Rowe, A K Hamel, M J Flanders, W D Doutizanga, R Ndoyo, J Deming, M S
Published in
American journal of epidemiology
To identify factors associated with improved performance of health care workers who treat ill children in developing countries, the authors analyzed a sample of consultations of children with malaria (defined as any fever) from a national health facility survey conducted in the Central African Republic from December 1995 to January 1996. Twenty-eig...
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Joicfp News
In 1997, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) started the Community Empowerment Program (CEP) to directly help people at the grassroots level in developing countries. It was created to directly benefit people in developing countries by improving their livelihood and welfare. Under the program, model projects are implemented together wi...
Ahmad, K
Published in
Lancet (London, England)
This article reports that the measles epidemic continues to spread in at least 7 of the war-ravaged Afghanistan's 30 provinces. The WHO estimated that the case-fatality rate has reached 8-13%. This was further exacerbated by a lack of the most basic health service, which led to thousands of children malnourished and nonimmunized. In Badakhshan prov...
Murray, M Rasmussen, Z
Published in
American journal of epidemiology
This report documents an investigation of a measles outbreak in Punial Valley, northern Pakistani village in which a vaccination program was well established. These villages had been receiving routine immunizations from the Expanded Program on Immunization administered by the Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan. The authors conducted an investigation...
Larkin, M
Published in
Lancet (London, England)
On April 7, 2000, the WHO launched the new blood-safety campaign, which aims to increase the availability of safe blood in developing countries. The organization issued facts and figures on the state of the world's blood supply to spur governments to establish national transfusion systems. However, critics reported that the approach is unworkable i...
Balinska, M A
Published in
Lancet (London, England)
On March 28-29, 2000, epidemiologists and microbiologists convened in Warsaw, Poland, to discuss emerging, re-emerging, and drug-resistant infections in central and eastern Europe. Delegates were from the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Yugoslavia, with the exception of the US and the UK and other worst affecte...
Barton, J H
Published in
Lancet (London, England)
This article discusses the need to increase the financial assistance for vaccine development. A health situation was cited to present the intolerable impact of the shortfall in funding for vaccines. This situation, on the other hand, has awakened the world community to respond by forming organizations and projects that will help eliminate this kind...
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Contraceptive technology update
This article provides a guide to eliminating barriers to women who seek emergency contraception (EC) in health facilities. The guide, intended for health care providers, suggests the use of a role-play staff session to see how the staff will respond when they receive a request for EC over the telephone. It is noted that even if health care provider...
Kapoor, A K Kshatriya, G K
Published in
Journal of biosocial science
Selection potential based on differential fertility and mortality has been computed for six tribal groups inhabiting different geoclimatic conditions; namely, the Sahariya, Mina, and Bhil tribes in Rajasthan, northwestern India, and the Munda, Santal, and Lodha tribes in West Bengal, eastern India. Irrespective of the methodology, the total index o...
Bigrigg, A
Published in
The British journal of family planning
The Family Planning Directorate in Glasgow received trust financing at the end of the financial year 1994-95 to purchase computer hardware and software to update the family planning appointment system at the central clinic and to introduce electronic clinical records for clients attending the clinic. The system was expected to improve the efficienc...
