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Fighting for Life: PSI and Business Tackle HIV/AIDS

Throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America, PSI implements quality HIV-prevention programs pro-moting consistent and correct condom use, mutual fidelity and voluntary counseling and testing (VCT). Programs typically include behavior change and mass media campaigns, employ peer educators and drama…

Organization of Health Care in Developing Countries

The present edition of this selective bibliography is a partial upgrade of the 2001 list, not a cumulative replacement. Evidently, many references from the last 3 years have been added, but the pre-1990 literature is no longer represented (even early 1990's references are scarce). Also, because…

Working with Private Sector Providers for Better Health Care: An Introductory Guide

"Working with Private Sector Providers for Better Health Care: An Introductory Guide" aims to provide the most critical approach to develop strategies for working with Private Sector Participation (PSPs) for better health care. This guide focuses specifically on those PSPs that operate on a for-…

Trends and Opportunities in Public-private Partnerships to Improve Health Service Delivery in Africa

The report, in its first part, destroys three common myths regarding the private health care sector in Africa:

• First, that the private sector is for the rich and the public sector is for the poor;
• Second, that health is mainly financed by the public sector; and
• …

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  Project: SHOPS

  Year : 2005

  Language : English

  Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement

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Initiating Public/Private Partnerships to Finance Reproductive Health: The Role of Market Segmentation Analysis

Participants at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) developed an ambitious agenda, calling for more and better quality reproductive health products and services around the world. This mandate, along with the increased global demand for reproductive health care…

State of the Private Health Sector Wall Chart

This Wall Chart is the first in a series of PSP-One-produced tools to help mainstream the concept of private sector provision of health services and advocate for a greater private sector role in reproductive health and other health services. The Wall Chart is a user-friendly tool which consists…

Invitation to Join PSP-One Midwives Exchange

This is a flier promoting a new and unique 'Midwives Exchange' offered to independent and private midwives in developing countries who would like to exchange knowledge, questions, and ideas with private sector experts and with each other. Download for more information.…

Workplace Policy Builder version 2.0

The Workplace Policy Builder (WPB) software helps companies develop their own HIV/AIDS policies. WPB includes a database of corporate workplace policies from around the world, a literature database of the impact of HIV/AIDS, national HIV/AIDS policies, international standards, the AIM-B model,…

How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings?

In low and middle income countries, health workers are essential for the delivery of health interventions. However,inadequate health-worker performance is a very widespread problem. We present an overview of issues and evidence about the determinants of performance and strategies for improving…

Case Study: Physician Recognition Program

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has developed programs to evaluate and recognize individual physicians and physician groups that follow evidence-based standards of care. NCQA currently has three recognition programs in operation: Diabetes Recognition Program, Heart/Stroke…