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Redressing the Gender Imbalance: a qualitative analysis of recruitment and retention in Mozambique’s community health workforce
Mozambique’s community health programme has a disproportionate number of male community health workers (known as Agentes Polivalentes Elementares (APEs)). The Government of Mozambique is aiming to increase the proportion of females to constitute 60% to im
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Integrated Delivery of Family Planning and Childhood Immunisation Services in Routine Outreach Clinics: Findings from a realist evaluation in Malawi
Family planning (FP) needs among postpartum women in low- and middle-income countries remain largely unmet. This article evaluates and analyzes how integrating FP with childhood immunisation services could partially reduce this unmet need by creating mult
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A National Survey of Private-sector Outpatient Care of Sick Infants and Young Children in Nepal
Previous research has documented that across South Asia, as well as in some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the private sector is the primary source of outpatient care for sick infants and children and, in many settings, informal providers play a bigger
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Using research priority-setting to guide bridging the implementation gap in countries: A case study of the Uganda newborn research priorities in the SDG era
One of the greatest challenges that countries face regarding the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for child health involve the actions required to improve neonatal health; these interventions have to be informed by evidence. I
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How Can Mobile Phones be Used to Improve Nutrition Service Delivery in Rural Bangladesh?
In this paper, the potential for using Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as mobile phones to improve the quality and coverage of community-based nutrition services was explored. This study indicated that there are gaps in Infant and Yo