part of an integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) strategy that aims to