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Louis Nortey on Organizing the Private Health Sector in Ghana
Network for Africa member Louis Nortey is the acting president of Private Health Sector Association in Ghana (PHSAG). In this interview with Barbara O'Hanlon, private sector policy advisor for SHOPS, Nortey describes the purpose of this newly formed private sector umbrella organization and the…
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Language : English
Technical Area: Private Health Sector Assessments
Global HIV/AIDS Responses Progress Report 2011
This report reviews progress made until the end of 2010 in scaling up access to health sector interventions for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in low–and middle-income countries. It is the fifth in a series of annual progress reports published since 2006 by the World Health…
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Health Area: HIV/AIDS
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Malawi Private Sector Assessment Workshop
A PowerPoint from an October 2011 workshop held in Malawi with 40 key stakeholders from across the Malawian health sector. The presentation reviews results and recommendations from the Malawi Private Sector Assessment conducted by SHOPS in May and June of 2011 in an attempt to engage…
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Mobiles for Quality Improvement Pilot in Uganda (2011)
This report reviews the Mobiles for Quality Improvement (m4QI) project that SHOPS piloted in Uganda. In an effort to address performance gaps in adherence to clinical protocols, SHOPS worked with a local software company to develop a software platform for sending health care providers text…
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Technical Area: Digital Health
How Mobile Technology is Expanding Private Sector Resources for Family Planning
This presentation discusses how mobile technology can foster behavior change in family planning providers, provide a window for family planning education partnerships, and create new avenues for the private sector to impact family planning outcomes. It looks at the examples of SHOPS work with…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Digital Health
Partnerships in Practice
This presentation outlines three levels of private sector engagement and gives examples of successful public-private partnerships from Guatemala, Kenya, and Namibia. It was given at the Global Health Leadership Forum in Washington on November 15, 2011.
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Country : Guatemala
Health Area: HIV/AIDS
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
SMS for Social Franchises
A PowerPoint presentation from the First Social Franchising Conference in Mombasa, Kenya. It includes modules on the mHealth landscape, Frontline SMS, training, and lessons learned.
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Working through Community-based Channels to Introduce Zinc for Treatment of Pediatric Diarrheas
The presentation reviews field programs designed to increase the availability of zinc treatments for persistent childhood diarrhea in Benin and Madagascar. Diarrhea is responsible for 15% of deaths in children under the age of five worldwide, and zinc has been clinically proven to reduce the…
Resource Type : Presentation
Country : Madagascar
Health Area: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Project: SHOPS
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Leveraging Industry to Enhance Diarrhea Treatment
This case study demonstrates the effectiveness of engaging the public and private health sectors in implementing a program to encourage the use of zinc products to treat diarrhea in Indonesia. The high prevalence of child morbidity and mortality due to persistent diarrhea provided the impetus…
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Country : Indonesia
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Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Bangladesh Private Sector Assessment of Long Acting and Permanent Family Planning Methods and Injectable Contraceptives
This assessment explores the challenges and opportunities for expanding access to long acting, permanent and injectable methods of family planning in Bangladesh. While the contraceptive prevalence rate in Bangladesh has risen dramatically in the past 30 years, the modern method rate is dominated…
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Private Health Sector Assessments
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